Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Dream
by Liz
Fighting fractions by moonlight
Challenging teachers by daylight
Reading Shakespeare at midnight
She is the one named Sailor Pi
She would never forget a math operation
Or the rules of heat condensation
Pi is the symbol for a new generation
She is the one named Sailor Pi
She is the one named Sailor Pi
She is the one
Sailor Pi!
"What's wrong with Jeffy today?" Arpi asked Bizzie.
"I don't know," she replied, "He's been really sleepy lately." Bizzie glanced over to her left to find Jeffy asleep on his desk.
"Poor Jeffy."
"Yeah. Guess he didn't drink enough coffee this morning, eh?"
"My name is Geoff," groaned Jeffy's distant voice, "G...E...O..."
"Well, we've got a free block, I guess we can leave him here."
"Yeah, let's go get Snapples."
"My name is Geoff!" cried Jeffy, "G-E-O-F-F!"
"I know!" said the redheaded girl to his right, "That's what I called you. Geoffrey."
"Whoa, weird..."
"Hi Hanna," said the girl to the blonde haired girl that walked in.
"Hi Liz!" she said brightly, "Hey Jeff!"
"MY NAME IS GEOFF!" Geoff turned to the redhead. "Why did Hanni call you Liz?"
"That's what everyone calls me!" Liz told him, "Why did you call her Hanni?"
"Because that's her name!"
"Have you been feeling all right today, Geoff?"
"Yeah, I'm fine. Hey, why do you have a purse?"
"What do you mean? I've been carrying a purse since 6th grade! You should know that, we were in a few classes together that year."
"No we weren't! I didn't even know you! And Hanni, where's your banana?" Jeffy asked her.
"I don't know why you're calling me Hanni," said Hanna, "But I ate it at recess. What do you expect?"
"And why do you have your hair in a ponytail?"
"I always wear my hair that way..."
"Something's wrong here. Bizzie, recite pi for me."
"Why did you call me Bizzie? The only person I've ever met whose name was Busy was some girl I went to camp with, and she spelled it B-U-S-Y."
"Very funny, Bizzie. Now, recite pi!"
"My name is Liz, well sorta, and I don't have to recite pi for anyone!"
"Just do it already!"
"Oh, fine. 3.1415926535897932384626433 832795028841971693993751058 209749445923 07816406286208998628" Jeffy waited for more, but Liz stopped there.
"Well?"
"You want more than 80 digits??"
"YOU KNOW OVER 3,141,592!"
"Where would you get an idea like that?"
"I don't know. Say, where's Arpi?" Hanna looked at Jeffy very strangely.
"Arpi moved to California in December."
"No she didn't! She moved here FROM California!"
"Geoff, what's wrong with you today?"
"I DON'T KNOW!"
"Maybe he took the E bus," said Liz. She and Hanna giggled.
"What E bus?" asked Jeffy, "Don't you mean the D bus?"
"Um, no..."
"I never saw a bus like that in Canadia."
"Geoff," Hanna gently put her hand on Jeffy's shoulder. "You live here, in Pennsylvania."
"Pennsylvania?? You mean, in the U.S?"
"WELL, DUH!" shouted Liz and Hanna.
"Something is really, really, really wrong here. Why does the board give homework for section 8-1?
"Because we're in 8-1!"
"But that's 8th grade!"
"Yes," Liz told him, smiling to herself, "Hanna and I are queens of the middle school."
"Bizzie, you wouldn't be elected queen of the middle school if you were 25 years old! And besides, we're not IN middle school, remember?"
"First of all, I was joking about the queen thing, but we are still 8th graders!"
"Jeffy," Hanna said, "I think you need to sit and think this through--"
"There's nothing to think through! Everyone has completely snapped except for me!"
"SO, Hanna," Liz said, ignoring Jeffy, "Want to practice our 'Lord of the Flies' presentation?"
"Lord of the Flies?" asked Jeffy, "I never read 'Lord of the Flies!!"
"Sure you did," Hanna told him, "I even remember peer editing your essay! The title of your paper was 'Not Here, Not Now!: A Comparitive Essay."
"Well, that DOES sound like something I'd write..."
"Good."
"So have you finished your paper on 'The Piano Lesson?''"
"Huh? I haven't had a piano lesson in-"
"AHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
"AHHHHHHHHHHH!!"
"Have a bad dream, Geoff?" Kenny asked Jeffy.
"Yeah," said Jeffy as he rubbed his eyes, "Very bad."
"Bizzie said something about you not drinking enough coffee this morning..."
"Yeah, guess not..."
"Do you need to go to the nurse?"
"Kenny, what's the book we just read in lit class?"
"'The Piano Lesson' of course! You just wrote a paper called, "Here and Now: A Comparitive Essay."
"And what's the name of that girl we're friends with...ya know...with the red hair?"
"Jeff, I'm REALLY getting worried now..."
"JUST TELL ME!"
"Bizzie Lizzie, of course."
"Great! And what state do we live in?"
"Wow, you were really far from home, weren't ya."
"Something like that. But, there's really just one word to describe my dream."
"What's that?"
"BIZZARE!"
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