The Skateboarder

Final word count for Friday night/Saturday morning: 9,778. Almost caught up again!

Today's research:
Pencil Spinning (If the link doesn't work, just look up "pencil spinning" on Google Video.)

Excerpt of the day:

Ivy wasn’t the only one sitting in the in-school suspension room. She was a little peeved that she was, in fact, still sitting there. She had listened while Mrs. Young had called her dad, and it seemed from the conversation that they were going to come and get her. Apparently they had changed their minds. Perhaps they wanted to punish her by letting her sit here all day and cool her heels. She knew better than to think they’d forgotten about her; it was definitely punishment. They could’ve at least asked me what happened, she thought irritably. Then if they want to punish me, they can have at it.

What truly surprised her, though, was her company. There were five of them in the room; that alone wasn’t surprising, nor were the three notorious trouble-makers sitting against the left wall, who were currently plotting something to do with stink bombs and rats. The surprise was the fifth person in the room. She was as out of place in a room for punishment as a skateboarder on a ski slope.