DETENTION.

It just could not be helped. It was handed to him as if on a silver platter and he could not easily pass up such an opportunity. Of course, it did land him in detention but then, Randy knew it would before he even did it. He was forever in detention, so much so that the friendly secretary at the main office added "Detention" as an extra subject at the bottom of his schedule before handing it to him with a sly wink on the first day of school.

Everyone simply loved Randy. That is, until they were unfortunate enough to get him in their class. Randy, a tall, handsome boy with a perpetual twinkle in the eyes and mischievous grin, had the uncanny knack of showing a teacher how very UN-smart they could be. PH D's were irrelevant when they made the mistake of thinking they could match wits with this boy only to fail miserably much to the amusement of the other students. The teachers' only recourse was detention for such things as 'sassing the teacher','causing classroom disturbance' or the classic standby 'he ticked me off!' .

Much to the dismay of his teachers, detention had no effect on Randy. He was an excellent .... ....read more