Planet Seven

This is written from the point of view of a child.

          Today is an average day. A regular day. I'm not wearing a jacket because I don't need to. I think Mrs. Likens is really nice. She has a nice smile and nice hair. She is my teacher. We are doing math. Later we will make sentences, but first is math. Also we will do science but only after we make sentences and do math. I write out that three four times is twelve and two three times is six and other things like that. Numbers more than one time making other numbers. It is so easy for me. Adding numbers was easy and subtracting numbers was easy so I am happy that multiplying numbers is easy too. I am a good writer so I make good sentences like, “The car speeds down the street,” and “The best vacations are in Hawaii because Hawaii is very sunny.” The sentences around me are not as long as my sentences are. They are probably not as good.

          I am excited about doing science because there are many interesting things we have learned in science in class. Mrs. Likens talks about planets and the solar system. She says we live on Earth and that Earth rotates around the Sun. The Sun is really big, bigger than Earth, even though it looks smaller than Earth. That sounds silly to me but I believe it because Mrs. Likens says so. Mrs. Likens knows things that are real. Mercury is small and red and is closer to the Sun than we are. Venus between Mercury and Earth. Behind Earth is Mars. Mars is red like Venus and Mars is small too. Not as small as our moon, though. Our moon is very small and it makes circles around it. It is not made out of cheese even though I thought it was made out of cheese. I am sad because the moon is not made out of cheese, but I am happy that Jupiter and Saturn are so big and they are the fifth and sixth planets in our solar system. Saturn is made of gas and I don't understand why it doesn't look like fog. Saturn should not be a circle if it is gas. Neptune, Uranus, and Pluto are the other planets and I ask Mrs. Likens to see Uranus. This makes Mrs. Likens mad.

          I do not know why Mrs. Likens is mad but she makes me come outside with her. “Did you think it was funny to say that?” I have no idea what she is talking about. “What did you say?” “I...asked to see Uranus?” “That's inappropriate,” she says. I don't know why that's inappropriate. She asks me what that means and I say I don't know. She doesn't believe me. She thinks I know. I think it's a planet and that's all I think. She thinks I'm being smart. I know she means smart in the bad way. She keeps not believing me and it makes me cry. She gives me a pink slip which means I have to stand on a circle during recess and I hate pink slips. I hate teachers every time they give me a pink slip. I want to dip the pink slip in acid and throw it at her face. All because of stupid Uranus the planet that she said in class. She says it means butt or something. I didn't ever want to see her butt. It's probably gross and has brown spots on it and sags. I don't like Mrs. Likens. She's stupid and mean.