Atomic recess

Secrets Pt. 3

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"Hey, Gretchen, don't look now, but you've got mail." Said Galileo, after Gretchen sat down at the cafeteria table where her friends sat.

"Whoa! That thing talks." Asked Vince.

"Don't feel threatened, Vince. Computers are only as smart as the humans who program them." Said Galileo as the other seven gathered around Gretchen to take a closer look at Galileo.

"In fact, the battle of... oops, sorry...The argument they couldn't settle with words of Bunker Hill actually took place on Breed's Hill." Said Ms Grotke as they were all back in class.

*Yep. Galileo did everything. Thanks to a sophisticated spoken-word translation program, it even took notes in class.* Gretchen thought as she held Galileo up.

"Excuse me, Miss Grotke. Could you repeat that last point? And this time, please, speak slowly and enunciate." Galileo asked.

"Oh, well, OK. The argument they couldn't settle..." ms Grotke did as Galileo asked and repeated slowly.

*Galileo even calibrated age, skill level, and frustration factors, and would let me win at chess occasionally.* "Checkmate!" Gretchen said as she moved her chess piece.

"Good move, Gretchen. you finally win one." Cheered Galileo.

*That's right. I loved a machine like a sister or a kind uncle. Maybe that's sick, maybe it's twisted, but love it I did. And then one day everything changed.*

"Alright, everyone line up, I need two kids up front to be captains, we're gonna play basketball." Said Coach Kluge, during gym class, before picking Vince and TJ as the captains. After the class had been evenly split up into two teams the kids got ready to play. "Hold up, king, since there was an incident with the sixth grader and her jewellery getting caught and breaking, causing a student to trip, you can't wear your bracelet during gym class anymore."

"What? But I'm always careful, and it's really durable." Dede argued back.

"I'm sorry, but those are the rules now. And Grundler, no computers, you've got to put that away as well."

"But—" Gretchen also tried to fight but was also shot down.

"Now, both of you." Coach Kluge said, pointing to the locker room.

"Come on Gretchen, let's go put them in our lockers." Dede sighed as walking off into the girls locker room.

"They really need to get new lockers." Gretchen groaned as she struggled to open her locker.

"That's true, if you want, you can put Galileo in my locker till the end of class." Dede said putting her bracelet in her locker and moving to the door as Gretchen walked over to put Galileo away.

"You go, girl! I'll be here waiting for you to finish." Galileo said as Gretchen put him down.

"KING, GRUNDLER." The girls heard Coach Kluge shout and Dede ran out the door, Gretchen slammed the locker closed and quickly followed her, not realising the locker opened back up and both the bracelet and galileo fell out.

"You girls are gonna end up failing gym class at this rate." The girls heard Coach Kluge say when they got back. Thinking he was talking about them they almost panicked before they saw him facing the Ashley's, who were holding out notes.

"Like, who cares." Said Ashley B.

"Yeah, we could totally, like, break a nail or something." Ashley A agreed.COach Kluge just rolled his eyes and sent the girls on their way, not wanting to deal with them.