9:26am, Class is starting in 4 minutes. Tom looks at the front and thinks to himself,”Mr. Tennent is not here early today. Oh well, maybe he is picking up equipment box from the storage room.”

Tom looks at the empty seat next to him, Wade is the only classmate who is not here right now, the others are all studying and talking with each other. Tom puts his red backpack heavily onto Wade’s seat and covers his head into his arms.

“Wade is not here today. Does he know it’s our final exam today? How can he do this to us? I can’t do this experiment on my own, I’ll get F!!”

Tom looks nervously outside the door for Wade’s appearance, but all he sees is his teacher Mr. Tennent coming in with his equipment box.

Mr. Tennent walks up to the stage, and the bell rings. The class starts now, the exam starts now, Tom’s good grade for 1 semester straight in science class ends now. The science teacher opens his attendence book and starts to call out names.

“Aaron?” “Yes.” “Amir?” “Yes.” “Balerie?” “Yes.” “Brandon?” “Yes.”

Oh no, Come on, this can’t be happening. Please show up now, Wade, Please.

“Caleb?” “Yes.” “Cindy?” “Yes.”

Why did Wade do this to me? I never did anything wrong to him.

“Dallas?” “Yes.” “Danna?” “Yes.” “Devon?” “Yes.”

What should I do when Mr.Tennent gets to Wade? Should I sing a Justin Bieber song to make girls scream and distract Mr.Tennent? Girls seem to scream for no reason when Justin Bieber sings any songs he wrote.

“Edward?” “Yes.” “Erick?” “Yes.” “Ella?” “Yes.”

Mr. Tennent is getting close to Wade! What should I do? Should I pretend to be Wade? Well, it’s easier than Amanda Bynes pretends to be a man in “She’s the Man” or Lady gaga pretends to be a lion in the MTV Video Music Awards or even Kristen Steward pretends to be freezing cold during the whole Twilight Saga.

“Gary?” “Yes.” “Hellen?” “Yes.” “Makenzie?” “Yes.” “Tom?” “Yes.” “Troy?” “Yes.”

No, That won’t work. I will still get F on the test even if he believes I am Wade.

Veronica? Yes.

It’s now!

Mr. Tennent peeks at the class and says the next name, “Zachary?”

Zachary answers, “Yes.”

“What? What just happened? Did he just skipped Wade’s name?”, Tom was glad Mr. Tennent didn’t call Wade’s name, otherwise he wouldn’t know what to do.

Mr. Tennent asks everyone to put away their pencil box and put only one pencil or pen and an eraser on the table. He gives one paper to each group and he stops at Tom’s table.

“Tom?”, The teacher calls.

“Yes, Mr. Tennent?”, Tom answers.

“Where is your lab partner?”

 Tom looks at Mr. Tennent and says, “How am I suppose to know? Am I my brother’s keeper?”

 Mr.Tennent catches the reference to Cain and Abel story in the Bible and asks, “Why do you ask, Did you kill him?”

And then a person rushes into the classroom, “Sorry, Mr. Tennent, The traffic today was too heavy.” It was Wade.