Post by Lydia 'Dusty' Cole on Jul 11, 2012 14:48:42 GMT -5
July 11th.
As far as homework went, the moon thing wasn't too bad. All she had to do was draw a circle and then darken the part she couldn't see, yeah? Unfortunately, drawing a perfect circle turned out to be more difficult than expected. God. Dusty peered through the Lunar telescope ... thing and up. The moon looked so big through the scope, so close she could see all the craters.
Why did everything have to be so difficult? With a scowl, Dusty looked down at her picture. They didn't look much alike at all. When she tried to erase with the large pink eraser she had er found the lines didn't disappear all the way. She must have pressed down with her pencil to hard. Her scowl deepened as she tore the paper from the notebook, starting with a new, fresh sheet. Almost fresh - the pencil had made impressions on the paper underneath.
"Oh, gaw, come on!" It took a long time to find a sheet of paper that wasn't messed up, and by then the moon had moved some - or the lunarscope, but who cared. The point was, she had to readjust everything. As she moved it, it occurred to her that hey, couldn't she just use the end of the lunarscope to make a circle? With some difficulty she flipped it over and traced around it. Lightly, this time. With the circle drawn, she set the lunarscope on the ground. Where it immediately began to roll away.
"Get back 'ere." Dusty almost choked, flinging herself forward to grab the telescope. The action threw the hat off her head, leaving her dark hair free to stick up in every direction if it so chose. She had barely snatched up the lunarscope when she heard someone else coming up to the tower. Gawd, just what she needed, someone seeing her sprawled out like a stuck dog.
notes; open to whoever
plot; astronomy class / english class???