I stuck close to Pippa and another girl, Nora, who had hair a similar shade to my own natural color in a pixie cut and eyes that was such dark blue they looked like pools of ink.
I had no idea what to expect from Brooke - I didn’t know if she was going to be the kind of young, hip teacher everybody loves or the kind of young teacher who feels like they have to be super hard on the students so they don’t lose control of the class.
I thought she might embarrass me by waving and calling me ‘kiddo’ in front of everybody, or by talking to me like I was a little kid.
I shouldn’t have worried about that - Brooke was a professional, and she treated me just the same as all of the other kids.
She actually made gym class pretty fun, and I enjoyed it even more because Delphine spent the entire cla
