Story of the week (number two)

Two A’s and two F’s.

“Guess what happened today?”Martin asked Mom. Mom looked up from the dish cloth and plate.

“What happened?” she said. She shined the dish.

“Okay! Check my report card!”Martin handed out his report card to mom. Mom looked at it and glared really hard. Then she smiled and frowned.

“F and F? Really Martin?” Mom asked.

“I know but look I got two A’s. See look!!” Martin smiled.

“Well I’m very proud. Tonight to celebrate, we’ll go out and eat at a Chinese restaurant.” Mom put down the cloth and wiped off the plate. Martin smirked.

The next day Martin came home with a new report card.

“Guess what happened today!”he asked.

“Okay, what happened?”Mom was baking chocolate chip cookies for her book club.

“So I got back my report card! Look, three A’s!!”Martin yelled.

“Not so loud, Martin. Yes I’m very proud. So your father and I decided to give you an iTunes card.”

But something was weird. Report cards come out every other month. I felt like calling my best friend that day and when I picked up the phone I heard Martin’s conversation.

“They bought it, Austin! They bought! Now I got an ITunes card and Chinese!!”Martin said.

“Great do it once more to make them really proud!” Austin said.

“I gotta go Austin. I have to take care of business.” Martin said in a whisper. Then I heard his large footsteps coming after me. I should have known, an obvious case of my brother Martin.