Rules of Paper:
The school bell rang and Cecile grudgingly made her way to the second floor of her high school for art class. Mr. Monroe was an overly passionate art enthusiast who took every opportunity to use Chris, class president and manga artist, as a leading example for quality work.
The morning had started off by being eventful after Cecile found 2 pieces of paper neatly placed in a charcoal envelope with a list of rules. "Well this whole thing could just be a dumb prank set up by someone" thought Cecile to herself. She sat down in the back corner of class and realized that the deadline for her clay figurine submission was due in 24 hours.
Pam and Kate sashayed over to Cecile and said, "You could use some sleep Cecile" said Kate. Pam interrupted Kate "No, what she really needs is more time for her figurine, just ask big head Monroe for an extension".
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Cecile sighed and thought about the paper. "I could just throw it out or ignore it but what if this is not a prank and I could test it out in a harmless way just once". Afterschool, Cecile went home and decided to draw Mr. Monroe sick in bed with a cold writing an email to all students about the clay figurine submission extension.
Suddenly, Cecile's phone began to ring and she saw the caller ID was Pam. "Just checking up on you Cecile, how are you doing? You seemed distracted today". Cecile who was still lost in thought blurted, "Listen its all good, if things work out Monroe will extend this assignment once he catches a mild flu". Cecile immediately regretted her choice of words while Pam burst out laughing and said "Woah that’s enough wishful of thinking for today, anyways I have to go".
Cecile decided to correct herself immediately "Hey Pam before you go, can we just keep this whole thing between us only? " The next day, Cecile's phone began to blast as she found 7 missed calls and 15 messages from Kate. "You won’t believe this Cecile, Monroe emailed the whole class with an extension for our assignment, well don’t take this as an excuse to slack" said Kate.
Cecile gulped in disbelief "Kate, I will talk to you later sorry". Cecile ended the call as her mind raced with thoughts. "I guess this confirms it, this thing actually worked. I don’t know what to do with this last piece of paper but for now, I need to keep a low profile" thought Cecile.
It had been a full 24 hours since Mr. Monroe was sick. He asked his class to submit their clay figurines by the end of lunch time outside a double decker table with name tags. "Hey Pam! This was an interesting turn of events, I did not think we would be getting an extension on this and Monroe seemed fine that day but got suddenly sick" said Kate as she struggled to catch up to Pam.
Pam placed her tag on the figurine and said, "Cecile handed hers earlier and she has some good intuition, she guessed that things could end up going this way". Kate gasped "Wow well it was a lucky guess I suppose". Pam suddenly remembered her conversation with Cecile and face palmed herself "Listen don’t tell Cecile I mentioned this, I sort of made a promise not to discuss this". Mr. Monroe overheard the conversation as he was passing by.
It was last class of the day and before Cecile knew it, it was coming to an end. "Cecile before you leave today, I would like to discuss your assignment". As the last school bell rang and students made their way out, Cecile made her way to Mr. Monroe. "Cecile did you read the last part of the rules?" Cecile looked confused and responded, "Mr. Monroe I added my name tag and placed my figurine before lunch time". "Cecile I wasn’t referring to the assignment" said Mr. Monroe with a wicked smile. Cecile’s heart skipped a beat as she realized her doomed fate.
