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The One Time My Name Got Me Out Of Trouble
It didn’t stay that way, though.
“You’re Kristen Roley? Can you wait in the office for a moment?” Dr. Hanna gave me a strange look and looked down at his desk as I shut the door.
As I took a seat on a bench in the office, I still had no idea why I had been called to Dr. Hanna’s office. With just days to go in my Senior year, I was not a person who found himself in the office regularly. I smiled at the clerk behind the counter. “He said to…er, Dr. Hanna said to wait here.” She nodded in approval, and it was then that I realized why I was there. In a typical example of the Roley luck, I had managed to do something that rarely happens to Seniors: I had been tagged for participating in Senior Skip Day.
Senior Skip Day was historically the Friday of the last full week of school, just before the 4 day Exam Week. The general idea was to go to school and be counted as there for Homeroom, and then make a break for it. With two friends in tow, we met at the lobby right outside the cafeteria and sprinted across the street to my car. Denise, Elizabeth, and I started at the beach, but at some point we ended up going skinny dipping in our pool at home. The weekend was also spent at the beach. By Monday I was very sunburned as you might imagine, but I had a fantastic weekend.
