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It’s a Thursday.

He hates Thursdays.

Thursdays are days of mockery, he always thought. They were made to taunt people that the weekend was almost there, but not quite, and there’s really nothing you could do about it.

He didn’t really see the point of Thursdays. Mondays are there to start the week, Wednesdays told you that you’re right smack in the middle, and Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays tell you that you could catch your breath and relax a little - unless it was exams week. Tuesdays were like Thursdays that didn’t have a point, but Thursdays are worse because they block your enjoyment of the weekend by being there.

Besides which, he always has Mr. Valdez for a teacher on Thursdays, and he was notorious on campus for being a terror teacher, giving pop quizzes and recitations when you least expected them.

Not to mention, he has lab classes on Thursdays, and it was only a good day for him when he manages to keep him and his partner from smoking and smelling of sulfur.

To cap it off, he never has a ride back home on Thursdays. His brother always manages to forget him after his basketball practice, so most of the time, he has to hoof it home.

Yep, Thursdays were the worst. If he could only…

“Hey, Jake! What are you doing sitting on the pavement? You know what, lab’s a killer! We’re really lucky we didn’t end mess up today, or we’d have smelled like rotten eggs again! Geez, and Mr. Anderson was looking at us. It’s not like we fail all the time, but the way he’s glaring…” As Lana plopped beside him and chattered on, Jake allows himself a small smile.

Maybe Thursdays weren’t so bad, after all.

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Hope you liked it!^_^ I got the idea from a friend who said he hated Thursdays because they’re fake Fridays. Hahaha!