9/11 Short Stories

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The bell rang, students sat in their seats, and they began to write down their homework.
Ryan eagerly asked Mr. Jones, “What are we doing today?”
John responded, “Oh yeah, there it is, we have a Chemistry lab.”
Mr. Jones gave the class a brief overview of what they would be doing during the lab and he stressed to the class, “Please be sure to follow appropriate lab safety procedures.”
Ryan and John sprinted to a lab station, yelling, “We got this station!” Once at the station,
Ryan asked John if he read the lab last night for homework to which John replied, “Nope, did you?”
Ryan responded to John’s question by saying, “Are you serious, I never read anything for this class.” They both looked at each other and decided to just start the lab. …show more content…

Even though all of their classmates went to the safety goggle cabinet prior to starting the lab, Ryan and
John decided not to go. John said in a smug way, “Forget the goggles; we are too cool to wear those things.”
Ryan walked up to the front lab bench where the chemicals were, removed the lids, picked up the flasks, and started to smell the different chemicals. “I am just going to bring back the ones that smell the best,” said Ryan. Little did Ryan know that one of the chemicals was sulfuric acid, and after taking a deep breath, he thought that his nose hairs were on fire.
“Hey Ryan, you didn’t even put the lid back on,” yelled Mr. Jones. Ryan ignored Mr. Jones and somehow he made it back to his lab station without passing out. Upon making his way back to the lab station, Ryan saw John trying to light the Bunsen burner.
“John, John, your hair!” Ryan yelled in an excited voice.
“That was a close one,” said John. “My mother has been telling me to get a hair cut. I …show more content…

If you have read it and then have additional questions, I would be more than happy to help you, but you have to do your part first.’ I certainly don’t want to hear all of that, do you?”
“Definitely not, I hate when teachers go ranting,” said John.
The lab partners proceeded to add some random chemicals to the test tube.
Shortly thereafter, the contents of the test tube began to bubble over. “Wow that was amazing!” Ryan yelled.
“Yeah, that was pretty cool, but it is everywhere,” John said in a concerned voice.
“Good thing we have all of these papers laying around our lab station because most of the chemicals have just spilled onto them. We can just throw all of the papers into the garbage,” Ryan said confidently.
“Hey, it got onto my planner,” John said in an annoyed voice.
“Who cares, just go to guidance and buy another one for four dollars and fifty cents. Oh,
I’m sorry, I mean you can get one for four dollars and Fitty Cent. Get it, Get it!” Ryan said in a joking manner.
The students began to clean up the spilled chemicals when John said, “This stuff smells really good, kind of like

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9/11 Short Stories