An Invisible Sign Page #2

- I had math in this room

with Mr. Jones.

- 1, 2, 3,

5, 8,

13, 21...

Who can tell me the next number

in this pattern?

Miss Gray?

- 34.

- You are correct!

- I never saw him without

a wax number around his neck.

The numbers varied

according to his mood.

He'd go higher

in a better mood,

lower if he felt lower.

I wondered if he had

the numbers my dad needed.

To the world,

they were just numbers.

But to us,

they were invisible signs.

Mr. Jones quit teaching

and opened a hardware store.

And I was the only one

who understood why.

He was trying

to get his numbers up.

We don't talk anymore.

- So can I count on you?

[Bell ringing]

[Children shouting]

[Footsteps clomping]

- Hi, first graders.

I'm Miss Gray.

- Miss Gray, you're it!

- Um-

Um, no.

- Can we call you Mommy?

- Oh!

[Bell ringing]

Second graders,

look at all the numbers

on the wall.

Guys, please.

[Bell ringing]

- No way!

Check it out!

- Pretty awesome numbers.

- I like the 2.

I like the 9 a lot.

- I like the 5.

- Are you the third grade?

- Yes.

- What's your name?

- Elmer Gravlaki.

- Okay.

Thank you.

Sit down... please.

Um...

let's play a game.

How about you say your name

along with your favorite number?

[Loud snap]

- Ow!

He shot me!

[Laughter]

It's not funny!

- What's your name?

- Danny O'Mazzi.

- Danny, you can't shoot people

in the head,

so go stand in the corner

and face the wall.

- Cool.

- No fair!

Why does he get to stand

in the corner

facing the wall?

- Well, it's not supposed to be

a good thing.

It's supposed to be

a punishment.

- Miss Gray, I'm Rita Williams,

and I want you to know

that Ellen always pees

when she gets nervous.

She has a change of clothes

in a cubby

in the nurse's office.

- Go and do that, then, Ellen.

- Miss Gray, I'm Lisa Venus,

and my favorite number

is a billion.

- What?

- You told us to say our name

and our favorite number.

- Yeah, get with the program.

- And you are...

- Ann DiGanno.

- Lisa, how about choosing

a number between 1 and 9?

- 9... I mean...

2...

no, 7.

- 7?

- For sure 7.

- Okay.

Do I have any other volunteers?

- Ooh, ooh, me, me.

Oh, oh, me.

Pick me.

My name is Levan Beeze,

and my favorite number is 1.

- Okay.

Levan, you and Lisa

come to the front and form

your numbers with your bodies.

- What is this?

- And what's the total

of Levan and Lisa?

- 8.

- That's right.

- The bugs in her gross hair

gave her the answer.

- I don't have bugs in my hair.

- Ann's in a bad mood

because her parents

are getting divorced.

My mom is her mom's attorney.

- They're not getting divorced!

They're getting

legally separated.

- Levan, client-attorney

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