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quite a long time away from September,” I interrupted.
    “ Exactly, the school year has just restarted. Mum’s going to flip a lid if you get sent back!” Jaden whispered in hisses. I kept looking up suspiciously as Mr Leery patrolled around the lab tables.
    I stuck my tongue out of the corner of my mouth as I quickly swapped the dissected frog for a prosthetic one underneath the table.
    “ Aw no, Aden; what are you doing?” Jaden asked stressfully. I slammed my hand lightly on the table and rolled my eyes at him.
    “ See, this is what you get when identical twins pair up as lab partners.”
    “ Uh, Aden…we’re fraternal twins. One’s witty, the other is dreary; one’s cocky, the other’s amusing,” Jaden sang to himself. He quickly took the prosthetic frog and plunged it underneath the table. We quietly wrestled as I tried to keep the fake one on the desk whilst Jaden attempted to keep it concealed.
    Mr Leery made his next stop at our table. He was tall, with long curly black hair, a thick black moustache, looked as if he were in his mid-thirties and wore a deep blue suit with a lab coat over it. His voice was dreadfully broken, sounding quite close to a bear.
    “ Aden, Jaden…how are we coming along?” he asked, intimidating. I exhaled after Jaden had managed to win and I enlarged my eyes, causing Mr Leery to take a step back – I had this bizarre effect on people. Most think there’s something wrong with the size of my eyes. They sort of come off a bit larger than usual (specifically like coins), but they aren’t disproportionate to my face or anything of the sort. I just seemed to be able to make people think I was looking through them.
    “ We’re done. We followed all instructions and finished stitching the frog back together. It should take some time for it to become conscious again though,” Jaden said. He gulped nervously as he prodded the frog’s body. With one quick hit I gave him on his hands, he stopped.
    “ Quit doing that!” I snarled.
    I looked at Mr Leery from eye to eye with mine half shut – without a single care in the world. I felt my hand touching the frog’s body. Our teacher blinked once after examining the specimen on our table.
    “ Nice work, Mr Blue…you too, Mr Blue.” He turned and headed for the next table. I quickly called him out.
    “ Mr Leery, is it possible you could call us by our first names. Since we’re both…you know – Mr Blue ,” I said whilst glancing around. I quickly scratched my neck frantically and put my hand back down.
    Mr Leery chuckled. “You’re funny,” he said, walking away casually.
    “ I was…being serious,” I said timidly undertone after he had already left. Jaden snickered.
    “ No one takes you seriously. It’s no surprise, really.”
    Jaden let out a sigh of relief and looked at me.
    “I can’t believe we’re twins,” he said. I rolled my eyes. Suddenly, I heard a loud pop and my goggles were covered in what looked like pink wads of gum.
    The whole class looked back and erupted in laughter; even Jaden and Mr Leery. I wiped the substance off of my goggle screen. I quickly took them off and slammed them on the table.
    Steam was curling up in to the air, emitting from the table. I looked down, still surrounded by laughter, only to see the frog, burst with steam ascending from its guts.
    “ Now how is that fair? You get to pull a prank?” I asked out of annoyance. Jaden was busy laughing maniacally.
    “ What are you talking about? That wasn’t me,” Jaden answered through his chortled belly laugh.
    I sighed. “My hands feel hot,” I complained. Suddenly, the bell rang and the lesson was over.
    “ Okay! Don’t forget your essays on marsupials due for tomorrow,” Mr Leery said as the whole class rushed out into the corridors, hanging their lab coats on the hangers allocated to that purpose on their way out.
    I adjusted my midnight black blazer on me. On its left pocket was the sch ool crest, a green clover in a