End of Sixth Grade

She got them at age ten.

Now they were twelve.

“That was your last test,” she said.

“Don’t we have a cumulative?” one asked.

She explained they’d do games and puzzles instead.

They murmured in unabashed enthusiasm to each other.
She hoped they’d stay this sweet when they turned teen.

A special education teacher by day, Theresa Milstein writes middle grade, YA, and dabbles in poetry. theresamilstein.blogspot.com