Leyendo en Español

“Logan, have you done your reading for today?” I asked. 

“Um, yes,” he said, avoiding my eyes.

“No you haven’t.  You need to read in Spanish,” I said. 

“I might not even have a Spanish library book!” he retorted. 

“That’s okay, we have plenty of books in Spanish.  You check to see if it’s a Spanish reading night and I'll know exactly what to do,” I told him. 

“I don’t like any of the books we have in Spanish,” he complained. 

“Oh, really?” I asked, “Which ones don’t you like?”

There was a pause as he headed down the hall.

“You know, the ones in Spanish,” he hollered, angrily. 

Pretty soon he headed into his room and slammed the door.

“Logan, are you reading?” I called, loudly. 

“Duh!” he shouted, through the door.

Duh, meaning “no”.

He opened the door just a crack and shouted, “Nobody disturb me!” and slammed the door again.

Nobody disturb me, meaning “I’m busy doing everything except the one thing you asked me to do and I don’t want you to find out.”

- 16 October 2017