Chapter 28, The Huge Haman-Taschen

"Purim is coming soon," Leah my favorite teacher announced. "We are going to put on a play for Purim with the second-grade class. Now I want you to behave yourselves like an older class is supposed to." She was so pretty. I think that I fell in love with her right from the beginning at the second grade. She was tall and slim. She had dark hair and green eyes, and she spoke so softly and nicely even when I was bad. In time, I got used to it, but at the beginning I was so in love that I couldn't concentrate in class. I daydreamed about how we would walk on the beach and how she would hold me in her arms and how... "Wake up Haim! You are not paying attention again!" She said to me, and I looked at her with this sorry look so that she would forgive me. Sometimes she would ask, "What are you dreaming about all the time?" Now really, what can I tell her? Put yourself in my place, what would you do? "Sorry teach! I was dreaming about you and...