Last Friday, our class had a chemistry test. Everyone looked ____1____ when Miss Clark walked in. “Turn off your phones and put them in your schoolbags,” she said.
When the bell finally rang, I was ____2____ but relieved. I packed my things quickly and left the classroom. On the way home, I suddenly noticed my pocket felt unusually ____3____. “My phone!” I cried. I ran back. When I pushed open the door, I saw only one student inside - David, the quietest boy in our class, holding a phone.
For a second, I felt ____4____. “Is that my phone?” I asked sharply. “Oh, yes,” he said quickly. “I was going to take it to the teacher’s office.” His face turned red. There was a small crack on the corner of the phone that only I would ____5____. I took it from him. There was an uncomfortable ____6____. I remembered the stories my classmates sometimes talked about him - that his family was poor and that he never had any nice things.
That night, I could not fall asleep. Was he embarrassed because he had been ____7____, or because I did not trust him?
The next morning before class, my classmates ____8____ about what had happened to me the day before. David stood up and said in a low voice, “Miss, may I say something?” He explained that he had found a phone and was ____9____ whose it was when I came back. “People think I might take things,” he added. “But I would never do that.”
The classroom became completely silent. The teacher looked at him with gentle eyes. “Thank you for being honest, David,” she said. My face ____10____.