Don't Laugh

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"Don't Laugh"

Flash Fiction, (c) 2012 by C. N. Nevets


They told me it was the laughing.  That's what got me thrown in here.  That's what made me a lunatic.

It wasn't that I threw a box of staples at my teacher's head.  It was that when she went down the floor and the box fell to the table, I burst out laughing.

It wasn't that I kneed my principal where it counts over and over again until he couldn't breathe and his eyes watered.  It was that I capped it off with an open-mouth laugh.

It wasn't that I beat a kid's head against the bathtub until he fell unconscious under the water.  It was that I snickered and giggled when the bubbles stopped surfacing.

It wasn't that I punched another kid in the nose so many times that his nose splintered into his brain.  It was that I laughed until my face was red.

So I learned my lesson.

If I don't laugh after I'm done beating the crap out of this guy, can I leave?