Mr. Bentley Narrative

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I got assigned an essay in my English class and I definitely did not want to do it. My teacher’s name is Mr. Bentley. He is extremely strict and not very understanding. Not only did I not want to do the assignment, I was busy the whole weekend playing at a softball tournament in Ohio, so I did not exactly have enough time to start it, let alone get it done.
I obviously had to come up with some excuse to get Mr. Bentley to not be so harsh on me even though I did not do the assignment. I contemplated telling him that my dog ate my homework, but I figured that was a little cliché. I ended up thinking of a great excuse that I figured he might actually buy. I decided to go with, “I left my homework at school.”
Then I realized that we have chromebooks

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