The next morning, his teacher, Elena Petrovna, looked at his perfect—but slightly messy—handwriting.
Anton grinned. Sometimes, the search bar was more trouble than the actual homework. The next morning, his teacher, Elena Petrovna, looked
The search results were a familiar landscape of flashing banners and "Verify you are human" boxes. He clicked the top link. The site was slow, loading line-by-line like a ghost from the dial-up era. Finally, Exercise 4 appeared. The search results were a familiar landscape of
He scribbled down the answers: uniform, compulsory, tie, blazer. But as he reached the final sentence, his heart sank. The online version of the book was the 2019 edition; his textbook was the 2023 reprint. The questions didn't match. Finally, Exercise 4 appeared
"Good job, Anton," she said. "At least you didn't write 'blazer' as 'brazier' like the kids who copied from that old website."
"I just need to check my work," Anton whispered to his cat, though his notebook was still blank.
The clock on the wall ticked toward 9:00 PM. On the desk, a blue-and-yellow textbook lay open to page 42, mocking Anton with a wall of text about British school uniforms. The title "Enjoy English" felt like a lie.