Josh's tears stained his face. "I'm so stupid," he whispered to himself. He felt his cell phone vibrating. He took it out, and sent a text message back to his best friend:

I'm so stupid!

So dumb

So special ed

So numb

I told her I'd play her

A special, pretty song.

But I screwed up and it turned out

I might've been alright

all along.

...I really suck at poems, don't I?

Drake sent him back a text message: "Amen to that, brudda." Josh turned off his cell phone and sighed. Kathy would probably never speak to him again. And then he wondered...

Whatever happened to that snake, anyway?