Zip! I unzipped my rainbow pencil case. Out of it I pulled a pink post-it note that was folded into a pocket shape, and taped at the sides. I pulled off the white paper clip and looked inside. Inside were what looked like 20 blue slips of paper. Tickets.

    In Mr. Hunt’s art class, you earned tickets when you practiced good behavior and answered trivia questions correctly. When you collect twenty tickets, you get to buy an item from the Treasure Box.

 I have been saving my tickets for about three weeks now. At the beginning of the school year I decided to save twenty tickets and buy the giant plush dog that was in the Treasure Box. A few weeks later, when I had roughly ten tickets, Mr. Hunt told me it had already been bought. The news disappointed me, but I still decided to save up the tickets. I just didn’t know what I would get.

I split my tickets into piles of five. One, two, three, four, five. One, two, three, four, five. There were four whole piles and two extras. Twenty two tickets. I picked up the four