Science and English drifted past, break then double maths and now lunch, thank god. We gathered inside the AV room, dustin put down his prop from Halloween and opened it. He reached inside and took out a thing. He cupped his hands for the creature to rest inside.

"His names d'artangon," he smiled, stroking the being. "Dart for short," he continued.

"And he was in your trashcan?" Max asked, disgust written all over her far as she stared at the creature.

"Searching for food," he replied, awing. "Wanna hold him?" He asked max. Her expression instantly changed.

"No," she repeated herself, dustin grinned and pushed the thing on her hands that she cupped. "Ew, its slimy!" She annouced, passing it into lucas.

"Gross!" He yelled, passing it onto will.

"It's like a living boger!" He screamed then passed it to mike. He analysed it, staring at the thing that was held in his hands.

"What is he?" He asked, raising his hands closer to his face, searching the creature.

"Excatly my question," dustin replied, mike passed dart onto me however I quickly stood back to avoid him to be placed into my hands. He grinned and put it back inside the prop and dustin took out his books. "At first I thought it was some polliwog," he finished, opening his polliwog of and tagpole research book.

"Polliwog?" Max asked, dustin looked up from the page he landed on.

"Another word for tagpole," he replied.  "A tagpole is a logical state for toad," he continued.

"I know what a tagpole is," max replied.

"Alright so you must know that all tagpole are aqueduct," he replied, flicking to a page, titled 'aqueduct tagpoles'. "Well dart he isn't he doesn't need water," dustin replied, smirking.

"Well yeah, but aren't there non aqueduct polliwogs?" Lucas asked, slouching slight his the chair he sat in.

"Restrial polliwogs, yup, to be excact, in semi pailmeta and generami andre, ones from India, ones from South America," he looked up from his page that spoke about restrial polliwogs. "So how did one end up in my trash?" He asked.

"Maybe some scientist brought it here and it escaped?" She suggested, suddenly mike spoke up, looking closely to dart.

"You guys see that?" He asked, looking beside his tail and fish like arms. "It looks like something's moving inside of it," he continued, dart mold looking skin shoved around, redness stretched through his skin as something inside moved. I couldn't help but to scrunch my nose and give out a little whine of disgust.

Max pulled down the light that slightly shine over him, trying to get a clear view of what was happening inside darts body. Dart cried, rapidly climbing over dustins prop and tried to jump off the table, luckily, dustin cupped his hands and caught him.

"It's okay, I got you little guy, I know you don't like that," dustin reassured the creature, stroking his slimy back. "And there's another thing," dustin pointed out, looking to lucas. "Reptiles, their cold blooded, ectothermic right? Love heat, the sun, dart hates it, it hurts him," he finished, continuing to stroke farts back.

"So if he's not a polliwog, and not a reptile" lucas trailed off, waiting for dustin to give his answer.

"Then I've discovered a new species," dustin grinned, reassuring the creature as he stroke his back. We all watched as the 13 year old stroked the thing in his hands, he wasn't for sure know what he held however he seemed to be a big fan of him.

The bell ran, indicating for all children to head off to there final lesson til the day finished. Max, mike and lucas ran out to the door, dustin carefully put dart in his prop and shoved it back in his bag, running behind lucas and will slowly walked out afterwards, looking very wayward than usuall.

"You alright?" I asked, he looked to me and sighed.

"A little," he responded, re-adjusting his bag strap over his shoulder.

"C'mon one more lesson and schools out, you can make it," I announced, performing a little dance, grinning, pulling out jazz hands. He smiled weakly and walked away.

i don't know how you spell any of them words, holy mother of Mary.