Pretty good!” He waltzed towards the window. “That’s why I won’t skip a single day from now on.” “I do! That’s why I take your lessons!” He looked up. “ Mon Dieu, you really don’t care about French, do you?” With glass shards everywhere and sweat dripping from his clumped feathers, he seemed shaken. The owl stepped back and put a wing to his forehead, shuddering. “ Vous sommes ? WAIT N O-” I ducked as Duo whipped the bottle at my head. “‘ TU ’? What am I, a school chum? Give me a ‘ vous ’.” “Okay, okay! Hang on.” I took a deep breath. I swallowed, trying to remember what my old nemesis Madame Windsor had drilled into my mind. “ En Français, tell me I deserve better students and you’re a disappointment to the French language,” He said, pushing the side of the makeshift blade against my collarbone. “I took it in school!” At this, Duo stopped and narrowed his eyes. I ran towards the door, but Duo stepped in front. “Well, you could’ve parlez-vous’ed en Français, but here we are.” ![]() He screeched and waved the glass shard in my face, feathers flying across the room with every swipe. “There must be something I can do,” I begged. “ Non, I just came here to teach you a lesson and drink Orangina.” With a swing, Duo smashed the bottle on the countertop, creating a glass dagger.ĭuo lunged forward and I scurried back, looking around for an exit. He untwisted the cap and downed it in one go. ” He shook his head, pulling from under his wing a bottle of Orangina, the French soda. ![]() You’re the one who wants a governmental job, not me. “I try every day to teach you this precious second language. ![]() “Or do you not know what that means, you stupid bitch ?” Smashing the window pane with his talons, he stepped into my room. Massive and enshrouded in darkness, except for a pair of bright, crazed eyes, was the slime-green language king himself. When I opened them, I yelped at what I saw staring at me through the window. I stared outside at the darkness then rubbed my eyes. We’ll stop sending them for now.” Thank God. “These reminders don’t seem to be working. I didn’t need an owl to remind me of this. My grade 10-level French wasn’t getting any better. Usually, the notification reminds me to take daily French lessons. ![]() Amongst emails, notifications, and texts, there my relentless frenemy was: Duo, the green Duolingo owl. I’d finally submitted my essay on Canvas, and my burning eyes demanded I close my laptop for the night.
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