Seeing the red ink covering her assignment, Keiko was shocked and appalled. She blinked quickly, lifting the papers and quickly looking through them. It was so unfair! Miss Bell had picked on every little thing, and blown them up out of all proportion! She looked from the grade (easily the worst she'd ever gotten) to the teacher and back.<br/><br/>"This - this is ridiculous!" She finally blurted. "You can' be serious - I didn't do worse on this than on anything else."<br/><br/>Keiko was angry, and a bit frightened. Her father was quite happy with her grades, but if she came home with this kind of a mark she'd be in serious trouble. Maybe, she thought, that was the point - maybe Miss Bell was trying to scare her into working harder. Well, if that's what it takes, maybe she'd have to; it was only one class after all. She tried to calm down, and continued.<br/><br/>"Look, Miss, can I redo this? I'll make sure I pay more attention to it this time."