The lunch monitor on duty stormed over to where the greasy yellow paper had fallen, yelling after Carolina to pick up her rubbish, even though it wasn’t hers and it had been thrown at her in full view of everyone and it was just another injustice in a long line of injustices.
planter
Carolina hardly paid attention during Spanish.I think I would rather see "Carolina didn't" because hardly is a weak word imo.
She didn’t bother with the long lunch lines, opting instead to make a beeline for the most abandoned planter she could find.Planter? I am perplexed.
Come on, where are you? She thought [s]anxiously[/s].
She blinked a few times, her hopes starting a long and soon-to-be-painful fall to the ground.-ing verbs are lame. "She blinked a few times, and her hopes started a long and soon to be..."
She jumped about six feet in the air, head-butting her hopes as she rose.I love the second part of this sentence. So witty!
Ronald said as he climbed over the planter to plop down next to her, his backpack hitting the ground with a soft thud.Make the stuff after the comma its own sentence.
something discoloured and angry-lookingI love, love, love that you say it was angry-looking.
Carolina signed, her hands moving furiously fast.Does furiously add anything to this sentence? No. Cut it.
Neither moved for a [s]very[/s] long, [s]very[/s] pregnant pause