It's healthy to ditch class now and then." To be precise, it was healthier for humans if vampires ditched on days when human blood would be spilt.
Every time I went away I was deceiving my mum. I'd tell her I was going to school but I'd be out on the street playing football. I always had a ball on my feet.
I said school starts tomorrow. I didn’t say I was going to be there.
You know, I used to warm the thermometer on the light bulb... I was really good at being sick. I could forge my mother's signature on a sick note so well I was hardly ever at school.
The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever.
This is how I started playing: I was playing hooky one day, and the coach and the principal walked up behind me. They scared me, and I ran, and they noticed I could run really fast. They wanted me to come out for the football team.
Sometimes you just get the feeling that here it is 11o'clock in the morning and you're not in school.
Almost every day, instead of going to school when I ought to have gone, I usually made for the fields, where I spent the day.
