Sharpening Pencils: Awkward

My English Class was having a discussion about collectivism or something like that, and we were all taking notes. A student in the class (lets call her Julia) got up to sharpen her pencil.

All of a sudden the entire class got silent.

Nobody really knew why, except, perhaps, for Mr. U, who could see her as she walked toward the pencil sharpener. But he didn't start talking again, so nobody else did either.

Slowly people began to turn around and we saw that Julia had just reached the pencil sharpener, and was now noticing that the entire class was staring at her.

"I just wanted to sharpen my pencil!"

-Marianne