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FreakyBookReader x
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7.30am
James' alarm clock buzzed. He moaned quietly and turned over. He tried to reach the button to turn off the loud beeping, but as his hand rummaged for the off button on the alarm clock, he knocked a glass of water on to the floor which had been sitting innocently on his chest of drawers.
"Crap." James muttered as he heard the glass shatter and water dripping onto the floor. He sat up, rubbed his eyes and looked at the spilt water and broken glass on his floor. James flung off his sheets and dragged himself out of bed, despite his body protesting that he should be staying in bed for at least another fifteen minutes. He grabbed a towel from the bathroom and chucked it on the floor. Then he started scooping up the broken glass. After a couple of cuts, he gave up and got dressed in his favourite jeans, T shirt and trainers.
After a quick trip down the corridor to the cleaning cupboard, James scraped the rest of the glass up using a dustpan and brush, and threw it in the bin. Then he got started on his huge mound of homework. He hastily scribbled a four line answer to his history question, and used Google translate to write a paragraph for his Spanish homework.
James walked down the hall in a foul mood. At the end of the corridor he stepped into the lift and pressed the button for the ground floor. Instead of the normal sound of the doors closing, nothing happened. James tried pressing the button again but it didn't do anything. He got out of the lift and ran down the stairs two at a time. When James reached the ground floor he saw that there was a disintegrating sign blue-tacked to the lift door saying it was being repaired. Stupid thing, James thought, they could have bothered to put a sign on the other doors.
As James queued up for food, he noticed that there was a new person sitting at his usual table with his friends. He studied the girl: long brown hair which was quite curly, and blue eyes. She was chatting away to Bruce. James was too busy watching her to notice that the person in front of him in the queue had gone off to sit with their friends. Everyone knew that if you were later to breakfast than the majority of Cherub campus, there would be no good food left so James was pleasantly surprised to see a plate of bacon, egg, tomato and beans on the counter in front of him. After grabbing some juice and cutlery he headed over to the table. There was a seat next to the new girl so James sat down. He looked at her, wondering who she was until she turned around.
"Oh, Hi." She said.
"Hi, I'm James." He told her.
She smiled at him. "I haven't seen you before. Were you there last night?"
James shook his head. "No, I didn't go bowling, I was doing work. I haven't seen you before either."
Kerry glanced at James and spoke to Megan. "Yeah, James was far too busy catching up on his homework as he never does any of it on the day it is set. Unlike some people..."
Megan laughed, "You sound like my sort of person, James. I'm Megan."
Kerry looked hurt, Megan was her friend and she didn't like her ex-boyfriend talking to her.
"So, when did you come here?" James asked.
"Last night, and since I already knew Kerry, she asked me if I wanted to go bowling with everyone."James looked confused.
"How do you know Kerry?" He asked.
"I met her on my mission, her Dad was being hunted by the people I was trying to catch, and she was invited to join Cherub."Kerry said. "Anyway, come on Megan, or we will be late to German!"
Megan smiled at James, "I'll see you at lunch!"she said and followed Kerry out of the dining room.
James watched her leave and turned around to see his friends staring at him.
"What?" he said.
Bruce started laughing, "That was so hilarious! You were so flirting with her and Kerry didn't like it one bit!"
James was confused, "Bruce, me and Kerry are over each other, I can't just go round not liking any other girls because we broke up two months ago."
"It's not that," Kyle smirked, "Kerry doesn't want you to go out with Megan and then break her heart. She thinks you will do what you did to her to Megan."
James shrugged. "It's my choice what I do with girls. And since when did I care about what Kerry thinks."
"Since you needed to copy your homework from her." Bruce said.
"Oh shit! I completely forgot about that. Can I copy your German off you, Kyle?" James asked while grabbing a piece of paper and pen from his bag.
Kyle shook his head, "No I handed it in ages ago, but you don't even have German this morning."
"Yes, I do! It starts in three minutes!"
"You have a message from Ewart Asker. You weren't here so he left it with me." Kyle handed James a piece of paper.
James scanned the page and saw that he had a mission briefing in the mission preparation block which started five minutes ago.
"Why didn't you give me this earlier? I'm going to be late!" James moaned as he shoved his last mouthful into his mouth.
Kyle shrugged, "We wanted to ask you about Megan."
"OK, well I have to go right now so I will see you later." James grabbed his bag and dashed out of the room. As he ran to the mission preparation building, he wondered what the mission would be about.
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