Light shone in through the curtains, directing the sunbeams onto Alex's face. He half-opened his eyes and pulled the curtain across, trying to go back to sleep, even though it was a school day. His alarm clock soon went off a few minutes later, he sighed and slammed his fist on the clock, making him fall off the bed and hitting his head on the wooden bedside desk. Just another day... Alex thought to himself as he heaved himself up and got to his feet, his stitches on his wrist aching from the impact of the fall. He opened his white bedroom door and walked to the bathroom, looking at the mirror and then glancing down at the sink. He turned the cold water tap on and cupped his hand, making the water stay in his hand, then covered his face in the water to wake him up a little. He kept the tap running and grabbed his toothbrush from the side, covering it in water and squeezing toothpaste onto the bristles. He brushed his teeth and put the toothbrush back onto the side, then got a towel from the cupboard, placing it on the floor. He stepped into the shower and leaned against the wall, turning the hot water to cold. Sighing, he turned around and saw his burn marks on his back. He washed his hair and shook it, stepping out, grabbing his towel and placing it around his lower part of his body. Alex walked back to his bedroom and dried himself off, placing the towel in the wash. He sprayed Lynx spray all over his body and put on his boxers, jeans, shirt and hoodie, with his iPod in. With satisfaction, he walked slowly down the stairs, and got some breakfast in the kitchen. When he had finished, he took a glance at his phone as it's ringtone played. It was Milor. Alex sighed and placed his hand to his forehead, not really wanting to talk to his friend, since it was so early in the morning. "Give me a break..." Alex said and answered the call, placing his phone to his ear.
"Hey!" Milor yelled down the phone, giving Alex a slight headache, causing him to put his phone away from his ear, at a distance.
"Do you have to yell?!" Alex asked, with an angry tone. "I just woke up, y'know." he added, rubbing his eyes.
"Oh.. well sorry man, I'll see you at school?" Milor said and hung up on him. Alex put his phone back into his pocket and sighed, grabbing his side-bag from the staircase.
"Aight, I'm off to school." Alex said and made his way to the door, his mom standing in the hallway, preparing his younger brother Liam, for school.
"Have fun." His mom said to Alex, then closed the door. Alex put his earphones in and walked up the street, listening to Creature Feature.
Alex walked through the school iron gates and noticed Zach, Milor, Genevie, Claire and Kristen were waiting for him. "Hey." Alex greeted and walked to Kristen, wrapping his arms around her and pressing his lips against hers, kissing her. Zach did the same to Genevie, and Claire and Milor felt awkward, so they just looked around. Alex walked along side Kristen and gave Zach a brofist, grinning.
"What lesson do you have first?" Kristen asked Alex and smiled up at him.
"Math.." he sighed and made her come closer to him, walking through the school grounds.
"Same." said Zach and held hands with Genevie, then looked behind him at Claire and Milor. "What do you two have?" he asked.
"We both have Chemistry." Claire replied, looking rather nervous when she was walking beside Milor, who was always being the perverted one out of their friendship group. The bell rang for first lesson and Kristen looked down, sadly.
"I'll see you later, yeah?" Alex promised and held her close, kissing her.
"Ugh.. can't you leave each other alone just for one minute?" Milor said, getting impatient, he didn't like to be late for classes. The group turned round to see Dani and Hannah walking to their class. Hannah went slightly red when she noticed a specific person in the group, so did Dani. Hannah had too much focus on that particular person that she bumped into a tree. Milor chuckled to himself and walked over.
"Hey are you alright?" he offered and held out a hand. Claire narrowed her eyes and held her books close to her, walking off to her Chemistry class, grumpily.
"I'm fine, Milor..." Hannah said and got up by herself, going a bit red and rubbing her bruised head.
"Maybe you should go to the nurse..." Alex suggested and held hands with Kristen.
"Yeah, it looks like a big bruise.." Zach said, glancing at them both.
"I'm fine!" Hannah argued and stormed off to class with Dani, who was shrugging her shoulders.
"What is her problem?" Genevie asked and straightened herself up for class.
"Suits us.." Kristen replied, letting go of Alex's hands. "I'll see you later." She smiled and walked off with Genevie.
Alex and Zach sat down next to each other, in math, leaning back on their seats, grinning. The teacher went out of the classroom and shut the door behind him. Alex stood up on the desk, holding out his hand out to Zach, prompting him up on the desk. "What are you doing?" Zach asked, with a confused look on his face, then went on the desk with him.
"We're shuffling together!" Alex replied with a grin on his face, then began to shuffle on the desk, Zach did the same. The teacher stormed back into the room again with some textbooks, placing them on his own desk. He looked up and saw Alex and Zach shuffling.
"Congratulations you two, you both got after school detention with me." the teacher said, his tone angry. He turned to the board. "Now, If 1/2x +1/2(1/2x + 1/2(1/2x +1/2(1/2x + ... = y,
then x is?" he wrote on the board with his pen. Alex headdesked, groaning. Zach looked at him and patted his back slowly. After an hour, the bell rang and they walked out, Alex was rubbing his eyes.
"You slept through the whole of math class?" Zach asked, looking at him.
"Uh huh..." Alex groaned and leaned on the wall, trying to get his balance.
"You aight?"
"Yeah, I'm fine.. just haven't been getting the best nights..." Alex said and punched Zach in the shoulder gently. "Lets go to Biology..." he said, walking with him through the corridors and up the stairs. Alex slowly pulled his hoodie sleeve up, looking at the stitches on his wrist. "Ach.. they hurt.." he muttered to himself and put his sleeve back down, trying to forget about it and wanting this day to be over.
"Now class.. take your seats..." the teacher said, sitting in a swivel chair, grinning.
"Um...Zach.. where is our normal teacher?" Alex elbowed him and he shrugged. Kristen and Genevie sat by them and smiled, blushing a bit.
"Our new teacher is weird..." Genevie put in, staring at his glasses.
"I realized.." Alex said grumpily and face-desked in his textbook. Kristen put her arms around him and kissed his cheek.
"It'll be fine, you'll see." she said, thinking positive about things.
The teacher grinned and placed his hand on the giant screw in his head, tightening it. "The names Mr. Stein, don't like it? I got a knife right here.." he said and Alex looked up, trying to straighten himself up.
"This teacher is a maniac.." Zach commented, in Alex's ear, he nodded in agreement.
"Now.. first off we will begin wi-" the teacher got cut off.
"Um.. sir? Why do you have a knife?.." one of the students said, his face worried, but curious. Mr. Stein picked up his knife and aimed it at the student's head, throwing it, and it impacted through his skull.
"That is why..." Mr Stein grinned. "Now.. I need someone to try something on..." he said, looking around the class. Genevie and Kristen exchanged glances, Alex and Zach looked down, trying not to be noticed. "Ah.. you." he grinned with satisfaction, pointing directly at Alex who sighed and got up.
"You're actually going to do what he says?! He's not even a real teacher!" Zach watched him go to the front. Alex nodded slowly and looked at Mr. Stein who was examining him, pulling up Alex's sleeve.
"Interesting..." Mr. Stein said.
"Uhm..." Alex shuddered, trying to move his arm away. "I don't want you looking at them.." he said.
"It's just a small dissection.." The teacher said, grabbing his arm again. All of the students widened their eyes.
"It's not even legal in this school!" Alex argued, glaring at Mr. Stein.
"It is in my class." he said, grabbing a knife. Alex broke free of his grasp and grabbed his bag. "Find someone else!" he shouted and slammed the door behind him.
