A painfully loud thud came from the back of Ms. Sanchez's classroom, snapping Chad Danforth out of his mindless dazing. He whipped around in his desk chair to see Jason Cross holding his forehead, eyes bleary with sleep. Chad smirked; yes, their Teen Living class was incredibly boring, but even he had learned long ago not to fall asleep in class, to at least look like he was paying a little bit of attention to whatever spiel the teacher was rambling on about.
Jason flushed and muttered an apology to Ms. Sanchez and the whole class in general. Ms. Sanchez glared at him with a pinched expression, unimpressed as always, before she sighed.
"Well, Mr. Cross," the teacher said wearily, "At least you've seen fit to wake up in time to hear my next announcement along with the rest of your classmates."
Chad watched with mild curiosity as the teacher surveyed the room full of students. She looked something like a tiger about to tear into an innocent herd of beautiful baby gazelles, he thought. This meant that there was most likely a huge chunk of homework that she was getting ready to dump on them. He groaned internally.
"In today's society," Ms. Sanchez geared up to begin teaching the "eager young minds" that sat half-awake in her class. "Eleven hundred teenage girls give birth every day. Bearing this in mind, I think that we can all agree that teenage parenting is a big part of the lives of numerous teens. Am I correct?" she paused for a moment and was met with only silence before she nodded briskly as if someone had actually answered her. "Good; I'm glad that we all agree, since, for the next month, every one of you is going to be a teenage parent."
Chad's eyebrows drew together. What?
Grinning like a lunatic, Ms. Sanchez pulled a sheet-covered cart from one corner of the room to the front of it, beside her desk, and whipped the sheet from off of the cart's contents. In the classroom of thirty-two students, sixteen realistic-looking, high-tech dolls were suddenly staring at the group of teenagers.
As he realized what the assignment was, panic shot through Chad as his eye widened.
Oh, no way!
Sorry that the chapter is so short, but since I'm doing one POV per chapter for this story, the chapter lengths might be a little unpredictable. Anyway, this is a story that I've had rolling around in my head for awhile and decided to take a stab at. Reviews make my day full of unicorns and rainbows even though I do have a cold right now! Thanks, everybody!:)