P.O.V Clare
I walk into school, not acknowledging the stares and hurtful words being thrown at me. I rip the notes off my locker without reading a single one. I already know what they say, "Nerd", "Slut" and "Whore". Of course only nerd is true, but people try to hurt me with any words they can.
With my books in hand I walk to English class. I sit in the closest seat I can find and hide my face in my hair and pull out the book I've been reading lately, Scarlet Nights. A few minutes later the late bell rings and Ms. Dawes starts class.
"Hello everyone let's get down to business shall we. I have graded your latest assignment and decided who your partner for this class based on the improvements you need.
She started to pass our papers back.
"Some of you did well and others not there best." She said this while giving mine back to me.
A big red B- taunted me from the top right corner of the page. I didn't protest against it though. I knew had been lacking. It all started when… well that's a story for a different time.
"The partners are…"
I blocked out the names until I heard my own.
"Clare Edwards and Eli Goldsworthy…"
I looked around the room until my eyes landed on the boy in front of me, who had turned in his chair. He looked at me through his bangs with a smirk planted lightly on his lips.
"Hi I'm Eli. Are you Clare?" He asked in quiet voice so Ms. Dawes wouldn't hear him.
"Um… yeah hi it's nice to meet you." I replied blushing. He smirked and shook my hand before turning back to hear further instructions.
"Next go move some desks and get cozy with your partner because you're going to learn all about them this week. I will tell you about the paper you will do for this later but for now get to know each other. This will be the home work for today and tomorrow. Get started."
Well this is going to be a fun class.