New School
Chapter 1
Eli was sitting in the math class, supporting his head on the hand, and staring through the window. He was
daydreaming about his old school and friends that he left behind. He wished that the hadn't gotten expelled, but it
was too late to change the past. If Eli could, he would turn the clock back one ye ar and change everything, but it
was too late now.
"New boy!"the teacher exclaimed. "Come back to reality. I asked you a question."
"Ah," Eli said. He didn't have a slightest clue what the teacher was talking about.
"No, that is not the answer," Mr. Smith replied and looked at the person sitting in front of Eli. "Ms. Fiona, maybe
you can answer."
"Letter a stands for slope in the equation y=ax+b," Fiona said.
"Thank you, Ms. Coyne," the teacher said, and he pointed his finger at Eli. "New boy, detention after class."
That was just peachy, Eli ironically thought. The girl in front of him turned around and said, "Don't worry, he's
nice once you know Mr. Smith better. He likes to play a tough teacher in class."
"Miss Fiona, for talking in my class, detention as well," the teacher declared.
"Sorry, Mr. Smith," Fiona said, turning away from Eli with her head down.
After the class was over, both Fiona and Eli stayed over for the detention. Mr. Smith gave them two pages of
linear equations to solve.
Well, this is upsetting. Some day I'm going to have nightmares about math. The girl sitting next to me looks quite
nice. Her eyes, deep blue just like the color of the ocean after sunset. So beautiful. Too bad, I have to go to work
today, Eli thought while sitting in detention.
"Give me your papers. We're done here," the teacher said, annoyed.
Both Eli and Fiona walked over to the teacher and handed him the work.
"Now, get out of my sight," Mr. Smith said. "And maybe, the new boy will learn to pay attention in my class."
"Goodbye, Mr. Smith," Fiona said.
In the parking lot, Fitz and his buddies were standing whilesmoking next to Morty. They all were bullying Adam
and calling him names.
When Eli saw that,he yelled, "Get you ugly ass out of here!"
"What are you going to do, sissy? Go to mommy and cry?" Fitz responded back with an evil smirk on his face.
Eli walked over to Fitz and punched him in the face. Both of them were about to fight, but Adam warned
them that the teacher was heading toward the parking lot, so they all stopped. Fitz showed Eli the middle finger
when he was walking away. Eli got into his car in hurry, and without paying any attention to Adam, went straight
to work.