The bus stops abruptly waking Jacey from her sleep. She pulls off her hood and places her I-pod back in her bag. The sign outside the bus window reads Irving, New York, she grabs her back pack, swings it onto her shoulder and walks off the bus.
"Where are you headed miss..." The driver says taking her ticket. "Johnsons..." he continues.
"Boston." She happily replies nodding her head.
"Very good, your transfer bus is over there." He says pointing to the red and black bus. "It will take you the rest of the journey, and don't worry your bags will be transferred."
"Thanks." She says smiling.
Jacey briskly walks over to the new bus, hands the driver her ticket and boards the bus. She grabs a seat toward the back of the bus. Soon people start to file in and withing 10 minutes the bus is full and on its way. Again she takes out her I-pod, pulls on her hood, leans her head against the window and falls asleep, letting memories fufill her dreams.
"Are you all ready, Chase?" Dr. Cuddy asks.
"Yeah, I guess so." He replies putting his bag over his shoulder.
"Well, good luck." Cuddy reassures him.
"I'll be fine, but thanks."
"That's the spirit, see you later."
"Bye." Chase says walking outside his office.
Chase walks into a classroom with about eleven students, who all look bored out of thier minds.
'Good afternoon class, I'm Dr. Robert Chase, you can call me Mr. Chase and I'm going to be your anatomy and Physiology teacher for the year.
They all just stare at him, Chase is so nervous his palms are sweating prfusely.
"Right, uhm with that said I'll give you the lowdown on the curriculum and what is expected of you for this year. I plan on covering this entire book, this being an honors class that shouln't be a problem. I will assign one homeowrk assignment every Monday, to be completed and hand into me on Friday. You will have one vocab quiz every Wednesday and one quiz on each section, and a test an the end of each chapter. Good news, I do drop the lowest quiz grade, so I strongly suggest that you study for the tests since they are 50 of your final grade. More good news I do not, I repeat do not assign homework on weekends...I have a life too."
A small cheer runs through the class.
"Unless I assign a long term project and speaking of which you will have one each term...so yeah uhmm any questions?"
All of Chase's new students look stunned, but content. Chase is just hoping he hasn't scared the crap out of them.
"No? Good. Today being my first I thought we chould all just chill and we'll get started tomorrow."
His students look a lot more relazed and immediately start chatting.
Chase sits at his desk and takes out his laptop. he then looks up and notices a young girl looking at him, she smiles. Chase recognizes her.
"Do I know you?" He asks the girl.
She nods "I met you at Princeton-Plainsboro General, my name's Jacey Johnsons. The last time I saw you; well lets just say the circumstances were a little different."
"Yes I remember, how are you?" Chase asks.
"I'm pretty good, you?"
"Fine thanks wow, I'd never thought I'd see you here. I though maybe you'd have...Jacey cuts him off.
"Dropped out?" She continues.
"Well, maybe...I'm sorry."
"Its okay, I moved here from to NJ from Boston, I now live with my grandmother, she's a nurse over at the general."
"oh, very kool. If you don't mind me asking where are your parents?"
"No, I don't mind. My father... well thats the first thing we have in common, my father is a wildlife photographer...in Australia."
"That's pretty cool and your mum?" Chase asks curiously.
"My mom...after she found out I was pregnant, she flipped. Said I could continue living with her until I started to show, then she was kicking me out."
Chase's eyes soften and he looks at her with a saddened expression.
"I'm sorry to hear that, Jacey."
"Its really okay, so five months rolled around and I moved here, she couldn't stand to be around me. God, I really screwed up."
"Jacey you made a mistake, your mum still loves you."
Jacey looks straight into Chase's eyes. " I know deep down she does, but she doesn't have to drink her life away."
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"I'll see you later Mr. Chase I got to go get Charlie. Bye."
"Bye Jacey."
Dr. Chase sits back in his chair, and contemplates the information he's just been given.
