Ch. 2: Sucked In
After Science was over, I walked back to my locker to grab my math stuff. I look at the clock and see that I only have 1 minute to get to the class. I slam my locker shut and sprint down the hallway. Just as I see the number marking the entrance to the room, the bell rings. I take the last few strides and run through the door. Everybody is sitting down and when I come in, and they stare at me like a group of robots.
I look over to the teachers desk saw a young looking lady was sitting there. She looked up at me. "Hello," I say to her. "I'm Julia. I'm new here." I look around the class. All the girls were ignoring me but the boys were staring at me and smiling.
"Yes, Julia. Please take a seat at the chair on the far right wall," She says. I walk over to my new seat and see that a girl with short blond hair was sitting right next to me. She had her nose in a book. She didn't have seemed to notice my arrival.
"Okay, class. Today we will be starting a new chapter. Please open your books to page 221 and start reading on triangles." Mrs. Peterson said. I flipped open my book and found the page, then skimmed the first few lines. Everything looked old and boring to me. I had already studied triangles last year at my other school.
Mrs. Peterson looked over to me and walked over. "Julia, why haven't you started reading?" She asked. The whole class looked at me again.
"See, Mrs. Peterson, I have already studied triangles." I said to her.
"Oh, well please follow along anyways. This isn't study skills or anything." She said. She turned around and saw the girl with the book. She hasn't put it down yet. "Ms. Brown, would you kindly give that book to me so that you may stay on task?" Mrs. Peterson asked her.
The girl looked up from her book. "Of course, Mrs. Peterson. My apologies." She said. She slid her bookmark back into place and handed the book to Mrs. Peterson.
"Thank you Ms. Brown." She said walking back to her desk. I glanced at the book as she passed. Eragon. I look back over at the girl.
"Piss." I wisper. She looks up at me.
"What?" She wispers back.
"Is that book goos?" I ask looking at the teachers desk.
She glanced back. "Yes. Have you read it before?" She asked me.
"Yes." answered. "Hey out of curiosity, are you friends with Gwen?" I ask.
"Girls please leave the talking in the halls after the class is done please." Mrs. Peterson said. The class snickered and glanced our way. We both started reading.
Once class was over, I caught the girl on the way ouy.
"Hey." I said, "I never caught your name."
"Sophie. Sophie Brown." She replied. "And yours?"
"Julia Baraclough." I replied.
We walked to our lockers togeather and talked aout different books. Aparently, she's really into dragons. I asked what her favorite book was about dragons, when she stopped.
"What's wrong?" I ask.
"I left my book in the classroom." She said turning away. She ran back. I shrugged and kept going. I looked at my schedule. English.
Great. Just great, I thought. English was my worst sucject. I opened my locker and grabbed my books. I twisted the lock and ran to English. Mrs. Jill was sitting at her desk. There wasn't anyone else in the room.
"Ecscuse me, but I'm new here and I need a seat." I said. The teacher looked up and smiled.
"Of course. Let's see." She said pulling out a map of the room. "The seat next to Gwen Huizenga is open. Why don't you sit there.
I looked behind me and stared at the girl I had only meet a couple of hours ago look up at me and smile.
"Hey Julia!" She said.
"Hey Gwen!" I say back.
"Well it looks like you two alredy know each other, so I'll leave it at that." Mrs. Jill said. "Just no talking during class. Okay?"
"Yes Mrs. Jill." We said in unison. We glanced at each other and giggled.
"Alright." Mrs. Jill said, sitting back down at her desk.
"Hey, what part are you at in the book?" I ask Gwen.
"Eragon just stopped talking with Mutaugh after being examined by The Twins." She aswered openning the book back up.
"Hey..." I started to say, but the bell staopped me short. Everybody in the class started getting there books out to read.
"You will not be needing your books out right now because we are not going to read for ten minutes today." Mrs. Jill said getting up from her desk. The whole class cheered. Everyone except Gwen.
"Dang it! I really wanted to read today!" She exclaimed. She shut her book and put it in the top corner of her desk.
"Well good for you Gwen becasue instead of reading ten minutes, we will be speanding the whole class reading in the librarey. Now the class reacted oppisite. Gwen cheered and everyone else groaned. I looked over to Gwen and it looked like the best thing in the world just came knocking on her doorstep. Personally, I don't give a crap. English is English. No matter what.
The class begun to walk out the door, so I got up and followed suit.
"Hey Julia! Wait up!" Gwen yelled behind me. I grimced. I really don't like drawing attention to myself.
Gwen caught up to me and we started walking down the hall to the librarey. Se started reading and walking at the smae time and she almost ran into a wall before turning the corner at the last second.
As we were waling into the librarey, Gwen shut her book and took of before I could ask where she was going. I went a little slower, admiring the books.
I caught up with her ats she sat down at a table in the way back corner of the librarey. I pulled out a chair and sat down. I shifted around a little bit trying to get comfortable, but there was this lump on my butt. Then I relisied, I forgot the rock.
I stood up and pulled te rock out of my pats and setit on the table as I sat ack down. Gwen loooked up rom her book at the clank of the rock on the table.
"What s that?" She asked.
"A rock." I said.
"I know that, but why did you bring it?" She asked.
"See, I found it this morning when I was walking to school. I walking along when suddenly, my fell upon this rock. I wondn't have picked it up if it was an ordinarry rock, but as you can see, it has the ressemblence of a dragon. And to add more effect," I said glancing around. I leaned closer, "Once I picked it up, I started glowing." I wispered.
"Glowing?" Gwen wispered with dought.
"Yes, it started making a greenish light." I answered.
"Okay, whatever." She said going back to her book.
I picked up the rock and started watching it. I slid it between my fingers. It slipped and bounced on the table. I reached for it but before I culd, it landed on Gwen's book.
"Hey!" Gwen said. But she didn't get any further because the stone started glowing again, but brighter. Both of out hands were touching the book and suddenly, my vision went white.
Next thing I know, I'm surronded by a whole bunch of people and I'm wearing a grayish brown dress with a dagger starpped at my waist. Gwen's standing next to me. The crowd is silent so I look around. The first thing my eyes find I gasp, pulling Gwen to look. She looks around and gasps too. For infront of us is a giganitic blue beast with a boy riding on it's neck.