Hey guys. Another update so soon, I know please R&R and sorry about all the mistakes in the last chapter. Im not really very good at spelling. Oh and if any of you were wondering, the song in the last chapter was Welcome To My Life by Simple Plan, highly recomended. Enjoy.
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Red Cell High Chapter 2- The first day of term
As everyone made thier way to their classrooms for a new term, the group of friends realized that Pen had been right and sure enough in a corner on her own slumped in a chair was the new girl who no one could remeber the name of. She was too busy doodling up and down her arm to notice anything that was going on and carried on even when entered.
"Good morning class, I trust you all had a good holiday, am I correct?"
"Yes" the class replied simutaneously whilst Gina sat slumped in her chair in the furthest corner of the room trying her best to become invisible.
"Before we start i'd like to introduce you all to our newest student." Fickler continued.
Oh great. This day just keeps getting better and better. Gina thought to herself bitterly.
The voice of her new teacher bought her out of her stupor as he called,
"Miss LaSalle, are you with us?"
"Hmm"
"Am I boring you?" the teacher asked her.
Gina shook her head in reply and the entire class laughed.
Well this is gonna be awsome. She thought once the attention had been diverted from her before she continued drawing on her arm.
explained that he was going to be putting the class into partners to get to know each other better.
He got to the bottom of the list and read the last 3 pairs out,
"...Coop and Beth, Prophet and Penelope and finally Mick you are with Gina."
Gina looked up at the mention of her name and began to wonder exactly who this Mick person was, espiacially since she wasn't in a people mood today. When she looked up, Jack realized what his newest student had spent the last 10 minuites doing, rather than listening, she had been doodling on her arm.
"Gina, I would prefer it if you were to not use my time to draw on your arm. I have to admit, what you have done is pretty impressive but please don't ruin your skin by drawing on it, you'll end up giving yourself skin cancer. If you want to draw, do it in your own time but please, not on yourself, it would be such a shame to ruin your skin. Are we clear?"
All he got in response was the nod of her head.
Mick couldn't be happier at the fact he had been partnered with the new girl even though his friends were already teasing him about it. So far she had been reprimended by Fickler twice in the space of half an hour which was impressive considering how nice of a teacher he was. No one had heard her speak yet and Mick was pretty sure that everyone agreed with Fickler when he said how impressive the drawings on her arms were. They covered every inch of skin on her left arm and were really amazing to look at.
Everyone was told to get into their pairs so Mick made his way to the back corner as fast as a lightning bolt and was greeted with a very small smile that was barely there.
"Ya know if you keep this up love, you'll be nicknamed the ice queen." Gina couldn't help but smile at what he had just said and was shocked at his British accent.
"See that got ya smiling didn't it. Oh and I'm Mick by the way. I'm from Wales." He reached his hand out to shake and couldn't help the smile that crept on to his feautures when she obliged and in nothing short of a barely audible whisper replied,
"Hi, I'm Gina."
"Well it was nice meeting ya Gina." Mick smiled back.
"You too."
Jack smiled from his seat as he watched his newest student interact with her partner. Mick was the first person to get a word out of her all morning and was so far the only one who had heard her voice.
There had been a reason that he had patenerd the two together. Mick had been his last new student and had had a rocky past. Not to mention being new to the country but he was absoloutely fine now. And he had seen the way Mick had looked at Gina, totally perplexed by her. There was a lot of mysterious things about Gina. She was stunningly beautiful but a depressed sad aura hung around her and she definately stuck out, especially considering her choice of clothes as not many people wear dark colours or jackets in the summer, especially on days as humid as this one.
The drawings on her arm were a total other thing though, Jack thought to himself. They were perplexing and absoloutely stunning. Such a shame though, if she carried on she would probably give herself skin cancer.
I need to engage her in something that is creative and will ocupy her mind without drawing on herself.
He thought to himself.
Meanwhile Prophet, Penelope, Coop and Beth were talking in a four rather than in their twos. What a shame. They were making it blatantly obvious they were staring at Mick and that very interesting new girl. She had been told off twice already.
"O my god Guys she actually smiled." Pen told the group.
Beth then sad,"I know and look she just said something!"
"C'mon guys, have some respect, you shouldn't be talking about her like she's some kind of a depressed emo behind her back," Prophet said defensively, though he didn't know her yet and hadn't uttered a single word to her, Gina seemed like a nice person who has just had it rough lately.
"Yeah Prophets right, you haven't even met her yet. So what if she is a little quiet, she has been to 15 different schools and probably finds it hard to make friends considering she doesn't stay in one place long enough for it." Coop added.
"Yeah but look at the way she dresses." Penelope said and Beth nodded in agreement.
"You know, you don't have to dress in vibrant colours everyday to not be emo." Prophet said.
"Well we will just have to ask Mick about her cause it looks like they're getting on," Beth said.
" You shouldn't do that, if you want to introduce youselves and find out more about her then you should go up and ask her," Coop said shaking his head.
"Fine," the two girls replied bitterly in unison. All they had wanted was to find out a bit more about the new girl but apparently they had to go right up and ask her actually expecting her to answer them. What a waste of breath, they didn't even know if she was nice or not, the only had Mick to rely on.
"Nice doodles," Mick said looking at her arm expectantly.
Gina quickly covered them up and repplied, "Oh I err just got a bit errm bored and err couldn't be bothered to find errm a piece of paper," rather coyly.
"Can I see 'em?" Mick asked her. Gina just shook her head in response.
"Oh c'mon love, pleeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaa aase?" he made super cute puppy dog eyes which Gina found, she suprisingly couldn't resist.
"Fine." She reluctantly pulled her sleave up.
"Why wouldn't you say anything to anyone all morning and now your hardly talking to me and only because you have to?" Mick asked purely out of curiosity. "Whoa those drawings are just whoa." Gina smiled slightly and Mick asked, "So, are you gonna answer my question or not?"
Gina just gave him a confused look and he continued, "Why you're giving everyone the silent treatment?"
"I'm just not in a people mood, rarely am," she replied honestly.
"Why?" Mick asked
The blonde just shrugged her shoulders and replied "I'm just not."
He squared his eyes at her and was about to ask another question when the lunch bell rang.
"Saved by the bell," Mick said.
Gina just smiled slightly and bolted as soon as his back was turned. When Mick turned around, he was confused as to how she had gotten away so fast.
"Have fun talking to emo girl?" Beth questioned and Mick turned around and was suprised to find that anger boiled up inside him and that he felt the need to defend her.
"Hey she isn't emo, shes just not in a people mood," mick replied quite forcefully causing both Beth and Penelope to giggle and Penelope asked,
"Was she nice, what was she like?"
"Go ask her yourself."
Pen and Beth walked out of the classsroom on a quest to find Gina and hound her about everything and anything untill the end of lunch.
"You know Mick, you seemed to be enjoying that very much." Coop said as he slapped his friend on the back.
"Shut up man," Mick replied.
" Aww don't deny it your falling for her aren't you," Prophet asked from beside him.
"No guys, seriously, I'm not," Mick defended himself and the three of them walked to lunch laughing.
Gina walked through the crowded hallways eyes cast down in a bid to not draw any attention to herself. She quickly made her way way to the canteen and bought herself a pot of pasta and a flavoured water bottle. She then made her way ootside and trekked up a hill to be alone. She sat down against a tree facing away from every one and plugged her iPod back in before she started to eat,
I walk a lonely road,
The only one that I have ever known,
Don't know where it goes
but it's home to me and I walk alone,
I walk this empty street,
On the boulevard of broken dreams,
When the city sleeps,
An I'm the only one and I walk alone...
She was totally indulged in the music and didn't realize that someone had come up to her until she was tapped on her shouldermaking her jump in her skin a little.
"Whoa, don't worry it's only us," Beth said to the blonde infront of her, though she doubted that Gina had actually heard her since Beth and Penelope could still hear the headbanging rock music coming through the headphones.
Suprised that someone had actually come up to her when she had only talked to one person all day, Gina took out her headphones and realized that the redhead and brunette in her class were saying something,
"Seriously blondie, if you carry on playing your music so loud your gonna burst your eardrums, we could hear through your headphones, oh hi I'm Penelope by the way. I'm in your class."
Gina smiled in reply.
"You don't talk much do you?" The brunete at Penelopes side asked Gina to which she replied,
"No, I do talk I'm just not in a people mood today and besides I don't exactly know any one."
"Well now you do, I'm Beth by the way," the brunette standing in front of Gina smiled and she couldn't help but smile back.
"Can I ask you something, and you have to swear not to get mad or take offence," Penelope asked.
"K," Gina replied rather skeptically.
"Good. Ok. Why do you dress and act like your some sort of emo?"
"Ya what. Just cause my closet isn't full of colours that are classed as girly and pretty doesn't mean i'm an emo and I just wasn't in a people mood, you'd feel the same way if you've been to 15 schools. " Gina replied girls eyes went huge in fake shock as the didn't want her knowing that Penelope had gone through her records illleagaly without really meaning to.
"15!" Beth said in shock (well fake shock).
"Uh huh."
"Wow," Penelope said.
The bell went and the blonde thanked her lucky stars and rushed inside before Beth and Penelope even had the chance to blink.
On their way to class, Penelope and Beth bumped into the guys and Prophet asked,
"So did you get your answers?"
"Well we found out that she isn't an emo, just not girly, she's been to 15 schools-which we already knew-and that if she carries on listening to music as loud as she does she will definately burst her ear drums. I swear I could only heard it through the head phones for about a minuite and I still have a banging headache." Beth told them
Penelope nodded in agreement before adding, "Yeah and she's actually reallly nice, who knew?"
Mick just shook his head and spotted Gina on her chair in the corner listening to music. He thought it was really cute how she could curl up in a chair like that and was about to go up and talk to her when Fickler said,
"Alright class, I would like you to sit in the same seats you were this morning." Mick smiled to himself and went to sit next to Gina as she stuffed her iPod into her pocket.
"Alright ice-queen." All Mick got in reply was Gina sticking her tongue out at him.
"Right, lets get down to buisness, you spent the morning getting to know your partners and the seats you are in now in are your permenent seats for the year and we will go round the entire class and get to know everyone." Jack Fickler told his class.
"Why don't we start at the front and make our way to the back," Everyone nodded their agreement.
It soon got to the middle and it was Prophets turn, "Hi, I'm Prophet, well Jonathon but I hate that name and would much rather prefer to be called Prophet and I have to wear my baseball cap everyday else something seriously bad will happen. I'm not being melodramitic either, the last time I didn't wear it something absoloutely horrible happened, so horrible I don't even want to think about it." That earned a chuckle from Mick as he remembered the time that Prophet had slipped in the cafeteria and his food had gone all over the head cheerleader, whose jock boyfriend was none too pleased.
It then moved on to Penelope, "Hey guys, I'm Penelope and I absoloutely love everything to be colourful and I love animals."
Next was Beth who said," I'm Beth and I absoloutely hate being bored and when theres nothing on T.V and anything sporty."
Then it was coops, "Hi, I'm Sam or Coop, whichever you prefer and I love to paint. If painting hadn't been invented, I wouldn't be a happy person and I absoloutely have to go for a run every morning otherwise I'd be half asleep all day."
The rest of the class had their turns until it reached the back and it was Mick's turn, "Hi I'm Mick and I wouldn't be able to live without vineagar." The rest of the class had looks of pure disgust on their faces and all Mick could say was," Hey, don't dis it till ya tried it." with a shrug of his shoulders.
It was finally Gina's turn who, by know had her legs up under her chin and coldly said, "I'm Gina and I'm not in a talkative, social, people mood today."
Mick decided that it wasn't enough so he added, "Fair enough ice-queen," causing the entire class to laugh but Gina didn't even look at him instead protectively clutched her forearm for reasons unknown to spent the rest of the afternoon in silence and totallly blanked everyone out causing some of the jocks to say stuff about her being a total anti-social ice-queen. When the bell finally rang out indicating the end of the day, she shoved past Mick and pulled out her iPod before rushing out the door leaving Mick to just stare on in shock.
His friends walked up to him and Prophet said,
" Man you just totally blew it with her."
"How," Mick asked in confusion.
Beth sighed exasperately and said "Well you know the stuff about her being an ice-queen."
"But she didn't mind when I said it," Mick explaied very confused.
"Of coarse not you idiot!" Coop scolded, "but I'm pretty sure she minded when it was a bunch of jocks saying it with malice."
"Oh," Mick finally understood.
"Instead of just standing hear like a deer in headlights you should go after her!" Penelope exclaimed whilst shoving him out the door.
Meanwhile Gina had made her way out of school and was now sitting in a tree in the park listening to her iPod on full blast,
Do you have the time,
To listen to me whine
About nothing and everything all at once,
I am one of those,
Melodramatic fools,
Narcotic to the bone no doubt about it...
She was interupted by Mick who was standing under the tree.
"How'd you find me?" the blonde asked purely out of curiosity.
The brit just shrugged his shoulders and replied, "I just came to the last place I would look and hoped for the best. Gina smiled at him and asked,
"Why'd you come find me any way?"
"Because you looked upset and bolted as soon as the bell rang." she felt herself smile at the thought of him caring enough to come find her.
"So, whats up, was about the whole ice-queen thinh cause if it was then I really am..."
"It's alright, really," Gina interupted, "I don't mind about the name, in fact I quite like it. But it was just the way that they said it, sorry if I blanked you for the entire afternoon, it must be hard having to deal with an ice-queen." The teen jumped out of the tree.
"Actually it's not too bad," they both laughed at his reply and Mick continued, "You know, I could think of worst first days."
Gina then said, "Well I've had worse first days." They both laughed and said goodbye heading thier seperate ways.
Hey guys I,m soo proud I've already updated there probably won't be another update till like Friday because I have absoloutely loads of homework to do before the end of the week and then school starts again. Bore. Any way, I'd love to know what you guys think and if any one was wondering the songs in this chapter are, Boulevard of Broken Dreams and Basket Case both by green day and both highly recomended. Sorry about all the mistakes and stuf but I'm not really very good at stuff like speling and puncuation and grammar.
Love xx