- Chap 3 Class Isn't What We Wanted It to Be

"Room 3031," Carey said looking for her Whostory class. "Where is room 3031?" she glanced around and could not figure out which direction she was supposes to go. She sighed. This is not how I wanted to start my day!

"Are you lost?" Carey turned around to see a tall girl looking at her. She had shoulder length brown hair that had blue and purple streaks in it that matched her fur. Her eyes were bright green and seemed to draw Carey in.

"Um yeah, actually I am. Could you tell me where room 3031 is?" she said trying hard to not let her voice crack.

"That's where I'm headed right now, Whostory right?" the girl said. Carey nodded. "Cool, I'm Amy by the way, what's your name?" she asked extending her hand.

"Carey." She said and shook it.

"Well, welcome to Whoville high, home of the stereo typical school nonsense!" she laughed. Carey followed Amy down the hall in the opposite direction she had been going. They arrived just as the bell was ringing and sat down. The teacher walked in, he was a tall Who with little hair and the hair he did have was gray. He had gray eyes and had sage green and brown fur.

"Hello and welcome to Whostory, I'm your teacher Mr. B and this is my class room where I rule." He said in a mock serious voice. There were a couple short chuckles at that. "This is the first day of school so obviously you won't be learning anything whostory like, so I guess we can just introduce our selves. Um what should we say besides our name?" he said. Carey liked him already.

Several hands shot up.

"How about favorite band."

"Oh, best and worst thing we did over the summer."

"What we like most about Whoville!"

"Okay so your name, band, summer and Whoville." Mr. B said. "Okay well, I'll start, I'm Mr. B I like bands that are really old, best thing I did this summer was go to the beach worst was coming back, and I love Whoville because of the architecture in the buildings." He said "okay how about you go next," he pointed to a kid who had been texting on his Whophone. He sputtered out a reply and it moved along the tables of students.

"I'm Amy I like the band Silverstien, the best thing I did was hang out with my bestys the worst thing was having to visit my great aunt Helga and I like Whoville 'cause I have nothing else to compare it too so, yeah" she said ending with two thumbs up and a cheesy smile on her face. There were a few giggles at that.

"My name's Carey, um I like Thousand Who Krutch, uh the best thing I did this summer was uh was go to who Wonder world, the worst thing was I um moved here, away from all my friends and I haven't been in Whoville very long but I can already tell I'm going to like it a lot." She said hoping that it was good enough.

"Oh, so you're from the new family that moved in, wonderful! Where did you move here from?" Mr. B asked and there were nodes in agreement. All eyes were on Carey. She sank in her seat a little.

"Um I moved here from Who Mexico (New Mexico). It's a city really far from here and it looks quite different there are a lot more dirt and rocks there. And there isn't as many trees or grass." Carey said softly remembering her old house and what it looked like.

"Well we all are happy to have you here in Whoville and hope you adjust and learn to love it like your old home." Mr. B said cheerfully and with that the introductions moved on.

Jojo sank lower in his chair waiting for the bell to release him from his Journalism class. Math English and Whostory had gone pretty normal but forth period, print was worse than anything. The teacher hadn't made them say anything but once she was finished taking roll and passing out the class syllabus she left them do whatever they wanted. He sighed and sank down in the chair.

"Why is he so quiet?"

"You would think after the Horton incident that he would talk more."

"What did he say again? Yopp?"

"Is that even a word?"

"I don't think it is, but you know he's the next mayor right."

They were talking about him. And worst of all Bradley was in his class. Jojo sighed and scribbled down a couple more lines to the song he was currently working on. I want to go to the observatory at least there I can be myself and not have to worry about outside noise. He thought tapping his pencil on the desk. I've always liked that sound. He said to himself smiling ever so slightly.

Suddenly the bell rang and he exited the class room.

What's next? He asked as he looked down at the paper in his hands. Oh yeah Pilaties, uhh. He groaned he was not looking forward to the class at all. There will probably only be girls in it and they're all going to be sporty or in cheerleading. He thought as he walked out the doors and across the court yard with his hands in his pockets and headphones in his ears. He entered the building and sighed as he walked in the door. He was right it was a class full of girls. Everyone was sitting down in a circle talking. They stared at him as he came in.

He shrugged off his back pack and went to sit down in the corner wanting to be anywhere but there. He closed his eyes waiting for the teacher to start. The sooner it begins the sooner I can leave. He thought.

"Hello and welcome to Pilaties I hope all of you had a good summer." Said a man's voice.

Jojo open his eyes. The teacher's a guy? That makes everything ten times weirder! He thought. The door opened and all eyes turned to see a small who girl come in.

"Sorry I'm late I got lost!" she said shedding her back pack and sitting down a few whos down from Jojo.

That's the same girl that tripped on the bus this morning; she didn't seem like the type to take this class. Maybe she got stuck in here like me.

"Okay I think that the best way to start off this class is to introduce ourselves, after all we will be together all year and you have to trust each other. I'm Mr. Linzer and I've been teaching yoga or Pilaties for 10 years now." He said and pointed to a Who with light pink hair and blue and pink striped fur.

"I'm Susie and I took this class because I think that it will help with my cheer form." She giggled. The next six were almost the same way.

"Um, I'm Carey and I uh don't really know why I'm in this class. I think they just put me here." The purple and gray who said and Jojo's heart jumped he wasn't the only one who was wondering how they got to be in this class. Soon it was his turn. He gulped.

Carey glanced over at the silent black and gray striped who wondering how they could have put him in a class with a bunch of preppy girls. When it came his turn to introduce himself he didn't say anything.

"What's your name?" the teacher said coxing the kid to respond. Still he said nothing just stared at the floor with his arms crossed.

I wonder why he won't say anything. Carey thought.

"Mr. Linzer that's Jojo McDodd and he doesn't talk." One of the other students said raising her hand in the air.

"Oh well did you want to be in this class Jojo?" The teacher said. Jojo shock his head. "Okay then, well I hope you learn to enjoy it anyway. Um next." The introductions continued. Carey saw Jojo close his eyes and sigh as if to say 'thank god that's over.' She looked away and half listened to what the rest of the girls were saying.

Soon the bell rang and she got up noting that Jojo was the first one out the door. She followed the crowed toward the cafeteria.

Finally lunch time! She thought pulling out her Whopod and drowning out the conversations of the other students. She walked into the lunch room wondering where she was going to sit. She half expected to see her best friends to wave her over, but they couldn't. Stop thinking about them! They aren't here and you're only going to make yourself more upset by wishing they were. She told herself as she walked over to an empty table in the corner and sat down.

AN- Amy is a real person as are a majority of my characters she is my friend and is like that for real. Mr. B my history teacher really is like that and that's pretty much how first period is. Also the classes Carey has are my classes with a couple changes. Yeah that's how creative or lack thereof my imagination is. Yes I have Pilaties and yes that's how it really is, I gave Jojo it because I thought It could be funny.