Well here's another chapter. Enjoy. :)
Chapter 3
History Class
It wasn't any challenge for Anna to find her history class. She did get a little lost in a few hallways, but managed to find her way. What an eventful first day. First she met the most arrogant boy she thought she'd ever meet. And then ate lunch with Meg and Raoul in the hallway in front of lockers where they were almost caught and nearly thrown into detention. Anna was amused by it. Even though it didn't seem funny, she found this day one of the most exciting first days at school she ever experienced. Well, it would only get more interesting.
She walked into her classroom, where, all the heads of her classmates shot up to look at the new girl. It wasn't awkward anymore as she knew this feeling would shake off by next week. Anna confidently walked into the room, her tennis shoes almost making a smoosh sound on the carpet, which looked old and was basically taped to the floor with duct tape.
The history teacher, who was a sitting at his desk, scribbling down some info looked up. He was about in his mid-twenties with gold hair that was sealed down with gel. Pretty handsome in Anna's eyes, but she wasn't one to create a crush on her teacher.
"Ah, you must be our new student, Anna Branson?" he pulled out a clipboard and spotted her name, checking it off. "I am Professor Kenneth," the man shook hands with her. "Right now, we are on the verge of breaking onto the French Revolution, well, actually the background history before the revolution happened. If you have any questions, feel free to ask me." He then pulled out a textbook that Anna was sure would break her arms right off. When the professor handed it to her, she nearly slumped to the floor, but managed to keep a smile.
"You may sit right there, next to Miss Carlotta Guidicelli," he said directing toward the girl that Anna recalled hearing about at lunch. But now, she got a better look at Carlotta. She was either Italian or Spanish, but she had a Mediterranean look about her. Her finger and toe nails were covered in hot pink nail polish and her skirt was definitely way too short to be of school code. Gold highlights were accenting her dark hair. From the look of it, Anna was sure her face must have been decked in five pounds of make-up. But she decided not to stare too long and simply walked over where she sat next to Carlotta, neither each making any word of acknowledgment.
When class officially started, Anna could only wait to see what she would learn. When she heard French Revolution she was so excited to have arrived at her new school at this time. She always loved the French history, especially when it would deal with Marie Antoinette or the revolution, her mind was lost in it.
"Good afternoon, class," Professor Kenneth greeted. "As all of you know, we are introducing ourselves into the history of the French Revolution. However I do want to see what you guys know about it. Hmmm...Carlotta!"
Carlotta's head perked up immediately when she heard her name spoken ,but Anna could tell she was panicking because she wasn't paying attention. "Y-yes?"
"Can you tell me who Marie Antoinette was?" Kenneth asked her.
"Who?" was the automatic answer from Carlotta.
Anna was ready to slap her forehead. She couldn't comprehend the fact that she finally found someone who had no idea who Marie Antoinette was. Marie Antoinette was the most infamous queen of France. Almost everyone knew who she was.
Anna couldn't help but raise her hand.
"Yes, Anna, could you tell us who Marie Antoinette was?" Professor Kenneth called on her.
"Marie Antoinette was an Austrian princess who was arranged to be married to Louis XVI was it?" Anna had trouble remembering which Louis it was as France had too many in the royal family. "Well she was married to him by the age of fourteen--"
At the immediate mention that back then a girl would have to marry most likely when they weren't maybe even in high school yet, everyone in the class gasped and weren't afraid to express how gross that was. But to Anna, she had already known that that was what would happen. Luckily they weren't study the medieval century where a girl could get married before even hitting puberty because Anna wasn't sure how immature the class would be about that.
"Ewww," she heard Carlotta gasp, "God, would that mean that I would have been married right now?"
Anna nodded her head, even though Carlotta was exactly speaking to her. "Most likely you might have also been a mother of a few kids by now too."
"Well thank God, I didn't live in that century," Carlotta sat back in her desk.
Even though Anna wasn't sure of the outcome of what she was about to say, she said it anyway. "Hey, in the medieval times, you would have been married before junior high school."
Carlotta looked at Anna with utter disbelief. "Really?"
"In Romeo and Juliet, Juliet was actually thirteen turning fourteen," Anna explained to prove a point. "In Shakespeare's times they did that too."
However all the knowledge that Anna was spilling out of her mind, annoyed a few classmates surrounding her.
"What are you? Some kind of know-it-all?" Anna turned to the girl sitting behind Carlotta, who also bore that Italian or Mediterranean look about her. Only her hair was darker and her face was more oval -shaped than Carlotta's.
"Luciana! Carlotta! Anna!" Professor Kenneth now got annoyed. "Nice of you to be diving further into history and even into literature, but please let's stay on tact with the lesson at hand. Anna would you like to tell us anything further about Marie Antoinette?"
Seeing how annoyed everyone looked around her, Anna hesitantly shook her head. She wasn't in the mood to be ousted from a class just yet for being labeled a geek. But she could tell Luciana, the girl sitting behind Carlotta and that Carlotta were both still glaring at her, bother really aggravated. So instead, Anna looked down at her desk as Professor Kenneth began to ask other students a few questions involving the revolution and the fall of the monarchs.
A piece of paper got tossed onto her desk. Anna turned around and saw that it was Luciana who threw it at her and was signaling for Anna to read it. She opened up the crumpled piece of paper and found it difficult reading the chicken scratch that was Luciana's handwriting.
Hey new girl,
Since you're so smart, wanna do my homework for me in this class?
Write back to tell me what's your answer.
Anna couldn't even believe that Luciana would try to to write to her like this. She couldn't comprehend the fact that someone would openly ask to use her knowledge for their own gain. So she decided to write back.
Luciana,
As smart as I am, there is no way I am going to do your homework
for you. You're just going to have to learn like the rest of us. Not
even I know everything.
Anna crumpled up the piece of paper and tossed it back to Luciana before taking out a notebook and begin scrawling what Professor Kenneth was writing on the chalkboard. However her concentration was short-lived as the piece of paper got tossed at her again, only with harder force.
She reopened the piece of paper and yet again attempted to make out the chicken scratch that was the girl's handwriting.
Why Not? I'll pay you for every 'A' I get on an assignment. Or I can make
you popular?
However, Anna was getting frustrated with this argument. She was missing out on what the teacher was saying just so she could end this situation.
1) Why can't you just do your own homework and 2) I don't want to be popular and I don't want any money from you. Get it?
She crumpled it up and threw the piece of paper back to Luciana in frustration. She was happy when she didn't have anymore pieces of paper being tossed her at. When the bell rang, she collected her books and filed out along with the rest of the class.
Though when she got out into the hallway, she met to her disinterest Carlotta and Luciana who were patiently waiting for her. However they didn't say anything, but before Anna could dash, she found her stuff booked out of her hands, crashing to the floor.
As she collected her things, she heard the two walk away, laughing at her.
"Geek!" they shouted.
Sorry if I'm making Anna sound like a Mary Sue. I promise she's not. Don't worry, the story will involve more characters from the novel and musical later on. Please keep reading and please review. Till then. :)
