Twenty one, Twenty two….
Lexi counted the droplets left behind on window pane by the afternoon's rainstorm. It was now half past four and she was sitting in the library with her sketch book open on the desk, a half drawn picture of Mrs Whitehead, the librarian, staring up at her. She'd been here for two hours since her last lesson had been allocated as a study session. The vast majority of her class mates had headed straight home to play video games or god knows what whilst those that had actually used the time to study were now long gone. Lexi looked down at her drawing and back up to Mrs Whitehead but she was no longer sitting behind her desk. A quick look around told Lexi that she was alone, even the librarian had left her. She sighed and closed the sketch pad opting instead to do her maths homework.
Twenty minutes later the young girl was almost finished when Mrs Whitehead returned carrying a stack of boxes which the elderly woman almost dropped when she spotted the student sitting by the window.
"Oh good heavens, Lexi, I didn't think you would still be here." She said to the girl with lovely hair. Lexi's hair was the colour of rich hazelnut and it fell in natural loose curls. Margaret thought it was beautiful.
"Sorry Mrs Whitehead, I didn't mean to startle you. I'll err..I'll just go." Margaret watched the young girl gather her books together and slot them carefully into her bag.
"You know you could always get a job here" The librarian joked because Lexi was always in the library after school, she spent more time in there than Margaret! The young girl, however, didn't seem to get the joke her eyes lit up and her little face broke into a smile
"Really? Oh my god, that would be awesome!" Margaret laughed. The kid was joking….right? "Oh. You were just-right, yeah, ofcourse you were." Lexi mumbled as her cheeks grew hot. She threw her bag over her shoulder and left quickly.
She slumped slowly through the halls of McKinley wondering what her mother was doing right now. She scoffed, the worst thing about school is that it has to end, she thought to herself. She was walking towards the exit when her Spanish teacher stepped out of his class room just ahead of her. She remembered overhearing a conversation early today about some kind of after school club he was setting up, she didn't know what it was but it was an after school club so she was definitely interested.
"Mr Schuester!" She called out before she could stop herself, ahead of her the teacher stopped in his tracks and turned around
"Alexis, what are you still doing here?" He asked curiously
"I erm…I was looking for you" The teacher furrowed his wrinkled brow and went to check his watch
"It's almost five o'clock? I've been in my class room all day."
"Oh" She responded dumbly. The teacher shook his head in confusion
"Well..what did you want?"
"I want to join your club." She answered quickly.
"You want to the Glee club? Alexis that's great! I'll ju-"
"Is it an after school club, right?" She would never normally interrupt but she needed to be sure that she'd heard correctly.
"That's right. I just need you to give this to your mother" Lexi took the sheet of paper that Mr Schuester had pulled out of his briefcase. She skimmed over the letter and felt her heart sink. "If you can get her to sign it and get it back to me as soon as possible-"
"Yeah" The 14 year old smiled "no problem"
"Great! See you tomorrow"
"Yeah. Bye." Lexi watched Mr Schuester walk down the hall and exit the school. She waited until she could no longer see him and then she entered his empty class room and picked up a pen.
I, the parent/ guardian of Alexis Skye King who is 14 years of age, do/ do not give permission for my child to audition for the McKinley High School Glee Club on the 11TH May 2035 from 3:30 PM.
I will/ Will not be attending the audition with 0 others.
Signed : G. King
She tore off the slip and left it on his desk where he'd be sure to find it in the morning.
