Hey! Watched Paranormal Activity 3 with a friend! Recommend it, took a heart attack lmao!
Better than the first one, didn't see the second one but I knew what the movies were about so...
I couldn't help being distracted all through class, wondering when I'll see her again.
"Hey Teej, you okay? Need help?" Asked Gretchen in maths class.
"No, I'm fine." I smiled at her thanking her for her help and concern.
Gretchen was smart in class. She always got 100% in everything and always A+'s of course.
"Well done, Gretchen as usual." Smiled Miss Robins as she set her homework down saying A+ on it.
Gretchen smiled at her work.
"TJ, could have been better, but well done." She said to me, setting down a B-.
"Lawson, wake-up!" She shouted at Lawson who was asleep, drooling.
Lawson jumped away, drying the saliva on his chin.
"I'm awake, I'm awake!" he said, trying to keep everyone calm.
"Well, if you were awake, maybe you'd get a good grade like Gretchen here!" Miss Robins shouted, banging a F- paper on his desk.
"Teacher, are you serious, I spent all night doing it!" Lawson complained.
"Really, how so?"
"Cause I was watching wrestling so I had to do it real late!"
Miss Robins lifted an eyebrow meaning, my point exactly.
Lawson flopped on the chair.
"Hey, Teej. You want me to help you with maths if you're failing?" Gretchen asked.
"I'm not failing, I'm average." I smiled at her.
"Okay." Gretchen smirked, pushing her glasses up.
…
I was terrible at history, and with me thinking about the strange girl Ashley, thinks couldn't get any worse. I got a D- in my homework, a F in my work for today and I got none of the dates right for each event.
"TJ, you're not doing good in history right now. I know your a bright kid but I think you need help in this subject." Mrs. Silver said.
"I know," I groaned.
"I think you need a tutor."
"NOO!" I shouted.
Mrs. Silver glared at me while I tried to put the puppy eyes on her.
"Fine, if you get a C- or more in your homework, D+ and more in your classwork and at least half of the dates right next time you have me, I'll reconsider. But if you get less that C-, D+ and half, I'm going to higher Gretchen Grundler as your tutor!"
I sighed. Right. Library after class!
…
I was walking to the library after school when I saw Ashley.
"Hey!" yelled out to her.
She turned round with her face stuffed with a chocolate muffin.
"Not you, again!" She scolded.
"Did you steal them again or something?" I asked.
"What's it to you!" She yelled, getting up to run.
"Hey, wait, is your name Ashley?"
She came to a halt and then slowly turned her head towards me.
"Ashley, is that your name?"
She strides towards me. "No one calls me by my first name. Half the people I knew didn't even know dat!"
She looked at me with a cheeky face.
"What?" I asked, curiously.
"Nothin, where you headin?"
"Library."
As I said it, she burst out into laughed.
"Seriously?"
"I'm failing science okay!" I shouted at her.
"Oh man, that's fresh."
She took another huge bite out of the muffin.
I looked at her oddly. "What do your parents think of all this, you, stealing?"
She stopped munching and staid quiet as the wind howled at us.
Before she said anything, she took another big bite.
"Nothin."
The way she said made it sound like nothing meant something. Something which is a lot of pain making her not to talk about it.
I just nodded, not wanting to push my luck with her.
"Are you goin to a library or are you here to annoy me?" She asked, casually.
"Oh right, want to walk with me?" I asked her, curiously.
After a lot of shouting as to why I asked her, she followed in the end.
"So, where do you go to school at?" I asked.
"I don't go to school."
I looked at her confused. "Are you home schooled?"
She stayed quiet.
"TJ!" I heard a yell to see Gretchen running over.
"Hey, Gretchen!" I smiled.
"You coming to the library?" She asked.
"Yeah, science!" I said slapping my forehead meaning I'm thick at it.
"That's great. I just come here everyday."
I nodded. "I came with a friend."
Gretchen smiled. "Who's you're friend?"
"Gretchen, this is..."I turned to Ashley but she was gone. Vanished. Disappeared.
If she tried to make a dash for it, I would have heard her with her clumping of the boots in the snow.
"I guess she's shy."
I turned back to Gretchen who smiled cheerfully.
"Yeah...let's go inside before I freeze okay?"
"Yeah, sure!" Gretchen agreed.
And with the closing chapter...
we sleep once more!
