I walked back out and the secretary, who I took to be Kara, gave me my timetable and locker number and combination. I thanked her and went in search of my locker. Thankfully, it was quite near the office, so it was easy to find.
"Hey, how did the meeting with the Head go?" Kelly showed up out of nowhere. I think it's a talent of hers to freak people out.
"Alright, took some of my stuff." I muttered.
"Yeah, they always do. There's a bag check every registration time." Kelly sighed.
"Is this the army or something?" I rolled my eyes.
"Nah, it's just that some six form girl died from a drug overdose last year here, so the teachers are all cautious and stuff." Kelly explained half-heartedly.
"Oh, " I nodded, understanding.
"What have you got first?" she asked me.
"Uh... English." I said, reading my timetable, and frowning at how shit my day appeared to be. I had all my worst lessons: Maths, Physics, Chemistry and Geography. Why did I pick to study GCSE Geography?!
"With who?"
"Mr Cole." I muttered.
"So have I!" she smiled, "Let's go!" she said, closing my locker and pulling me with her to the lesson... the girl may look like a slag, and I may have only known her for half an hour, but she was growing on me, I had to admit. I admired her enthusiasm.
My mood died when I entered the class and saw, and recognised, the teacher. Jeremy Cole. Damn. I didn't know him very well, but I saw him a few times around Corringham, and every time me and my mum saw him, he was a fucking class A arse. He apparently went to school with my parents.
"Well! Look who we have here!" he said when he saw me, "I thought I recognised your name." he smirked. He then lowered his voice so that only I can hear him, "Daddy took you in, then?" I just glared at the bastard. He turned back to the class. "This is Liam Sanders, he will be joining our class for the rest of the year. Liam you can sit next to Kelly." oh, thank God he didn't make me introduce myself. Maybe he isn't all evil.
I made my way to a grinning Kelly.
"Yay!" she did a little happy dance, making me laugh, "Do you know Mr Cole?" she then frowned.
"Yeah, he went to school with my parents." I muttered.
"Great, so you already know how much of an arse he is." Kelly said, smiling.
"Oh yeah," I sighed.
"Your parents must have been very young when they had you then..." Kelly then murmured.
"They were fifteen." I admitted.
"Mr Sanders, it would help if you to listen in class." Jeremy Cole snapped. I hadn't realised the lesson had started.
"If I have to," I sighed, leaning back in my seat. I was going to drive this guy nuts. He's an arse to me, I'll be an arse to him.
"Well, look who's got themselves a detention on their first day of school!" Mr Cole smiled, "Lunch time, Sanders."
"Wouldn't miss it for the world, Cole." I smirked.
"It's sir, for you, Sanders. You're just as ignorant as that blasted father of yours! Just because daddy's got some money and fame, doesn't mean you can get everything you want." Cole said darkly, and I could hear the class starting to break out in whispers, all the students looked at me, examining me.
"Alright, sir." I muttered, thoroughly insulted by him.
"Say, Sanders, since you're so intelligent that you don't have to listen, can you tell me the importance of Slim's character in Of Mice and Men?" Cole smirked, sitting on top of his desk.
"Well, that's obvious. He's the authority figure, the guy who keeps the peace. Without him, the story could've ended completely different. Like in the end, when Lennie kills Curley's Wife, he's the one who keeps Curley from having his way with Lennie. Plus, without Slim, the ranch workers would be much lonlier, because, Slim keeps them from having to succumb to the dangerous grasps of loneliness, because they can talk to him because of his 'understanding beyond thought'. Slim also becomes George's friend in the end, after he killed Lennie out of kindness, saying to George that he had to do it for the safety of the ranch workers, he leads George away from the others, who are confused, because they had never experienced friendship, because in the world of the ranch, there are no friends, only co-workers. Also, he keeps George and Lennie from getting fired when Lennie destroys Curley's hand, and if he hadn't been there to do that, the novel would be even worse than it is." I said smugly, knowing I had completely and utterly OWNED him.
"... very good, Sanders..." Cole looked like he was in shock. He then got back to his lesson, looking confused. Hell yes!
After that lesson, Kelly cornered me, like I predicted she would by the looks she sent me through out the end of the lesson.
"Who's your dad?" straight to the point.
"Um... Dougie Poynter." I muttered.
"I knew it!" she smirked, "You look literally just like him."
"Yeah... I get that a lot." I said, repeating what I said earlier to Jordan.
"Oh my God, my older sister is obsessed with your dad." she then said.
"Yeah... can we just go to the next lesson? Where's Dr Kennedy's class?" I changed the subject.
"Right next to my next lesson actually, come on." Kelly giggled.
The rest of the day, I surprised teachers with what I knew, and got harassed by Kelly. I went to detention and got to do lines; yay! #Please note sarcasm#
It was the end of the day, and I went to get my stuff from my locker because I got a load of homework to do.
"Oi! Sanders!" Kelly appeared next to me.
"Uh, hi." I said, closing my locker.
"A bunch of us are going to the skate park after school, me and Jordan were wondering if you wanted to come with?"
"Wait- you and Jordan are friends?" I looked at the both of them, confused.
"Frenemies?" Kelly shrugged, looking at Jordan.
"We enjoy to argue, but we're friends." Jordan clarified.
"Ok... but can I drop off my stuff at home first?" I asked, not really fancying carrying my stuff around.
"Sure, let's go before the bus leaves without us." Kelly smiled. We ran too the bus and Kelly went to sit by some girl I recognised from some of my lessons.
"Liam, this is our friend Lilly." Kelly introduced me to her. Lilly was the complete opposite of Kelly. She wore next to no make up, and looked like a respectful girl. This friend group confused me.
"Hi," I said, sitting next to Jordan.
"Hey, so you coming with us to the skate park?" Lilly asked.
"Yeah, why not?" I shrugged.
"Can you skate?" Jordan then asked.
"Well... I'm not brilliant at it, but yeah."
"Cool, bring your board then. I usually have to skate alone while those two over there gossip on top of the ramps." Jordan rolled his eyes.
"Hey, I went down a ramp once!" Kelly said defensively.
"Me too." Lilly giggled, "Screaming like a Banshee, but I did it."
We reached our stop and hopped off the bus. We all agreed to meet by the bus stop and we headed to our homes.
