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"And so Henry the Eighth took her, Catherine Howard, as his fifth wife..." Jamie's teacher had been going on about Henry's six wives for a little over half the class, and just about everybody had fallen asleep, save him and the girl sitting next to him, Misty. She was glancing at him and smiling. He just kept on staring at his Algebra 2 book and finished up his homework for that class. He had stolen the world history homework his teacher had been planning to give them from off her desk and had finished it by the time his teacher had gotten to how Catherine of Aragon died.
His teacher looked up from her book and finally noticed she was putting her class to sleep. She decided to remedy that.
Jamie was in the middle of quadratic equations when his teacher came over and slammed her ruler down on his desk. "James, perhaps you'd care to tell the class who Henry's sixth wife was?" She asked him coldly as the rest of the students woke up form the sound of the ruler banging on his desk. Jamie sighed. "Catherine Parr." He told her. She smiled.
"Yes, Catherine Parr. She was born in 1512 and was already a widow when Henry married her on July 1, 1543." She continued on her lecture and Jamie went back to his homework. Time seemed to drag by. Misty was sending him notes now, which he answered politely, though he found it kinda annoying. He kept trying to hint that this was the end of the note, but she just kept on sending them on over. He tried not to growl when he found another note lying over the problem he was working on. He finally wrote her to stop writing him and was going to pass it back when the classroom door opened and a kid walked in.
He was tall, thin, had on an orange t-shirt with the hybrid theory logo on it and some faded jeans. He had dark blue eyes and red hair. He was looking everywhere except at other students. It was painfully obvious he was new. He handed his schedule over to the teacher. "Class, this is our new student, Alex Johnson-Evers. I'm sure you will welcome him to our class." The class was silent until a kid in the back yelled out his salutation, making the class laugh. Alex didn't find it amusing. Ms. Varner handed his schedule back to him. "Take a seat, Alex."
"Lex." The kid corrected quietly. He took the seat diagonal of Jamie and took out his notebook and started scribbling. The teacher continued on with her lecture as the class went back to sleep and Jamie went back to his homework. He finished up the problem and looked up to start on his last one and found yet another note lying on top of his book. Hadn't he sent her a note telling her to stop? He glanced over at her and she was smirking. He shook his head and opened the note up.
Jamie,
OMG! Is this class boring or what? What's up with the new kid? Think he's too good for us or something? And what kind of name is Lex? What is he, a comic book villain? Anyway, meet up with me after school, have something to ask you. I have to stop sending notes now because Ms. Varner is starting to look at me. See ya!
XOXOXOXO
Misty
He shook his head again and glanced back at the kid. 'Don't look so high and mighty to me.' He thought to himself. He thanked whatever powers that be that she was done with notes. He finished his homework and cleared it off his desk. He took out his English binder and stared working on the essay that would be due in two weeks. He was almost done with the rough draft now. Jamie always tried to get his homework done at school. He never did homework at home, except for the stuff that he toyed around with to bring to science club, but then that wasn't really homework.
His teacher finally finished her lecture and handed out the papers. He passed them back behind him without looking away from his paper. His teacher stood by his desk. "James. James." He was in his own little world. "Mr. Nottingham!" Jamie looked up, dazed.
"Uh, yes mam?"
"As I was asking, would you work with Alex and help him catch up with the new section?" She asked. Jamie nodded. He glanced back at Alex, who nodded at him. Jamie moved next to him. "Hi. Lex, right?"
Lex nodded. "Yeah, and she was calling you James, but I'm guessing you don't go by that."
"No, call me Jamie." He told him. "You need any help with this paper?"
Lex shook his head. "Nah, I snagged it while I was up there and finished it while she was talking. It's faster to just read the chapter." Jamie laughed. "Yeah it is. Did the same thing. So...." He trailed off. The new boy fiddled with his notebook. "What were you drawing?"
He flipped his notebook open with a smirk. Jamie studied all the drawings. They were pretty good. All mystical stuff. A phoenix, two warrior elves, a troll, and a black dragon. A very familiar looking black dragon. He traced it with his finger. "This is cool, my Dad has a tat like this. It's kinda faded, but it looks just like this. Where'd you get this from?"
Lex just kinda shrugged. "I don't know. I just drew it. I kinda do that. Don't plan, just let it flow." Jamie didn't quite believe him and was going to ask more about it when the bell rang. He jumped over the desk and got his backpack. "Hey!" He turned toward Lex. "You know where I'm suppose to be heading?" He handed him his schedule. Jamie nodded. "This is my next class, I'll show you." Jamie led him out of class and down the hall.
-Later-
Jamie and Lex clicked. It was nice. Jamie liked having someone in class who didn't hate him. He was a year older than him, but didn't seem to mind taking the same classes. He was kinda quiet and shy, but then so was Jamie. He was really into art and had two notebooks full of his drawings. He didn't say much about his family, save that his Mom raised him and that they had moved to New York from Seattle for her job. No mention of Dad.
School had just ended and they were laughing at Lex's picture of their teacher. As soon as Jamie stepped out of class, someone grabbed his collar and he came to a stop. Both boys turned to Misty. "Hey Jamie, didn't forget me now, did ya?" The smile on her face didn't reach her eyes. 'Ohhh, looks like someone is PO'd at me. What did I do this time?' He thought to himself. 'This is ridiculous! It's not like we're dating or anything!'
He shook his head. "Nah, course not, Misty." He said calmly.
She nodded and turned his companion. "Hi, I'm Misty, but Jamie's probably already told you." She fiddled with her grey and black jacket pocket. "Your Alex, right?"
He nodded. "Alex, yeah. But call me Lex." He told her.
"Ah okay, Lex." She nodded and turned to Jamie. "Hey, could I talk to you for a minute, hun?" She asked as she led him away from the crowds. She took his arm and whispered. "What are you doing with Mr. high and mighty over there?" She asked, a bit digusted.
Jamie moved away from her and shook his head. "Nah, you have him all wrong! He's cool, an artist. He has a pciture he drew of that elf guy you like from Lord of the Rings. You'll like him, you too just need to get to know each other." He told her.
She didn't look convinced, but tried to act like she was anyway. "Alright, I'll believe you. Anyway..." She smiled brightly. "There's this Halloween party coming up at my friend's house. She invited me. It's gonna be alot of fun. I was wondering..." She touched his arm lightly. "You want to come as my date?" She asked him.
It took a minute for it to register in his head what she was asking. "Date?" He managaed to squeak out. She nodded. He looked her over. She had been his only friend since he had gotten here besides Lex. She looked so hopeful and exciteded by it, she was practically jumping. 'She must really want this... Well, she is my friend....' He thought to himself. "Sure. I'll go."
She shrieked with happiness. "Alright. I have to go, but I'll call you!" She hugged him before she ran off. She waved to Lex as she passed him. He started cracking up.
"Dude, what did you do? Tell her the Great Pumpkin was real just like Linus said so?" He asked.
Jamie shrugged. "She asked me to be her date for some party. I said I'd go." Lex laughed harder. "What?" He just shook his head. "Yeah, yeah, yeah, she's a bit of a ditz, but she's actually smart. She has been my only friend in any of my classes since the beginning of the year, I owe her." He grinned. "Jealous?"
Lex shook his head. "That girl's not my type." He replied. "Besides, she's all over you. She got drool all over her desk staring at you all period." He laughed again.
Jamie winced. "Yeah, well, it's just a litte crush. So what?" They started heading toward the exit.
Lex laughed again. "So remember to invite me to the wedding." Jamie shook his head and shoved Lex down the hall.
Coming Attraction:
New Breeds of Trouble
"And so Henry the Eighth took her, Catherine Howard, as his fifth wife..." Jamie's teacher had been going on about Henry's six wives for a little over half the class, and just about everybody had fallen asleep, save him and the girl sitting next to him, Misty. She was glancing at him and smiling. He just kept on staring at his Algebra 2 book and finished up his homework for that class. He had stolen the world history homework his teacher had been planning to give them from off her desk and had finished it by the time his teacher had gotten to how Catherine of Aragon died.
His teacher looked up from her book and finally noticed she was putting her class to sleep. She decided to remedy that.
Jamie was in the middle of quadratic equations when his teacher came over and slammed her ruler down on his desk. "James, perhaps you'd care to tell the class who Henry's sixth wife was?" She asked him coldly as the rest of the students woke up form the sound of the ruler banging on his desk. Jamie sighed. "Catherine Parr." He told her. She smiled.
"Yes, Catherine Parr. She was born in 1512 and was already a widow when Henry married her on July 1, 1543." She continued on her lecture and Jamie went back to his homework. Time seemed to drag by. Misty was sending him notes now, which he answered politely, though he found it kinda annoying. He kept trying to hint that this was the end of the note, but she just kept on sending them on over. He tried not to growl when he found another note lying over the problem he was working on. He finally wrote her to stop writing him and was going to pass it back when the classroom door opened and a kid walked in.
He was tall, thin, had on an orange t-shirt with the hybrid theory logo on it and some faded jeans. He had dark blue eyes and red hair. He was looking everywhere except at other students. It was painfully obvious he was new. He handed his schedule over to the teacher. "Class, this is our new student, Alex Johnson-Evers. I'm sure you will welcome him to our class." The class was silent until a kid in the back yelled out his salutation, making the class laugh. Alex didn't find it amusing. Ms. Varner handed his schedule back to him. "Take a seat, Alex."
"Lex." The kid corrected quietly. He took the seat diagonal of Jamie and took out his notebook and started scribbling. The teacher continued on with her lecture as the class went back to sleep and Jamie went back to his homework. He finished up the problem and looked up to start on his last one and found yet another note lying on top of his book. Hadn't he sent her a note telling her to stop? He glanced over at her and she was smirking. He shook his head and opened the note up.
Jamie,
OMG! Is this class boring or what? What's up with the new kid? Think he's too good for us or something? And what kind of name is Lex? What is he, a comic book villain? Anyway, meet up with me after school, have something to ask you. I have to stop sending notes now because Ms. Varner is starting to look at me. See ya!
XOXOXOXO
Misty
He shook his head again and glanced back at the kid. 'Don't look so high and mighty to me.' He thought to himself. He thanked whatever powers that be that she was done with notes. He finished his homework and cleared it off his desk. He took out his English binder and stared working on the essay that would be due in two weeks. He was almost done with the rough draft now. Jamie always tried to get his homework done at school. He never did homework at home, except for the stuff that he toyed around with to bring to science club, but then that wasn't really homework.
His teacher finally finished her lecture and handed out the papers. He passed them back behind him without looking away from his paper. His teacher stood by his desk. "James. James." He was in his own little world. "Mr. Nottingham!" Jamie looked up, dazed.
"Uh, yes mam?"
"As I was asking, would you work with Alex and help him catch up with the new section?" She asked. Jamie nodded. He glanced back at Alex, who nodded at him. Jamie moved next to him. "Hi. Lex, right?"
Lex nodded. "Yeah, and she was calling you James, but I'm guessing you don't go by that."
"No, call me Jamie." He told him. "You need any help with this paper?"
Lex shook his head. "Nah, I snagged it while I was up there and finished it while she was talking. It's faster to just read the chapter." Jamie laughed. "Yeah it is. Did the same thing. So...." He trailed off. The new boy fiddled with his notebook. "What were you drawing?"
He flipped his notebook open with a smirk. Jamie studied all the drawings. They were pretty good. All mystical stuff. A phoenix, two warrior elves, a troll, and a black dragon. A very familiar looking black dragon. He traced it with his finger. "This is cool, my Dad has a tat like this. It's kinda faded, but it looks just like this. Where'd you get this from?"
Lex just kinda shrugged. "I don't know. I just drew it. I kinda do that. Don't plan, just let it flow." Jamie didn't quite believe him and was going to ask more about it when the bell rang. He jumped over the desk and got his backpack. "Hey!" He turned toward Lex. "You know where I'm suppose to be heading?" He handed him his schedule. Jamie nodded. "This is my next class, I'll show you." Jamie led him out of class and down the hall.
-Later-
Jamie and Lex clicked. It was nice. Jamie liked having someone in class who didn't hate him. He was a year older than him, but didn't seem to mind taking the same classes. He was kinda quiet and shy, but then so was Jamie. He was really into art and had two notebooks full of his drawings. He didn't say much about his family, save that his Mom raised him and that they had moved to New York from Seattle for her job. No mention of Dad.
School had just ended and they were laughing at Lex's picture of their teacher. As soon as Jamie stepped out of class, someone grabbed his collar and he came to a stop. Both boys turned to Misty. "Hey Jamie, didn't forget me now, did ya?" The smile on her face didn't reach her eyes. 'Ohhh, looks like someone is PO'd at me. What did I do this time?' He thought to himself. 'This is ridiculous! It's not like we're dating or anything!'
He shook his head. "Nah, course not, Misty." He said calmly.
She nodded and turned his companion. "Hi, I'm Misty, but Jamie's probably already told you." She fiddled with her grey and black jacket pocket. "Your Alex, right?"
He nodded. "Alex, yeah. But call me Lex." He told her.
"Ah okay, Lex." She nodded and turned to Jamie. "Hey, could I talk to you for a minute, hun?" She asked as she led him away from the crowds. She took his arm and whispered. "What are you doing with Mr. high and mighty over there?" She asked, a bit digusted.
Jamie moved away from her and shook his head. "Nah, you have him all wrong! He's cool, an artist. He has a pciture he drew of that elf guy you like from Lord of the Rings. You'll like him, you too just need to get to know each other." He told her.
She didn't look convinced, but tried to act like she was anyway. "Alright, I'll believe you. Anyway..." She smiled brightly. "There's this Halloween party coming up at my friend's house. She invited me. It's gonna be alot of fun. I was wondering..." She touched his arm lightly. "You want to come as my date?" She asked him.
It took a minute for it to register in his head what she was asking. "Date?" He managaed to squeak out. She nodded. He looked her over. She had been his only friend since he had gotten here besides Lex. She looked so hopeful and exciteded by it, she was practically jumping. 'She must really want this... Well, she is my friend....' He thought to himself. "Sure. I'll go."
She shrieked with happiness. "Alright. I have to go, but I'll call you!" She hugged him before she ran off. She waved to Lex as she passed him. He started cracking up.
"Dude, what did you do? Tell her the Great Pumpkin was real just like Linus said so?" He asked.
Jamie shrugged. "She asked me to be her date for some party. I said I'd go." Lex laughed harder. "What?" He just shook his head. "Yeah, yeah, yeah, she's a bit of a ditz, but she's actually smart. She has been my only friend in any of my classes since the beginning of the year, I owe her." He grinned. "Jealous?"
Lex shook his head. "That girl's not my type." He replied. "Besides, she's all over you. She got drool all over her desk staring at you all period." He laughed again.
Jamie winced. "Yeah, well, it's just a litte crush. So what?" They started heading toward the exit.
Lex laughed again. "So remember to invite me to the wedding." Jamie shook his head and shoved Lex down the hall.
Coming Attraction:
New Breeds of Trouble