About a week had passed through the new school year. First period was Social Studies and she was very good at that class. She hadn't gotten much sleep watching that movie marathon with Derek the past night. She looked at the teacher for a sec then was listening intently then kind of dozed off half-way through the period.
The class started to look at Helen while she was sleeping and started snickering. The teacher hadn't noticed that she was asleep yet but she noticed how the class was looking over at Helen's desk and laughing. Mrs. Peterson walked over to Helen's Desk and looked down at her sleeping face the way her lips were in a pouting position when she slept. The teacher kicked the legs of her desk and Helen twitched in her sleep. Mrs. Peterson tried and tried but couldn't get her up.
She walked over to the English class and got the teacher to come in and he did and he knew the situation. He went next to her desk and kicked the legs of her desk and yelled "YO!" Helen immediately woke up. "Dozing off in class huh?" She nervously smiled at him. "Don't do it again or you'll be sent down to the office."
Later in the halls after class Helen was talking to Alexis. "What the fuck! I hate that frickin teacher!" "He has anger issues and acts like my foster dad!" She groaned in anger.
Alexis seemed quite confused. "Your father isn't mean."
"Oh yes he is!" She snapped back. "You don't see him when you leave or any of my friends leave he yells at me and threatens to kill me and kicks my and fucking hurts me and calls me a piece of shit!"
Alexis' eyes widened. She was stunned. "Wow, I never knew." Helen looked at her before walking off to second period "Well now you know"
Second period was filled with work. "Oh my frickin god I hate diagramming sentences!" "If I get this thing wrong one more time I'm gonna flip out." They had the whole period to do this assignment, she wasn't even close to solving it. What a sentence it was "It was the best of times it was the worst of times............" That whole sentence. "This is mad torture!" "Alexis could help me but she's on the other side of the room!" Helen Groaned and put her head on the desk in frustration.
The bell rang for lunch and she had to do it for homework. "Heh, I'll let Alexis do it for me."
She got down to lunch and got a BLC her and Charlene's special sandwich. Bacon, Lettuce, and Cheese. Derek was late for lunch. He came into the lunchroom and sat next to Helen and handed her a bouqet of flowers.
"Oh my god, these are beautiful!" "What are they for?"
"Read the card." She read the card and it said. "Just because it's Friday."
"Thank you Derek thank you!" She hugged him then kissed him on the lips. "I love you." Lunch time was usually spent telling jokes like MJ jokes!
Sam told the best MJ jokes. "Hey did you hear about the new Michael Jackson doll?" "You wind it up and it plays with your kids!"
They all laughed. Helen spoke up next. "Hey did you guys watch In Living Color last night?" "It was so funny with the MJ potato head. You peel it and it shows the skin bleaching process he went through." "It was Frickin hilarious."
They all laughed. Then their table got dismissed. Off to Algebra, oh joy.
Alexis was taking notes while Helen was busy taking HER algebra notes.
"yeah........blah blah blah Canada o...r...p...p...l...e...s...blah blah blah spit spit spit spit spit blah blah zone out staring at wall blah blah blah denominator spit spit blah blah drop calculator SPIT SPIT droooool blah blah blah blah spit spit spit homework homework math math discipline rachel blah blah yell yell yell! yell at neriah!
Then the teacher gave them a math packet to work on. "Show all your work, yeah yeah we get your point Mrs. Lavery." The teacher wrote "Quiet!" on the board along with her warnings for people who did talk.
Neriah kept working the answers out of the teacher so he wouldn't have to do the work then She shouted "No Questions till the bell!"
Everyone got so mad at her, some people needed help now and Rachel had enough guts to do it. She started arguing with the teacher and then laughed when the teacher yelled at her then got sent into the hall.
"Yeah she's a trooper." Helen smirked right before she finished her packet. "Ok now I can relax."
Helen started drawing on her hand drawing a heart on her hand with her initials and Derek's. "HZDK= tru luv 4eva."
Mrs. Lavery scoped her out seeing that she was drawing on her hand. "That's not good for you miss Zaas." "Stop it immediately." So she stopped but then when the teacher turned her head she started up at it again.
The bell rang right when she was finished.
Science class was out of control again as always. Seamus O' Grady walked over to Helen as she was talking to Derek. He smiled at her.
"Hi Helen" Helen just dropped her science books on the floor when she heard his voice. She was scared silly of him.
She thought to herself. "Hey he isn't trying to kill me, well I haven't told anyone. It has been 2 years so maybe he forgot all about it, I sure hope so."
Her mind drifted off. "Hmmm, I wonder what we're having for dinner tonight?" "No you fool focus, focus on Seamus."
"Hi Seamus." He smiled at her. "I know your going out with Derek now and I just wanted to stay friends if that's okay with you."
She nodded and smiled. "That'd be great."
They chatted the rest of science class.
"So what's been goin' on?"
"Well actually when I broke up with you because of reasons that I promised not to tell anyone, I met Derek and we've been going steady for 2 years now, we've been voted the cutest couple tons of times and I hate Algebra class and now we are friends again." "Actually did you stay back?"
"Yes, I stayed back a couple of years because I missed a lot of school y'know with the mob and all and I am glad that we are friends and I think I know why you hate Algebra. I had that teacher Mrs. Lavery last year and oh my god she was torture. She spits ya know. I sat front row center for a while and it was disgusting. Oh and I haven't gone out with anyone else over the years."
"Wow, thanks for the advice, by the way do you want to come over my house tonight and have dinner just as friends?"
"Sure and thanks ok the bells about to ring so I'm gonna go back to my seat and grab my bag."
"Ok." She was joyful and reluctant that Seamus wasn't after her anymore. "Phew, what a relief."
They got into Seamus' car and they drove to her house. "Wow he remembered where my house was after all these years."
They went upstairs into her bedroom and did their homework while talking and laughing together. It was an innocent relationship. They had chicken for dinner and It was very good. The two made it themselves and did a pretty good job on it too!
They ate and then watched a Movie and Helen lied down on him and then just realized her head was in his lap then she got up quickly and laughed nervously then sat next to him. A part of her still longed for him, for his touch but she couldn't like him she had Derek and after all Seamus had threatened to kill her If she told anyone about that night.
She fell asleep during the movie and woke up on the couch the next morning. Seamus had left a long time ago.
She stretched out on the couch still thinking about him. She fell back asleep then started her weekend. Breakfast cereal and Cartoons. J
