Author's Note: so after how long of a wait? A month? Something like that, I have completed this chapter. Isn't it ironic how I wrote it in like a day but it took me so long to just sit and the computer and write. School has been waaay too hectic and all my AP and honors teachers are mean! And I've had to deal with drama auditions and the stupid manipulations that go with it! Damn my director!... annnyyywaaay:scowl: at the small number of reviews! Come on people, whos out there reading... anybody? I hope I still have some devoted readers :smiles: pretty please can I have some devoted readers?

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(Edit: Note, if you read the original of this chapter (this is a chapter repost) then the ending has been changed and a few other minor items, so please, reread)

Chapter 2

Violent thoughts towards the school flashed through her head as Tomika ran late through the hallways, trying to get to fifth period. It was beyond her why the school refused to give out schedules until the beginning of the first day. Do they want to make people look like losers? She thought, huffing and puffing, while bouncing up the stairs Well, you've always wanted to start losing weight...she rolled her eyes at the wanderings of her own mind. She had tried being optimistic, didn't work out so well.

"Room 255... room 255," she mumbled under her breath, while running down the corridors of the second floor. If she had read the map right it should be just around the corner-

And then with no warning, as she began to turn the corner she heard a voice scream "What the hell!" and then she was down, back on the floor. But luckily for her, she had a book bag full of brand-new textbooks to break her fall.

"Damnit!" she yelled, pushing herself up from the floor and began to brush dustfrom the floor off of her clothes. "Sorry, I- Freddy?"

"Shit," he cursed. "Damn, Tomika, why you? With you its like running into a walrus!" he said from the floor, bringing his fingers to a cut on his forehead and wincing after pushing on it too hard.

Tomika just stared at him; here he was, walking on the wrong side of the hallway, and all he could do was complain about what it felt like being weak enough to be mowed down by a girl. Then she watched him bring his fingers back to the bleeding cut, pushing too hard and wincing again. She shook her head in frustration, turning away; it surprised her how stupid some people were.

"Freddy, I... I gotta go. I'm sure that you can handle yourself here, seeing how you're a big boy now," she paused, "and I'm sure that your overbearing intelligence can bring you through this emergency in one piece." And then he touched the cut for the third time, wincing yet again. "But then again, some people are just idiots."

Freddy scowled at her, "Hey, not like you felt that!" he whined, getting up from the floor, "You've got enough padding there to survive a head on with the entire cheerleading squad," he said, patting her stomach. And then he started to chuckle, "I'd like to see that..." He trailed off, a smile creeping to his face; most likely having some kind of sick fantasy.

"You did not just touch me Jones!" He backed away from her, "Just- just get away from me Freddy! Go to the nurse or something. Heaven knows you need more help than that, but the mental institution is full at the moment. I don't know about you, but I don't want to be any later for Biology than I already am. Good-bye." And with that she entered the room with the sign '255', which was the first on the hallway where she had ran over Freddy.

She walked into the room extremely bewildered, she had gone through the entirety of Middle School without a single run-in with an ex-band member, and now on the first day of High School she nearly turned one of them into hallway-kill.

A door opened from the side of the room, "I see we have a straggler." Obviously it was the teacher. He walked to his large desk in the front of the room, flipping through pages of the attendance. "Find an open seat and then we can begin, Tomika... Hill, right?" She nodded and took her seat at a lab table in the back. The room was set up with three rows of desks in the center of the room, directly in front of the teacher's desk, and surrounding the three rows of desks were three lab tables to either side, and one directly behind the desks. She was sitting in the one smack dab in the back.

The teacher looked cool. True he was bald, but only on the top, and the hair he had was still brown. He was also short, and so far he always seemed to have a smile on. He looked kind of... fun...

She listened as he began to speak again, "Ok, I see that most of us are here so I'll just start by introducing myself, I'm Mr. Catalano, and I'll be your biology teacher. And now that I've introduced myself, time for you to do so as well." He plastered a fake smile on his face, "And what better way to do than then assigned seats?" The entire class moaned at the thought. "Hey, don't sound so disappointed, I have two other classes and the only way I can get your names down is to give you assigned seats. What? Do you want to be called 'Hey you with acne' for the rest of the year? No? Good, now I'll let you pick your own seats after the first quarter, but for now, alphabetical order it is. Everyone get up and come to the front of the room. Let's try and do this fast and quick."

Tomika didn't listen to the names being called out; she didn't really care who was in her class. She started to listen closer to the student names when he neared the 'H's, waiting for her own. "Hathaway... Summer Hathaway?" he called, causing Tomika to nearly choke; how could she have overlooked her?

Summer promptly took her seat in the front of the middle row of desks. First a near-killing and now Summer was in her class, what else was going to happen? Would Marta suddenly pop out of Summer's oversized backpack and scream 'Boo', or would Zack come crashing through the ceiling tiles landing on a lab table and start dancing?

Well, what happened next wasn't nearly as extreme as those two things, "Tomika, you can take the seat behind Summer." She took the seat without a word between herself and the girl sitting in front of her. She started thinking that she could settle for this if nothing else happened

Unfortunately it didn't seem that she would have that pleasure "Now Jones, Frederick Jones... where is Mr. Jones?" Was this kind of joke? She was going to be sandwiched between two people she never wanted to talk to ever again? She scanned the room thoroughly, seriously expecting any second for Dewey, Ms. Mullins, and Ned to jump out from behind a desk screaming 'April Fools' and start doing the hokey pokey.

She was denied such luck, for after his name was called one last time, as if on cue, the missing blonde boy waltzed right in as if he was the Prodigal Son returned. "Sorry I'm late, had a visit with the nurse," he explained, gesturing to the now band-aided cut on his forehead.

"Very well, take your seat Frederick," directed Mr. Catalano, while gesturing towards the open seat behind Tomika.

Freddy winced at the use of his full name, "Freddy, please," he corrected and went to sit down in his seat, though, without first giving Tomika a small smirk, for which shedid notrespond to.

Biology was going to sure be fun.

Another Author's Note: please please please please please REVIEW!

Reviewer-Thank-You-s:

Chinsky: this one is shorter... hope its as descriptive... and as good... and I hope its funnier lol ;pp

sweetcaroline3313: lol yea I love your story, hope you really like mine too! Pleaaase keep reading!

mellowyellow36: wow didn't know I was that good of a writer, thanks, hope this one is a more upbeat change than the last chapter

My Divinest: lol yea I think that the chapter was needed too, though, I was still upset there was no humor! That's why I had fun with this chap

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