Chapter Two: The English Essay

"Don't you just hate all this…learning?" Tia leaned against her locker, while Keely dumped her Science textbook in her own.

"Yeah, it is annoying, with all the work and stuff." Keely sighed. Now that she was in year ten, she had a pile of assignments due.

"And all the nerds are like, 'wow! KNOWLEDGE!'" Tia continued, waving her arms in the air in hopes of imitating a crazy nerd.

"hey," Keely began, "Phil and Seth are not nerds."

"There you go, defending Phil again." Tia sighed.

"Well, you're teasing him again too." Keely quipped.

"True."

Tia smiled as Phil and Seth approached. Tia was very good at being two-faced.

"Hey Philly-Willy, hey Sethie Wethy…" Tia said. Seth seemed ecstatic that Tia had given him a nick name and grinned from ear to ear, while Phil shuddered.

"Never…say…that…again." He groaned. "I mean, come on Tia, I'm 16!"

"Hey, I like that name!" Keely grinned. "It's cute!"

Phil rubbed his dark brown hair and rolled his eyes.

"Have you seen the amount of homework we've got?" Phil whined.

"Well, we're about to have more." Seth smiled. "According to my calculations, Mr. Ross hands out approximately 1.25 assignments per five week period."

"And you're saying we're getting another today?"

"Yep. Knowledge is great, huh?"

Tia, who was gulping down water out of her drink bottle, started to splutter. Keely tried to stop laughing but was failing in her attempt. Phil cocked his head to the side, missing the joke.

"Never mind." Keely grinned. "It's an inside joke."

Phil nodded and continued to flip through his organizer.

Tia checked her timetable. "Well, I've got English now, so see ya later." She walked away. At the end of the corridor, she called out, "Don't forget to discover some KNOWLEDGE!"

Keely waved goodbye to Tia and turned back to Seth and Phil.

"We'd better go to our English class too- you know how Mr. Ross gets when students are late."

"I heard a rumor that he nailed a kid's jacket to the wall, with the kid attached." Seth said, face filling with worry.

"I'm sure that isn't true." Phil patted Seth on the shoulder.

"Well, let's not find out." Seth said, unconvinced.

The three students took their seats at the back of the class, momentarily before Mr. Ross arrived. As he began to write on the board, a student knocked on the now locked door.

"Sir, sorry I'm late."

Mr. Ross strode towards his desk instead of the door. He pulled out a hammer and a nail. The poor student screamed and ran down the hall. Seth eyed Phil, who was still skeptical.

"What? It was probably a scare tactic."

"Now, class, assignments." Mr. Ross announced proudly, as if he enjoyed the depressed looks on the entire class as he said this. He handed the pages out, warning that he 'would not be issuing any more photocopies'. Keely groaned along with the majority of the class as he passed them out. She turned to Phil on her left.

"A family history assignment?" She asked, trying to work out the logic of this. "But isn't this English?"

"Ah, no worries Keel', it'll be a breeze." Phil smiled, trying to comfort her. Keely looked at him blankly. Obviously she didn't think this was going to be. Unless… she thought to herself.

"Phil?"

Phil knew this was coming.

"D' you think you might have-" Keely began, batting her eyelids at Phil.

"A gadget to help with the assignment." Phil cut in, smiling. "Well, Keel' I said it would be a breeze…" He smiled evilly.

"…And I want an essay on this." Mr. Ross continued. Keely turned back to face the teacher and Phil sighed. He watched her chew her pencil and then flick her long, blonde hair…

Stop it Phil! You're being stupid! Said a voice in Phil's head. She's not into you, remember the Tanner incident? How could he forget. She wouldn't believe Phil when he had told her that Tanner was "bad rogue". She had pushed him away. And then he had decided.

No more thinking about Keely. At least like that.

And that's how it was supposed to stay. Anyway, he didn't know if he still was in love with her. It felt different.

Maybe being friends was best.

To be continued...

I hope you liked that chapter! I don't get very good 'creative writing' marks on tests, and that explains why my two fanfictions aren't very good. And yes, they are a bit obvious too! So, thanks to the smarty pants who worked out thewhole story by reading the first chapter! No really, PROPS! You must use your Cluedo sleuthing skills. Or maybe it's just obvious. I dunno. So yeah, the "twist" cough cough will probably be next chapter, if not, the one after.Suggest what you would like to happen in this story...I'm all ears!

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