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Chapter 5
My eyes were glued to the clock above the front if the room. The words that were scrawled on the chalkboard below didn't interest me. All I cared about was getting out of that classroom and having the long awaited lunch period. The rest of the class was just as eager, watching the hands slowly doing their daily routine of keeping the time, and torturing students in class.
"Now matter how much you stare, it won't move any faster." commented Mr. Bell. He had now realized that he had lost most of the attention of the class. His words did not shift my gaze. I was determined to get out of there.
"10,....9,....8,....7,....6," I muttered under my breath, counting down the last seconds of class. "....5,....4,....,3....2,....1...Bingo! "
'Briiiiiiiiing!" The lunch bell echoed through the hallway. I excitedly jumped out of my seat and grabbed my things. The other students quickly shoved their books into their backpacks and started a stampede to the door. I was quickly swallowed into it and was pushed out into the hall.
Everyone came rushing out into the hallway from every direction. They all rushed to their lockers, threw their books inside and headed for lunch. Some met up with friends and walked to the cafeteria together. I, not knowing anybody, slipped my way through the groups of students and reached an empty locker that a student had pointed me too between one of the earlier classes.
I opened the door, revealing it's bare inside walls and abused text books resting at the bottom. I sighed and plopped the rest of my text books inside along with the rest of them, not really sure how long I would be using this locker. I just hoped it wouldn't be any longer than necessary. To even prevent that I had to figure some stuff out.
The hall was quiet now. The whole school had left for the cafeteria, leaving me alone in the hallway. I would have stayed there, to be away from all the pandemonium and riots that the other students caused, but I was dead thirsty. I hadn't eaten or had a drink for hours. Reluctantly, I followed the sounds of the loud conversations that came from the cafeteria.
When I reached the cafeteria doors I looked around at the sight before me. Kids sat in groups around small circle tables that had assorted kinds of food on them. Conversations and gossip bounced back and forth between them. Seeing the bottled refreshments on the table tops, my mouth grew dry. I rushed to the cafeteria line along with other hungry students.
I grabbed a lunch tray and slid it along the table, following the slow moving line. Before I thought I couldn't bear it any longer, milk cartons came into my reach. I reached up and grabbed one.
"Finally..." I said in a dry whisper. I opened the carton, tilted back and took a huge gulp from it right there, standing in line. Mid gulp I stopped drinking and quickly dropped the milk carton on my tray. I slapped my hand over my mouth. Instead of a cool refreshing drink, my mouth was filled with a revolting tasting sour substance. My eyes were watering slightly as I tried to swallow it. My hand was the only thing keeping me from spitting it out all over the place.
"It expired about three days ago." A familiar voice said. I turned to the person next to me. It was no other than Travis. He was examining the date on the bottom of the milk carton I had dropped on my lunch tray.
"That probably tastes wonderful." He said sarcastically.
I was so surprised seeing him that I swallowed all the milk that was in my mouth. I gagged slightly, and felt my face pucker up in disgust. It was so horrible tasting.
"Here."
I looked at Travis. He was holding a napkin, offering it to me. He had a slight smirk on his face. I gratefully took the napkin.
"Thanks..." I said quietly. I turned away from him, avoiding any questions he might ask about before. The milk had made me lost my appetite, so I left the line and went looking for a seat.
I scanned the cafeteria and its tables. They student body was split up into groups of friends and cliques. I looked around knowing that I wouldn't be able to fit in anywhere. I was about to decide to sit in the corner until a voice stopped me.
"Hey, I only thought Swami dressed like that."
I turned around to the voice to see Ray standing there with his own tray of food, which was filled to the brim with curly fries and assortments of other food, but mostly curly fries. I looked down at my outfit, to see that he was right. I was wearing a while collared shirt and a plaid skirt: my uniform. I was about to say something back, until......
"Ray..." A girl's voice warned.
Lily came up to him from behind and gave him the traditional punch in the arm.
"Ouch Lily...." Ray said. But you could tell he wasn't hurting at all. Instead he had a smile on.
"Well, you deserve it." Lily turned to me and smiled. "This is Ray. He didn't mean anything offensive by that. He's just being normal, at least for him...."
"Stop it Lily, you're making me blush." Ray joked. Remembering that I wasn't supposed to know who Swami was, I nodded my head at her statement.
"Would you like to sit with us?" Lily asked. "It's just my friends and I. You are more than welcome to join us."
"Thank you, I would appreciate that very much." I answered. I was very grateful, and at least I had somewhere to sit.
I followed them to the table that they shared. Robbie and Travis were already sitting there, discussing something. I guessed they were talking about RFR, because as soon as we reached the table they ended their conversation.
"Guys, this is......" Lily looked at me. She didn't know my name.
"Oh, my name is....."
"Danielle." interrupted Travis. I turned to him and gave him an annoyed glance. He shrugged his shoulders and gave a slight mocking smile.
"Yes, actually it is." I said coldly, as if answering him. Travis was suspicious, and I didn't like it. He seemed to enjoy teasing me.
"Well," Lily said after a few moments. She looked from me to Travis. "I guess you two have already met."
"You could say that." Travis answered. Ray sat next to him and started filling his mouth up with curly fries. Lily rolled her eyes and also sat down. I pulled up a chair also. Robbie reached over the table and shook my hand.
"Hi, I'm Robbie. It's nice to meet you Danielle."
"Same here." I smiled at his manners. Who knew he was actually the 'Question Mark'. And no one would have guessed he was behind the RFR radio station.
"How was class today Ray?" Lily asked.
"Breadful," replied Ray. Lily raised her eyebrow at his remark. Ray shook his head. "No, not like as in the food bread. Boring and dreadful: worst of both worlds." Lily nodded her head in understanding. "I was so bored today, that in History, I built a whole pencil tower."
"But Ray, you always build a pencil tower." Robbie said with a smile. Ray took one of the fries that weren't protruding out of his mouth and flung it at Robbie. Lily and I laughed.
"But Ray, history is important." Travis argued.
"How so? What do I care what a bunch of old dead people said..." Travis gave Ray an annoyed look, but Ray continued. "I already hear enough of what they said from you."
"Someone once said :" Travis lectured "The wise man must remember that while he is a decedent of the past, he.....
"...is a parent of the future." I finished. The table went quiet. Ray stared at me with a French fry hanging out of his mouth. Robbie and Lily had almost the same reaction. Travis just had a look of utter shock on his face.
"What?" I asked. I shrugged their stares off. "I know my quotes too."
"It's true then, aliens have taken over the earth." Ray commented jokingly after regaining from surprise. Lily and Robbie laughed. I joined in. Travis didn't move his eyes from me. I ignored him and started drinking casually from my water bottle.
"Travis has met his match." Lily teased and punched Travis in the shoulder. Travis didn't flinch.
"Yeah Ray," Robbie said between laughs. "Danielle is an alien that just fell from the sky, from a completely different planet and........"
Robbie stopped there because I had started choking on the water I was drinking. Robbie looked at me with concern.
"Are you okay?" Robbie asked. I coughed and waved my hands madly in the air and nodded vigorously.
"I-I'm fi-i-ine..." I said after a few minutes of my coughing fit. They all stared curiously. "It was just so funny what Robbie was saying." I lied. Robbie nodded his head. Lily smiled and Ray went back to chowing down on his fries. Travis didn't look convinced. I pretended not to notice.
"So, talking about Danielle....." Robbie turned to me. "Where did you go before Roscoe?"
"Well, actually, I......" I bit my tongue. I couldn't tell them everything, I just couldn't. How could I come to tell them that I was actually from a different world, a world in which I watched them on T.V. It was freaky enough that I was from a different world, but to come out and tell them that they were TV characters played by actors and actresses there. Yeah, I could defiantly earn myself a trip to the psych ward with that one.
"And......" Ray said impatiently. Travis leaned in with interest. I suddenly grew uncomfortable and tried to think of things to say.
"Well, I went to a small private school, that's about it," I said quickly. It was stupid, I know. I mean, I just stated the obvious, with my uniform and all, but I hoped it would at least have them content.
"Oh, okay..." started Robbie.
"Are you sure that's all?" Travis pressed. "I mean, there has to be more of a history then that. I didn't want to get into this conversation any further. I wasn't too familiar with Canada and all, if that's where this school really was in the first place. My lack of knowledge of these facts would place me in a bad spot.
"What on earth are you talking about Travis?" Lily asked.
"It seems to me there's something she isn't telling us." Travis said simply. His eyes glinted with suspicion at me. I felt my face turn hot.
"Well, even if that was true, why would I ever tell you anything?! Why are you so...ugh, you know what, I don't even know." I shouted. I angrily grabbed my stuff and got up from my seat. Without another glance towards the table and ran quickly towards the cafeteria doors.
"Travis, why were you acting like that?" I heard Robbie ask. I didn't hear more I just speeded out of the cafeteria.
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