Hey! I got reviews. I think I'm going to be dancing for a while and smiling non-stop. hehe. Thanks so much for them and please keep them coming. They are so helpful. More than you know! Caitlin Rose. I tried to make it sharper. I'll keep trying, It was hard for me to delete a lot of those small details I added.
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"You go first." Summer nudged Marissa towards the teacher, causing her best friend to stumble. Summer hated talking to teachers and having to ask questions. It made her feel stupid. The longer she waited the better, she could let her nerves settle, or at least she hoped so. Her stomache was bubbling with anticipation. Mrs. Burnbomb hated her and she made it quite clear. But that made no sense, Summer had turned around in her chair multipule times to talk to Seth in the middle of one of her speeches. Why would she pair them up? It seemed to be the eternal question.
"Oh, yeah, um, okay" Marissa hesitated before continuing the path to the her History teacher. She stood in front of the desk for a minute, fiddling with her fingers. "Hi" she whispered.
"Hello Marissa, what is your question for me?" The teacher smiled kindly before looking down at the list on her desk.
"I was, um, wondering why you paired me and Ryan together, I mean why?" She was scared to hear the answer. Maybe she knew something about their past and wanted to play cupid. She knew it was a dumb thought, but it was the only one that floated to her.
"Ah, yes. Well you Marissa, are a hard working and always strive to do yout best with what you are assigned too. But even though this is true. Sometimes you miss small facts or details that are very important to the project. Ryan, is a very smart boy and works hard also. Sometimes he gets distracted, but never misses those details that you tend to. You see Marissa, this way you will both stay on task and catch all the details. A perfect team if you ask me." She smiled, trying to limit the questions to one per student.
"Oh, thanks" She sighed in relief. Mrs. Burnbomb knew nothing about Ryan and her. She walked to the classroom door and waited for her friends.
"Hey, um why am I partners with Marissa?" Ryan inquired, very confused. When they had been dating, being partners seemed like a dream come true, only it never happened, but now, it was just weird and confusing.
"You will work well together, come up with ways to cure each others faults, ask Marissa" His history teacher pointed to where she was standing at the door, mouthing something to Summer, who wore a confused look. "I told her everything. Now shoo, there are still a couple of people I need to get too." She smirked and motioned for Ryan to go and talk to Marissa. After he left, she sighed to herself. There was obviously something between those two, but she had no idea what. They seemed friendly enough. She brushed it off, getting into students business wasn't in her job description just yet.
"I'm going up Cohen, wish me luck." Summer sternly told him what to do. As she took a deep breathe, obviously the most nervous of the gang.
"Good luck." He remarked and pushed her lightly so that she would start walking. He smiled to himself, he found her nervousness quite cute and funny.He watched intently as the teachers lips started to move.
"Why am I partners with Cohen?" She wondered out loud as she approached Mrs. Burnbomb's big wooden desk with papers spread all around it.
"That's a good question, lets see, you slack off quite and bit and never seem to pay attention in class, always writing notes or speaking to Marissa or turning around in you chair to say something to Seth." The teacher began only to be interrupted.
"Uh! I'm getting a C." Summer remarked matter of factly. She was getting angery, the teacher was saying a bunch of mean things about her, now she felt even more stupid. Weren't they supposed to be encouraging and helpful?
"And Seth always works hard and gets good grades, he will help your work habits I hope, well, unless your friends and he decides to let you slack off." She gve Summer and stern look.
"Fine! I won't slack off!" Summer hissed at her teacher. Suddenly two hands clenched her arms and pulled her towards the door. They weren't very strong. And Summer kind of left anyways. It was Seth.
"I'm so sorry about this." He whispered to the teacher. "Come on Sum." He told her and placed her in Ryan and Marissa's care before heading back to the desk. "Could you explain that too me too. I'm not sure Summer's going to repeat it." He mumbled, looking at her.
"Sure." Mrs. Burnbomb smiled. "You will help Summer learn a good work ethic and she will teach you to bring fun to school and projects. You will both learn something from each other. Don't let her slack off though." She looked at him accusingly, almost like he had been planning it all along.
"I won't, bye" He walked over to his friends and they all walked out of the big classroom together.