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Chapter 12
The Exchange Student
BRRRRIIIIIINNNNNNGGGGG
"Alright children of the corn! Homeroom is DISMISSED!" the crazy Ms. Stratman yelled from the top of her desk.
All the students ambled out of the room except Jason, Darien, and Serena. Rei, Lita, Mina, and Ami had gone on ahead to class.
Serena stood infront of Darien with an apologetic look on her face. Darien frowned but immediately brightened when he saw their eccentric homeroom teacher dancing around her desk with apparent glee. Smiling, Darien pulled Jason and Serena down the hall.
"Is class always like that?" Darien asked Serena and Jason while walking down the hall towards Bio 4. His big-ass grin told the whole school that he was the new kid, not broken into the horrible policies of the school and the annoying principal who made up rules sporadically over the school year.
"It isn't usually. School is kinda umm... how shall we put this, HARD." Jason remarked sarcastically.
"Hmm... I concur." Serena said, pretending to be scholarly.
At this Darien burst out into laughter again, and, with tears streaming down his face, leaned on the much shorter Serena. There was about a half a foot of difference but it didn't seem to matter to him. Jason shot Serena a questioning look with a sly grin and Serena just shrugged.
"Damn boy, you're weird!" Jason laughed.
Serena poked Darien a few times. She was visibly wilting from Darien's weight.
"Umm... down boy down!" Serena tried.
"Now, what's all this?" A voice said from down the hall.
"Girls!" Serena said shocked to see the girls lined up outside the Bio 4 class, apparently waiting for the teacher to come unlock the door.
"What are you doing here?" Serena said, standing in the middle of the hallway in surprise.
"Waiting for class!" they all replied nochalantly. Rei was looking at her nails again, Mina was reapplying some lip gloss, Ami was reading a book curiously peeking over the edge every once and a while, and Lita was sorting through her bookbag, looking for something.
Darien, still laughing on Serena's shoulder, didn't notice the girls crowding the doorway or Jason's slight flush at the appearance of the girls. Serena, however, took note and decided that he'd be perfect for Rei, once she got over her thing for Darien. Her friends momentarily forgotten, Serena tapped Darien a few times and whispered something into his ear.
Darien was still laughing to hard to care so Serena finally pulled his head off her shoulder with his ear.
"OOOOWWWWWWwwwww... What was that for?" Darien whined.
"Because," Serena pulled his head down to her mouth, "I think Jason likes Rei. We should set them up." To the unknowing specatators, Serena's friends, Jason, and their classmates, it looked like Serena was not just whispering something into Darien's ear. It looked like she gave it a slight kiss as to apologize for pulling it earlier.
'Geesh girly. She works fast! Maybe he's just a rebound. Oh look! Andrew!' Mina thought flightily. Andrew walked down the hall, towering over the freshman, grinning like he has just gotten laid for the first time. Mina sauntered towards him with a foolishly happy grin and called to him invitingly. Andrew spotted her and swept her up in a hug.
"Andrew! What are you doing here?" Mina said breathlessly as Andrew lifted her up off the ground in joy.
"Nothing much hon. I just stopped by because I have a part time job here as an assistant for the Biology teacher." Andrew said, grinning like the devil at Mina's shocked face.
"That's..."
"?"
"That's..."
"Mina are you okay?"
"That's GREAT!" Mina yelled to Andrew and not surprisingly the rest of the unsuspecting hallway. The majority of the kids standing around the hallway jumped in surprise and looked around in confusion for the source of their discomfort the first day of school.
Laughing, Andrew set Mina down and opened the door to the class for the students. The Rei, Lita, and Ami filed in, and, as usual made occupied a small cluster of desks, remembering to set something for Jason and Darien in the process.
Meanwhile, Darien was still frozen in position with Serena's lips partially caressing his earlobe. He couldn't think, much less answer to Serena's plan. Serena pulled away from him to gauge his response, but, seeing him frozen and concentrated on her, she froze. Serena turned around to hide the faint blush that stained her cheeks and pulled Darien into the class.
The class had started just a minute ago when the Teacher had walked into class, disregarding Serena and Darien frozen in the doorway.
Serena and Darien walked into class and were instantly greeted with a bunch of wolf whistles, cat calls, and one or two 'awww, they're so cute!' that sounded suspiciously like Serena's friends.
"Tsukino, Serena! Since you already know the new student please introduce him to the class." the new, pretty, and young teacher said to Serena. Blinking once or twice, Serena realized that the teacher knew her name without asking. She seemed oddly familiar, but on to business.
"This is the exchange student that will be with us this year. His name is Darien Shields. He comes from the United States." Serena explained politely, all the while staring at her vaguely familiar teacher.
"Excuse me, but do I know you?" Serena asked the teacher.
"Maybe. I believe that I was voluteering at a hospital for a while last year. Did u have the broken arm?" the teacher said, taking a good look at Serena.
"No, that was my younger brother." Serena remarked, surprised at the teacher's acute memory.
"Ahhh, I remember now. Well anyways, Mr. Shields, Ms. Tsukino, take your seats. Class has already begun!" The new teacher said enthusiastically.
"Oh no. She's crazy too, isn't she?" Jason said quietly to Darien and Serena.
Giggling, Serena pointed out that the teacher had spelled biology wrong, in addition to spelling hypothalamus incorrectly. Darien held back a snigger while Jason continued to point in out to the rest of Serena's mob. Amy politely raised her hand and was called up to the teacher's desk. On the way to the desk she wiped out the offending letter and quickly corrected the spelling. If you had something wrong on your first day, things were going to be hell for you.
"Yes. Ms?" the teacher asked.
"Oh, well I was just wondering if you were a bit nervous. It being apparently your first time teaching and all." Ami said astutely.
"OH! Now, would you care to tell me how you figured that out?" the teacher said, her eyeglasses just a centimeter away from falling off her nose and onto her desk.
"You spelled some word incorrectly on the board. You don't have to worry. I corrected it without anyone seeing it. You might want to ask you Assistant to help with the class today. He knows the majortiy of the students here." Ami said quietly.
"No thank you." the teacher replied stiffly. She caught a glimpse of the board and paled slightly.
"Please take your seat. The lesson plans for the year are being passed out right now. You wouldn't want to miss the grading scale now wouldn't you?"
Andrew trapezed around the room, smiling like a fool, apparently very happy about his new job, and passed out the course syllabus. He passed by Mina's desk and tapped on it a few times, which apparently meant something to Mina who was now glaring at her boyfriend. serena and Darien shot a confused look at each other at the same time and grinned. They would find out later, how could they not? Darien hung out with Andrew on the weekends and Mina was a part of Serena's mob.
"Now for the introduction!" the teacher said as she stood up and walked around the room. "There is a preliminary test that you all must take so that I can split you up into groups correctly. A lot of the work in this class will be group work, so you can consider your group as also a lab group and a study group. Well at least that's the way it's supposed to work. Any objections?" she said, glasses glinting ominously.
Amy raised her hand. The new teacher stared at her.
"Yes, Ms. Mizuno?"
"I would like to know what will happen if the work isn't split up correctly?"
"Then of course you'll all fail!" the new teacher said with a feral grin.
"Mwahahahahahahaahah!!!!!!!!!!!!"
(A.N. lapse in concentration)
Amy face vaulted. Darien stared at the teacher slack-jawed at the menaical laughter and at the odd smile that teacher had plastered on her face. Serena smirked at the teacher and went back to reading the test on the second page of the syllabus. It was a simple information form.
"Excuse me?" Serena said as she raised her hand.
"Yes?" the teacher stopped her laughter momentarily and faced Serena.
"Would you like this test in pen or pencil?" Serena said grinning.
"Why pen!" the teacher smiled happily, "thank you for asking."
There was a flurry of papers being turned and disbelieving looks thrown in Serena's direction, her grades had never been the greatest, but certaintly never atrocious.
Mina looked at Serena quickly and looked at Andrew once again who smiled like a cheshire cat. Mina raised her hand, which was promptly answered by Andrew coming over to her desk.
"Andrew, what aren't you telling me?" Mina demanded in a whisper.
"Nothing honey!" Andrew said in a sing-song voice. "Just take your test and maybe I'll see you around at lunch."
'Weird' Serena thought. She had never seen Andrew act in such a manner.
'Hahahahaha...' Darien thought confidently. He straightened up in such a manner that he caught Serena's attention. Her eyes flashed in Darien's direction and he smiled.
'He knows what's up! That fink! He'd better tell me at lunch or ....errr.. what class do we have without Mina?' Serena thought slightly pissed that he would keep something from her.
Serena set her pe down on the desk and looked at the teacher, expecting something else that was weird and freaky to come out of her mouth.
"Well children of the corn! Since today is a half day the class is almost over. If you haven't finished the test, bad for you! You have 1 minute before the test must be turned in! All those who are finished may leave! That means, Ms. Tsukino, Mr. Shields, Mr. Kang, Ms. Mizuno, Ms. Kino, Ms. Hino... hey that rhymes! You can go!" the teacher finished like a kindergarten teacher. Mina stared at the teacher open mouthed like a fish, trying to comprehend what in gods name was the teacher doing. Her friends walked out the door and waited. They weren't supposed to be in the halls before the bell rang.
Serena tugged Darien down the hall quickly, in hopes that she could make him tell her what he was smiling about or what Andrew and Mina playing at.
"So Darien, what was up with Mina and Andrew?" Serena interrogated pulling his face down to her again.
"Umm..." Darien said unsure of how to explain it.
'Screw it' Darien thought and wrapped his arms around her waist.
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Standardized tests, what else can I say? Sorry about the extremely long wait. Maybe I can get another one out in the next week or two... maybe....
-Blaze of the Phoenix-
~aka Protox~
Chapter 12
The Exchange Student
BRRRRIIIIIINNNNNNGGGGG
"Alright children of the corn! Homeroom is DISMISSED!" the crazy Ms. Stratman yelled from the top of her desk.
All the students ambled out of the room except Jason, Darien, and Serena. Rei, Lita, Mina, and Ami had gone on ahead to class.
Serena stood infront of Darien with an apologetic look on her face. Darien frowned but immediately brightened when he saw their eccentric homeroom teacher dancing around her desk with apparent glee. Smiling, Darien pulled Jason and Serena down the hall.
"Is class always like that?" Darien asked Serena and Jason while walking down the hall towards Bio 4. His big-ass grin told the whole school that he was the new kid, not broken into the horrible policies of the school and the annoying principal who made up rules sporadically over the school year.
"It isn't usually. School is kinda umm... how shall we put this, HARD." Jason remarked sarcastically.
"Hmm... I concur." Serena said, pretending to be scholarly.
At this Darien burst out into laughter again, and, with tears streaming down his face, leaned on the much shorter Serena. There was about a half a foot of difference but it didn't seem to matter to him. Jason shot Serena a questioning look with a sly grin and Serena just shrugged.
"Damn boy, you're weird!" Jason laughed.
Serena poked Darien a few times. She was visibly wilting from Darien's weight.
"Umm... down boy down!" Serena tried.
"Now, what's all this?" A voice said from down the hall.
"Girls!" Serena said shocked to see the girls lined up outside the Bio 4 class, apparently waiting for the teacher to come unlock the door.
"What are you doing here?" Serena said, standing in the middle of the hallway in surprise.
"Waiting for class!" they all replied nochalantly. Rei was looking at her nails again, Mina was reapplying some lip gloss, Ami was reading a book curiously peeking over the edge every once and a while, and Lita was sorting through her bookbag, looking for something.
Darien, still laughing on Serena's shoulder, didn't notice the girls crowding the doorway or Jason's slight flush at the appearance of the girls. Serena, however, took note and decided that he'd be perfect for Rei, once she got over her thing for Darien. Her friends momentarily forgotten, Serena tapped Darien a few times and whispered something into his ear.
Darien was still laughing to hard to care so Serena finally pulled his head off her shoulder with his ear.
"OOOOWWWWWWwwwww... What was that for?" Darien whined.
"Because," Serena pulled his head down to her mouth, "I think Jason likes Rei. We should set them up." To the unknowing specatators, Serena's friends, Jason, and their classmates, it looked like Serena was not just whispering something into Darien's ear. It looked like she gave it a slight kiss as to apologize for pulling it earlier.
'Geesh girly. She works fast! Maybe he's just a rebound. Oh look! Andrew!' Mina thought flightily. Andrew walked down the hall, towering over the freshman, grinning like he has just gotten laid for the first time. Mina sauntered towards him with a foolishly happy grin and called to him invitingly. Andrew spotted her and swept her up in a hug.
"Andrew! What are you doing here?" Mina said breathlessly as Andrew lifted her up off the ground in joy.
"Nothing much hon. I just stopped by because I have a part time job here as an assistant for the Biology teacher." Andrew said, grinning like the devil at Mina's shocked face.
"That's..."
"?"
"That's..."
"Mina are you okay?"
"That's GREAT!" Mina yelled to Andrew and not surprisingly the rest of the unsuspecting hallway. The majority of the kids standing around the hallway jumped in surprise and looked around in confusion for the source of their discomfort the first day of school.
Laughing, Andrew set Mina down and opened the door to the class for the students. The Rei, Lita, and Ami filed in, and, as usual made occupied a small cluster of desks, remembering to set something for Jason and Darien in the process.
Meanwhile, Darien was still frozen in position with Serena's lips partially caressing his earlobe. He couldn't think, much less answer to Serena's plan. Serena pulled away from him to gauge his response, but, seeing him frozen and concentrated on her, she froze. Serena turned around to hide the faint blush that stained her cheeks and pulled Darien into the class.
The class had started just a minute ago when the Teacher had walked into class, disregarding Serena and Darien frozen in the doorway.
Serena and Darien walked into class and were instantly greeted with a bunch of wolf whistles, cat calls, and one or two 'awww, they're so cute!' that sounded suspiciously like Serena's friends.
"Tsukino, Serena! Since you already know the new student please introduce him to the class." the new, pretty, and young teacher said to Serena. Blinking once or twice, Serena realized that the teacher knew her name without asking. She seemed oddly familiar, but on to business.
"This is the exchange student that will be with us this year. His name is Darien Shields. He comes from the United States." Serena explained politely, all the while staring at her vaguely familiar teacher.
"Excuse me, but do I know you?" Serena asked the teacher.
"Maybe. I believe that I was voluteering at a hospital for a while last year. Did u have the broken arm?" the teacher said, taking a good look at Serena.
"No, that was my younger brother." Serena remarked, surprised at the teacher's acute memory.
"Ahhh, I remember now. Well anyways, Mr. Shields, Ms. Tsukino, take your seats. Class has already begun!" The new teacher said enthusiastically.
"Oh no. She's crazy too, isn't she?" Jason said quietly to Darien and Serena.
Giggling, Serena pointed out that the teacher had spelled biology wrong, in addition to spelling hypothalamus incorrectly. Darien held back a snigger while Jason continued to point in out to the rest of Serena's mob. Amy politely raised her hand and was called up to the teacher's desk. On the way to the desk she wiped out the offending letter and quickly corrected the spelling. If you had something wrong on your first day, things were going to be hell for you.
"Yes. Ms?" the teacher asked.
"Oh, well I was just wondering if you were a bit nervous. It being apparently your first time teaching and all." Ami said astutely.
"OH! Now, would you care to tell me how you figured that out?" the teacher said, her eyeglasses just a centimeter away from falling off her nose and onto her desk.
"You spelled some word incorrectly on the board. You don't have to worry. I corrected it without anyone seeing it. You might want to ask you Assistant to help with the class today. He knows the majortiy of the students here." Ami said quietly.
"No thank you." the teacher replied stiffly. She caught a glimpse of the board and paled slightly.
"Please take your seat. The lesson plans for the year are being passed out right now. You wouldn't want to miss the grading scale now wouldn't you?"
Andrew trapezed around the room, smiling like a fool, apparently very happy about his new job, and passed out the course syllabus. He passed by Mina's desk and tapped on it a few times, which apparently meant something to Mina who was now glaring at her boyfriend. serena and Darien shot a confused look at each other at the same time and grinned. They would find out later, how could they not? Darien hung out with Andrew on the weekends and Mina was a part of Serena's mob.
"Now for the introduction!" the teacher said as she stood up and walked around the room. "There is a preliminary test that you all must take so that I can split you up into groups correctly. A lot of the work in this class will be group work, so you can consider your group as also a lab group and a study group. Well at least that's the way it's supposed to work. Any objections?" she said, glasses glinting ominously.
Amy raised her hand. The new teacher stared at her.
"Yes, Ms. Mizuno?"
"I would like to know what will happen if the work isn't split up correctly?"
"Then of course you'll all fail!" the new teacher said with a feral grin.
"Mwahahahahahahaahah!!!!!!!!!!!!"
(A.N. lapse in concentration)
Amy face vaulted. Darien stared at the teacher slack-jawed at the menaical laughter and at the odd smile that teacher had plastered on her face. Serena smirked at the teacher and went back to reading the test on the second page of the syllabus. It was a simple information form.
"Excuse me?" Serena said as she raised her hand.
"Yes?" the teacher stopped her laughter momentarily and faced Serena.
"Would you like this test in pen or pencil?" Serena said grinning.
"Why pen!" the teacher smiled happily, "thank you for asking."
There was a flurry of papers being turned and disbelieving looks thrown in Serena's direction, her grades had never been the greatest, but certaintly never atrocious.
Mina looked at Serena quickly and looked at Andrew once again who smiled like a cheshire cat. Mina raised her hand, which was promptly answered by Andrew coming over to her desk.
"Andrew, what aren't you telling me?" Mina demanded in a whisper.
"Nothing honey!" Andrew said in a sing-song voice. "Just take your test and maybe I'll see you around at lunch."
'Weird' Serena thought. She had never seen Andrew act in such a manner.
'Hahahahaha...' Darien thought confidently. He straightened up in such a manner that he caught Serena's attention. Her eyes flashed in Darien's direction and he smiled.
'He knows what's up! That fink! He'd better tell me at lunch or ....errr.. what class do we have without Mina?' Serena thought slightly pissed that he would keep something from her.
Serena set her pe down on the desk and looked at the teacher, expecting something else that was weird and freaky to come out of her mouth.
"Well children of the corn! Since today is a half day the class is almost over. If you haven't finished the test, bad for you! You have 1 minute before the test must be turned in! All those who are finished may leave! That means, Ms. Tsukino, Mr. Shields, Mr. Kang, Ms. Mizuno, Ms. Kino, Ms. Hino... hey that rhymes! You can go!" the teacher finished like a kindergarten teacher. Mina stared at the teacher open mouthed like a fish, trying to comprehend what in gods name was the teacher doing. Her friends walked out the door and waited. They weren't supposed to be in the halls before the bell rang.
Serena tugged Darien down the hall quickly, in hopes that she could make him tell her what he was smiling about or what Andrew and Mina playing at.
"So Darien, what was up with Mina and Andrew?" Serena interrogated pulling his face down to her again.
"Umm..." Darien said unsure of how to explain it.
'Screw it' Darien thought and wrapped his arms around her waist.
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Standardized tests, what else can I say? Sorry about the extremely long wait. Maybe I can get another one out in the next week or two... maybe....
-Blaze of the Phoenix-
~aka Protox~