Chapter 5: Who Gets Hyper off of—Coffee Beans!

"Why am I even here?" Rachel muttered. She stared at her two friends as they chugged down their tenth cup of coffee. She looked at them with disgust.

"Friend Rachel, you are sure you do not desire the pleasure of drinking a coffee?" Starfire asked. Rachel shook her head.

"Yeah, Rae…the coffee is great!" Karen said trying to get her to take a sip. Rachel held her hand up in protest.

"I'm sure…I'd rather have my herbal tea, though I'm sure the coffee's just…phenomenal", Rachel said.

"Oh yes, Rachel! It is! I AM SUDDENLY FEELING VERY GIDDY AND EXCITED!" Kori screamed and Rachel almost gagged on her cinnamon bun from surprise. She was only beginning to get used to Kori's loud voice.

"HEY, GIRL! ME, TOO!" Karen screeched and the two girls began dancing on top of the table. Rachel was completely scarred for life…from embarrassment and disgust. How could they act like this in public!

"Kori and Karen! Get down!" Rachel hissed. Kori and Karen ignored her and kept on dancing.

"Karen Beecher!" a girl Rachel's age asked. She was a brunette, think, tan, and her background looked Filipino. She smiled and soon broke out into a fit of laughter.

"Of all people!" she shouted and ran over to the table. She paid no attention to Rachel until she stopped laughing. She then gasped.

"I'm sorry! Where are my manners? I'm Gabrielle Agins. Do you go to Saint Iggie's Boarding School, too?" Gabrielle asked.

"I do now", Rachel said.

"That's awesome. So, are you friends with Karen and that girl there?"

"Er…kind of", Raven replied awkwardly.

"Nice. Karen usually doesn't act like this. Well, only at sleepovers, but that's after she's eaten like FIFTEEN bowls of ice cream!" Gabrielle said and laughed. Rachel smirked.

"You know that girl?" Gabrielle asked.

"Yeah…she's Kori Anders. As you can see, they somehow got hyper or high, either one, off of those coffee beans", Rachel muttered.

"They're crazy!" Gabrielle exclaimed and smiled. About six minutes later, after Karen and Kori had embarrassed the heck out of Rachel and Gabrielle, the two silly girls collapsed into the chairs.

"Yeah…they're gonna make it through first period", Rachel said sarcastically.

"What do you have first?" Gabrielle asked. Rachel pulled out her schedule and checked it thoroughly.

"First period…let's see…English and Literature with Mr. Johnson. He a good teacher?" Rachel asked.

"No, he's not good. He's GREAT. I'm serious…probably one of the few great teachers you'll have this year", Gabrielle said.

"What is your schedule?" Rachel asked her.

"Here…go ahead and look. Mind if I look at yours? Rachel, right? Sorry, but you never really told me your name…I saw it on your schedule…well, your first name", Gabrielle said.

"It's Rachel Roth. Sorry I didn't tell you earlier", Rachel said as Gabrielle handed Rachel her schedule.

"No prob…" Gabrielle muttered as she read Rachel's schedule. Rachel looked at hers. It looked like this:

Name: Gabrielle Agins

Age: 16

Sex: F

Grade: Eleventh

Schedule:

1st- English/Literature (Mr. Johnson)

2nd- Science (Mrs. Poosh)

3rd- Math (Mrs. Zen)

4th- French/Italian/Spanish (Ms. Elaine/Mr. Goochero/Mrs. Caverra)

5th- Lunch

6th- Music (Ms. Rowell)

7th- Art/Dance/Gym (Mr. Kane/Ms. Duffy/Mr. Don)

8th- History (Mr. Coop)

"You have most of my classes", Rachel said.

"Yeah, I saw that…The sad thing is that there are only forty kids in eleventh grade this year!" Gabrielle shouted.

"What are you talking about? Forty people in eleventh at a private school is pretty good", Rachel said.

"Last year there were one hundred in this class…about sixty of the people in my class left! SIXTY!" Gabrielle said angrily and sighed. She was clearly frustrated about the people that left.

"You friends with Richard Grayson?" Rachel asked her.

"Pshh…yeah right. No way!" Gabrielle said and rolled her eyes.

"Roy Daniels?" Rachel asked.

"NO", Gabrielle said through gritted teeth and shook her head violently.

"Vic Stone?"

"Kind of…not really"

"Kitten Wolf?"

"NO!"

"Tara Markov? Katie Anders?"

"No. No"

"Jenna Smith?"

"I don't really know her"

"Gar Logan? Garth Brooks?"

"Gar's nice, but we're not exactly tight…and yeah, Garth is my good friend"

"Hannah Bartley?"

"Yeah! We've been best friends since I can remember! Hannah and I are real close…my group is probably Hannah Bartley, Haley Van Sail, Emily Jacobs, Garth Brooks, Jack Roberts, Xavier 'Mark' Davidson, and Jake Martin…is it just you, Kori, and Karen?" Gabrielle asked.

"No…I'd have to say Jenna is probably my best friends. Then there's Kori, Karen, and kind of Gar…he's okay. Believe it or not, the first person I met was Mrs. Poosh", Rachel said and they both laughed.

"Ew! Mrs. Poosh! Haha, but…Yeah, Jenna and Hannah are good friends. Jenna's at all of Hannah's parties or sleepovers. Well, I gotta go. Glad I made a new friend today", Gabrielle said and smiled.

"Bye", Rachel said smiling.

"Late", Gabrielle shouted, waving. She walked out the door.

Rachel turned to see Karen yawning and stretching her arms.

"Where am I, Rae?" Karen mumbled. She was rubbing her eyes.

"Bubble world", Rachel said and smirked. Karen laughed.

"It's all coming back to me, as sad as that sounds. Well, we have ten minutes until class. I say we start back over. Kori…Kori, get up!" Karen muttered.

"NO! DO NOT EAT MY MUSTARD BACON! Huh? Oh! My friends! Good morning! Where is my bed?" Kori asked, suddenly confused. Karen began laughing and Rachel laughed softly. Kori blushed, realizing where she was and what she had done.

"Oh my! I am the 'freaking out', correct?" Kori asked nervously. She screamed an 'eep!' when she felt a hand on her shoulder, but sighed in relief once she recognized who it was.

"Correct-o mundo, Kor", Richard said chuckling.

"You going out for soccer this year?" Karen asked him.

"Yup. New coach, apparently. He better be good!" Richard said as he took a seat next to Kori.

"You might be mistaken, Richard. It could be a 'she'. Where I am from, women are at the least twenty times stronger than men. It is a very great possibility that this new coach of yours could be a woman", Kori stated truthfully.

"Kori's right", Rachel said and nodded.

"Well, he or she, this coach better be good enough to coach Richard Jacob Grayson!" Richard exclaimed and Kori giggled.

"Show off", Rachel muttered. Kori and Karen began laughing uncontrollably.

"Ooh! I'm so embarrassed now!" Richard said sarcastically, but he shocked Rachel. He wasn't glaring or pouting, he was smiling. 'He's just impressing Kori', Rachel thought.

"Let's go, gang. We're gonna be late from English", Karen said and with that, they were off to class.