chapter three. Lucky girls
In the hall the girls are in a line on the right boys on left "ah you're late." Miss. Berkley remarked "well now that you're here we can begin. Makenzie Smith with Parker Thomas" mrs. Berkley droned on and on going down the line of kids but when she reached me and Annie she skipped us to the girl next to Annie now I was confused why did she skip us? As the partners were assigned they headed out the double doors to their classes but there were nine girls left counting us and five boys left one by one the girls and boys got paired and sent off to class till only me, Annie, the girl with the pink bucket hat and the girl with the striped sleeves were left "Raelynn jackal and Apricot Jonson and finally Echo Miller and Annie Mcallister" mrs. Berkley finished off her list and left the stage. Annie and I just stared at each other in disbelief "YES!!!" I finally screamed "shh!" Annie said but she had a giant smile on her face "lets go to math or its detention for us both'' Annie giggled we can't run in the halls but if we could we would have been leaping with joy.
in class we took a pre-test to see where we are put in smartness levels there are questions that are fifth grade level all the way up to eight grade (we are in sixth grade) I think I did great, but the girl next to me was sweating and had a look of panic on her face, her name tag on her desk said Amelia Cornelius I felt bad for her she looked so panicked. At the end of class we turned in our papers to mr. Smiter at his desk he is old but kind of funny he has math memes put all around his room and he is really sweet.
Next we have gym and it was so hot and incredibly noisy like you wouldn't BELIEVE how loud it was. We started a gymnastic unit with our gym teacher mr. Zener, We took a test on how flexible we were, and ranked us with the color of leotards. Pink is super flexible. Purple is sort of flexible and blue is not flexible. And the leotards were so tight and way too revealing they went down so that they were an inch away from the middle of our breasts and like a swimsuit at the bottom. I was one of three girls that got pink; the others were Apricot Jonson and Leah Taylor. Annie got a purple leotard but that poor Amelia Cornelius girl was the only one that got blue. She mostly sat on the sidelines while we went on the bar, the beam and the trampoline. Echo wished she could help Amelia.
After gym we walked up two flights of stairs to the geometry room with Mrs. Jackson and we took a test… again. Well an assessment to tell where we should be placed in that class we find out our scores tomorrow after geometry the two girls went to science and whoopi ANOTHER TEST!!! After that headache Echo's island in the ocean; lunch. Echo heaped her plate with chicken nuggets and strawberries, an apple and coca cola. Annie had a salad with chicken and… Leaves? "They weren't leaves!" Annie was saying indignantly to Echo as we walked back to our dorm with the extra 20 minutes we had before home studies "ok ok what were they then?"Echo asked, laughing "LETTUCE!!!" Annie yelled exasperated. When they reached our dorm we compared answers on tests and added more decorations to our room. When we looked at the time I jumped up it was 1:24 "we have to get to class" I yell we literally run out the door with our stuff (thanks to Annie we now have little baggies for each class that have everything we need) "mrs. Hendrichson is not going to like us being late" Annie called to me while we were running to class "well we can't really help it now!" I shout back that's when we run into Rachel, literally.
I slam into her and her glasses fly off "hey!" she shouts "no running in the hallways!" then she looks up at me and Annie standing behind me "you" Rachel says with murder in her voice "me!" I say with a sarcastic up tilt "well if you don't mind we are late to class. So ta ta dear!" I say with a poor British accent "why aren't you in class?!!?" Rachel accused "oh with such a big head I thought there would be a brain in there" I said "Echo" Annie muttered in my ear with a warning tone "i can't help it" I whispered back "who's the whispering turkey" Rachel sneered my eyes get huge I look at Annie and throw myself at Rachel punching her straight in the face but she didn't care she tried to pin me to the floor but I just stood up and shoved her off "don't you ever talk about Annie that way" I growled in Rachel's face holding her by the scruff of the neck I pushed her away from me then stalked past her to class Annie hurried past Rachel when we were far enough away from Rachel Annie said softly "thanks."
when we reached the home studies classroom mrs. Hendrichson said "oh great you girls are here." That was it, no detention, no lecture about how 'responsible young ladies would have paid more attention to the clock blah blah blah' not even a tardy slip and we were like six minutes late. so we found our seats and mrs. Hendrichson started up her class "alright kids in this class we will learn all the modern tips about being a mother or just taking care of normal home stuff like; sewing, cleaning hacks, baking and cooking, and taking care of young kids." mrs. Hendrichson said "so let's get started with our first unit; sewing."
In the next twenty three minutes we learned the lock, chain and zig zag stitches. Annie got them all great but I somehow sewed my sleeve to my practice fabric and Annie laughed her head off. Finally mrs. Hendrichson had to save me with her awesome needle work she pulled out the stitches. But just as we were about to walk out the door, just as I had forgotten about the Rachel incident Miss. Berkley's voice came over the announcements "Echo miller please report to the principal's office." Annie gave me a worried look and I beckoned to her slightly. mrs. Hendrichson looked worried while she gave me a map of the school and showed the principal's office Annie can go to mrs. Hendrichson said concerned. As we walked to the principal's office I remembered "Rachel" I growled stopping in my tracks
