Sins ch 4
Max spent Sunday unpacking her stuff. She considered leaving it in the suitcases but changed her mind. Jenny was off with her boyfriend again, which left Max alone. Alone with thoughts she didn't want to be alone with. She distracted herself by unpacking her stuff. Even when she had everything put away at last her side still looked empty.
Well mostly her desk did anyways. Jenny's had books pictures and knick-knacks on hers.
As well as a laptop and other assorted desk stuff. Max had never had a desk before. There simply wasn't room for one in her old place. It barely had room for her bed and a beat up old dresser.
Max decided she needed to get a few things to make this place more home like. Unfortunately the bus service didn't run on Sundays and town was too far away to walk. So Max decided to sit down and write to her friends. She missed Shay shay and the others, she even thought about penning a note to her mom. She wrote two letters but left them unfinished she wanted to tell them about her first day of school here.
Next day.
Max was looking at herself in the mirror trying to decide if she actually had the balls to wear this outside of her room."Hey you gonna hog the mirror all day?" said Jenny. "Naw I'm done, how do you guys stand these uniforms, there so ugly" said Max
Jenny laughed and walked over to the mirror she was holding a concealer stick in her hands." I don't know I guess we get used to them," said jenny "man if my friends could see me in this I so would never live it down" said Max. Max moved closer to jenny. Jenny was applying the concealer to a spot on her neck.
"Ooh nice hicky" said Max jenny blushed "well it won't be nice if it earns me a detention" said Jenny "they would give you detention for a hicky?" said Max. "Only if it's noticeable," said Jenny. Max frowned Jenny was doing a horrible job covering up the hicky.
"Ok hold on then, let me help, because that is so noticeable," said Max.
"It is oh shit," said Jenny. "Make up," said Max jenny handed her a suitcase full of make up. "Geez girl, think you have enough?" said Max. She dug through the pile and pulled out a more suitable concealer and a thing of yellow matte eye shadow. "Now hold still," said Max. "After a few seconds of blending and careful brushing the hicky was gone. Jenny looked in the mirror.
"Wow how did you learn to do that?" said jenny "ah friend of my moms from work had an abusive boyfriend, used to watch her do her makeup" said Max. "Oh how sad, you mom had to work?" said Jenny "ah yeah, most people do" said Max.
Jenny glanced at her clock "we gotta go" said Jenny. Max grabbed her battered backpack and followed her out. They joined the rapidly growing throng of people who seemed to be heading for one area. It turned out to be the dining hall. Max grabbed a bowl of cereal since her usual wasn't on the menu.
Max saw Jenny hug her boyfriend and sit down at his table. Max wasn't sure where to sit until Jenny waved at her. She shrugged might as well at least until she made some more friends. She sat down next to a boy with reddish brown hair. The boy was trying to ignore the couple. She figured he had the right idea they were nauseating. "Will you two please get a room?" said a longhaired boy. He took a seat across from Max. "We did last night," teased the boy
"Way too much info thanks" said Max "yeah tell me about it" said the boy next to her. "I'm Pogue, by the way I haven't seen you before" said the longhaired boy. "Max and I just transferred, got here this weekend" said Max. "Yeah she jenny's new roomy" said Reid. He was pulling down the neckline to inspect the hicky he had put there last night. "Wow where did it go?" said Reid. "Max covered it for me, I don't want detention" said Jenny. "Why not Reid will probably be there," said the boy next to her. Reid flipped him off. Max chuckled under her breath. "So Max how was your flight," said the boy next to her."Didn't fly, ah?" said Max "Tyler" the boy supplied.
"Why not?' asked Tyler "don't like to," said Max. "Then how did you get here?" asked Pogue. " I rode the greyhound," said Max. They all gave her blank stares." The bus" she supplied.
"Oh!" they said almost as a group." People still ride the bus?" said a new voice. He sat down next to Reid and jenny. "Yeah" said max "so where did you ride it from?" asked the new guy. "From California" said Max. "Whoa! Long ride" said Pogue. "Where in California?" asked the new guy. "L.A. why do you ask?" said Max "curious" said new guy "Caleb, meet Max, she's jenny's roommate," said Reid.
"Then I feel sorry for her already" said Caleb. Jenny looked mortified "why?" asked max "cause your stuck seeing that every morning" said Caleb. Max laughed " ah I can sleep through it, and we do have a sink if I feel the need to hurl" said Max. Reid flipped her off. She flipped him off back. "Been nice but I must go, see you in class" said max.
She turned out to have Caleb in two classes. Reid Tyler and Pogue in four and jenny in the first one. The boys had the same PE period as she did. Which turned out to be swimming. Only one problem with that. Max couldn't swim a stroke. Hell she didn't even know how to dog paddle. She stood in the locker room debating on whether or not she should even put on the swimsuit. The teacher blew her whistle and the girls that were done dressing out, lined up. Everyone else was rushing around trying to finish what they were doing. Max just closed her locker and got in line, fully dressed. Several of the girls looked sideways at her and snickered.
"Miss Rhyde, is there a reason why you are not dressed out for PE?" asked the teacher. "Yep but I'd prefer to discuss it with you later" said Max. She was hoping to pull the woman aside and talk privately with her." Suit up miss Rhyde or you have detention," said the teacher. Max didn't want detention on her first day but there was still the dilemma.
She decided to humor the woman and suit up hoping to pull her aside before class officially began.
Her old high school had no pool and most of PE was track and field type stuff. Then there was Max's near drowning at age ten, which left her slightly paranoid when it came to water. Especially when there was enough water to drown in.
Max suited up and got in line as last to go out the door. The boy's class was occupying the other side of the pool and was swimming back and forth across it in lanes marked by floating things.
The woman blew that damn whistle again breaking Max's stare session at several incredibly hot male bodies. "All right girls into the water" said the woman. Most of the girls headed for the edge of the pool and slid into the water. Max stayed out of it matter of fact she almost hid." Miss Rhyde, is there a reason you feel too good to join us?" said the teacher. She stopped right in front of Max."Ah no actually but I need to talk to you about something" said Max "after class miss Rhyde, why don't you start us out with a couple of laps" said the teacher "laps?" said Max confused.
"Well we are waiting," said the woman. Max looked very confused did she want her to actually swim? "Ah" max stammered in embarrassment. "Here let me start us out miss Sampson" said a perky little blond. "Very well Ms Carlson, miss Rhyde get into the water," said the teacher then she blew the damn whistle again. Max considered making the thing not work, because the woman was really annoying her. Max drifted over to the shallowest spot in the pool and put a foot in. then she steeled herself to climb the rest of the way in.
She climbed in and found a spot where she could stand up. Well sort of she was clinging to the side. She watched as the blond girl climbed up on a platform took up a strange position and waited. The teacher blew her whistle and the girl threw herself at the water. Her limbs already moving gracefully through the liquid. The girl swam the length of the pool and back again then did it again. "That's enough Rachel thank you," said the teacher.
Rachel climbed out and walked just past the roped areas and then climbed in with the rest of the class. The teacher began calling off names, two at a time. The girls were expected to do what Rachel had done but competing against each other. When the teacher called her name and another students. Max froze. The other girl climbed out of the water and climbed onto the platform. Max stayed in the shallow end. The teacher was looking right at her "any day miss Rhyde" said the woman. Max heard snickers around her.
Max reluctantly walked through the water and climbed out at the ladder. "Miss Sampson I really need to talk to you" said Max. "Not now, on the platform miss Rhyde," said the teacher. Max walked slowly to the platform and climbed up on it. The other girl took position. Max stared at the water for almost a full minute. The woman blew the whistle and Max stayed there. The girl got to the other end of the pool and was coming back. When she reached the starting side the teacher blew her whistle. "Tammy hon you won go ahead and go back to the group," said the teacher. "Miss Rhyde what was that?" said the woman. The teacher crossed her arms over her chest and glared at Max.
Max was acutely aware that both classes were now staring at her. Max looked incredibly embarrassed "ah I forfeited," said Max. "Miss Rhyde you cannot forfeit in a practice only in a competion, you have just earned yourself a detention, go dry off and see me after class" said the teacher. Max stepped down off the platform in relief, maybe detention wasn't so bad, and it certainly beat drowning.
Max walked over to the piles of towels and grabbed a towel. Her classmates glared at her. She definitely hadn't made any friends in this class. Max wrapped the towel around her and headed for the locker room. The rest of the class was filtering in behind her. Max opened her locker and a brunette slammed it shut. "What do you think makes you so special?" said the girl.
Max turned to glare at her. "Probably the same thing that makes you think you can scare me" she answered. The girl looked like she was going to say something more but the teacher interrupted "is there a problem here Miss Mitchell, Miss Rhyde?" asked the teacher. "No, Ms Carlson" said the girl "good Rhyde your with me" said the teacher.
Max followed the teacher to her office. The teacher shut the door behind her and walked over to her desk. " Let me be the first to say I have never had a student flat out refuse to do an assignment, will you tell me why you did that?" said the teacher "sure I've been trying to all through class" said Max. "Well I'm all ears, and it better be good," said the teacher "oh it's a doozy all right, I can't swim" said Max.
The teacher looked shocked for a second. "Not at all?" said the woman "nope not even doggy paddling" said Max. "Oh dear, this isn't good, not good at all" said the woman "but your from California?" said the woman. "Yep, I am" said Max. "Oh dear" said the woman." So what do we do about this?" said Max." well you need to learn miss Rhyde or I'm going to have to fail you" said the teacher "do I still have detention?" asked Max
"No of course not, I'll tear up the slip, and I'll excuse you from now on but you need to learn before the end of the semester so I don't have to give you a failing grade" said the woman "thanks ms Carlson" said Max in relief.
Max headed back to her locker and dressed in record time. Only her legs had gotten wet anyways. She could always shower later. She grabbed her book bag and practically ran out of there. She headed to her next class at almost a jog. It was history something she actually liked.
She sat down at one of the empty chairs and ignored the angry stares from the girls who had been in her PE class. She pulled out her note pad and a pencil. She had just set them up when a dumb jock knocked it on the floor. "Here let me get it for you" said the boy. He picked it up before she and held it out of her reach" what's the matter forfeit girl, don't want the pencil?" he teased. He was holding the pencil up so he didn't see a familiar blond head walk by behind him. A fingerless gloved covered hand grabbed the pencil and tossed it back at her. Max caught it and turned away from the annoying boy. 'Scoot over" said a voice next to her. She turned to see Reid trying to sit next to her. She scooted over towards a blond girl next to her.
Reid sat down between her and annoying boy." That's Aaron Abbott he thinks girls like to be teased, that's why he keeps showing his dick to them," said Reid she giggled. Aaron glared at him. Reid grinned back He leaned towards her "so girlfriends roomy, can I ask you a question?" he said with a smile "sure" she answered. Then she saw the wicked gleam in his eyes and wondered if she should have waited to say yes. "What gives with you in PE class?" he asked.
She motioned for him to move closer. He leaned closer but was still grinning. "Closer silly" she said. He leaned in a little too close. She decided she had asked him to. So she cupped her hands around his ear and whispered, "I can't swim" into his ear. He pulled back and started laughing "seriously?" he said. She nodded now a little embarrassed that she had just had what looked like a cuddle session with her roommate's man." Oh man wait till I tell the others" he said. She smacked his arm. "Don't you dare" she hissed. Reid laughed at her "Reid!" she hissed. "What I never promised I wouldn't tell," said Reid