Rock 'N' Roll High School by The Ramones
The next day, we all were rudley awakened by our father running around the house, poppint his head in every room and yelling: "It's already seven thirty! Get up! We're late, we're late!" He reminded me of the white rabbit in Alice In Wonderland. Zac began crying, and Joanne was still dead asleep. Jase, Joanne, Zac and I all shared a room when Emily, Triston, and Dad got their own rooms. Granted, Tristen was in the basement, and Emily in the attic, but we weren't complaining. Well, not all too loudly at least.
I got up and quickly dressed in some old jeans that used to be Jase's, my favorite long sleeved shirt, and another hand-me-down sweatshirt from Emily. Picking up Zac and rocking him gently, I went back to my bed where Joanne still slept and woke her gently.
"Come on you guys, Triston'll walk you to school Jo, and Jase! Get up or we're leaving without you!" That did get him up, and he rose like the living dead. Ten minutes later, Triston was taking Joanne to school while carrying Zac; Dad had left in a hurry; and Emily was driving us to school. When we got there, it was seven fifty and students were just filtering into their classrooms.
"We still have to grab our schedules. And Mary-Beth, hon, you have your pants on backwards." She burst out laughing and rushed out into the damp cold morning air, not stopping to wait for us as she rushed ahead to the school.
"Uh, you know what? I'm not even going to ask, Bethy." my brother reached over to open the door, but I stopped him.
"Jase, wait for me okay!" I struggled out of the tight pants and slipped them back on the right way.
"All right, now that we're late I don't really think it'll matter if we take our time. In other words, I'm not running around like a headless chicken to make it to the office." Jase said as I zipped and buttoned, still speculating on how in the world I managed to get my pants on backwards... We took our time getting to the brick building labled 'office' and made it just as Emily was walking out with a smug smile on her pretty face.
"Hello, I'm Mary-Beth, and this is Jase. We need our schedules, please."
"You're a little late now aren't you? Huh, I had them just a second ago...Right in my hand I swear!" The receptionist riffled through a stack of papers in some drawers, finally found them and told us where our classes would be. "Now hurry up, Ms. Rodgers hates slackers."
We rushed out and compared our classes.
"We have...Technology, English, Science, and PE together. I guess I'll see you second period then." I quickly kissed his cheek and rushed off towards another omnious brick building. The entire class turned around and stared curiously when I entered the History class.
"Sorry I'm late." I mumbled to the teacher with an 'I'm totally sucking up' smile. She bought it and guestured for me to sit. I did sit, in the very back corner. I was never one for sitting in the middle or the front, that and I was in an advanced history course at my old school, something I loved and passed with flying colors. I didn't need the teacher to be breathing down my neck while I tried to catch up on my reading. However, this teacher--Ms. Rodgers--was pretty aware and knew I wasn't paying attention whatsoever to anything she had been rambling on about for the past twenty minutes.
"Miss Mary-Beth," Her voice boomed across the room, causing the boy who had been sleeping in front of me to sit up, startled.
"Yes Ma'am?" I called back, careful to seem sweet and innocent. It really payed off most of the time.
"Tell me, when was the National Assembly formed?"
"June 20, 1789." the boy in front of me turned around and stared at me like I had two heads or something.
"Thank you." she blinked, obviously disappointed I knew what were 'discussing'. The entire class was staring at me much like the boy sitting in front of me. The classes dragged on, I went to Technology and English before last night caught up with me. Jase and I were in science when I completely zoned out and ended up making the experiment explode and catch my careful notes on fire. A few of the girls screamed, and the teacher rushed to the fire extingusiher. She was taking too long, so I simply picked up the corner not on fire, and walked it over over to the sink, dousing it with the freezing water.
"Mary-Beth, I think you can sit there the rest of this experiment out." The teacher regarded me apprehensively. Jase snickered and I had to fight the urge to stick my tounge out at him. The bell rang a few minutes later, and we all shuffled out towards the cafeteria. Not really caring, I walked to the first table I saw and slumped onto the table. Jase reluctantly sat beside me.
"Not gonna set me on fire, now are you?" he grinned and yanked my hair.
"Shut up. Not my fault things tend to spontaniously combust when I'm around..." Like last summer when Mom and I were making hamburgers, the fire on the grill wouldn't light so I decided to toss some lighter fluid just as mom was putting on the burgers...they ended up a little crispy as well as everything within a five foot radius around the grill.
By this time, the rest of the table had been filled. Yet again, everyone but those right next to us were staring. This was getting really old.
"Sheesh, take a picture people, it'll last longer." I said a little louder than I meant. The girl next to me thought this was highly entertaining, and starting to laugh. Not funny, it is so not funny.
"Don't worry, they'll stop soon enough." she grinned in a friendly manner.
"Unless I fall on my face or blow up my science experiment, right?"
"Pretty much yeah. I'm Bella, and this is Edward." she pointed to the boy sitting next to her. His features were unusual, but not in a bad way. Goregous more like it, he reminded my immediately of my first and last boyfriend when we were in California. They had the same flawlessly white skin, deep shadows under the eyes, and features that made them look like fallen angels.
"Hello, I'm Mary-Beth, and this is my brother Jase." I smiled at them politely.
"Hey." my brother said quietly. He wasn't much of a talker when it came to new people. In fact, he wasn't even comfortable talking normally with Tristion or Dad. he was my twin, we were usually one half of a whole.
"So, where did you move from?" Bella asked curiously. The rest of the people at the table stopped what they were doing to listen in.
"Oregon." Everyone went back to looking normal after I glared at them. The rest of lunch passed calmly and conversation easily flowed between the four--or three of us, Jase hardly said a thing. When the bell rang, we flocked out of the caf and into the freezing rain like herds of sheep. Jase and I headed towards the Gym, praying we wouldn't have to participate due to serious lack of sleep. Last night was a huge mistake...I blame Triston.
"She was pretty nice, what did you think?" I tried to make small talk as we tried to find the Gym. I swear, the stupid buildings moved every period because I swear I had seen it right before lunch.
"Is her boyfriend related to Tom?" he always knew what I was thinking, even if I wasn't concentratino on it. Twin telepathy I tell you.
I shrugged in response and, having located the hiding Gym, walked in and sat on the bleachers.
"Ah, fresh meat. The Bell twins, right? I had your sister before lunch and she told me all about you two. Seeing as we don't have any extra uniforms, you two get to sit out today." she put a special emphasis on today and spun back around to the rest of the class, eyeing her prey like a hungry hawk.
After almost an hour of sitting in the corner talking with Jase, the bell rang for us to go to our next class. Our blessed last class! When I walked into the classroom however, I began to doubt I would ever call it blessed again. My father had signed me up for choir as some kind of punishment. Now I could actually sing fairly well, but when it came to singing in front of anyone, I acted like Jase. What made it even worse was that William and my sister were in here. No doubt Emily would somehow make it so I had to sing today...alone...all alone...I swallowed harshly and sent worried glances towards her. Grabbing a chair like everyone else did, I threw myself into the group around the piano. The class chatted loudly, and I tried to see where Emily had gone. Maybe the chairs ate her?? There were about thirty kids in here, making it easy for her to hide and plot until the teacher showed up.
"Hi, uh, Mary-Beth right?" I turned to find William perched on the back of my seat.
"Yeah, hi William. Happy birthday, by the way." He blinked as if remembering he had told me.
"Thanks." was all he had time for before the teacher came in.
"Welcome, welcome children! Ah, I see we have two new faces, two new voices. Let's see what they can do, shall we?" Emily went up first and sang the scale and did other exercises the teacher had for her. Her voice was clean and sweet but never whiny. She hit every single note given to her without going flat or sharp.
"You my dear will be a first soprano. Next victim, please." If only he knew how literal that was. The entire class was silent once again and watched as I very slowly made my way up to the front.
"All right love, let's start at Middle C and work our way on up." She began to hit the notes on the piano, and I looked desperately to Emily for some help. Maybe she could tell her I had some horrible disease that affected my vocal cords so I'd have to be transfered out right away. No such luck, she wasn't even looking up. I took a huge breath to calm my racing heart, opened my mouth, closed my eyes, and out came a rich full sound. I went up the scale, down the scale, repeated notes like an obedient parrot, and the class simply stared at me shocked I guess.
"What a range! Let's see, how 'bout you go for alto." I turned around, my face immedately turning red because of all the unwanted attention, and hurried back to my seat next to William. When the bell finally rang, I was all but sprinting to find Jase, unfortunately William was hot on my heels. Jase was talking to some guy who looked like a bodybuilder. He was so much like Edward, yet again reminding me of my past.
A.N.: Next chapter is a flashback. Hope you enjoyed!! Review please