Chris
She sat in the middle of the auditorium, right in front of me. Her red eyes widened as she recognized me. She gasped, but it was covered by the chatter of other students.
"Good morning, my name is Chris Demitri. Hope we can become familiar with each other soon." I smile at Dawn and returned the microphone to the Assistant Head Master. She went through a set of announcements which included a dance that was coming up, and other unimportant matters.
"Now please go to second period. Oh, and Dawn, I would like to see you now." The Assistant Head Master put the microphone back onto the stand. As the other students exited the room and left to class, I saw Dawn and her friend exchange a few words before her friend left and she walked onto the stage.
"Good morning Assistant Head Master." She smiles at Mrs. Sophie and doesn't look my way.
"As you know, this is Chris Demitri." She introduces me to Dawn. "Chris, this is Dawn Iris, and she will be your guide for today." She hands me my schedule. "You two both share the same classes. Dawn, I'm counting on you to not lose him in our school." She smiles and waves a good bye, leaving me and Dawn on the stage.
"We have history first on Wednesdays." She walks towards the back of the stage, opposite from where Mrs. Sophie exited. "Going through here will be less crowded and much faster than going out into the hallways." She led me through the backstage, though an empty hallway with classrooms that had their lights off, and then to the history room. She didn't talk on the way there, but I knew she was thinking about the dream she had last night.
The history teacher was an inch shorter than dawn, and about a few five inches shorter than me. She had brown hair that reminded me of coffee that had too much milk in it, and her eyes were grey. Dawn introduced us and went to her seat at the third row, next to the window.
Dawn
"Hey, I didn't ask you earlier, but do you know him, the new kid?" Lisa asks me as I reached my seat. Lisa sat in front of me which was a good thing, because I would not have been able to pass this class if she had sat next to me. "I head you gasp when you saw him." I silently yelled at myself. I thought that Lisa would not have been able to hear me over the noise that the other sophomores were making.
"No, I thought he was an old friend of mines that I had left behind when I moved." I sat down and looked out the window. It was a cloudy dark day and looked like it was about to rain any second. Then I overheard the teacher tell Chris that his seat was behind me.
As Chris made his way to his seat, the door opened just as Chris was about to sit. Eli, one of the new kids that had came two days ago, ran in with his hair looking like it had not been brushed, and his clothes were all wrinkled. "Sorry I'm so late, I had trouble getting to school today."
"Take a seat, class didn't start yet which is a good thing." Eli made his way over to his seat which was right next to me on my right. As he made his way over, he noticed Chris, and the two stared at each other. There was something in the air that told me that the two of them were not on good terms, so I turned my attention to the outside.
The teacher cleared her throat and I heard Chris and Eli sit down. She began to hand out a worksheet that we are supposed to read.
"Morning Dawn." Eli whispered to me. I smiled at him and his messy chocolate brown hair.
"Morning Eli, what happened to you this morning? You missed the sophomore meeting today." I took a sheet and passed it back to Chris without looking at him.
"Wow, that's a long story." Eli laughs. Behind me I heard Chris growl in hate. That surprised me, but I kept that to myself.
"Does everyone have a handout?" Mrs. Whitney asked the class. Everyone replies with a yes. "Good, now your job for the remaining of this period is to finish this handout. If you want, you can also work with the people next to you, but if I hear any sort of unrelated talk, I will make this silent work and you'll have to finish it for homework." When Mrs. Whitney returned to her desk, people began to talk.
"So we have time now to talk." Eli scanned the handout. "Ugh, this seems hard." He puts the paper back onto the table. I picked up the handout and read it over. Basically, it asked us to write down what we know of European imperialism. I remember my uncle teaching me all about this topic on a rainy day. My uncle handed me a mug of hot chocolate and sat down on an armchair.
"Ahh, on a day like this, it reminds me of the old days." I take a sip of hot chocolate as he talks about the old days he had spent in Europe, especially during the time of European imperialism.
"This is easy." I smiled to myself. "How is this hard?"
"I learned this in sixth grade. It was a while ago, and I forgot everything I learned about it." He leans back in his chair and laughs. Throughout the whole period, I lectured Eli on European imperialism, and soon the whole class got quiet as they listened and took notes on what I was saying. Just as I finished the lecture, the bell rang.
"No homework today and you all can thank Dawn." Mrs. Whitney smiled at me and returned to her work as everyone thanked me and went to their next class.
