The first day back from summer vacation is always hard to handle, but it's even worse for the teachers, who have to deal with the sleepy students and those who can't stop talking about their summer. Ms. Darbus, however, was no slacker when it came to dealing with tardy people, and let the brown haired boy, who slid in just before the bell rang, know it by a regular glare. "I hope you will not be making a habit of this, Mr. Zara," she said sternly as she turned to her desk to grab the attendance list.
"Of course not, Ms. Darbus. Tardiness is a thing of the past," he said with a grin, taking a seat at the front beside his friend Donny, and in front of a girl who was sleeping, her head over her folded arms, her iPod tucked closely beside her.
As Ms. Darbus started attendance, she clucked as a few stragglers walked in, asking for their names. "Ah, Ms. Boothes, so you are in my class. …Lollie, say here, so I know you are with the living," she said sternly, peering over her glasses at the sleeping form behind Jimmie. When a few moments passed, she shook her head and strode to the desk, slamming her hand down on the desktop, right beside Lollie's head.
She bolted upright, already yelling, "I'm awake, I'm awake! Just don't divide by zero!" As her eyes returned to their normal state, instead of bulging as they were when she first shot up, she noticed everyone was staring at her. She also noticed her iPod had fallen off of the desk and a boy was picking it up for her. "Um…it was a bad dream?"
"No! Who was dividing by zero? Were they trying to start the apocalypse?" her friend joked from behind her. "Really. Doesn't everyone know that dividing by zero causes untold misery?"
"I know right?" Lollie replied, then turned to look at Ms. Darbus, who was still scowling at her. "Look, Ms. D, I was up late coming up with more ideas. I had one that I liked, but then I needed to come up with some more in case you didn't like the one I had."
"And you just realized that last night, didn't you?" she asked, her face softening. "Well, that's a typical thing for you to do."
"Ya…I'm listening to some of the recordings from previous musicals, as Jimmie could tell you, considering he's looking at my iPod," she scowled, holding her hand out for him to pass it to her.
"Oh, ya, sorry," he replied, placing it in her hand. "But those are just the instrumental versions."
"Point being? I have both-just the band playing and then the singers with it. You can get on with attendance now Ms. D, unless you would like me to explain my ideas now, which I would refuse to do anyways?" she asked with an eyebrow arched.
Ms. Darbus rolled her eyes and hit Lollie on the head with the attendance sheet. "Keep that cheek to yourself, Ms. Boothes," she sighed as she walked back towards her desk. "You too, Ms. James."
"I swear, she knows what you're thinking. You could be waiting to buy a weird piece of pizza, and she would hand it to you before you even get to the cash register," Aidaliva said with a pout, Lollie having turned around to grin at her.
"No, it's because if I was being cheeky, she knows you would be about to say something too," she started, although she paused as she heard someone tapping on her desk. Turning her head, she came face to face with Jimmie Zara, looking at her intently. "…can I help you?"
"Ya. How do you know who I am, but I've never even seen you before? And I think I'd remember the name Lollie," he said, adjusting his hoodie.
"Well, firstly, you were in the musical, causing a slight disturbance, secondly you made the winning basket at the championship game, and thirdly, you were in my math class last year," she replied, ticking the reasons off on her fingers. "And as for why you don't know me…"
"I'd say you were pretty freaking oblivious. Because the two of us look pretty damn good," Aidaliva finished, running a hand through her own jet black hair, which today was loosely curled and had neon pink streaks in it. The other hand tugged at her friend's brown hair, highlighted from the sun.
"Yeah, what she said, although personally, I try to ignore her, she can be a compulsive liar," she said in a low voice, receiving a kick o the back of her chair. "So, Rocketman, is that all? Should we go back to you not knowing who I am?"
"No, I want to talk to you; she wasn't lying about you two looking pretty damn good," he said with a slightly cocky smile, causing Aidaliva to grin. As Lollie's smile faded into an angry scowl, Jimmie glanced up at her friend. "Did I, uh, say something wrong?"
"Oh ya, from the 'don't say it or she'll ignore you' box. She doesn't like to be told she looks good from boys. Oh, here she goes, ignoring me too because I opened my mouth," she laughed, as Lollie faced the person beside her and cranked her music up to full volume. When she was sure she couldn't hear, Aidaliva shook her head and extended her olive-skinned hand around Lollie's back. "Aidaliva James, although it's just Liva. And it's not all boys she hates hearing it from, it's boys who she thinks won't actually be friends with her because she's her, but because she's a cutie," she explained as she shook his hand, looking up at the clock. "So next time you see her, it would be best to start over," she advised, standing when the bell rang, slinging her book bag over her shoulder and pulled Lollie out of her seat.
Turning to Donny as he stood up, he stated with a grin, "This is going to be one interesting year."
A/N- Hope you like it so far. I'm feeling pretty hyped right now, probably because I'm hungry, but still, not the point. Oh, I clearly don't own the Disney characters, nor iPod [although I do own an iPod]. I do own my characters though.