Heh, heh, hi! I'm finally back and here's the third chapter. Anyways chapter 2 was WAY too long for my liking and completely messed it up for me, but I'm too lazy to fix it. So I'm going to try to make my chapters 2,000-3,000 words, much better for me.
Genres for this story is Romance/Drama/Humor since Kim's kinda loopy, I'm giving Kim a spontaneous personality since I don't think she's just some shy not-very-social art geek pining over the cool guy, like a lot of stories portray her as.
Disclaimer: I don't own much, only some of the characters..oh poo:(
Chapter Playlist: Stand Up by Melee and Man-Overboard by Blink 182 (these songs have nothing to do with this chapter, they're just two of my favorite songs;D)
:Leave Out All The Rest:
'Well that was great,' I thought as I wiped the excess puke off my mouth. My first day of school and I already puke, this means no lunch since I won't be able to stomach anything Michelle gave me. Although Embry will probably force me to eat something, eh I'll pretend.
RING!
Shit.
Second period already? Great that means I have science next, more importantly Chemistry. The class that I've failed my finals to two times in Greece, two times.
Isn't kind of weird that I know what I have next, considering the fact that I forgot my book and schedule on my desk when I ran out the room?
Well it's not, you wanna know why?
Because I had an extra copy of my schedule in my pocket, hah! 'Oh god, It's like I'm talking to myself' I grimaced as I walked down the hall towards the Chemistry classroom through the huge mass of people, trying desperately not to be knocked down.
"Excuse me! 'Scuse me! Sorry! People move!" I yelled as I pushed through the crowd. I only had two minutes until the second bell would ring and I didn't even have a notebook or pen! No notebook plus Mr. Nugent as my chemistry teacher equals Kim on bad side according to Embry and I don't need teachers yelling at me for no reason, it tends to get really annoying.
I rushed to my locker and quickly grabbed a spiral notebook and pen before shutting my locker and hurried down the hallway, aimlessly trying to find my class. 'Marble notebooks are for squares'
I stopped in front of room 217, six minutes after the second late bell had rung and knocked three times. I heard a faint 'come in' and opened the door to see a youngish looking teacher in front of a white board and twenty or so kids looking at me.
"Um hi," I said sheepishly.
The teacher, Mr. Nugent fixed his glasses and looked at the clock on the wall before saying, "Hello, and why might I ask are you seven minutes to my class? I know it's the first day back from vacation but I will not accept tardiness from any of my students."
Sheesh, uptight much?
"Oh, sorry. I'm uh new here so I kinda got...lost," I explained giving him my extra copy of my schedule.
He looked at the paper, his eyes widening. "Oh! You're our new student from Europe, Ms. Kimberly Connweller right?"
I rubbed the back of my neck nervously. "Yea but you call me Kim."
"Great, I was expecting you Ms. Connweller. As you may now know you're in Chemistry, we were just about to review everything we've just done since September. You can sit next to Ms. Schäfer over there in the back, she'll be able to give you all the notes we've taken" He said, blatantly ignoring me. 'You're nice'
I quickly walked to the back of the classroom and sat in the desk next to the blue-eyed girl, a minute later a folded-up piece of paper landed on my desk. I opened it up and it read,
'Hi, my name's Emmalyne, but you can call me Emma. My dad's German, mom's Makah but she has a thing for German names. I wasn't really listening to your introduction so what's your name?'
I wrote back,
'My name's Kimberly but you can call me Kim. Um my dad's Quileute and my mom's full Greek. Don't really know where my name came from, my middle's Greek though, it's Vasiliki'
'Cool, my middle name's Opal'
I almost laughed at that, seriously opal?
'Really?'
'No, I wish though. It's Marianna, I hate it but it's after my grandma so I guess I have to live with it'
'Cool, I guess. Um what are we suppose to be learning about?'
'Oh you know atoms and what atoms are made up. Mr. Nugent goes deep into these topics but no one really pays attention, science comes easy to me so I have no problem with passing his tests'
'Really? Lucky! I failed my chemistry finals two times when I was in Greece, I even took the English version, still failed it. You think you could help me?'
'Sure! That's what friends are for? We're friends right?'
I smiled and nodded happily.
'Yea, we're friends. You know you're the first friend I made that's not a girl. Before it was just me, Embry, Jacob and Quil'
'Hot damn! Embry is fine, you know for a Sophomore'
'Eww that's my step-brother you're talking about..Emma STOP DROOLING!'
'Huh, oh sorry'
'Wait, how's he a sophomore? He's our age isn't he?'
'Well yea he is, but in the fifth grade he got hit by a car and sent in a coma for most of the year. So they held him back'
'Oh wow..hey Emma? how do you know so much about Embry?'
'Uh I have my ways..'
"Stalker." I teased.
"Huh?" Emma asked.
"Nothing."
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'BRING!' 'BRING!'
"Okay class, we'll continue our reviewing tomorrow, also there's no homework tonight. You may all leave now, have a nice day," Mr. Nugent said from his desk.
"Whoa, class is over already? That felt like five minutes," I said to Emma as we walked out the classroom. I finally could get a good look at her and she was amazingly pretty, she had light tan skin with dark wavy hair and big sky blue eyes. 'Lucky, I'd kill for skin like that, my russet skin sucks ass'
"Yea it did. What classes do you have next Kim?" Emma asked me.
"I have...general music next, then English fourth period and after that gym. Oh joy," I deadpanned as I looked at my schedule.
Her eyes widened. "You don't like gym? How can you not like gym, gym is pretty much the only good class in this crappy school, besides lunch of course."
"Uh gym's just not my thing I guess and how is lunch good exactly? Embry told me we had crappy lunches."
"Oh well my mom's on the PTA and she told me how we got these new cafeteria workers and this person's donating a bunch of money to the school so they can give us good food. It's gonna be totally legit, there's even gonna be fried chicken!" Emma exclaimed.
"Yum! I love fried chicken, it's on my top favorite foods list. Next to chocolate pudding and pork lo mein," I said, sighing dreamily. 'Mmm, chocolate pudding'
"Cool! Look at the time we gotta get to class, we only have a minute left! I'll see you at lunch, we'll compare schedules then okay?"
"Alright, bye Emma." I replied.
She quickly ran down the hallway screaming 'bye!' over her shoulder. I walked to my General Music class, which was relatively easy to find considering it was two doors down from Chemistry. I walked into the classroom and pretty soon two classes passed by and it was fifth period, that meant gym. Oh god, what am I suppose to do for forty seven minutes? Stay in the library and read? Definitely not.
Well Embry did say there was a turf field, I could go there and just walk around the track, the gym classes are probably going to be inside anyways. 'Okay, just where is the turf field exactly?'
After five minutes of aimlessly walking down random hallways I finally found the gym and at the back of the gym the doors outside, leading to the fields. I walked down the stairway onto the track and to my surprise found someone already walking around the track.
It was that guy!
The guy from first period, who I snapped at! Well that's great.
Okay so new plan, um I walk silently up the stairs back inside the school, try not to bring attention to myself and hope to god that I won't be noticed by him. Sounds good enough to me!
"Hey!" Oh fuck my life.
"Hey! Hello?!" I heard feet slapping against the track as the guy ran up to me and stopped to face me.
"Hey, you're that girl from History right?" He asked.
"Um yea. My name's Kim, what's yours?" I asked as I stretched out my hand.
He shook my hand and said, "Jared."
"Cool. I uh want to say sorry for yelling at you this morning, I didn't make such a good first impression did I?"
"It's alright, I didn't really take it personal. I got your stuff from first period, I didn't really know what do with your stuff so I threw them in my locker."
"Erm thanks..I guess."
"No problem, I can give them to you before lunch," He said.
"Cool. So what's your excuse for being here, you don't look sick at all," I stated
He searched his pockets for a few seconds before pulling an inhaler out of one. "I prone to asthma attacks, don't know why I just get them. So my mom got me a doctor's note excusing me for the year you?"
"Illness I guess. My arms and legs weaken over the years so I can't really do much," I answered him, only telling him half the truth-or a quarter of it.
"Oh that sounds like it sucks," Jared said with sincere sympathy.
I could feel my headaches coming back from this morning, oh boy, this one's gonna be bad. I put one hand to my forehead and rubbed my temple with the other. "Yea it kinda does but there's advantages, like not going to g ym."
"Hey, are you okay?" He asked, his voice laced with concern.
"Yea I'm fine, just a headache," I said uneasily, feeling a little queasy. 'Oh god, not again'
Jared looked at me disbelievingly. "No you're not, you look like you're gonna hurl. I'm taking you to the nurse."
"Bu-"
"Not buts, you look like crap right now..no offense," He said, wrapping an arm around my shoulders, helping me up the stairs.
I gave him a questioning look. 'Seriously this guy is all stoic and uptight towards me and now he's helping to the nurse all concerned and stuff?'
A woman with blonde hair looked at us from her computer. "Hello Jared, what's wrong this time?" She asked.
"Nothing for me this time Mrs. Shroba, I brought Kim here," Jared said.
"Oh hi, so you're the new student. The whole faculty's been talking about it, your mother's called me before to explain everything. I'm so sorry about your ill-" Mrs. Shroba started saying before I cut her off with one of my looks.
"Don't say anything" I mouthed to her from behind Jared.
She nodded, understanding my situation. "Anyways I've got your medication here, the doctor said to take it every morning before first period, and then before lunch. How are you feeling?"
"I just got a headache and I'm feeling a little queasy, the usual," I explained, Mrs. Shroba went to the back and came back after a minute with two pill bottles.
"Take two pills from that bottle for your headache and one from the other, it's to help reduce your vomiting. Also since you shouldn't be stressing yourself that much your mom requested that you have a student aid to help you carry your stuff."
"Pfft, I don't need an aid, my mom's too overprotective" I waved my hand in a 'pshh' manner.
She raised an eyebrow. "And you're too stubborn."
"Well that's not very nice now is it? Anyways who's gonna be my helper, I don't really know anyone besides Embry."
"I could be your aid." Jared suggested shyly from behind me, he had his head down. 'Okayy, this guy is definitely confusing me'
I turned around, confusion shown plainly on my face. "Really? You would?"
He nodded shyly. "Sure, why not? I don't really have anything else to do, so what the heck?"
"Um, thanks. That's really nice of you Jared," I smiled.
I changed thos chapter because truthfully I hated it. It totally changed how I wanted everyone to be so there. This chapter was mostly a filler, with some character introductions, sorry about that. The next chapter I think will be more dramatic/angst depends on the length of the chapter, I might have to split it in two.
My inspiration is kind of low right now, but I vow that I will not abandon this fic like my other ones, I'm a huge procrastinator so it'll take time for me to update. Review please, I appreciate it a lot!
Please review I'll really appreciate it.
~Anna(AreYouDeaf)