In English class later that day, they had a substitute. He was a young (20 something) handsome man with dark hair and stunning green eyes. Summer, Sarah and Kate sat near the bottom at the front so as to get the best view of him.
"Good morning, class." He declared as everyone took their seats. "My name is Mr. Hutt." he had an Italian accent so it sounded like Mr. Hot.
"Yes you are." Said Kate playfully to Summer and Sarah, who both nudged her as Pogue walked in with Caleb and Tyler, who took their place next to Reid. Pogue waved at Kate and she waved back with a cheeky grin.
"Now, my colleague: your usual teacher has informed me that you have just finished reading love poems by Ernest Hemingway. What did you think?"
A blonde headed girl at the top of the room raised her hand immediately and Mr. Hutt motioned for her to give her answer.
"I loved it. He's such a romantic poet. And really a literary genius." She smiled, trying to sound clever and show off for the hot new teacher. He nodded politely and she giggled flirtatiously. Summer sighed in disgust and Mr. Hutt's attention was drawn to her at once. He strode over to the desk in front of Summer.
"Did you have a comment Miss…" he asked.
"Actually yes, and actually, my name is Summer." She replied with an attitude that only Summer could pull off. Mr. Hutt motioned for her to give her opinion, even though if he had known her, he wouldn't have done.
"Fine, I can't believe that anyone could find Hemmingway romantic. He was a creepy greedy disgusting hang about who hung around Picasso trying to nail his leftovers." She almost screamed as she got into it. Mr. Hutt looked nothing short of impressed."Why can't we learn about writers who had purpose like Charlotte Bronte or Simone de Beauvoir?" She crossed her arms across her chest and Mr. Hutt returned to the centre of the room.
"And who do you think you are to contradict this school's method of teaching?" he asked seemingly to the whole class.
"Someone who's already graduated from one school with a higher IQ than half of the disheveled dope monkeys here. But I'm not naming names, am I Kira?" Summer threw back. Kira scowled, Mr. Hutt was shocked and everyone else laughed and applauded. Summer smirked at Kira in satisfaction and Reid cheered louder than everyone else. He caught Summer's eye and winked. She beamed at him and he looked away.
"Well, Summer-"Mr. Hutt began.
"Danvers." Summer finished.
"Well, Summer Danvers, you've just earned yourself a one way ticket to the Provost's office." Mr. Hutt sneered with a dry chuckle. Summer, Kate, Sarah, Reid, Caleb, Tyler and Pogue stared with their mouths open at the substitute's unfair judgment. Most of the audience groaned in disbelief as Mr. Hutt signaled to the door. Summer gathered her things and reluctantly followed his outstretched finger towards the door. Reid stood up. Mr. Hutt saw this and swiveled his gaze to the handsome blond.
"Well then sir, maybe you can tell me what you think on the subject." He growled; he was obviously in a bad mood now. Everyone looked at him, including Summer who had stopped at the door and looked at him. Reid gave his cheeky signature smirk.
"I think that your wack and need to seriously examine your ass before you speak out of it again." Everyone who was watching laughed. Caleb and Pogue rolled their eyes then sighed and smiled slightly. Reid looked at Summer, who grinned and nodded in approval. Mr. Hutt maneuvered his head for him to follow Summer, he nodded in acceptance and left with Summer, giving Mr. Hutt a cheeky wave.
As they walked down the hallway towards the Provost's office, Summer smiled to herself. She thought that it was cute that he had done something like that for her. Then again, this was Reid; he did things like this for nothing usually.
"You didn't have to do that, Reid." She muttered.
"Nah, I couldn't let you go down alone on your second day. 'Sides I get in trouble all the time, really it's no biggie." He shrugged.
"Well thanks." She said again, snuggling into his shoulder. Reid lit up at the feeling of her warm body against his. The magic didn't last as at that moment they reached the desk behind which Dean Jane Perky sat. she was busy typing so she just waved the way in without looking up. Reid hesitantly pushed the door open and Summer followed him in. They sat on the two chairs in front of the desk and looked at the aged man behind. Summer folded her arms, drumming her fingers on her upper arm with a look of attitude, Reid just slumped and sighed. The Provost put down what he was reading and removed his glasses that sat around his neck on a silver chain.
"So, Miss Danvers, my email tells me that you were terrorizing Mr. Hutt's class." He sighed.
"If expressing my opinion is terrorist action then yes I did exactly that." Summer said matter-of-factly.
"Well we do encourage that at this school but next time make it a little less erm... argumentative and attitude-y." he said."As for you Mr. Garwin, this makes a grand total of 27 visits in this academic school year. This definitely isn't your second day so you get a detention- again." Then he dismissed them both with a wave towards the door as he placed his glasses back on his face and picked up his papers. Summer looked at Reid apologetically; he waved a hand to say that it wasn't a big deal and the two left the room. Class had ended at this point and Kate, Sarah, Pogue, Caleb and Tyler were outside. Reid patted Summer on the back as they re-joined the group. Sarah and Kate closed in on Summer.
"What did he say?" Asked Kate.
"Not much, just to stop being 'argumentative and attitude-y'." Summer mocked the Provost. Her laugh rang out, drowning away Sarah's and Kate's. Caleb and Pogue entwined their arms around their girlfriends and they turned a corner, only to find Kira standing there glowering directly at Summer. With her laughter abruptly halting, Summer put her attitude back on; she crossed her arms and curved her hips.
"Can I help you, Dope Monkey?" she sneered.
"You are such a bitch!" Kira scowled.
"Takes one to know one." Retorted Summer.
"I'm gonna take you down, biatch." Kira threatened, moving in.
"Yeah? You and what army?" Summer asked moving in further still, unafraid. Her group closed in around her. Kira chuckled.
"Ok, ok back down guys I ain't here to play wars." She growled. Then she leaned into Summers face.
"I'm gonna show you what it's like to be in my school." She hissed.
"Is that a threat?" Summer said, still unafraid. Kira gave her a killer look.
"Absolutely."