So, I've been through a week and 2 days of my senior year so far... and I spend my days waiting until the next Tuesday when I can update for you guys! Enjoy this chapter! It's really short, and kind of filler-ish, but it's leading up to bigger things!
Chapter 4
MAX POV
When the bell rang for the end of Pre-Calc, Iggy and I walked to the English area. He walked me to my class and then walked across the hall to his class. Fang had beaten me to class and claimed two desks for us. I really like this teacher. Her name was Mrs. King and she was wonderful at teaching English. I had had her last year, so she already knew me. When the bell rang and all the students took their seats, she stood up from her desk and walked toward the whiteboard at the front of the room.
"Okay, class. Today, we are going to do a little activity and I'll assign the first project of the year tomorrow. I just want to get a feel for your writing for today. But before we do anything, I want to explain something to you. You are the only creative writing class in this school. You are all here because you like writing and you can be creative, just like the name says, but many times in classes like these, you don't unleash to your true potential because you are afraid of being judged by your classmates. While I can't say that I will be the only ones reading your writing, because we have to do peer activities, I want you to know you can trust everyone in this class." Some people rolled their eyes at this.
"I see you rolling your eyes. If you are going to judge other people based on them writing what comes from inside of them, I want you to stand up and walk across the hall to normal English for seniors. If you are going to make people feel uncomfortable in my classroom, I want you out now. This class is to work on your writing and while there's constructive criticism I will not stand for bad things to come for people's social standards in my class." No one moved a muscle.
"Good, now. Let's move on, shall we?" Mrs. King said with a smile. "Take out a notebook, and if you don't already have one dedicated to this class, you must have one by tomorrow. I hope you will all fill it within the first semester." Then she explained some quick little assignment about writing to describe things. We each had to come up with a list of 20 things to describe our partners, mine being Fang. Then we would play like Boggle and whoever had words that no one else had would be given a point for each word.
FANG POV
After being given the assignment by Mrs. King, I went to work. I started off with the basics about Max. Tall, skinny, beautiful, wait did I just write that on a paper for English? This might prove to be difficult. I erased beautiful and put pretty. Then I put protective, stubborn, feminist. 6 words! Only 14 more to go.
MAX POV
We had finished the first round. I was kind of impressed that Fang and I each got 20 words about each other. We had only known each other for a few hours. I also was intrigued by the words he put down about me, and some I put down for him. Intriguing was one, along with special, quiet, enthralling, and some others. I put down, tall, dark, handsome... not sure where that came from, and emo, which he just laughed at. Fang really wasn't that hard to get along with. I could definitely be okay with hanging out with him more, and seemed like I was going to, since he was in most of my classes. Fang and I each got three points from this round. Then we had to switch partners. We did two more rounds and turns out that Fang and I tied with 6 points. For this being a creative writing class, the people in it weren't very creative. Then the bell rang and our day went on.
There you have it. Like I said, it's very much filler-ish, but i just needed to get through some more of the first day. I promise, only the first day will have this much detail about school. And, if you guys didn't know this, every review/follow/favorite that I get, I send a PM to you, and look at your profile and most of the time at least read the summary of your work, if not read your stories and review. So if you want to get your stuff out there, that would be a good way to do it. See y'all next week!