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Chapter 13

~Izzy's Point-Of-View~

It has now been official since 8:15 AM this morning: the dance has been canceled. A majority of our class is exclaiming their dislike of this information. However, I am not one of them.

"Sierra, did you hear that? The dance is canceled because of the upcoming snow storm!"

"Yeah! Isn't that horrible? Now I can't go with my Codykins!"

"Oh, never mind then. I had a totally different reason for talking, then."

"Really? Why?"

"I didn't want to go to the dance." I stated.

"Why?"

"I hate dances. They're stupid."

"No they're not." Sierra tells me. I roll my eyes.

Then we get back to listening to the announcements because the lady forgot about five of them, so she has to announce them now. I fiddle with my lead pencil. Sierra stares at the dry-erase board. Five more minutes left in homeroom. Thankfully.

Finally the bell rings, and we all depart for our first period.

"See ya, Sierra." I tell her as I go to my Geometry class.

"Bye, see you at lunch." she replies as she goes to her English 10 class.

"So, what are we doing Friday?" Naiomi asks our table.

"Absolutely no clue anymore." Alex announced, "Especially since that dance was canceled. I'll probably end up babysitting one of my cousins."

"I so totally don't know what I'm going to do instead. But it'll probably be good 'cause don't we have a test in science on Tuesday?" Sierra asked.

"Yeah, we do. I didn't study yet, so I don't know..."

"I hate my science class 'cause everybody there are idiots and vain." Alex says.

"Hey!" Naiomi shouted, "I'm in your science class!"

"You don't count. I never count you when I complain." he reassured her.

"You two are funny." I tell them.

"Thanks oh so much." Naiomi sarcastically told me. Alex rolled his eyes.

"I think it's supposed to rain later on today." Sierra told us.

"Girr, I have basket-ball practice after school." said Naiomi,"Leave it to my luck to forget that and take my emergency umbrella outta my locker this morning."

"It's not exactly like you're gonna get rained on. You have practice indoors don't you?" she asked her.

"Yeah, but what about when my mom comes to pick me up? You know that she takes forever."

"Just wait indoors. That's what I do all the time after tutoring." I said, then Alex interrupted.

"Leave it to her to need tutoring." he told me, then I kicked his shin.

"Ouch!" he exclaimed.

"Watch out Alex, she's treating you like Noah! You two are gonna be together!"

"Not funny." I said at the same time Alex said, "Whoa, me and Izzy or me and Noah?"

"You and Izzy, duh. Noah's not gay." I told him.

"Yeah, 'cause he's with you. Unless you're a drag queen, that is." Naiomi told me.

"Oh, ha ha. Funny Nai. Real funny." I deadpanned.

"Thanks." she beamed.

"It wasn't a complement."

"But I took it as one."

"Like Izzy cares."

"I didn't ask you to care."

"Well, Izzy didn't, so don't worry about her."

"Whoa, Iz, stop talking in third-person; it's creeping me out majorly." Alex told me.

"I was worried that this about about to be a fight!" Sierra said.

"It wasn't." Naiomi and I said at the same time.

"Creepy." Alex said.

"Totally." Sierra agreed.

Just then the bell rang, signaling that this lunch is over.

"Wait, lunch is over already?" Naiomi asked, looking up to see that nearby tables were already clearing out.

"Dang it, I wasn't done with my peach cobbler!" I shouted while getting up and nearly tripping over my backpack. After stumbling for a few seconds, I straightened myself out, grabbed my tray, and scarfed down the rest of the cobbler.

"Calm down Iz," Alex told me. "you can always eat it while walking to class."

"No," Sierra started, "she can't do that 'cause Mr. Littleton is giving people ISS for stuff like that."

"Why?" I asked.

"'Because the principal is tired of there being food everywhere on the school."

Everybody picks up their bags and we all started walking out of the cafeteria.

"See you two laters!" I shout out to Naiomi and Alex.

"Bye! See ya after school." Alex says.

"Class, you have the final exam today. You do, however, get to work with partners and use your notes and books from this semester." Mr. Mack told us once the fifth period bell rang.

"Aww, crap, I forgot about that." I told Sierra.

"Me, too." she replied.

"Sooo, we're working together I presume?"

"Yeah."

And then we get out our folders and textbooks as our classmate Jennifer passes out the test booklets. It's ten pages. Ninety questions. We have the entire class period. They are all multiple choice. Let the testing begin...

So, Sierra and I finished about twenty minutes early. Thank God. Unfortunately, Noah and Cody also finished early. So now they're bothering us. Well, more like we're bothering them, but it's only because Noah said something smart to me!

"Izzy, just shut up, please." he tells me.

"Saying 'shut up' and 'please' in the same sentence contradict each other, Noah."

"Well then, Izzy, can you please be quiet?"

"I'm deciding."

"Deciding?"

"Deciding."

"Izzy, stop being irrational and stupid."

"I'm not being 'irrational' nor 'stupid'."

"Noah, stop flirting with Izzy." his friend told him.

"Cody, you shut up. I'm not flirting with her." he replied.

"Dude, you two have been bothering each other for the entire period so far. If you're not flirting with her, then I don't know what your doing."

"I'm not flirting with her!" he shouts.

"And I'm not flirting with him!" I shout.

"Izzy shut up! We're not talking to you!"

"I still have a right to talk!"

"No you don't!"

"Young love." Sierra says.

"This is not love!" I shout.

"Yeah, it is. You two do flirt all the time."

"We're not flirting!" both me and Noah say at the same time.

"Yeah, you are." Cody tells us.

"This conversation is over." I tell them all, with a swish of my hand.

I'm not flirting with him, and that is final. He's too annoying to flirt with...

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