"Well, here we are." Scarlet gave a wry smile as I opened the door. I nodded as I
walked in behind her.
The teacher was turned to the board quickly writing notes but the class loss all
attention as we entered. Half of them turned back around when the teacher had
begun again.
"Now class, a transitive noun contains and describes the object in the sentence.
When you have an intransitive …. Why who do we have here?" she asked as she
noticed us standing at the door. Scarlet spoke up first.
"We're new and were assigned to this class." The teacher looked at us as well as
the rest of the class.
"Your names?"
Scarlet spoke up once again "Scarlet Shar." She looked at me next.
"Jack Anderson." The teacher smiled and set down the chalk and stretched out her
hand.
"Nice to meet you. I'm Mrs. Johnson, your English and homeroom teacher." We
both shook her hands and flashed a smile that both said we wanted nothing more
than to be here, even if it was a lie.
Mrs. Johnson then turned to the class. She greeted us to them and in return we got
a few waves, more flashed a smile, and the rest waved.
"Okay now that we're all acquainted with each other you two can take any open
seats and we can return to the lesson before break. We nodded and searched the
classroom for seats. Scarlet spotted 2 seats in the back in between a blonde girl and
a dark-curly haired guy. Scarlet walked down the aisle towards the seats and I
wasn't far behind. One guy was giving her a flirtatious look. I looked right at him
with a look that said 'If you even try, I can have you at the nearest hospital in 10
seconds flat.' He quickly looked away and I smirked.
When we got to our seats we set our bags down and got comfortable. Scarlet sat
next the blonde girl and I sat next to the guy on my left. I looked at Scarlet and she
smiled at me, and I returned it.
"How do you like it so far?" she mouthed to me so the teacher would hear or see. I
shrugged my shoulders as a response.
I turned to my left and caught eye with the dark-haired boy. He held out his hand
and leaned over.
"Hey. Welcome to the school, my name's Jerry Martinez." I shook his hand
"Jack, and thanks." I turned face front just in time to hear Mrs. Johnson announce
that it was time for our break. I turned back to Jerry.
"What's break?"
"It's just a free period for us kids to relax then we continue through the rest of the
day." I nodded my head.
"Oh cool." The bell rung and we got up and picked up our bags. I waited for
Scarlet as Jerry walked out, then he turned around and yelled over the noise of the
hallway.
"Hey! You guys want to meet the rest of my crew?" Scarlet looked at me and
shrugged. I turned back to Jerry and cupped my hands around my mouth so I
wouldn't have to yell a loud as he did and he would still be able to hear me.
"Yeah sure. Wait up!" Scarlet and I caught up with Jerry and he smiled as Scarlet
held out a hand.
"Hi. I'm Scarlet." They shook hands then Jerry spoke up. "Jerry. Nice to meet you.
Come on, let's go."
Jerry dragged us both down a long hallway and through a corridor that led to the
lunchroom where a few kids were seated and some were at the vending machine.
Scarlet and I followed slowly behind as Jerry paced forward toward a group of 3
kids. The only one I recognized was the blonde girl, the rest I never seen. When we
finally joined the group Jerry greeted us to everyone.
"Guys these are the new kids Jack and Scarlet." He then turned to us as he pointed
to the others.
"Jack, Scarlet this is Milton. That's Eddie, and last is Kimberly." We went down
the row as we shook hands and smiled. As I shook Kimberly's hand she said.
"But you can call me Kim."