I am sooo sorry about the slowness of this story. I am co-writing it with a friend outside of school so we hardly ever see each other. When we do I promise we will try to write another chapter. Disclaimer: I don't own any of Cherub or Twilight (damn it!)
2.
James sat in detention and watched the hand on the clock slowly tick by. Was it just his imagination, or was the clock going slower than usual? He stared down at his almost empty sheet of paper. Then he looked up at the clock. It hadn't moved at all.
Why was he the one who always got in trouble? It just wasn't fair. He felt Kerry's annoying voice in his head, "Life's not fair James. Do your homework and you'll be fine." He sighed. Why was Kerry always right?
He was meant to be writing a geography essay on Global Warming. It was meant to be two sides of A4 but so far he hadn't written anything apart from his name and the title.
He glanced up at the clock again. CRAP! He thought. He only had ten minutes left of detention – ten minutes to write two sides of A4.
A few days ago, his life had been almost perfect. He had been on a stunning date with Kerry, Mrs Brennan had offered to pay him to tutor some older students, and he was on top of almost all his homework.
But now, he had even more decorating duty, loads of homework, and a very very angry painting supervisor, who just happened to be one of the strictest staff on campus. At least he still had Kerry – if that was any consolation.
The bell rang and the teacher started to collect all the work. Damn, James thought. That was another angry teacher.
The detention supervisor slunk quickly between the desks, collecting papers, and soon arrived in front of James.
"James."
"Yeeeeeeeees?"
"Where is your essay?"
"Um………"
"Well, it seems like detention hasn't made a lasting impression, so I will see you next Friday again for another detention. You need to start having a better attitude to work, James. You'll be the one suffering in the end."
James slunk out of the classroom, even more dejected. Now he had another detention, and he hated the way everyone sounded like Kerry – 'Do your homework', 'You need to learn to work hard', 'It's your fault'…………Why was everyone so right, and he was always so wrong?
He slammed his tray down angrily on the table in the cafeteria. Everyone on the table looked up.
"Something wrong, Jamiekins?" asked Kyle.
"I've got ANOTHER detention," moaned James.
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah, poor baby," said Kerry sarcastically. "What did you do this time?"
"Nothing!" James replied.
"Huh? Then why did you get another detention?" Bruce asked.
"'Cos…'cos I was supposed to be doing something…..but I kind of…..didn't write anything…" James mumbled sheepishly.
A gang of Lauren's friends entered the cafeteria, with Lauren and Bethany in front. James groaned. Lauren's friends were still teasing him about the soap incident.
"Hey soapy!"
"What's it feel like to be clean at last, Jamiekins?"
"Hey…can anyone smell that lovely lavender smell?"
"Shut up Lauren!" he moaned.
Lauren rolled her eyes and laughed. "Will I ever shut up?" she asked nonchalantly.
"No." scowled James between gritted teeth.
He just tucking into his pasta when he felt the mood in the room change. General babble turned to awed murmurs as five stunningly beautiful teenagers walked into the room. Their movements were fluid and graceful. Their eyes flashed confidently. Best of all, three of them were girls!
The tall girl in front had longish, pale blond hair, (and a really nice body, thought James appreciatively) and was indisputably the most beautiful girl that James had ever seen……his dream girl, in fact.
The girl behind her was short, looked a bit like an elf or a pixie, and had short, black, messy hair, but was probably second in James' list of gorgeous girls.
The boys didn't do much for James, but Kerry's eyes were avidly boring into the one behind pixie-girl, who had bronze, tousled hair. One of the others was tall and muscled, with brown curly hair, and the other one was honey blond and seemed very calm.
James was oblivious to the chat and whispers around him. The blonde girl and her friends were making their way towards HIS table! He was blessed! He couldn't take his eyes off her stunning beauty.
"Hi, I'm Rosalie, this is Edward (She indicated the bronze-haired one), Jasper (the calm blonde one), Emmett (the muscly one), and Alice (the pixie-like one)." She smiled at James, who was hyperventilating. "We're new to Cherub. May we sit here?"
Unfortunately James was grinning like an idiot and his brain was scrambled by Rosalie's beautiful face opposite him.
"Uh……."
"Yeah, course you can!" Lauren butted in. "You'll have to forgive my brother. He's slightly mentally retarded."
"Oi!" groaned James, still staring at Rosalie until Kerry elbowed him in the ribs.
Kerry stood up and introduced everyone round the table. Most people were staring gobsmacked at the group, mostly at their opposite sex. Kerry was eyeballing Edward, Bruce was staring at Alice, Kyle couldn't take his eyes off Emmett, and Gabrielle seemed to like the look of Jasper. And James of course couldn't look away from his blonde-haired angel.
Sorry about the bad cliffhanger. It may be some time until it is resolved. YOu may be thinking that James' month isn't looking so bad after all but trust me worse is coming!
BYe :) from georgie n april
