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First day of school is never the best. My schedule is Math, English, Science, Shop, History, Culinary and Gym. The minute I saw my schedule, my eyes directed straight to my fourth and seventh period. How to I have Gym, but more importantly, how could I have Shop. This is going to be a long year, I can feel it.

Math has never been a problem to me. English was boring, I never paid it much attention. Science was a no brainer for me but Shop is a whole different subject, thank God it was after lunch.

The moment of truth, time for Shop. I made sure to take the long way to class hoping for a miracle or some kind of excuse to get out of this but I was out of luck.

I walked into class unaware that I was more than 10 minutes late. When I step in, all eyes were on me.

"And you are" a man said

"..uhmm Tara..Tara Knowles"

"Nice of you to join us today Ms Knowles, I'm Mr Clark, please take a seat in an available seat, we will find you a partner in just a minute.

I nodded and headed to the back, taking one of two of the remaining seats.

I got settled at my table. Mr. Clark began to talk again when he was rudely interrupted by another late comer.

"Mr. Teller, I see you finally took time out of your busy schedule to grace us with your presence."

"Well you know me teach, always on time." he said sarcastically

"Yes I see that, now please take a seat."

Oh no, I looked around as I saw him walking towards me, why oh why did the only seat have to be next to me. Jackson sat next to me and stared. I could feel his eyes burning into to side of my head. I ignored him and started our first assignment. I guess he could tell because after 20 minutes he got up and left. The teacher looked up and didn't even put up a fight.

The rest of the day was slow so I after school I decided to visit my mom.

I took the bus to the grave yard.

"Hey mom, I started school today, I have pretty decent classes except Shop and Gym. Dad's the same I guess, I don't know anymore, I know he's still sad but I don't know how much more of this I can take" I dropped my head into my hands.

"Oh shit!" I yelled as I looked at my watch. I ran home and bolted through the door.

"Where were you?" He slurred

"Sorry I lost track of time"

"Bullshit!" he grabbed onto my shoulder pulling me down as he dropped to the floor.

"Dad, your hurting me!" after a minute or so of struggling, he was finally out, I dragged him onto the couch an through a blanket over him.

I was too tired to fix anything to eat so I did my homework and went to bed.

The next day in English, I wasn't expecting to see Jax. He sat in the back of class, big surprise, and mostly kept his head down. I saw him again in shop this time we were both on time.

"Uh!" I was frustrated

He laughed at my frustration "here let me help" as he got to work "I'm Jax by the way"

As if I didn't know, everyone knew who he was.

"Tara" I replied

"Yea I saw you at the grave yard the other day."

"Yea, at your dads funeral...sorry by the way."

"Wasn't the time I talking about darling" he said with a smirk on his face. "Yesterday?"

"Oh yea, wasnt aware anyone saw me."

"Your mom right?"

"Yea, how'd you know"

He looked up at me smiled and said "Were done"

"Excuse me?" I was shocked, what did he mean, 'were done' did he not want to be partners with me.

I was confused and he started to notice.

"The stand." he answered

I looked down and was astonished "Jax, that's amazing! How did you do that?"

He laughed "I guess you can say I'm good with my hands"

"Yea I heard" Oh My God did I really just say that out loud.

The bell rang, yes! Saved by the bell.

We had to dress out in Gym today.

"Hey! Watch it!" I heard someone say as they were coming into the locker.

"Hey! This locker free?" she said as she pointed to the locker next to me.

"Uh, yea sure knock yourself out" I replied

She started to undress. "The names Cherry"

"Tara" damn was I popular today

"Yea I seen you talking to Jax earlier"

"Oh yea?"

"Yea, a little friendly warning, stay away, he's bad news"

"And your telling me this why" I asked

"You seem like a sweet girl, I know Jax and I would hate to see a guy like him hurt girl like you"

I stood up "look I just met you and honestly whoever I talked to is my business, plus we were just working on our shop assignment that's it. Thanks for the advice but no thanks" I smiled and walked away

"Suite your self" she said as I was leaving