Chapter 2

It was already third period and Medeia had spent both her first and second period pondering over a certain someone. She was sitting next to this someone, but he failed to notice her throughout the period except when giving his name. She was irritated that this someone hadn't paid the slightest attention to her. Medeia liked having attention. In fact, she reveled in it. Her thoughts returned to her first and second period.

She had tried to talk to Alex by asking innocent questions and using her status as the new kid to provide a reason for asking them. She was frustrated to see that he only answered in short responses or didn't answer at all. He wouldn't even look at her when he did answer and when he didn't he looked out the window oblivious to his surroundings and a hopeless girl trying to catch his attention. She even tried to act flirtatious, hoping to catch his attention, but her actions bore no fruit. He still kept on ignoring her.

When first period ended she left feeling dejected. She noticed that Alex Rider was the first person to leave the room. He had stood up the second the bell rang. He left the room swiftly and the rest followed suit. She also noticed that the rest of the student's gave him a wide berth. They only started to stand up and leave once Alex was out the door. It was either an act of conceiving him as superior or just ignoring him by leaving him alone. Interesting. Medeia had thought.

The moment she had left the classroom she was surrounded by her classmates. Everybody wanted to know all about her. Where was she from? What city? What job did her dad have? What was her last school like? Did she like Brookland High? Did she have a boyfriend? Medeia tried to answer to her best ability, nut she couldn't answer all the questions being asked.

Medeia like the attention she was given. At least the rest of her fellow classmates seemed to take an interest in her. Not like a certain had displayed earlier.

The students were only given ten minutes to change from class to class. Soon the group thinned out and the only people left were three girls who helped Medeia settle in throughout the day.

One of them had second period with her which was algebra. Her name was Kimberly Loy. She was the talkative of the three and while she walked Medeia to the she talked about the school, her clothes, and her friends. Medeia was surprised of how much air her kung could hold for her to talk for hours on end.

Medeia wasn't paying attention to her. She only heard snippets of her one-sided conversation. Although Kimberly didn't mind. Medeia was only partially paying attention when she heard her mention Alex. Medeia had to admit that she was curious about the boy who she had tried to talk to in the morning.

" I saw you talking to Alex Rider in class. Did he talk to you? No, I guess he wouldn't," answereing her own question. " He wouldn't be as we would describe "social". He doesn't talk to anyone since his friend Tom left. Some have tried to talk with him since he comes back from his illnesses, but he wouldn't answer back. His a weird kid," she started to change yet to another topic, but Medeia refused to let this chance go by without finding out some piece about Alex Rider.

"Oh yeah. I tried to talk to him, but he only offered the minimal answer possible. Sometimes he wouldn't even answer me!" Medeia exclaimed.

" I know right. He's so... withdrawn. No one knows what he's thinking and everyone avoids him. Even the teachers don't understand him. Some have tried to help him though. He ignored them though. After all, his always having sick absences that last months and every time he comes back he seems... strange," she shrugged.

Before Medeia could ask any more questions about Alex Rider Kimberly stopped walking. Medeia almost bumped into her because of her sudden stop.

" We're here!" Kimberly exclaimed. Showing a closed light blue door that had the number 238 on it.

Before she opened the door she looked at Medeia. " Be careful of . He's stickler for details and he's hard on new students," she said and then we entered the room.

Second period was fine. Although, Kimberly wasn't joking when she said that Mr. Pyle was a "stickler for details". He screamed at her more than once for her "inability" to follow the steps for the equation. Even if she did get the right answer every time.

Now it was third period and she sat at her desk thinking about her morning. After third period was lunch and she couldn't wait to get out of the class. Third period was history and she didn't really care about history. The teacher wasn't good at her job either.

The teacher was named Ms. Geiser. She looked as if she lived through most of the history that she was teaching. Most of the students in the class were the same as Medeia. All they wanted to do was get out of there already and go to lunch with their friends.

The second the bell rang the whole class jumped to their feet and ran to the door to escape another minute in the presence of Ms. Geiser and the dead king and queens of the past.

When Medeia started towards the cafeteria she didn't notice who was with her. Of course there were those who were curious about her such as this morning was and once again she was surrounded by people. She wanted t o be alone for a moment so she went outside onto the courtyard. She sat down in the shade of a tree at the back of the buildin. Medeia was eating her sandwich and was in her own thought when she noticed another person next to her lying on their back and covering their eyes with their arm.

It seemed that the person was asleep. She looked a closer look and gasped.

It was Alex Rider.