Chapter 5
Sorry about the hold up. Didn't have much time to write these past few months, but here's the next chapter. Hope you enjoy it :)
Alex didn't know how to respond. Her question kept repeating in his mind. Would you be my partner? Would you be my partner? Would you be my partner? Her question kept on ringing in his ears. She wanted to be partners... with him!
Alex was more than surprised. He was baffled by her question. Sure.. they had met a couple of times that day, but he still didn't know why she would pick him for her partner. He saw the group of people talking to her when he entered the room. She could have picked any of the other students in the whole class, but she decided that he be on him.
Even though Alex was surprise, he was also elated that she picked him as a partner. For some reason he found her interesting. She was different from the others in her class. He didn't know much about her. She was a mystery to him and as well a mystery should be solved. He decided to accept her offer as being partners.
"I would be happy to be your partner," Alex answered with a small smile on his face.
Medeia didn't know what possessed her to ask Alex Rider. Him of all people. She could have picked anyone else, but she asked him. When she saw his head raise to see her, she noted that he was a little bit startled. When she asked him to be her partner though, his eyes were filled with confusion and astonishment.
She saw how the other students treated him. They avoided him like the plague and she hadn't seen anyone but herself to approach him. Since she had asked him to be her partner a couple of minutes had passed without Alex responding her. She was just about to go back to her seat when she heard him answer.
He had accepted her as his partner. She was taken back. She expected him to deny her offer and just brush her off. Medeia felt a small smile on her lips and noticed that Alex held one as well. They stood there for a while staring at each until the teacher screamed that it was time for everyone to sit down in their seats beside their partners. Ms. Brown gave the orders to the students while clapping her hands together with a huge grin on her face.
Alex was still sitting in his seat so Medeia gathered her backpack and her school supplies from her previous desk and sat down to the empty desk next to Alex. She gave Alex another small smile which was returned and offered her attention to the teacher in front of the class.
Ms. Brown waited for her class to finish settling themselves in their new seats. She noticed that Alex Rider had a partner already. To say that she wasn't surprise would be a lie. She was plenty surprise of this new situation. Since Alex returned. he was always the last one in class to be assigned a partner. It was usually another student who didn't have time to find partner that was assigned to Alex.
The students would be reluctant to have Alex as a partner. Sometimes Ms. Brown had to force the student to be Alex's partner. All the while, the student would be grumbling over his partner and cursing his luck.
For once someone had taken the initiative and asked Alex to work with them on a project. Ms. Brown glanced down to see who had chosen Alex as their partner. She was surprised to see that it was the new girl named Medeia. She didn't have a lot of information on her and couldn't decide about her personality or how she was as a person for it was her first day at school. well at least she doesn't hate him or judge him like the whole student body those.
Ms. Brown enjoyed her job as a teacher. She loved to interact with her students and help them with whatever and whenever they're in trouble. The school didn't have a counselor. Ms. Brown was the closest person the students had in school to confide in. Student's would often search for her to find advice, but there was one who she thought needed the most advice that never came to her.
Alex Rider.
He was an anonymity to her as to he was to others. Ms. Brown knew about his situation. She only knew very few details though. She knew he had no guardian at home and recently he had more days being absent in school than being in it. When Alex returned, the teachers were worried about how he was going to catch up to the other students. Their worries were for naught.
They were bewildered as to how Alex had easily drew near at same level as the other students of his class. He would actually surpass them if he tried. Alex showed that he knew the school material perfectly, but most of his tests were barely above a C. He was barely passing at it was. There were rare moments in which he would show his true level of intelligence, but those were very very few. Many teachers have confronted him or as they wished to say it, they were only giving him a talk. It was more of a scolding and with the attitude Alex was giving them didn't help matters.
It was fine when the teachers started to talk to him. He stayed silent staring at them while they talked, but once he opened his mouth it went downhill from there. Alex would retort to what the teachers were saying and to their shock, he provided logical reasoning to them. The majority couldn't surface an argument to his reasoning and this frustrated them to no end.
All the while, his demeanor was lax as if he didn't care if he was there or not and in truth he didn't. This made many teachers go against Alex during class by trying to humiliate him. It never worked because Alex would always turn the tables against them . Ms. Brown was different in her approach to Alex. She thought that if she showed her support to him them he would slowly open up to her. Needless to say, she was an optimist.
Ms. Brown tried to speak with Alex, but was met with the same attitude as the previous instructors. She had one essential quality to her the other didn't. She had patience. Patience could only go so far though. Ms. Brown could have classified Alex as stubborn as a mule, but she thought it was better to say that Alex was as unbreakable as a diamond. She just couldn't understand his behavior. Eventually she left him alone, but she was far from trying to crack him open. She was patient and fond of Alex. On Alex's part, he thought her to be one of the most pleasant adults to be around with and have decent conversation with.
Ms. Brown was glad to see Alex giving a smile to his partner. It was a small one, but when was the last time she saw him smile. Right, never, she thought bitterly. Once she saw her classroom was ready for her instructions she proceeded to inform them of their upcoming project.
"Ok then. As I obviously see you filled to the brim with excitement to receive this new project of yours, I will tell you what it is," Ms. Brown told them. There were a few groans, but most of the students did have an energetic spark in their eyes. It was well known that Ms. Brown's projects were amusing to carry out than the usually boredom following the task.
"Now, now," she continued. " The project will be fairly simple. You are to create a story, but it won't be a normal story with your typing only a few pages and be done with it. Nope. You are to actually create it. It could be in a form of a play with a plot to it and an extensive paper carrying a more detailed plot in it. Or you could write the story and use a power point to show the different scenes it contains, but I want you to be more creative than that. As they say, two heads are better than one. Which I whole heartedly agree."
" The story will be fiction, but at the same it has to be a little bit realistic. It could be as realistic as a human being surrounded by mystical creatures or having a princess being trapped in a castle. As long as it holds truth to it. The characters though have to be of yourselves and how you truly see yourself. So, you may have to do a little bit of soul searching there. It would be only written on a piece of paper. You have to bring part of your story to reality. Turn your story into reality by acquiring an object of your story into the real world," Ms. Brown explained to her students.
Many students were already discussing the assignment by the end of her explanation. They were excited as to how they were to show their story and how to portray their own characters. Medeia was thinking of the project as well. Hmm.. Our own characters huh. It has to show the real us. She turned her head to where Alex sat beside her. I guess I could create a real character then.
Alex was thinking the same as her. A character that reflects yourself. Shows who you really are. Images of his previous missions flashed through his head. It's suppose to be a realistic fiction story. He glanced over to where Medeia was and noticed that he was looking at him too. He smile at her. I will create my real self character then.
"Okay then, everyone! I know you all have different ideas for your project so, I'll let you start on them and not hold anymore of your time. You have the rest of the period to start," exclaimed Ms. Brown.
Pairs started moving and talking over each other about their project. Medeia pushed her desk towards Alex's so, their desks could be connected. Alex had a surprised look on his face, but then it changed to understanding. Medeia already had several pieces of paper out and Alex followed her example. Once they had prepared the material they would need they faced each other to discuss the project.
"What do you think we should start with?" asked Medeia facing Alex.
"I think we should start with creating our own characters that have our real self," answered Alex.
"Hmm.. our characters would be hard to create because they have to represent us and they are going to be the main characters in the story," Medeia explained pensively " We should list their traits, manners, personality, appearance, background... Wow. There so many things that we need to do that are only for our characters."
" We should start. There's only one hour for the period to end," stated Alex. Medeia agreed and they started to write on their papers.
Medeia began to write the traits of her character. After ten minutes of creating her list it had:
Traits for My Character:
Clever/ Sly/Cunning
Calculating
Master of Martial Arts
Disciplined
Cold/ Unfeeling when necessary
Social
Stealthy
Versatility
Medeia reviewed over her list and was glad to see that her character will have the same traits that she had herself. She glanced at the clock and saw that barely ten minutes had passed and that the class still had fifty minutes to work on their project. She observed the class and became aware that while the other students were being noisy and rowdy she and Alex were working quietly. It was like they were in teir own little bubble cut off of from the rest of the classroom.
She turned her head slightly to have a quick glimpse at Alex. He was still writing on his own piece of paper, stopping occasionally to think about something and then writing it down. His paper was halfway down the page. He had at least ten traits written down and Medeia had eight Two more to go, she thought and sighed.
It took her longer to come up with other traits to put down. In the end, it took her ten more minutes to write three more traits for her character:
Charm
Excellent Liar
Professional with a diversity of weapons
Once she had finished she reviewed her list again nodded to herself because all of the traits she had written down were true. She was about to tell Alex that she was done with her traits, but he beat her to it.
" I'm done with my character traits," Alex stated while looking at his paper.
"Me too. We should compare our characters to see how we should write the story," Medeia told him. He nodded and handed over his paper to her. She gave him her paper as well. Medeia was startled at his list:
Character Traits:
Cunning
Photographic Memory
Creativity
Stealth
Knows many languages
Excellent in Martial Arts
Suspicious
Introvert
Helpful
Dark Sense of Humor
Both of them had different thoughts while reading the others list. Alex was thinking that Medeia didn't really show those kind of traits while Medeia was thinking that she didn't really know Alex if these were his traits. But both of them had an idea of what their character should be at least.
" Your an assassin," stated Alex with no warning or whatever. He just stated as to what his idea was. He looked over to her and saw her stiffened. " I mean your character. It sounds like it should be an assassin with the certain traits you put down," he clarified after seeing her reaction. Medeia gave a little sigh to his clarification.
" And you're a spy," Medeia asserted from his list. She notice that he stiffened as well, but then relaxed. Is there something else there or am I just making it a bigger deal than necessary. She was always an observant one. Alex noticed that she was thinking about his reaction to her idea. He also had his own thought about her reaction as well.
They stared at each other for a few minutes and then went back to their characters. The occupation for their characters already decided. Their characters were closer to the real self than their partner predicted.
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