Chapter 11
Little Secret

And me? I would just laugh at it all.

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I hear a bell ringing loudly, waking me up.

Today it's already Monday and I can't believe the real school is starting today. And even knowing that 5 days have already passed, it feels like it was only yesterday that Caleb and I arrived at Five Faction Boarding School.

These past three days, Christina and I did nothing but hanging around the school with our new friends (and sometimes my brother, as well).

I sit in my bed and yawn loudly. Looking around I see Christina fully dressed, doing her make-up. I shake my head and go take a shower.

When I come back, I have my clothes laying on my bed.

"Christina?" I ask.

She makes a little noise for me to know that she is listening to me.

"Did you pick out my outfit for me?"

"Yes, I did. I hope you don't mind. First impressions are the most important."

"We've already made our first impressions... Like 4 days ago."

"Not to our teachers! Now, hurry up." She claps her hands twice. "I want to eat my breakfast without being in a rush."

I grab my boots, put them on and make a high ponytail.

Christina is leaned against the door with her arms crossed, waiting for me.

"Finally..." She mutters when we are out of the dorm.

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"Good morning!" Uriah greets us both with a smile. "Ready to start classes?"

"I couldn't be more excited..." I say sarcastically, sitting on the long bench next to the table.

"You should be excited, we have first period together." He winks.

"That was supposed to make me feel better?"

"Yes. Did it work?"

"It did." I chuckle.

Christina sits right besides me, and starts devouring her toast.

"Someone is nervous..." Marlene says.

"I'm not nervous, I'm just... I don't know." Christina says, taking another bite of her toast. "It's a new school, with new people, new teachers..."

"You'll be fine, unless, Mrs. Matthews is your teacher." She giggles.

"Mrs. Matthews?" Zeke asks. "Is she married?"

"She got married this summer!"

"Poor guy..."

"Is she that bad?" I ask.

"She is," Zeke answers. "she is such a stuck up little bi-"

"Calm down, Zeh." Shauna says, giving him a peck. "You'll all have a good year if you have Mrs. Reyes. She was my favourite teacher the past year." She says to me and Christina.

"Enough with the teachers talk." Says Christina. "I'm getting a little more nervous at each minute!"

Then, a bell rang. It was not the usual food bell, it was different. It was... A school bell.

We finished eating our breakfast and made our ways to our first period. Christina kept holding my arm, like she would fall if I let go of her. Uriah and Lynn lead the way, and they were making a bet about our teachers. Lynn bet we'd have Mrs. Matthews and she'd assign us homework, while Uriah bet she would have Mrs. Reyes has her teacher. If Uriah loses, he'll have to do Lynn's homework for the week. If he won, Lynn would have to wear a red long wig for the whole day. When we arrived at the door of our classes, they shook hands and Lynn walked to the end of the hall. Christina squeezed my arm before letting go of it, and turning right for her class.

"Now, it'll be just the two of us." Uriah said to me while opening the classroom door. "And Peter..."

My eyes shot open as I saw Peter sitting in the last row of the classroom with his arms crossed.

"And Peter..." I murmured.

Uriah took a seat in the table next to the door, and I sat right next to him.

I looked around and I saw a couple of girls in the front row dressed in bright yellow and orange. In front of us, there was a girl with a stripped black and white dress. In front of Peter, there was a table with two boys. One with bright blue pants and the other with grey sweatpants. Next to Peter it was a red-head boy and a girl with short hair and an ugly smile.

"I don't know if you noticed, but you are in a classroom. Not a jungle." Said an authoritarian voice in the front of the room. A blond women with a braided top-knot in the top of her head was the owner of that voice. She was wearing a pair of black pants and blue blouse. She also had on a pair of glasses.

We were all staring at her quiet and she was amused by it.

"I am Mrs. Matthews. Jeanine Matthews. And I'll be you chemistry and biology teacher. I don't like jokes. So, if you are here to joke around, the door is open, as you can see, and you can leave right now." she began pacing, from one side of the room, to the other. "You know the rules: no chewing gum, nor eating any kinds of food. NO WHISPERING," she yells, looking at two girls who were talking. "no cellphones. You know the basic, I believe. Without furder ado, I'd like to know each one of your names. So, starting in this corner of the room," she stops pacing right next to a table of boys. "you can introduce yourselves briefly."

A boy with blue and white shirt gets up from his chair. "Hello, my name is Liam. I've been a student here, ..."

As that boy, Liam, introduced himself, I look at Uriah in disbelief. He has the same expression I have on my face.

This is going to be a long year.

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When the bell finally rings, everyone gets up excited, ready to leave this hell class.

"And, before I forget," Mrs. Matthews says with a normal tone of voice. Not yelling nor screaming. "read the first chapter of your book for the next class. As your homework."

Almost everyone who heard her sighed at that sentence.

When I am about to get out of the room, Uriah grabs my arm, pulling me back.

"Can I ask you a favor?" he asks, with a glint in his eyes.

"Sure." I say.

"Lynn doesn't really need to know about our homework..."

I chuckle at his words. "What homework?" I ask playfully.

"Exactly! You are good at this. It'll be our little secret." he winks.

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