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Math class came and went very quickly. I sat in the back like I always do, to find out that the only person I know in this class is Hanna Marin.
She slips into the desk next to me. "Hey."
I look at her and smile. "No Mona?"
She laughs. "Mona may be popular but you know as much as I do that she is too smart to let herself be in any class that isn't average for whatever grade she's in." I nod in agreement. "You okay?" I look at her and raise an eyebrow. "Your injuries."
"Oh. Yea. I'm fine,"
"What happened."
"Fell off my skateboard." I hesitate. "Maybe I should write it across my forehead so no one else has to ask."
She starts laughing. "That could work."
Mr. Parks sat in his chair for awhile. Watching us as we settled in. Then he walked around and past out packets of paper. "This is what we will be learning throughout the year and what I want you to bring for the class." I look at it and there was a list of supplies at the bottom of the last page. That was basically it as he let us do whatever we wanted for the rest of the class.
When it was over we walked out. "What do you have next?"
"History." I say. "You?"
"Free period."
"Already?"
She laughs. "Yea. It's pretty perfect if you think about it. Once we start having full days I'll only have two classes in between brakes." I watch her "For example. I had English and Math class. Now I'm going to have a free period. Then I'll have Chemistry and Spanish after. Lunch is basically a free period as well." I nod. "Two more classes after that, then schools out."
"Well. Aren't you lucky." She laughs. "Who do you have Chem with? I have it fourth period too."
She looks at her schedule. "Mr. Brooks."
"Me too!" She laughs. "He's also my basketball coach. So let's see how this works."
"Well that's a bummer."
I shrug. "Won't know till I get there."
History is right around the corner from my Math class. Hanna walks with me and then heads off towards the court yard to hang out. Free times are always spent there or in the cafeteria. You get to choose.
I go inside and see Aria sitting in the seat next to the windows, but more towards the middle of the row rather than the back. She sees me and waves me over with a smile.
"Look at that. Two classes together." I say, sitting in the seat behind her.
She laughs. "Seems like a record."
"Dude. Just being in the same country as each other after three years is a record."
She starts laughing and nods. "That's true."
Mrs. Gibson is our teacher for History and I can tell you right now that it is going to be a long year. She's an older teacher and I swear we each repeated ourselves a good four times before she heard us. On top of that her memory is completely shot. She couldn't even remember what she said like a minute after she said it. Also, she walks as slow as a freakin turtle. I'm not sure how they haven't made her retire yet but all I know is, we've been in class for about ten minutes and I'm ready to shoot my brains out.
She heads over to the chalkboard as slow as can be and starts to write something. My mouth hangs open as I see her hand shake and scribbles down a load of nonsense.
"Oh...my...God." I say it so slow and low that the only people who heard me was Aria and my friend Blake.
He was sitting next to Aria. So when he looks back at me he gives me this serious look, but was trying to hold in his laugh. Aria on the other hand couldn't. In an attempt to muffle hers it turned into a snort.
People are starting to turn around now. I'm trying not to look guilty but out of impulse I put my head down and dug my face into my arms to keep myself from cracking up. Blake and Aria had to turn their heads towards the window, covering the side of their faces with their hands to keep anyone from seeing them laugh.
I was glade that Aria and Blake were covering me from view, cause I was having a hard time keeping a straight face as we heard. "What's going on?" I sat up straight and everyone looked at Mrs. Gibson, but no one answered.
As she scanned the class you could see Blake's face was still bright red from laughing. Aria went into innocent mode so fast that you'd never know she was part of it. I on the other hand was having such a hard time keeping myself from laughing I started to cough.
"Do you need a drink?" I coughed some more, nodding. "Go on. Before you pass out." I got up and looked at both of them. They just started shaking their heads and smiled as I left the room.
It was hard but I managed to keep myself from cracking up till I got out of view of the room. Which by the time I got to the water fountain I realized that was stupid. Considering the fact that Mrs. Gibson could barely hear when we were right in front of her, she would most definetly not hear me from the hallway.
I couldn't believe I almost got myself into trouble on the first day of school. If it had been any other teacher I probably would have been yelled at. I didn't even mean to make it as funny as it turned out to be. Aria being Aria can never keep herself from laughing. I smile at the thought. Man have I missed her.
"Hey dweeb." I stand straight from taking a drink and look to the side.
"Really? Gonna start with me already?" Amber Stacy. She's the cousin of Riley and I'll tell you, she's somehow a more pain in my ass than Riley could be.
Since we were kids she's been a troublemaker. She's gotten me into some deep shit a few times. I saw her set the garbage in the bathroom on fire just before I moved. She blamed it on me of course. I almost got expelled for it cause she has an uncle who's a teacher there and he believes everything she says. She's a suck up and had him wrapped around her thumb.
She's practically a bully. That's all she does. I mean she went through the same thing herself. Now she just picks on others cause it makes her feel better. Kinda understandable I guess. But then she gets people in trouble for things they do because of her or for things she did but blames on them. Which is so messed up.
She started once with Spencer last year and then gave me a black eye for opening my mouth. Was hard to explain to mom what happened without her trying to fix the problem for me. I didn't want anyone thinking I was a baby for tattling. You know how it can be in school.
I honestly couldn't tell you who's worse though. Riley, for being the popular girl who brings people down because you're under her labeled status. Or Amber, for being the school bully just because she got picked on. I mean, you would probably say right off the bat Riley. Because being popular is no reason to be mean to people. I agree, but at least she doesn't go around beating you up.
She smiles. "Scared?"
I laugh. "Have I ever been?"
She stares at me. "I hear that your Goth friend is back."
My eyes narrow in on her. "She's not Goth. She's artistic. So leave her alone and stop spreading rumors."
She laughs. "Artistic? Is that what they call it?"
"Will you stop being a prick?" She gives me a confused look. This is what I mean about words I picked up from Jersey. No one understands what I'm saying.
She quickly shakes it off and says. "Will you speak English? I don't understand loser talk."
"How about this." She watches me. "Fuck off. Is that plain enough for someone with a small sized brain?" My heart skipped a beat as I said it. That was not something I should have said. She could break my face if she wanted to.
She gets closer. I was ready for the hit. But all she says is. "You still owe me a fight."
I kinda did something to piss her off last year. And now she wants to kick my ass. I embarrassed the shit out her twin brother Tommy when I found out that he had a crush on one of the girls on the varsity basketball team. She was a Senior, so it was gonna be hard for a Sophomore to get her to go out with them. Naturally he's just as much of an ass as Amber is and I was sick of him picking on poor Lucas. I mean, he's a bit dorky but he's a cool kid. I've known him for a good amount of time for it to piss me off.
I told Tommy a tad lie of her maybe possibly liking him back and he tried to take it to the next level. It was the funniest thing to watch. He went up to her in the middle of lunch and tried to have a conversation. They were on talking terms cause he's on the football team. But she never liked his attitude or how he treats people. She was one of the decent cool kids who will be nice to everyone.
So anyway. He's sitting with her at the table in front of me with her friends and it went from normal to awkward in no time. A girl walked over to their table and sat next to her. They both smiled at each other, she introduced her to him and then she kissed her full on the mouth.
When I saw this I had spit out my soda right across the table. Just missing my friend Luna (triplet of brothers Blake and Kyle). Em started cracking up from my reaction and I couldn't help but laugh at what I just saw. Did I know she was gay? No. We weren't that close for me to know this info but I had no regrets as I saw his face. It was priceless. He recovered his shock and kept as much of a straight face as possible before he got up and left.
Amber cornered me on the way home from school that day. But luckily Em was with me so she didn't do much. All she did was yell and said she wanted to fight me. I never said I would but she won't let it go now.
I watched her for a bit and shook my head. "Not sure if you noticed, but I'm out of commission." Gesturing to my broken wrist. "And if I wasn't. Not a chance."
"Tough." She watches me for a second, her fists were clenched. "You hurt him. You know that?"
I kept my eyes on her. She's taller and bigger so I would be down in no time. "Oh boohoo. Poor Tommy." She gives me a mean look. "I'm sure he didn't care when he was giving others black eyes just for looking at him the wrong way."
"That's not my problem."
"Well...neither is this."
"If you wanna keep your legs you will."
"Amber. Do me a favor and go fuck yourself." I then walk away and head back to History.
