Serena's next day at school started with a conversation with Miss Mason, who was asking her how all her studies were going. "So, how's our author of the year doing?" Serena laughed nervously.
"I'm doing alright miss. I'm just really trying to focus on getting my grades for Maths & Science cause I've always found them difficult."
"Well I'm sure Mr. Evans and Mr. Mead will guide you in the right direction with them." David suddenly appeared behind Rose.
"Rose, we've got a problem with the English department."
"What is it?" Rose was worried as the compassionate headmistress she was. "We're down an English teacher, Mr. Budgen to be precise."
"What class is it?"
"Year 7s and they're causing quite the disturbance downstairs."
"Ok, I'll be there in a minute." Serena was rushing off. "Hang on a minute Serena!" Serena stopped and turned around reluctantly. "How would you like to have a go at teaching Mr. Budgen's Year 7s? "
"Me. Teaching?"
"Well you are in year 11, not to mention a prefect and you are set for all A*s in English. Oh and you'll be supervised of course." Serena thought about it for a second. "Ok, I'll do it. But only if I get to do it with someone else."
"Ok, that's fine. Who do you want to assist you?"
"Ash, if that's ok."
"Oh, our new kid. Good choice, it'll let us know how well he is settling in."
Serena smiled. "Ok, he should be in Pastoral Care class at the moment," said Serena. Rose, Serena and David made their way over to the class. Ash quickly turned his head, catching Serena's eyes. Rose knocked on the door twice, getting a nod to come in by Miss Possible. "Can I take Ash out for the lesson please?" The whole class made ohhh sounds, assuming that Ash was in trouble. "Shut up and grow up!" shouted Miss Possible. "Of course Miss Mason." Ash's heart sunk as he thought he had actually done something wrong too and quickly exited the classroom. "Don't look so petrified Ash," said Rose. "I just want to ask for a favour. Would you be willing to teach Mr Budgen's year 7's with Serena?"
"Oh. Sure, that's fine." Ash was relieved.
"Ok then. Well let's get downstairs then." They headed upstairs into the noisiest hallway in the school.
"Year 7!" shouted Miss Mason. "Mr. Budgen is not in, so you will be taught by Miss Tyler & Mr. Ketchum. Mr. Lawson will supervise." Serena and Ash were handed a lesson plan by David and then signalled by him to start the lesson. All the kids sat down in their reserved seats and immediately started sighing as David sat at the back of the classroom. "Right year 7, I'm Serena and this is Ash. We are in year 11 and we're prefects as you can tell by our red and yellow ties. So, you are continuing with your work on Shakespeare, correct?"
"Yes," murmured the whole class.
"Ok then. Ash could hand out these sheets please?"
"Certainly Miss Tyler." He said this in a silly voice and gave her a wink as the class laughed. Serena blushed. "Your task is to correctly fill in the explanations of the keywords and match them up with the right image. I'll give you 10 minutes to do that and then we'll put Romeo and Juliet on while you make notes on the main themes and ideas of the piece," said Ash. Everyone got on with their work while Mr. Lawson had an impressed smirk plastered across his face. "Ok, 10 minutes is up. Can we have some feedback please? What does number 1, the globe theatre match up to?" asked Ash. A student shot his hand up as Ash gave him the nod to answer. He gave the correct answer and got a pleased look from Ash. "I think he deserves a star for that, don't you think Miss Tyler?"
"Yes, of course." Serena rattled about in Mr. Budgen's draw to find a sheet of deserted stars. "Here you go." She stuck a red star on the boy's shirt. The class shot all of their hands up as Ash posed his next question. "I haven't even finished the question yet. You're very keen aren't you?" Everyone laughed. Rose quickly stopped by to check on the two teens and was proud to see them in action. Once the Q&A had finished, they watched the famous love tale. The class was watching it intently, taking every detail in with curiosity. The bell rung halfway through it to the surprise of the class. "Ok, that was the lesson guys. We hope to see you again sometime," said Ash. The kids felt sad and wanted to watch the rest of the play. A truant girl made her way over to Ash and Serena. "Your lessons are so much better than Mr. Budgen's, can you be our teachers instead?" Mr. Lawson laughed and answered for Ash and Serena. "Mr. Budgen's always going to be your teacher unfortunately. But you never know. If you're lucky enough, you may just have Miss Tyler and Mr. Ketchum again sometime." The girl smiled and then left the classroom. Ash and Serena realized they had their own lesson to go to and quickly headed to English.