Sia had no idea of how much she slept or how many hours of school time had passed by when someone roughly pushed her desk. Aroused from sleep; irritation seeped into her bones as her eyelids fluttered open glaring at the person who had shaken her table. The boy who was seated in front of her withdrew his hand immediately terrified of Sia’s glare.
She sat up and realized that half of the class was boring holes into her head and another much older man with glasses managed to bore a hole through his glasses.
“It’s your first day and you are already sleeping in my class” he said through his nose and Sia sat up fully meeting the older man’s eyes.
“What is it that you were teaching or talking about?” Sia asked, her question instantly producing green lines on the teacher’s face.
“Insolence!” he yelled banging the table. Sia looked around the class a small chuckle on her lips. Even though virtually everyone in the class was now staring at her, she was still able to depict the fact that none of them were actually listening to the teacher. She turned back to him opening her mouth as she spoke.
“I don’t think the ones awake were listening to you either” Sia muttered and the teacher glared at her angrily clutching his fists together in annoyance.
He hated this class and even further hated Sia who ruin his chances!
Getting assigned to this class had been hell for him; they neither deemed worthy enough to teach them or respect him. His classes consisted of the students doing whatever they wanted and when they were in a good mood playing pranks on him. Seeing a new student, he had thought he could use his status as a teacher to oppress her and force her to listen to him, at least of someone started, the others would follow suit with time but who knew that she was even worst that all of them combined. His chances of getting back his face with this class was already lost. He glared hatefully at Sia one more time before grabbing his book and walking out of the class. The class had seemed to be on his side immediately erupted into laughter. Sia yawned again desperate to go back to her beauty sleep when someone’s words froze her head in mid-air.
“They said you were trouble but getting into a fight with Mr Brendon says a whole lot”
Sia turned to the person who had spoken and realized that it was the girl who the class teacher had asked to show her around.
“No more sleeping time, get up” Samantha muttered and Sia stared at her like she barely understood what she was saying. Right from when she was little; Sia had always had serious problems making friends. It took a long time to find out that she had severe social anxiety and hers was tad a bit difference because it appeared whenever people were close to her.
“I’m going to show you around the school” Samantha reminded her again choosing to pull her up when Sia remained on her seat unmoving.
“Let’s go” she said as she headed for the door.
Sia knew she could seat down back on her chair and choose to resume sleeping but for some weird reason, she slipped her hands into her pockets and chose to follow Samantha earning curious looks from her classmates.
“I heard you beat some of your r=old school mates at the gate this morning” Samantha said and Sia turned to her with a slight frown.
“Are you always talking?” she asked and Samantha burst into laughter.
“Around the people I like, yes” she replied watching as Sia shot her a short look.
“People you like?” Sia asked as they walked down the rows of classrooms, most of the students peeking their heads at the duo.
“Exactly” Samantha replied.
“You just met me” Sia pointed out while they descended the stairs.
“I know right but I think we are both in a gravitational filed or rather magnetic fields and somehow, there are a lot of forces drawing me to you” Samantha replied and Sia couldn’t help the short laugh that escaped her lips.
“Oh my god!” Samantha suddenly exclaimed and Sia froze in her steps turning to her ins surprise and confusion.
“What’s going on?” she asked.
“That was sexy. Your laugh. It was hell ass sexy” Samantha replied while Sia stared at her unable to find words to reply her. No one except her mom, no one ever before had complimented her, no one had called her beautiful or pretty or anything at all but here was a stranger calling her laugh sexy. She was at loss on what to do.
“I’m supposed to say thank you?” Sia asked as they resumed walking.
“Doesn’t exactly matter. Stop acting like you don’t receive compliments that often” Samantha said grinning.
“Well I don’t” Sia replied closing her eyes for a second.
“Huh?”
“I don’t receive compliments. Only my Mom calls me beautiful and every other cheesy name you can think of”
Both Sia and Samantha paused at Sia’s statement. Samantha turned to her and raised her eyebrow. Realizing the awkwardness that was beginning to grow between them; she smiled and grabbed Sia’s hands.
“Well you have me now. Expect to receive compliments till you are in your grave” she declared winking at Sia who laughed lightly.
“So, let me show you the cafeteria first. That’s where all the drama take place and to get a good view of drama; you need a good spot” Samantha started while Sia merely nodded. There was no one she was going to tell her that she wasn’t interested in whatever happened between the students, killing Samantha’s excitement as she spoke about the kind of dramas that took place in the cafeteria wasn’t a good idea so she merely listened and nodded her head even though she could barely remember the numerous names flying out of her mouth or the world she was saying.
“All in all, what am I saying?” Samantha asked.
“You are going to enjoy every single second of your stay here” she replied winking again while Sia nodded her head. For this one point, she somewhat agreed. Because it was her first day and every single bit of her expectation had been crushed. But in a good way.
Samantha indeed gave her a tour of the whole school. from the cafeteria to the indoor courts ranging from the basketball court, to the table tennis court to the lawn tennis court to the volleyball courts. As much as Sia didn’t want to admit , she realised that there was a hall or court for almost every sport that was played in the school. Her old school had to share a basketball court with another school in the area. Samantha went on to show her the library, the clinic, the musical room and so many other places. She wasn’t even bothered that they had missed about two classes while giving her a tour of the school. She complained about having a patchy throat and Samnath led them back to the cafeteria and Sia was puzzled when Samantha brought out a card instead of money.“You don’t have your meal card yet?” Samantha asked and Sia shrugged her shoulders.“I didn’t know meal cards were a thing in private schools” Sia replied, earning a grin from Samantha.“It is here. I mean with your meal
It had been less than two weeks since Sia resumed to Orleans and saying that she had been adjusting well would be Sia trying to sound like she was okay when clearly she wasn’t. Not even in the least. Like Samantha had said, somehow she no longer felt out of place like she thought she would be feeling like for a long while but rather, she had slowly adjusted into her class and her classmates although stayed away from her didn't treat her like someone who was still new.Sia could barely make sense of the class she was in. Most of the teachers made it to class and spoke as though they were trying to curry favour with the students and rarely taught anything. Instead of listening to a 40-year old woman talk about how much she loved lilac flowers when her face screamed the opposite; Sia would rather put her head on the table and sleep and no one dared to wake her up.Someone had y mistake kicked Sia’s chair while she sleeping one day and Sia awoke with a glare that burned the girl to her fe
Grumbling as she walked into the class, Sia didn’t waste time placing her head on her table and sending herself into the arms of sleep. She was baffled at the girls who had kicked Samantha’s chair. She doubted if she had seen them around her or even around them and no matter how much she thought; not even one of those scenes crossed her mind. She came to a conclusion.Someone had sent them; she had seen too many scenes and incidents like that at her former school. Her school was one scary place and you had to be scarier to be able to keep your head.Sia was the scariest so of course her head was safe. As for who had sent the girls, Sia had no idea.Even in the class, she was no push over so there was no way someone in the class must have sent the girls. The fact that someone from the other classes might have sent them made Sia chuckle. She had somehow not come in contact with any of the students from the other two classes.According to Smantha, the school placed their classes far away
Sia didn’t know how long she had slept but by the time she opened her eyes; she knew school would definitely be over. She pushed herself up the seats and discovered that the hot boy who was playing basketball from before had also disappeared. She rubbed her eyes before rising to her feet and trotting towards her class.Unlike she had thought, it was the final period before school was over. In summary, she had missed two extra periods. The class was loud and noisy by the time Sia stepped back into the class. Samantha had a grin on her face as she followed her to her seat.“Nigga, could you have done something else than saying you do not understand and basis of a baseball game and saying you are not interested in it as an excuse to leave the class?” Samantha asked as Sia sat down and furrowed her brows.“Another excuse like what?” Sia asked and Samantha laughed lightly.“After you left, no matter what Stanley tried to teach, everyone kept chorusing that they didn't know it and weren’t
“What do you mean by she’s going to use her claws to scratch my face?” Phillip asked with a frown on his face, his fingers moving even faster on the keyboard while keeping his eyes on the screen.“You sure do know that Alina has her eyes on our star boy Nate, she would do anything to get his attention” Caleb replied taking a pause and turning to glance at the boy seated a few metres away from him and shook his head.“Caleb, are you crazy?” Phillip yelled as Caleb’s fingers also resumed on the keyboard.“It was just a few seconds, I’m sure you had me covered” Caleb replied grinning.“It’s not my fault that Mr Nate here is an unfeeling human and a cold ice snowman, a good looking snowman by the way. Why would she want to claw at me?” Phillip asked and Caleb burst into laughter.“Someone made a post on the school forum, they think y’all are gay or something” Caleb replied making Phillip pause slightly before he chuckled and resumed playing the game.“I should make a reply like this, If I
Caleb and Phillip exchanged glances watching the third boy seating opposite them scroll through his phone without saying another word. Nathaniel was averse to humans,he would develop rashes on his arms and on his legs if he got close to people. It was one of the many reasons why people were forbidden into his space but the main reason was that he absolutely hated having strangers and unfamiliar people in his space.“Kelvin is throwing a party, y’all gonna show up?” Caleb asked, breaking the delicate silence.“Kelvin?” Phillip asked and Caleb nodded his head.“He wanted Nathaniel to come by the way, '' Caleb replied, turning to the third boy who turned to him and raised his eyebrow.“He said upstairs would be free for you to use. And you can use his game room too” Caleb added and Nathaniel turned back to scrolling through his phone.“So are we going or not?” Caleb asked again and Phillip shrugged.“Well, there's space for Nate to avoid every other human and there are games too. It’s fi
Like Samantha had said, by the time Sia was stepping out of her room with a towel over her head to dry her hair, Samantha was closing the door behind her and bringing the takeouts to the dining table.“You ordered this much?” Sia asked, staring at the amount of food on the table. Samnatha grinned in reply.“I’ll leave some in the fridge so that I can microwave them tomorrow morning and eat before going to school”Sia raised her eyebrow at the thought and nodded her head. She never made food at home, she slept over in her mom’s ward in the hospital and rushed home to go to school in the morning. If she remembered, she would buy a cup of coffee and that was what she would take until it was break time and Smaantha dragged her to the cafeteria.“So I ordered prawns and crabs as well. You like seafood right?” Samantha asked and Sia turned to look at her in surprise.“You rarely use your phone but the few times you’ve used it, I always see you scrolling through sea food. This is nothing com
Sia ignored the first ring and the second ring and the third and the fourth and on the fifth, she angrily got out of her seat and walked towards the ringing phone. Her brows pulled together even unpleasantly when she realized that Samantha didn't even save the number. She grabbed the phone and placed it near her ears, before she could say anything, the other person yelled into her ears.“You did sit down and watch your phone ring right? You idiot!” the latter yelled into Sia’s ears.“It’s past 11pm, where are you? Are you going to sleep out because of that little drama that took place yesterday?” the other person kept yelling, successfully pricking Sia.“It’s past 11pm, so shouldn't your neighbors come and knock on your door when you are yelling your lungs out?” Sia asked and the other person seemed to be taken aback for a moment.“Excuse me? Who’s this?” The latter shot rapid questions at Sia who chuckled.“If you call this phone one more time, I’m going to force your number to the p