Chapter Five

Noah.

The first thing I noticed about this school was that there weren't guys hanging along the hallway smoking or selling pot. Which was a good thing. Because while I could die during racing I didn't want to die due to lung cancer or one airborne infection that had no name.

The girls were pretty decent and kinda cute too. Not that I was looking. Mostly the cheerleaders though, I hadn't even made it to the hallways, they were already taking pictures of me and probably sending to their mates inside because a bunch of girls rushed out to see me.

I didn't even say anything, I mean I know I looked pretty badass with wild hair I hadn't brushed falling on my face, my cold green eyes. And the tatts running down my arm though they didn't see that because I was wearing a long jacket. But still if only they had a minimum of self respect to stop drooling at my face I would have loved the school.

I walked into the hallway with a deadly swagger and I couldn't even pass through, they had formed a small circle around me and it was getting annoying. I didn't know my first period and I needed to figure out where the class was.

I was about to speak to them to let me through when there was a small commotion in front of me. A brown haired girl fell through the circle almost immediately and I shifted backwards a little.

She stares at my feet for a while before locking eyes with me, her eyes widening in recognition.

It was the girl from last night!

What was she doing here? I'm sure she schooled here also.

She rises to her feet herself because I didn't want to touch her or help her to give the impression that I was a good person. I wasn't a good person.

She tucked her hair behind her ear, blushing in embarrassment before speaking in a small voice.

"Hey Noah"

I was about to speak when the bell rang and the students scrambled off, pushing each other to get to class.

"Anna are you ok?" Another girl with black dress, pink boots and pink hair moved forward in concern.

So her name was Anna.

"Yeah, uhm I'm fine" Anna said, brushing her skirt before glancing shyly at me.

"What are you doing here?"

"I was transferred. Do you know where the principal's office is? I need to get my schedule"

I said, frowning immediately. I honestly didn't want to speak to anyone during my time here. It was my last year and I didn't need to make any friends. They knew me in my last school and kept to themselves. If I started talking to Anna and act like I knew her, other girls would think it's cool to talk to me too.

"Yea, it's this way" She said, then turned to face her friend with pink hair. "I'll be right back, save a seat for us both in Chem"

Her friend scoffed before walking away. Anna turned to be smiling sheepishly. "Clary is my best friend"

Like I care.

We walked down the now empty hallways together and I saw posters to join various school clubs, the school dance and a robotics competition next month.

"Why were you transferred here?" Anna asked, trying to dispel the awkward silence.

"Nothing". I answered turning to look at her.

She was short.

Like really short, her head was probably around my arm. It was kinda cute the way she walked with her hands behind her.

We got to the office and I went in, a fat woman answered me, handing me a file and a series of textbooks before telling me my locker number and slamming her door shut.

So much for being the most disciplined school.

"That's Miss Sternberg, she's usually in a bad mood during the day" Anna explained, before coming closer to me to peep at my timetable.

"Oh, you've got Chemistry first too. Come on Mrs Williams hates late coming"

She takes my arm, running down the hallway, and I swear I wanted to remove my palm from her small ones, but I was holding a lot of books and was feeling a little dizzy from the way she grabbed me.

We got to class and she pointed to the back seat that was empty, for me to go to before moving to the first row.

"Good morning to you too Anna and…" The chemistry teacher who was Mrs Williams was a middle aged woman who looked stern and wore glasses bigger than her face. She looked through a paper on her hand before looking at me.

"Mr Bricks. You both are late and it would have been a detention but I'm feeling very generous today. Welcome Mr Bricks, I'm Mrs Williams and would be taking you chemistry. There's no need for formal introductions so please open to page 154 we are practicing an experiment with Acids and Bases, pick a lab coat on the rack over there and an eye goggle and start the process"

I hurriedly went to take a lab coat, putting it on and wore the goggles, all eyes were on me even though the number of students in the class were about fifteen it still creeped me out.

Mix your chemicals and stop staring!

I wanted to tell them but I composed myself and opened my book. I took a glance at Anna in the front seat and she was already picking liquids, even the girls in front of me had already started their work, and were taking readings in their books.

I didn't even know what the instruments on my tables were!

"Mr Bricks" Mrs Williams called out, dropping her glasses and lowering it on her nose. "I see you haven't started. May I know why?"

I looked around not wanting to embarrass myself before speaking up. "I'm just a little confused"

"I could help him". The girl at my right that had been eyeing me since spoke up.

"Or me!" Another at the middle seat rose her hand.

Mrs Williams sighed before pointing at Anna. "Miss Waters, please see to our transfer student, you didn't submit your project. You and Miss Montez, so take this as your punishment".

She then turned to Anna's best friend. "Miss Montez, see me after class please"

Anna walked briskly to my seat, picking up a long glass pipe and placing it between her lips before putting it in a cup of liquid.

I did the same but she stopped me almost making me drop the pipe.

"You don't use the pipette to measure acid, because if you aren't careful you could swallow the hydrochloric acid and it will cause serious injuries"

"Ok, so how do I do it then?" I asked, frowning at being corrected.

"Here, take this, and try to suck out the base to this level. Where this line is, then put it in the beaker…."

Yeah it was forty minutes of that. And after that was Maths, English and other boring subjects.

I sighed when the last bell was over and started packing my books that I hadn't had the chance to drop in my locker.

"Mr Bricks and Miss Waters, please stay behind"

Fuck!

What did I do this time? I needed to be home before five to warm up before the race tonight.

Anna glances at me from the front row before packing her books. We waited until everyone else was out of the class before the Science teacher spoke.

"Mr Bricks, the school was going to enroll you into a special program to help you pick up on your studies. But your files say that your parents insisted you are home before 5 so we are going to assign you one of our student tutors. Miss Waters here has contributed immensely to helping other students so we would be handing her to you to help you throughout the term. If you do not feel she is capable we could assign you to someone else. I've already discussed it with Miss Waters the day before and she wouldn't mind coming over to your house in the evening. Your former school explained that your parents were cool with it"

Hold on.

Anna was going to come over to my place in the evenings to help me study?

I couldn't let that happen. I needed to be out everyday by five to the Nest, where I raced or else I was a dead meat.

"Mr Bricks mind you, if you fail any of your subjects you would not be able to graduate this year. So please take this seriously" The teacher said before leaving the classroom

Anna turned to me before speaking. "So what's your address? I might come around past six before I work at my aunt's clinic after school"

This was happening too fast. One moment I was racing, then got into an accident, then I was being carried away by Anna. Then transferred and now she was coming over to my house. No fucking way!

"I'm not telling you that because I don't need your help. I'm doing fine in my studies" I said defiantly.

"Yeah, what's the name of the chemicals we mixed today in chemistry" Anna asked, giving me a stern look as she placed her hands on her hips She looked like a cup when she did that.

"Hydro Acid"

"No, it's hydrochloric acid. You need help Noah. I noticed you weren't writing anything in maths class, and English class an-"

"Oh, so you're stalking me now?" I asked, rolling my eyes before starting to walk out of the class.

"I'm definitely not! It's just obvious that you are kinda not so great and I really want to help you. I don't know why but I just do. I have this urge to help people" Anna shot back at me.

"Well I'm not going to be one of those people you help to make you feel better about yourself. I'm leaving now"

I said, stomping into the hallway and outside the school. The hot sun blazed my skin but I hardly noticed it.

I didn't want any tutor to teach me. While I needed to graduate, I couldn't take the risk of getting close to someone. It was against my rules and I had already started breaking them by accepting help from her yesterday.

I hated school, I wanted to be a racer. Chemistry and history about dead people wasn't going to make me a good racer.

Why didn't high school teach us what we really needed?

I didn't have time to give in to study after school hours. I needed to race. I needed the money and I wasn't going to get it with a pretty girl teaching me the difference between a burette and a pipette.

My head was already starting to ache and I touched the bandages to feel it was a little wet. I was bleeding again. I needed to get home fast. My arm also ached from carrying the books all around school.

I entered my lobby in a few minutes and made my way to my apartment. I stopped abruptly when I spotted a little girl standing at my front door. She looked to be about two years wearing a pink dress and pink boots. She was just standing there gawking at my door.

What the fuck? Whose child was this? And what the fuck is she doing at my door?

She definitely wasn't from any of my neighbors because I had never seen her before. She was probably lost.

I walked carefully towards her to ask her where she was from, and she turned to me.

Damn! My voice left my mouth.

She had the same color of hair as mine, the eyes were like mine, green but they looked happier than mine did. Her nose was straight and beside it was a small birthmark that I had too. It was like a female version of me.

"Hello?" I said, squatting beside her and looking at her to see if I could find anything that didn't look like me. But I found nothing, instead she smiled a little, shifting closer to me. I held my breath.

"Hi" She said in a small voice, before looking at my neck. She reached out to me but I couldn't find it on me to move backwards, she looked so much like me and I was too shocked to care that she had brought out the necklace that was hanging around my neck.

She stared at it for a while before bringing out hers from her neck too and placed it beside mine. I finally turned to it at the sound of a click.

I gasped as I recognized the necklace that clamped together with mine to firm two words.

Yours Forever.

She smiled at me before hugging me this time muttering softly.

"Hello Dad".

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~Jane♥️