Chapter 5: Chapter 5

CHAPTER 5

Everyone started running back to their classes in pairs and individually as I watched their love for me to down the drain just because I was seen with Alex.

Maybe I should stay away from him so that I can be able to make friends, or maybe I should stick with only him, after all an African proverb said, a bird in hand is better than a thousand in the bush.

I saw a group of 4 girls coming towards me, I decided to ask them for locker 143.

"Excuse me, um, please, I've been looking for my locker, can you please help me out, where can I find locker 143.

The beautiful hot blonde in the front scoffed before answering.

"Are you dumb, find it yourself bitch"

Rude.

She pushed me with her right hand and walked to a locker nearby, the other girls giggled and followed her. I sighed and walked few more steps when my eyes caught a glimpse of '143' writing on a locker. I smiled a victory smile and half ran to it. I typed in my password, which is in my document. The locker beeped signifying that it has unlocked. I tried to push it open but it got stucked.

Great.

I looked around to know if anyone can help me but the hall was already empty except for the 4 rude girls walking down to the other end.

I sighed and turned back to the locker to try again but it still stuck.

" whenever it rains, cold will seize the lockers especially an empty one" I jerked up when I heard his voice behind me.

Alex.

Where did he spring from.

" it rained last night" I said to him.

"My point exactly dummy, step away" I rolled my eyes and stepped away.

"Don't do that" he said as he pushed the locker harder.

"Don't do what" I asked him.

"Don't roll your eyes at me" he replied and I couldn't help but do it again, thank God he was too busy to see that. He pushed harder again, for the third time and the locker opened, I didn't know when I clapped excitedly, he chuckled. Sweet. He stepped away and wanted to leave but I called him back.

"Wait.... Please, can you show me the literature class" I asked.

"That's where I'm headed" he replied.

"Are you in 11th grade"

"No 12th"

"No, I want 11 grade class"

"There are some few classes the two merge in" he answered and I groaned.

"What's wrong" he asked.

"My sisters will be there right?" He nodded.

Of course. They are in 12 grade.

"Just ignore them and pretend like they aren't there" he adviced.

"Yea, after all, that's what they want"

I took out my literature text book from my back pack, I put the rest in my locker, closed it and turned to Alex.

"Let's go" I smiled at him. "By the way will you go for practice today after school" I asked him as we walked down the hall.

"What practice" he asked without looking at me.

"Football practice" I answered and he chuckled before replying.

"You know? When you said this earlier, I thought you were joking, I'm not in any football team"

"What!?" I asked in disbelief. "Why then did you roll your eyes in the principal's office when I chose soccer, I thought you did cause you didn't want me to see you play" I asked as I stopped briefly.

"I rolled my eyes because the soccer team is dumb, its filled with proud bitches just like the cheerleaders" he answered as he continued walking, I ran to catch up with him.

"What's the competition the principal was talking about"

"Quiz competition, I used to go for quiz competition but not anymore" he answered and my legs seized.

He can't be serious right now.

"I'm not interested in any school activity."

"What, but you made me choose one, I joined soccer cause I wanted to see you play, I wanted to be close to where you are because you are the only friend I have" I yelled at and he stopped to stare at me in disbelief.

OK, maybe I wasn't supposed to tell him that but what the heck.

"Well that's your own bad choice Andra" he said nonchalantly.

This guy has got to be kidding me.

"You know what? Forget it" I said as I stormed away from him. I stopped when I remembered I didn't know where I was going.

"Can we go" I asked him, he chuckled and walked past me, I rolled my eyes and followed.

Jerk.

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Alex opened the classroom door and we walked in, all eyes landed on us, a young man of about 35 stood in front of the class with a clouded marker in his hand and I believed him to be the teacher.

I scanned the class and shuddered cause their eyes were still on us, or .... Wait, their eyes were not on us but on me, I became dizzy all of a sudden.

"Well, will you keep standing there" I heard the deep voice of the teacher, I turned to him and he was staring at me with his deep forest green eyes, which was almost shielded by the reading glasses that stopped by the bridge of his nose, his dark beards made him so handsome. He kinda look like a Pakistan.

"Go and sit down" he said it slowly as if he was teaching me words and meaning.

Why is he gesturing for only me anyway, why wasn't he talking to Alex as well. I turned to Alex only to see and Alex free space staring back at me. The way he leaves me all the time is what I don't understand.

I looked around for seat but the only available seat was the one beside the jake guy, Jenny's boyfriend i think. I looked at him and he was sheepishly grinning at me from ear to ear, I looked beside him and saw Jenny giving me the 'don't-you-dare' look. I shuddered, I didn't need to be told what it meant. I decided to walk to the back and stand by the window but when I got to the back, I saw another empty seat. I jumped up happily in my heart as I walked to the seat.

"What do you think you are doing" I heard a girl's voice behind me when I got to the chair, I looked up and saw a brunette girl staring furiously at me. I don't get it, what does she mean. Is she blind?

"I want to sit" I answered.

"You can't seat here, this seat is already occupied, go find another one" she barked.

"But there's no other one" I told her.

"Well stand" she fired.

"What's going back there" the teacher asked.

"Nothing Mr. Harris" the girl replied before I could even open my mouth.

What kind of a human is this.

"Then keep the noise down" he warned.

The girl nodded, Mr. Harris faced the board to write something, the girl turned to me and whispered. "B*tch if you still wanna see the light of day, stay away from that seat"

I shuddered. What did I do wrong? Just to sit down is a problem. I wanted to plead with her but I decided not to, just to avoid Trouble.

I turned to walk to the window, but a strong hand held my wrist tightly, I turned to know who has the guts. Alex. He was seating right opposite the mean girl.

"I told you soccer teams are so mean and proud" he whispered to me.

So the girl is in soccer team, I'm starting to feel dizzy about this soccer team.

Alex turned to the girl.

"Lindsay, she's going to sit on that seat and when the occupant comes, we will settle it" he said to her with a straight face.

Is he dumb. There's nobody occupying that seat, the girl just doesn't want me to sit beside her. And I'm guessing it has to do with the the fact that I was seen with him. This is so crazy.

I turned to the girl, she blinded and flicked her lashes at Alex with a flirty smile.

"But Lexy...." She tried to say but Alex interrupted her.

"The name's Alex and no but, she's going to sit on that seat whether you like it not" he fired.

OMG, I think miss flirty just pulled an angry trigger into Mr hottie. She flinched and stopped smiling immediately.

She nodded and turned her attention to the teacher, Alex did the same, as usual, always leaving me at the wrong time.

I scoffed. I slowly slid myself on the seat, trying to avoid getting on the nerves of the girl by not touching her or talking to her. I opened my text book to the page written on the board. I focused on Mr. Harris teaching but not without noticing the dagger glare Lindsay was giving me.

During the lesson I tried very hard to focus on the teaching which was more like Akex's teaching cause Mr. Harris kept asking him questions and he kept explaining stuff while everyone clapped in excitement especially girls and my sisters too, weird but those three guys with my sisters didn't even raise their hands not to talk clapping, I wonder why. Although Alex didn't seem to like the attention, he seemed to be board of it, I kinda pity him.

"I'm talking to you manecquin" I jerked up when I heard a deep voice very close to my ear. Everyone laughed, I looked up and saw Mr. Harris staring down at me, I gave him a nervous smile and he rolled his eyes. Crazy.

I wonder what he asked me cause I didn't hear a thing.

"You didn't introduce yourself when you came in" he.... I don't know if it was a question or a statement or a reminder.

"Um ..... So?" I asked and everyone gasped, my sisters opened their mouths like surprised frogs.

They misunderstood me, I wasn't questioning him or anything like that.

He shut his eyes, trying to melt down his anger I think.

"So get up and introduce yourself newbie" I heard a light deep voice, probably a student. And I'm pretty sure it came from those dudes with my sisters.

I rolled my eyes a little bit before standing up. I faced the teacher but seeing that his face wasn't looking friendly at all, I looked away, anywhere but him.

"Well.... Umh.. My name is Andra Edward, im an 11th grader and I'm thrilled to be in your midst as one of you" I stated with enough confidence i could gather as I looked at all the students. I expected them to say something nice to me but instead they all went into a marathon of laughter.

My eyes landed on Alex and he Palmer his face, probably embarrassed on my behalf.

"Who says thrilled to be in your midst on first day at school" some dude asked and they laughed again.

I guess this is not how they do it here. I looked up at the teacher to know if he will stop them from laughing but instead he was also wearing an amused smile.

"Alright, that's enough, back to the lesson" he finally said when he felt like they had laughed enough.

A**hole.

I gathered my embarrassed self and slowly slid back down on my seat. Lindsay seems to be the one who laughed more than everyone else.

"D*mbass" i heard her mutter.

Tears almost slid down my eyes, how can my fellow students decide to hate me, just because they saw me with someone.

Who's Alex to them, why do they hold him in such high standard to the extent that they can even kill anyone seen around him, especially the girls. If I had known about this earlier, I wouldn't have talked to him in the first place.

Jeez, I can't even concentrate right now. This whole situation is messing me up.

I turned to my sisters and as if on cue, the three w*tches were staring at me, or rather glaring at me. They all raised their palms to face me.

Gush not this again.

They started sliding their other four fingers down until each of their middle fingers were the only fingers standing, indicating the 'fvck your' sign.

That's their signature to remind me how much they hate me, it hurts so much.

I wish I could just say some magic words or an African incarnation to know what I've done to deserve their hatred, so that I can at least apologize but no, I'm stuck here. Forever.

I sighed and looked away from them, only for my eyes to land on Alex, disobeying my orders not to look at him, stupid eyes of mine.

He stared at me in concern for a while, I guess he saw what my sisters did. He stared for a few minutes and then finally looked away, immediately his eyes went off me, I felt like my shield has been ripped off.

I've never felt the urge to be around anyone like the way I feel for him, Its weird, I mean I just met him today and I don't think he wants to be my friend, He's been acting like a jerk towards me. And yet i feel like he's my knight in shinning amour.

Maybe I should just stay away from him, so that I can make more friends, but I'm already known as the girl who was seen with Alex, nobody would want to be my friend.

I'll just tell them that he's no longer my friend, but I was never his friend and come to think of it, all these people hating me because of him, I haven't seen anyone talking to him. And the way the Lindsay girl obeyed his command was pretty insane, , do they fear him or is it simply respect. But why.

Whatever it is, I don't care, im not going to be hated by the whole school just because if one person.

If he talks to me from now on, I promise I won't talk back, I've had enough.

The extra loud ringing of the bell brought me back to reality, class is over and I learned nothing.

This school is gonna make a huge change in my life, and I don't think its something I would like.

Everyone started parking up while some where already leaving the class.

"Make sure you read page 126 complete before our next class" Mr. Harris warned as he walked out.

Absent mindedly my eyes rolled to Alex, he has already zipped his bag, he stood up and with his cute face raised high up like a king he walked out, when he got to the door he stopped and looked back at me, not just him but everyone remaining in the class was staring at me, and that's when I realized I had called him to wait for me.

Crap.

TBC