"Kai, have you got your homework?" The teacher called out, so I raised my papers in the air, gazing out of the window. The day was a nice rainy day, the smell was unique to normal rainy days. My hair kept my ears warm, the urge to put it up was tempting, though I didn't want to lose the comfort of my position right now.
"Kai? Don't you mean Emily? She's a girl, isn't she?" A boy muttered out loud, making a few people stare at the back of the class at me, snickering too. The teacher awkwardly moved onto the next person, ignoring the pointing and name calling I was enduring right now.
"Fucking tranny." Another boy laughed.
"Okay, that is enough!" The teacher shouted in his direction, everyone else snickered.
"What? She's a girl! Okay, if I asked to be called a girl's name would everyone call me that?" He turned to his friend next to him. "Hi, I'm Samantha, I go by she/her pronouns, if you don't use them your really transphobic and homophobic."
"Shut up Lucas." My friend Roxanne growled, staring him down.
"My name is Samantha! Transphobic! I'm a snowflake, I'm gonna cry if you don't use the right pronouns!" He then pretended to cry, putting on a stereotypical gay accent on. His fake girl voice was exhausting to listen to.
"That's it, go outside!" The teacher yelled, preparing for the fight to come.
"I said shut up!" Roxanne stood up, slamming her palms onto the desk.
"Sit down, George! No one wants to listen to your rants again! Gay rights this, gay rights that. Well gay people should just off themselves if they can't handle a bit of discrimination!"
"That's it! Don't you dare call me George again!" Roxy started to walk towards him now, Lucas' group stood too.
"Sit down!" The teacher yelled more.
"Here we go again." My friend Bunny sighed; her actual name Summer but she went by a nickname her brother gave to her. She stood up too, getting between the transphobic asshole and the trans girl. "Lucas, Roxanne, sit down will you? It's not worth another fight."
"He started it!" Roxanne yelled.
"When? When I called Emily by her actual name? Give me a break."
As that played out, I felt my body shaking, tears brimming my eyes. It wasn't the fact that he called me by my old name and mocked my identity, it was just that I hated to see people fight, especially about useless things like this. He does this all the time, Roxanne is just too overprotective of me.
As the voices rose, and my anxiety went through the roof, I packed my pencil case into my backpack then rushed out of the classroom, slipping a little note to the teacher on her desk that I just wrote; saying 'sorry about leaving, I'll be in the library. Homework is on my desk'.
I walked past the classroom areas, avoiding any eyes, then made my way to the library, the librarian sitting there at her desk. I walked over to a table in the back nervously, placing my backpack on the table. "Oh, Kai!" The librarian must have just noticed me come in, so she walked yet jogged at the same time towards me, a big grin on her face.
"Oh, hello miss." I nervously replied, pulling my sleeves over my hands. I got a hairband from my right wrist, tying my light ginger, mullet kind of style, hair back, watching as the librarian sat down across from me.
"Okay, so I was wondering what kind of books you're interested in. I'm doing some maths and a tally, so I know what books we might need to ask for or buy. So, here's the list." She gave me a piece of paper on a clipboard, with a couple options on it.
