[Discontinued] His Angel- Twilight

12

"Would you at least consider sitting with me and my friends at lunch?" Bella asks as she walks me to algebra.

"I don't know Isa, your friends are kinda..."

"Jessica won't be there."

"Fine. I'll let Alice know in class."

"Let Alice know what?" Says the pixie-like girl, seemingly appearing out of thin air. Bella gasps in surprise, but I just smile, used to her appearing act.

"That I'm sitting with Bella at lunch today."

She pouts for a second, then sighs.

"Will you at least come say hi?"

I giggle.

"I have classes with all of you, Allie. But I'll come say hi." I giggle.

She smiles and I hug Bella.

"Bye Isa, see you at lunch."

"Bye."

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After a long class of graphs, it's finally over. Alice walks me to Jasper. I give her a hug, then walk with Jasper to Apush.

"The Civil War!" The teacher exclaims. "Last night, you read about it. Now we're gonna do an exercise about it. I'm gonna split up the class in half. One group will represent the union, the other will represent the confederacy. Then, in a week, we'll hold a debate between the two sides."

I nervously look over at Tyler, the only other black person in the class. He widens his eyes at me and jerks his head to the teacher questioningly. I shake my head no. He raises an eyebrow, and I reply with one curt nod. He nods in understanding. Jasper noticed my agitation and puts a hand on my shoulder.

The teacher splits us up into halves. I'm on one side with Jasper, and the other side has Tyler on it.

"You," the teacher says to the other group, "will be representing the Union."

"Which means you," he says, turning to us, "will be representing the confederacy."

I raise my hand.

"Yes Mr. Santos?"

"Um," I start. "I was just wondering if I could switch sides?"

The teacher looks confused.

"Why so?"

"I mean, I just don't feel comfortable representing people whose whole agenda was to keep people enslaved."

The teacher pauses.

"I think you'll find that the war was about more than slavery Mr. Santos. State's rights, for instance."

"Yeah, states rights to own slaves." I counter.

"One could also argue that it was also about economics." He tries.

"Because the south's economy was directly tied with, and honestly reliant on slavery."

I can see the teacher begin to get flustered.

"Well I can see that you're very biased, but it's important to remain unbiased in a debate like this."

"Or maybe instead of having a debate, we have a lesson about the civil war, and not pretend that the confederacy was anything but a group of white people who wanted to keep others in chains. How on earth you thought this was a good assignment is-"

"Mr. Santos that is quite enough. I want you to report to detention after school today." He stalks back to his seat and grabs a slip of paper. The rest of the class gapes at me. I glare at the teacher as he hands me the slip.