Divided

- Chapter Eleven -

It had been a week and it was the lunch time before the Uniready's presentation.
"Are you ready?" Hannah asked Tia.
"What do you think?" Tia retorted.
"If it makes you feel any better, I'm feeling very confident about it!" Hannah said optimistically, unfortunately Tia could not return the enthusiasm.
"Yeah well, the whole class isn't going to ridicule you for making a presentation!"
Hannah fell silent, she didn't like how the class treated Tia and she knew that it was wrong, but she wished that Tia would try to be more optimistic about her capabilities as a student.

The siren sounded, and the girls made their way to the Uniready classroom. They sat down in the back left corner as usual, except this time they noticed that the boys were sitting at their desk again.
"Oh my gosh! What're you guys doing here?" Hannah gasped.
"Haha, we're here to support you!" James said to Hannah.
"Correction: HE'S here to support you, I on the other hand, was dragged here against my will" Tobias retorted, rolling his eyes.
It was evident that James was trying to catch Hannah's attention, and that dragged Tobias into his mess as-well. He continuously ditched Tobias to talk to Hannah at lunch since he was talking to Hannah. While Tobias was beginning to accept it and was happy that he at least had Tia to talk to during James' Hannah fixation, he wished his friend would acknowledge more than just a pretty girl.
Mrs. Lackfem walked in, greeting the class warmly.
"As you all know, today is the day we present our presentations!"
Tia began to get nervous, she was never a huge fan of public speaking; especially in front of such a judgemental crowd.
"We're going to start with Hannah Holland" Mrs Lackfem stated.
"Wish me luck" Hannah sighed as she got up to present.
Hannah's presentation went well, she made hers about the benefits of living in rural locations. The class found it interesting despite the boring topic choice.
As she finished the class roared in applaud, "Ahaha Thank you so much everyone!" She enthused while going back to her sit, next to Tia.
"You did great, Hannah" Tobias reassured.
"Really great!" James added.
"Next up we have Jamie Roberd" Mrs. Lackfem interrupted.

Jamie made his way to the front of the room.
"Yo, wassup my ghee's! This presentation is going to be on why Soundcloud is better than Spotify!"
The class seemed confused, not confused as in misunderstood but confused as in why you would dedicate your presentation to proving that one app is better than the other.
Tobias let out a slight chuckle at how ridiculous the idea was.
"I thought you weren't one to judge when it came to academics, Mr. Cameron" Tia teased.
Tobias rolled his eyes before responding, "Oh shut it! You know it's stupid too, don't lie"
Tobias had got her there. It was dumb, and they both knew it.
Once Jamie's presentation ended, a few of his friends clapped along with Tobias.
Hannah, James and Tia remained silent. Of course Tobias clapped, Tia thought to herself.

After a couple more presentations, it was Tia's turn.
"Tia Nimeria" Mrs. Lackfem stated.
Tia made her way to the front of the room, to start her presentation.
"Hey everyone, today I'm going to be explaining to you why the twilight movie saga is good!"
Hannah let out a slight giggle while the remainder of the class listened attentively.
Tia executed her presentation flawlessly despite what she personally believed. As she wrapped up, "Thank you all for watching, and remember #TeamEdward."
As Tia finished the room was silent. No claps, no nothing.
Hannah began to clap passionately, and Tobias joined in too. The duo clapped for a moment before Hannah gave James a disapproving glare; causing him to clap as well.
This turned from just the trio, into the entire class; with the exception of Jamie.
Tia was honoured, not only did she just get applauded by the entire class, but Tobias stayed true to his word about giving her support, no matter how her presentation went.
As Tia sat back down she asked, "how did I do?"
"You did fine, but I'm going to do better!" Tobias stated cockily, as he got called up to present his presentation.

He got up in front of the class and introduced his presentation.
"Hey guys, today I am going to tell you Why the twilight movies are bad."
Tia's attention shot up to the front of the room and onto Tobias, did he just do the complete opposite as her?
Tia listened to Tobias' entire presentation attentively, it was magnificent. He was a natural at the delivery and everyone was engaged throughout. As he wrapped it up, he received a standing ovation from the class, though Tia decided she wanted to stir the pot and remained in her seat.

As Tobias walked over he had a smile plastered across his face, "How good was that?" he flexed to the group.
"It was great, so proud of you Tobias!" Hannah said, she was very pleased.
"Yeah it was okay I guess" Tia said rolling her eyes.
Tobias turned his gaze to Tia, who had her arms crossed and was looking the other way.
"Is someone a bit jealous?" Tobias teased.
"What do I have the be jealous of? You stole my idea!"
"I wouldn't say 'stole', I would say, 'took and transformed'" Tobias chuckled.
"Either way you still got your inspiration from me."
"So what? Maybe I did, doesn't make my presentation any less epic" Tobias said, turning to James to have a quick chat with him.