Rules and Riddles

Chapter Two

The image above is how I picture Mia

Mia's Pov:

I hate him already, he's infuriating. It's been 5 minutes and he's already got an attitude with me? I probably shouldn't have got one back because he is my boss, but he started it. Did I spit in his face and then just forget about it or something? Where's the southern hospitality?

I try to take a second to calm myself before I knock on the door next to Mr. Mathews' and then go in. A woman looking to be in her mid 40s is standing in front of a full classroom. Everyone I'm the class looks up at me."Can I help you?" Says the woman who I presume to be Mrs. Jacobs

"Yes, sorry to interrupt, but do you have a spare chair?" I tried to ignore the unwanted attention I was getting for interrupting the class. Mrs. Jacobs looks around for a second before her eyes land on the only empty seat.

"Could someone bring up that chair from the back please?" A kid got up as soon as Mrs. Jacobs was done speaking, grabbed the chair and brought it to the front. Mrs. Jacobs picked it up." Here you go" she said handing me the chair.

I mutter a quick thanks and hurry back to Mr. Matthews' room.

"Took you long enough" Mathews says under his breath making me really really want to say something back, but I'd don't "sit over there" he says gesturing at the corner. I don't say anything and do as I told, and Matthews gets back to doing teacher things.

Thirty minutes later

This is stupid, I've been sitting here doing nothing throughout the whole class. Mathews isn't giving me anything to do, or even acknowledging my presence and my adhd ass needs something to do.

Five minutes later

If I sit still doing nothing for another second I'm going to explode. I tried to zone out but to no avail. I take the students doing a worksheet as an opening to ask for work.

"Mr. Mathews?" I whisper

"Yes?" He replies

"Do you have something for me to do?" I silently begged for him to give me work

"No" I'm going to kms

"Nothing at all? Anything will work"

"I said no. sit back down." Nevermind I'm gonna kill him

"Do you have an extra copy of the sheet the kids are doing? I could do that" I'm going to smack this man so hard his kids feel it

"Could you just sit down and be quiet? The kids are doing work."

"I'm sorry for my attitude earlier Mr. Mathews, that was extremely inappropriate"

"Yes it was"

"Will you forgive me for my outburst?"

"Will you sit down? The kids are working" I sit down feeling defeated

Five minutes later

The last person turns in their work. Mathews gathers all of the pages together and hands them to me.

"Grade." He hands me the papers and then starts passing out homework

Finally something to do. I grab a red pen and start grading papers while the students get a headstart on their homework. After a few minutes the bell rings and the classroom empties. I look over at Mathews to see what he does, but he just sat there. What is this asshat thinking?

Mr. Mathews Pov:

"I'm done grading" my weirdly energetic assistant says, is she really done already?

"Give me the papers" I'm probably going to have to re-grade all of these. I grab the papers and flip through them, and surprisingly she graded everything correctly. How did she get everything done so fast? It's only been like 5 minutes and there are about 25 papers here. "So you're not totally incompetent." I say

"Mhm" she hums obviously not paying attention to what I said with her nose shoved in a big book that wasn't there second ago "When is your next class?" she says not bothering to look up from her book

"20 minutes." I say, looking at book in her hands I recognize it as the book I hand out to the class every morning."Why are you reading the science textbook?"

"What?" She says finally looking up from the book.

"Nevermind" She must have really wanted to read I guess? I can't think of any other reason someone would willingly read the junior science textbook.

She pauses a second before she speaks "What do you usually do between classes?" She says looking back to the book

"I wait"

"That's it?" She says "No snacking or anything? You just wait for the next class?

"That's what I said."

"Fun." She says sarcastically

"I thought you were going to drop the attitude"

"That wasn't an attitude"

"Seemed like an attitude"

"Well it wasn't"

"Good then" I bite back a small smile and look at my desk in front of me wondering what I'm going to do while I wait.

"What can be touched, but can't be seen?"she says randomly

"What?"

"What can be touched, but can't be seen?" She repeats herself "It's a riddle"

I look at her for a second before looking back to my desk and responding " I don't know."

"A heart" I look back at her

"That's so stupid" I say, she smiles

"Yeah I know"

"And that was so random" her smile widens almost becoming contagious and I find myself biting back another smile

"I know that too" she says before just going back to her book and I just sit there looking at her confused for a few more seconds

What was that? Did she just randomly give me a riddle? Why? And of all the riddles in the world why did she give me that dumb one? "What's your name?" My words come out of my mouth without a thought behind them

She looks at me seemingly slightly offended I didn't remember her name "Mia"

"Welcome to the school then Mia" I say trying to put as much sarcasm behind my words as possible

"Thanks for the warm welcome Mr. Matthews" she responds to my sarcasm with sarcasm

I guess she could be worse

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