HEARTACHE ( mike wheeler. )

TWO.

HEARTACHE
CHAPTER TWO: NEW PEOPLE IN TOWN
"your skating is terrific"

preamble:
first of, sorry for making you wait a five whole months for this chapter, and second of, i lowkey kind of changed where the party's seats in class. Dustin and Will are sat at the front, Mike and Theo are sat behind them and Lucas is sat next to Theo (on his right)

October 30th, 1984.

"Meet the human brain." Mr. Clarke started as he placed a plastic brain on his desk, for the whole class to see. "I know. I know, it doesn't look like much. A little gross even, right? But consider this. There are a hundred billion cells inside of this miracle of evolution. All working as one. No, no, I did not misspeak. I did not stutter. A hundred billion."

Science class - who liked it? The subject was utterly boring for no reasons and it wasn't like if anybody payed attention. Everybody would pass the majority of their time doing something else than pay attention. They would pass notes to one another, try to distract themselves with whatever they had under their hand, chew bubblegum, and most of the time, they would sleep in class.

Theo never understood those people - why were they so fond on avoiding knowledge? he would say.

Normally, Theo would be glaring at them, judging them in his head as he payed attention himself, but there he was dozing off on his desk, with his arms supporting his head like a pillow.

Suddenly, the door to the classroom opened and everyone's attention turns towards it.

"Ah, this must be our new students." Mr. Clarke smiled, looking rather excited.

New students? Theo thought as he sat up.

"Indeed. All yours." The principal signaled, before walking out of the room.

In walk two new faces - a boy and a girl.

The boy had messy brown hair that matched his dark brown eyes and his face had a few beauty marks on it. His outfit reminded Theo of a JC Penney model. His large dark red flannel shirt was unbuttoned from top to bottom, displaying the tucked in white tee he was wearing, and his jeans were a bit baggy. He paired his outfit with self-customized Chuck Taylors that how creative he is.

The girl had fiery red hair and ocean blue eyes and her face was covered with light freckles. From her clothes, you could see that she was definitely not from around here. Her red sweatshirt was slightly zipped down, showing her multicolored striped shirt that she was wearing underneath, and her jeans were long and were a bit loose. As for her shoes, she had worn out red Vans on, which showed her free-spirit side.

"All right. Hold up." Mr. Clarke exclaimed, stopping the new students in their stride for the back seats of the class. "You don't get away that easy. Come on up, don't be shy."

The two individuals walked back to front before standing nervously besides him. Mr. Clarke looked over at Dustin. "Dustin, drum roll."

Dustin closed his textbook and tapped his hands on the cover to mimic the sound of a drum roll.

"Class, please welcome, all the way from sunny California, the latest passengers to join us on our curiosity voyage: Maxine and Thomas." Mr. Clarke introduced them.