Back to our school days

This is Mr. Shields.

I hop out of my, dying, car, lock it and walk in the door of Evergreen national school, where I teach. I've been teaching for eight years now. It's great. Sure when I was young, ok I say that as if I'm old but I'm 28, younger I wanted to be a singer but I teach the choir, thats enough for me. My life is complete, well you know minus the prada bags and the whole Orla Kiely collection. The only thing I need right now is a car, like really need. Ally* is in the hall, picking up the keys she must have dropped." Hey Jenna*, how was your summer?" She asks me, putting her keys in her bag." Great, Pete and me went to down to Cork . " I answer her, as we walk down the empty halls towards the staff room, which is near the bottom of the school, convenient. "Really? It must of been nice, I saw the weather forecast. " She says turning the corner." Yeah, for about two hours," I say laughing,"Ally, this is Ireland, unpredictable as always." She joins in laughing as we enter the staff room. At the top of the room is Derval*, the principal, beside her is a man I've never seen, Tina*, then Sebastian*, as tall as ever, then Sam* and Nelly*, on her other side is another man I've never seen before, and someother teachers. Ally and I sit down." Hello everyone welcome back, before we start, this is Toby Shields," she says gesturing to the tallish guy on her left, he waves"and this Sam Fine." She says gesturing to her right. Hmph. More men. Not that there is to many.Like, there are two male teachers. But, Never mind. I must have staring at Toby because he raises his eyebrow. I blush and look away. I glance at him, the I do it again. He is not bad looking. Shut up I think to myself idiot you have a boyfriend, stop staring at him. Then I look at him again, he looks back this time. I'm not staring at him, he is staring at me. Does he like me? I kind of want to shout at him "Yo, Shields, yeah, I'm not a single lady." But like who does that? So, like I obviously didn't. Before I know it tje meeting is over." Um, I zoned out by accident, what class am I teaching? " I ask Ally, she rolls her eyes and hands me the piece of paper she was holding." Fifth class, again, for the fourth time, in a row, do you--" I cut her off." No, I don't just put my name down because we go to Inis Isle, I like teaching fifth." I say, walking out the door, I bump into Toby " Hey, whats your name?Derval ,may have introduced me but I don't know anyone's name. " He says opening the door for me, nice flirtation move he got there, pff, he can do better. " My names Jen, Jenna Robinson, nice to meet you." I say smiling, may as well be nice back. He walks me all the way to my car, if you could call it a car, talking all the way. I decided right then that I liked him. On the way home I think about him, which is like way to much time to think about a guy, you know that's not your boyfriend, even though my house is like two minutes away. But 'still.