The boy in the back of the class

Chapter 2

"Emily!" Miss Robinson snaps angrily, I didn't mean to zone out in her class, it just happens sometimes, it's not my fault her classes are boring. "Umm yes miss?" I say pretending like I was listening the whole time. "Have you been paying attention?" She sighs.
"U-uhh yes I have," I said, I tried to sound more confident, but that never really works for me.
"Well you'll need to tune in now because I have important assignments for all of you," she says to everyone. The whole class groans in annoyance and start to yell out various things like 'oh common', 'are you serious' and 'don't do this to us miss'.
"Oh and did I mention I've assigned you all a partner to work with?" She asks in a fake cheery voice, she starts to read out various names and I tune out until I hear mine, "Emily and Ashton," she reads, I mentally have a party in my brain until everyone is looking at me in pity and saying 'I feel sorry for her', how rude can people get! I'm so sick of everyone putting people down, what pleasure can anyone find in that. Ashton hesitantly makes his way over to my table and sits down slowly, I'm looking at him to give him a smile, but there is no way he's making eye contact with me. At this present moment everyone is staring and laughing, 'sucked in Emily', I heard someone say, 'thank goodness I didn't get stuck with that nerd', someone else says.
"Everyone, be quiet!" Miss Robinson says sternly, everyone turns around and starts paying attention to her again, I look over at Ashton and he's now slumped in his seat, pretending that nothing happened, I can see the hurt in his eyes.
"Ok class, your assignment is to write a 2000 word essay with your partner, I will expect to see a draft in your history books, then a good copy typed out, you have three weeks to complete it and the topic is civil war, I'm giving you the rest of the lesson to discuss what your going to do with your partner," she says.
"I'll do all the work if you want me to," Ashton says quietly.
"Why would I want that," I ask confused.
"Because that's what everyone wants," he says sadly.
"Well that's not fair, do you want to meet in the library after school today?" I ask hopefully.
"No I don't think that's a good idea," he says. The bell rings and Ashton gets up before I can say anything else to him, why wouldn't he want to work on this together? I sigh and get up to go to my next class.

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I decide that I should go to the library straight after school anyway, just incase Ashton's there. I'm still quite confused, did I say or do something wrong? As soon as the bell rang for the end of the day I kept out of my seat and power walked to the library, I actually thought he would be there, he is usually there anyway, but I was wrong, I looked around and even waited for a while. But he was a no show.

A/N: hey guys!! I hope you like my story so far, I'm really excited to keep writing it. What do you think will happen in the next chapter? I'd also love to hear feedback in the comments. Thank you for reading. -Ella xx