Fairy Tale

Chapter 5: Just my Luck

Newt dropped Emily off at the door with a wave. She saw Sonya at the back of the class. It was still early, and not many kids were here yet. This class was an extra credit class, it wasn't a mandatory core class, but according to the school secretary yesterday she still needed one extra credit to graduate. Emily was hoping that all the work she dose at the gym with Jorge it would be an easy class to help boost my GPA. So far the second day of school hadn't bee too bad, but it was still early. There was still room to shuck it up. And Teresa had been awfully quiet today, considering she left early this morning, Teresa didn't like when Emily felt happy or smiled smiling with friends at school of all places.

The bell rang and the kids started to file in. Emily had pulled her agenda out and writing something down when Sonya nudged Emily in the ribs. 

"The Crank is here." 

She sat straight up, eyes wide, looking around. Sure enough, Teresa and Brenda came flouncing into the class. Followed by what looked like half of the football team and cheer team. The minute she saw Emily, she grinned and snacked her arm around Minho and batted her eyelashes up at him. The group was loud annoying and obnoxious. They sank down into the seats at the back. 

Emily groaned. "Is it too late to switch classes?" 

"Ha. I wish." 

"I can always learn to play the trumpet..." She whined to Sonya who snorted.

This was going to be a miserable semester with this group. 

"Seriously, with all the classes that are offered, I swear that guy is stalking me!" 

"Who?"

"That puffed up QB." Sonya raised her eyebrows, "Seriously, he's in like every one of my classes! The only one is ELA. But just my luck he skipped and is actually in the class." 

Sonya just snorted, "Well...I got nothing Love." 

The teacher tried to get the class to settle, it took a few minutes. The teacher was half way through the attendance when the door swung open and Ben of all people came sauntering into class.

"Shuck my luck." I muttered. 

"Dude...your luck sucks. You need a fairy godmother!" Sonya whispered.

"Ben! You're late!" 

"Clearly." 

The teacher pointed to an empty chair, "Sit." 

Sonya nudged Emily again, she looked over at her, and Sonya had a huge smirk. She raised a questioning eyebrow. 

"Look at his jaw." 

Emily's eyes slid past her to Ben, and on his jaw there was a huge black, blue and purple bruise spreading up onto his cheek. Emily couldn't help but smirk a bit. She wished she could take a picture and send it to Alby and Jorge. They would be so proud, she could just picture both their proud smirks. 

Emily turned back to the teacher. He was handing out he course outline and dates of everything. Quickly scanning the outline she saw that 75% of the final mark was a huge presentation and project the class had to do with a partner. Wouldn't be so bad. The project was to pick a business and follow the owner or someone higher up, figure how they run their business; the history of it, how it benefits the community, what has worked and what hasn't worked in the passed, interview the owner and how they got the business up and running, and come up with their own business proposal. 

"This is gonna be a shucken walk in the park!" Emily whispered with a smile, "I've been helping Jorge for years!" 

The teach finished handing out the pages and was back at the front and was going over the source material for the class, and went into more detail about the project. Didn't sound too bad, Emily had taken out her notebook and started taking notes about what was expected.