Honorary Hope

Lunch

The next day we sit with the boys from yesterday although after that disaster we decided not to join in. When Max gets booted in the leg by another play he hobbles over and comes and sits with us.

"Gabby, I think we should go and see Miss Jenkins now about that science homework." Liv tells her.

"I'll come with you." I say but the two hurry and leave.

"Well that wasn't very nice." Max says as I sit back down next to him.

"It's fine, there in a different class to me anyway." I reply.

"Oh right, so what you got after lunch then." He asks trying to make small talk.

"English which I'm dreading because I'm rubbish at it. What about you?" I question.

"History, which I don't get why do we need to learn about what's already happened." He replies which makes me laugh a little.

"Who knows and we're supposed to know it all already like what are you here to teach us then." I say since every lesson our teachers like what do you know and then gets all annoyed when we don't know anything.

"It's like they expect you to have taught yourself before the lesson and there's always that one kid that knows everything." He tells me.

"Yep there always has to be that one genius that shows up the rest of the class." I laugh.

"So you going to Lizze Micheal's party on saturday?" Max asks me.

"Yeah, how do you know about that?" I reply thinking she had only invited people in our year.

"She's Invited pretty much the whole school." He tells me. Ok that probably sounds insane but our schools pretty small just a mix of kids from Emmerdale and Hotton.

"Oh cool, so are you going?" I question

"Yeah I was thinking of going with a few of the boys although I might have to babysit now." He says looking a little sad.

"Little Brother or sister?" I enquire.

"Little Brother, hopefully my older brother will babysit though. What about you? Any brothersw or sisters?" He asks.

"It's a bit complicated really" I replied just as the bell went to signal the end of lunchtime once again.

"I best get going, you going to be alright walking in on your own?" I question since the tackle earlier was pretty hard.

"Yeah, the history blocks only over there" He tells me which is about 2 minutes away.

"Right yeah, I'll see you tomorrow maybe." I reply picking up my bag and walking to class where Gabby and Liv are stood talking.

"Thanks for ditching me." I say to the girls who both smile.

"It's fine you were with your new boyfriend." Gabby laughs.

"He is not my boyfriend." I say pretending to be annoyed by them.

"Why? Is he a bit of a weirdo?" Gabby asks.

"No Gabby, he's perfectly fine but I barely know him." I tell her.

"You did just call him perfect though." Gabby laughs as we file into the classroom.

"Shut up." I say pushing her lightly