Give Her A Try {Demitra Kalogeras}

3 - Hey:)

~y/n POV~

August 28, 2024
8:29 a.m.

I sat listening to the teacher yapping about who knows what but he was actually really funny. He had a nice vibe. "Alright well the bell should ring any second so I'll see y'all whenever I see yall." Mr. Stephen's said. Just as he went to sit at his desk the bell rang. Everyone started to grab their bags and push in chairs to leave. "What class do you have next?" I heard Demitra ask me as I was putting my phone in my pocket. "Uhh. I don't know." I said looking blankly at my schedule. "Can I see?" She asked with a small smile. "Please." I responded handing her the confusing piece of paper.

"Oh my days." She said with something etched in her voice that I couldn't quite figure out. "What is it?" I asked finally looking down at her. She's shorter than I thought. "We have almost all the same classes. We just don't have Language or Fitness (gym)." She said looking up at me with an excited smile. "Oh that's cool." I said relieved. "Yeah we even have the same lunch." She responded "And what time is lunch?" I asked starting to get hungry again, even though I ate like less than two hours ago. "Lunch is at 12:20." She responded with a light smile. "That's so far awayyy." I dragged out lifting my head to look at the ceiling making her laugh. "I have a feeling you and Eli will get along just fine." She laughed. "Who's Eli?" " My sister." She replied. Hmm.

We started walking to our next class and she continued to explain my schedule to me. First we go to Art (7:45 - 8:30), then English (8:35 - 9:20), after that is Math (9:25 - 10:10), then we have free period (10:15 - 11). Thank God. After that I have Language which is Spanish (11:05 - 12:05), then we go to lunch (12:20 - 1:20), and lastly I have fitness (1:25 - 2:10). I'm so glad I have fitness as the last class cause I don't want to be stinky and sweaty all day. Each class is forty five minutes long with a five minute passing period and there are two lunch waves each an hour long with a 15 minutes gap in between for the lunch staff to clean. We only have home room when they need to do announcements.

We walk through the door to the art room and I immediately find an empty seat near the back of the room. The tables are set up differently from the rest of the class rooms since this is an elective. As I put my book bag on the floor I smelt something so... how do I put this? Desirable. I quickly sat up to see what it was and I saw Demitra sitting down next to me. She smell good as fuck. I gave her a confused look.

"You don't have to sit next to me cause you're my guide you know." I said letting her know we don't have to be attached at the hip. " I know. I just want to sit with you." She informed "Oh okay." I replied looking around the big room. "Is that okay? I can look for another seat if you don't want-" "No you're fine." I said quickly cutting her off. "I just thought you'd wanna sit with your friends is all." I said not wanting her to feel unwanted around me. "You seem more interesting than whatever nonsense they might conjure up." She said with a light laugh. I just laughed with her watching as other students started to pile into the room.

"Welcome students, if you don't know me my name is Ms. Hawthorn and my goal this year is to make sure your artistic abilities are enhanced." The teacher said as she stood in front of the room. "Since you're all adults. Almost." People started to chuckle. "I think the "get to know me" ice breakers will go a little quicker." I watched as some people groaned, some people just staring blankly, and the rest were just in their own worlds.

"Alright, everyone up. I know it's early but this is the only time we'll have to do it. If we can get this done quickly, you can have the rest of the class for yourselves." As soon as she finished everyone circled around the table in the center of the room.

The amount of kids in the class wasn't too bad. There was about 22 of us. "Oh I'm glad you all picked this table." Ms. Hawthorn gleamed with her hands together under her chin. "This is the showcase table. All the top art works of the week with be set on this table." People nodded in understanding. "Okay, for this ice breaker, all you have to do is say your full name, your grade, and your favorite color. Does that sound easy enough?" She asked looking around at all of us. "Yeah." We all replied in unison. "Great. I'll start. My name is Jennifer Hawthorn, I teach all grades, and my favorite color is magenta." Everyone nodded their heads as they listened to the facts about the young teacher. She had to be about 24 or 25.