Whatever

Invisible & Useless

Just another day at school began when I see Jacob walking in the hallways. After a minute thinking, I finally got the courage the yell out his name to see if it really was him.

But when I open my mouth, my math teacher appears out of no where , looks at me in the eye, and says

" Come here right now ."

She rushes and takes me to the math room.

"Quinn Adams. In my 16 years here at this school, have I ever seen such little effort on someone's work."

She showed me my quiz from last week

"Did you even bother to read the instructions?"

I was speechless. I was embarrassed and no words came out.

" Quinn, you need to get a tutor ."

Finally I spoke

" Mrs. Abraham , yesterday I spent the afternoon looking for tutors and I think i found an excellent one. Just give me a month,and you'll see my grades go flying up. I promise I'll try extra hard. "

"Quinn, you do know your failing the class right? Which means no extra activities."

I didn't even think my next words.

" Mrs. Abraham. I am the lead role I
in the school play. If you would just let me do some extra credit work, ill appreciate very much because I'm not failing by that much. I promise I could get my grade at least by a B."

She looked at me and said

" Don't make me regret this Adams."

"I won't " I said with a big smile

I get out of the classroom super happy and on my way out, I bumped into someone coming in. Of course it had to be Jacob.

"Hey " I said happy to see him

" I'll see you in rehearsal Elphaba."

I grab his arm . Why in the world did I do that? He didn't pull away though. That's suspicious.

" Jacob, I'm .."

He didn't let me finish

" I see you've stalked me and now you know my name. Bravo! Now it's all back to puppies and unicorns. "

Ughhh

"I was going to say that I was sorry.  I didn't mean to hurt your feelings but 'Wink' was just a nickname I called you. I didn't know your name meant so much to you."

"Quinn ! It's not about my stupid name! I've given you all my attention in rehearsals and I'm always trying to talk to you. But there you are! Looking at him. Thinking about him.Or even talking about him to me.  I don't know if you've noticed but I kind of like you. But you don't seem to notice or even notice me there. It makes me feel invisible . And Quinn, it makes me feel useless. But whatever."

He enters the math room

"Whatever?"