Not Your Usual Highschool Life

CHAPTER 1 "Intro"

"HOLY BALLS!!!!!! I'M LATE FOR SCHOOL" I shouted after waking up and looking at my digital clock that shows 6.45 AM on it. I rushed into the bathroom and just started splashing myself with ice-cold water. I didn't even bother to have breakfast because i knew that i was late.

"Tommy!! Here's your lunch money!!" My mom shouted at me after seeing me rushing through the front door of my house.

"Thank you mom!! I'll be going now, i'm almost late for school!" I rushed to take the money and just went straight to school. Crap! I almost forgot my lunch money, if i had forgotten that then, what the heck am i gonna eat? I might as well just starve to death in school.

DING DONG DING DONG...

Crap! I just heard the bell go off, and i'm still 2 floors under my actual classroom.

I tried to sneak into my classroom, aannnddd... it didn't work. My whole classmates were already there and my teacher was already waiting for me to go through that door.

"Thomas Lambert! This is your second time being late! I expected a lot from you, who scored highest on your English test. Do you want me to suspend you? Or maybe you want me to call out your parents to school?" Said the teacher that already had her creepy look at me. I could feel her stare burning through my forehead. Her name was Jenna. We usually call her Ms. Jenna..

"No mam! I am truly sorry mam!"

"Go to your seat at once!" She shouted at me, still with the creepy stare.

"Yes Ma'am!"

"I want you to meet me at my office on lunch break."

"Uh um... Yes mam!"

Damn it! I swear on my life this is gonna be the last time i'm being treated like this! I don't like it when my classmates look at me like i'm some sort of a criminal who just robbed a bank or something.

DING DONG DING DONG.......

Ahhh... finally the "go home" bell has rang. I finally get to go home. But wait......

"I want you to meet me at my office on lunch break."

Crap, i almost forgot that Ms. Jenna asked me to meet her at her office. I could've been dead by tomorrow if i had forgotten that. Man my memory sucks.

"Ah, thanks for coming, Thomas."

"So uh.. w...what do you want to talk to me about?" I was scared to hell, this is the first time i got called into a teacher's office. Maybe because i am a dilligent guy, or maybe just because i'm so anti-social i didn't even got noticed by the teachers.

"So thomas... What if i told you that..."

"That what?" I was scared as hell, i was scared that she was gonna say something like "That i've always been in love with you" or "I always have loved you.." or even worse "Thomas.... I want your ki—"

"I signed you up to compete in an English Speech Competition."

"I'm sorry what??"

"I said, I signed you up to compete in an English Speech Competition."

WHAAAAATTTTTTT??!? WHY DON'T I KNOW THIS??!? WHY WOULD HER SIGN ME UP WITHOUT MY PERMISSION?? I MEAN LIKE I KNOW THAT SHE'S A TEACHER BUT WE, AS STUDENTS HAVE OUR RIGHTS.

"Uhh.. what? But why?" I asked her with a face full of confusion.

"You scored highest on your English test at your previous school, so i don't see why not?"

"B..bu..but Ms! Why didn't you tell me first?"

"I'm so sorry but the announcement was so sudden, and we didn't know anyone that has better or even a the same score as yours, so we just signed you up"

"B..but Ms!"

"Please...?" She whined on a high pitched voice, looking at me with her cute big eyes.

CRAP! I have no way to escape this. And Ms. Jenna... I can't stop looking at her. Her face was a beauty of her age, and she is only like 25 years old. Her proportional body with the curves really suits her up with the teacher uniform. She is single as well, i heard some 3rd year students actually tried to ask her out, but they failed miserably.

"Okay.... i'll do it." I surrendered

"Good, besides.. if you actually win this, there is a chance that you are gonna be given a scholarship to a school outside Indonesia. Maybe Singapore, or Japan, or maybe even the US."

"Oh really?" i kinda feel relieved because that means that i'm gonna get out of this corrupt country, that i'm gonna leave all my school life years behind me and maybe start a new life somewhere else. Maybe meet the love of my li—

"Yes, if you win though. There will be over 150 highschools that are gonna compete in that competition."

"What?"

"Huh? Is there a problem? I know you're gonna do just fine."

"Uh.... okay then.."

"Alright, you can go home now."

FINALLY.

"Oh and one more thing Thomas."

"Huh?"

"The competition will be held on the October 10th, which will be 2 weeks from now, so you gotta start on studying from now."

I'm dead.