Perfect Imperfection

Chapter 7

Mark's Pov

I walked toward the school building. I was going to my interview with Mr.Harold. It was around lunch time, so I was hoping he wasn't busy. I walked into the office, and a woman was sitting at the desk. She looked around 26 or 27. Her brown eyes lifted and they met mine.

"May I help you?" she said in a curious voice.

"Yes, I have an appointment with the principal."

"Oh, are you Mr.Stevens?"

"Yes."

"Well, he's expecting you. Just walk down this hall and it'll be the first door on the right."

"Okay thank you."

She nodded her head and I walked in the direction she had told me. I knocked on the door and heard a muffled response.

"Come in."

I opened the door and behind the large desk was the man that was like my second father. I grinned hugely.

"Harold!"

His eyes brightened,"Mark! Long time no see!"

"I know! How've you been?"

"I've been good and you?"

"Wonderful, looking for a job."

"Ah right to the topic I see."

I chuckled,"Yes sir."

"Well let me see your resume."

"Here you go," I handed him my black folder and he took it.

"Mark how many sports did you play?"

"All of them, well I tried all of them for at least a season."

"And you took the healthcare pathway in high school?"

"Yes sir."

"And you took health classes at the nearby hospital? And volunteered?"

I grinned,"Yes sir. How do you think you got so skinny and muscly? If I do remember correctly, I was the knew who helped you."

"Shhh kid, but thanks for that. Anyways this is very impressive. I'd like to see you work with these kids."

"Sure when would you like me to?"

"Well right now everyone's at lunch, but in about 30 minutes everyone will go to there third class of the day. And there is a gym class at that time."

"Okay that sounds perfect."

"For right now, you can tour around the school forget familiar with it. I'm pretty sure you'll be with a job now."

I smiled,"Thank you Harold."

"See you kid."

I waved at him and left. I walked down the hallways and my eyes widened. It had stairs! I walked toward them and started climbing. There were two halls on the second floor. They were basically computer labs and science labs on the first hallway, but the second hallway had a instrument class, choir class, cooking class, engineering class, woodshop class and a dance class. I walked to the dance class since it was the closest one. I looked inside and there were a few students practicing. By the looks of it, there wasn't a teacher, so I walked inside. The students looked at me, startled.

"Who are you?" a blonde boy asked.

"Umm I'm probably going to be the next gym teacher."

"Really? Well the gym's downstairs."

"I know I just decided to walk around. Is that fire sticks?" I asked alarmed.

"Yep, we're doing it for a Halloween dance. My name's Elliot and this is Henry," he said pointing to brown haired boy.

"Nice to meet you, I'm Mark Stevens."

"Would you like to see our routine?"

"Sure."

The girl next to them picked up her electric guitar and started playing music. The boys started dancing with the firesticks. The routine was amazing and I was captivated by it. As son ad they finished, I smiled.

"That was awesome!"

"Thanks," they said at the same time.

I laughed and gestured toward the girl,"What's your name?"

"Samantha," she said bashfully.

I smiled,"I hope you guys get one of my classes. It was nice meeting all of you."

"We all do. We have gym fourth block,' Henry said.

"Nice. Where's your teacher?"

"She's home sick. We have a substitute, but she's in the lunchroom."

I nodded my head,"Well I better go ahead and leave so I can make it on time to gym. Bye guys."

"Bye," they chorused.

I waved at them and left. I walked toward the gym, and as soon as I got there, Harold walked in and the bell wrung. The gym started filling with students and they all sat down on the bleachers.

"Hello you guys, I am Mark Stevens, but it'll be Mr.Stevens to you guys. In this block it will be determined if I will be your new gym teacher. So, today we will start with a few laps around the gym."

Groans filled the air.

I chuckled,"I know, but we'll be playing volley ball afterwards so let's go. Two laps around the gym."

They all trudged toward the gym floor got behind a white line. They looked at me scornfully.

"Okay fine. I'll run with you," I said.

They cheered while I laughed. I ran with them and by the end everyone was talking to me.

"Okay Luke and Marcus will you help me set up the net?"

"Sure teach," Luke said.

When we finished setting it up, I gave them a volleyball and surprisingly, everyone played. I smiled at the group of kids, they liked this game. I looked toward Mr.Harold, and he gave me a thumbs up. I couldn't help but grin. I had a job.

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Mark got the job where Vicky works. Uh oh.

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