Class of #5

Chapter 2: Chemistry Confusion

The door flings open but we are no where to be seen. We hear his foot steps get closer to the desk where Charles and I are hidden underneath it. Kate has snuck behind the now open door so she can't be seen, I saw Zach climb into the cupboard at the back of the room but I didn't see where Jimmy went. Knowing him he is going to be seen and the plan is going to be all for nothing. Then everyone looses their breath as we hear a loud crash which resonates throughout the room, each of us feeling it move through our body as if it resembles our plans falling apart before us. We don't know what do as we hear the mans foot steps turn and start walking a lot faster towards the sound, all that's running through my head is Jimmy what have you done.

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One week earlier

Another Monday morning and it is as worse as the last one, not much sleep and grumpy but instead of chemistry I have English with none other than Mrs English. Yes I know it sounds ironic that Mrs English teaches English but her husband Mr English teaches - you will never guess it - Math. But he's not my teacher she is so lets talk about her. Mrs English is a kooky older lady that is an amazing English teacher, who will help you as much as she can and is passionate about charity and giving to others but the only down fall is that she is a grumpy, mean teacher that will get on your back about not writing in blue pen. So you can see why Kate loves her and Jimmy hates her.
I walk into class and sit down next to Kate who is always on time, and guess who comes in late and starts Mrs English's rant about why it is so important that you are always on time, Jimmy. So the class starts 15 minutes after it should of and now being not on time.

After first  period we have recess, and we go to our spot where we always go, underneath the tree in the very corner of the school yard.  We can see everything from this spot, we see the kids that think they are to cool for school behind the art block smoking, the jocks including Brad who think they run the school playing footy on the oval with the popular girls staring at them like they are supermodels. We see the music guys outside the music rooms strumming on their guitars, the library were all the geeks hang out playing some magic card or on staring at the computers, with their leader being the geekiest of all, Charles. We can see all the other groups and cliques scattered throughout the school and the floaters with one particular floater coming our way.
"So you finally make it over here" I say to Kate as she death stares me
"I was asking Mrs English whether 3000 words was too much for the essay that due next week" she states
"We have an essay due next week?" Jimmy now looking worried because he hasn't started
"How are you friends with the popular kids, Kate" I say a little jealously "you are such a nerd"
"Because I'm not a nerd on the outside" she says as she flicks her hair

Second period passes quickly with math and then third period comes along, chemistry with Mr Simon. As usual Jimmy is late but this time he has finished his homework and runs up to Mr Simons desk and gives it to him.
" I reckon that's an A there." Jimmy says as he sits down.
"Jimmy" shouts Mr Simon across the room. "You forgot to put your name on it."
Jimmy walks awkwardly up to the desk to write his name.
We started doing our work set for this lesson when I look up and I see Mr Simon taking some weird looking pill, I ignore it and keep working. I'm pretty good at chemistry so this work isn't too hard for me but for Jimmy I have to help him a bit.

It reaches the end of the day and I walk home with Jimmy and Kate we walk past Kate's house first and drop her off. Jimmy and I keep walking, as we get to the end of my street and I say goodbye to Jimmy, he keeps walking up the street we were walking on and I turn off onto my street. As I'm walking a car zooms past me and scares the hell out of me, I reach home and tell mum about the car and how my day was. She is finally home for dinner so I don't have to cook and I can go read comics in my room. At 6:00 we sit down at the table for dinner and mum switches on the tv, we are watching the news tonight like every night mum is home, when she's not we usually watch cartoons.
Surprisingly everyone is home for dinner tonight, even Mike, a smile comes over my face because I feel like a normal teen eating dinner with my normal family. Breaking news comes onto the tv
"We have had reports of a serious car crash that has happened just moments ago,  four cars have been involved in this horrendous pile up on Old Wellings road. While three of the cars have victims that are being taken to the hospital for treatment, the driver of the car that seems to be the cause of the accident is nowhere to be seen."
Just as the news breaks mum gets a call on her mobile to come in because they are light staffed for such a car crash, suddenly our normal dinner turns into an average Miles family dinner, Jake Miles the one with the family that can't sit down for one meal. As mum goes out the door barely saying goodbye, Mike takes his dinner to his room, Alex gets up and tips the rest of her meal in the bin which leaves we at the table with Tom, who looks up at me and says
"It's okay Jake, we will have a big family dinner one day, when dad comes home." Thomas was only two when he left and still waits everyday for him to come home.

The next day, I arrive at school and see Mr Simon walking through the gate but it doesn't look like he drove considering he walked through the front gate and not from the staff car park that's around the back. We have chemistry first but he isn't walking towards the class room, I arrive at class with Mr Simon nowhere to be seen. Jimmy yells across the hall at me.
"I'm going to be on time"
I look at Jimmy then turn back and look in the class room where I see Mr Simons sitting at his desk. There was no way that Mr Simons could have gotten in there when he was walking in the opposite direction to the science rooms and he would of had to go past me to get into the classroom considering I'm standing in the middle of the door way. Jimmy reaches me and we walk into the classroom, we are the first ones there but then the rest of the class start flooding in from outside. No one saw Mr Simon magically appear in the class but me and Jimmy but Jimmy wouldn't have been paying enough attention to realize, he was just focused on being the first one in class.
We start the lesson and get straight onto our work.
"What's the answer to question 4?" Jimmy asks
I slide my work book over to him. "This is the last question I'm giving you the answer to, figure out the rest."
As I get my book back I see Mr Simon take another one of those pills, with the thought of how he got into the classroom still on my mind I started to think. He has changed a lot over the last few weeks, two weeks ago he was this boring teacher with glasses and didn't have much personality, too a completely different person on Monday last week. He wasn't wearing his glasses and was super happy, Wednesday he let us slack off I class and I now remember he took one of those pills then too, he also sneezed and all his papers on his desk went flying into the air like a tornado just hit them. On Thursday, he one handedly lifted the desk and with ease, when we went to do an activity in class and Friday he caught a speeding football from one of the best players on the school football team - it hurts me to say that, but he is - when his back was turned and couldn't see it coming. And now that I think about it, he has been taking a lot of those pills when he is at school and when I saw him down the street on the weekend.
I try to take a closer look at the writing on the pill bottle but all I could see was a Symbol with two letters, KC.