Musically Problematic

Chapter 14: Maths

I walk in to Roll Call and sit at a desk at the back of the room. Minutes later someone pushes a desk and chair next to mine and sits down.

Sophie's POV:

I look to see who it is and see my boyfriend, Michael. He intertwines his fingers with mine and kisses my knuckles lightly.

"Your parents can keep us apart out of school, but we have eachother for the whole 6 hours during school."

"You're right, but at school we have classes and your friends are going to want to spend time with you...without me."

"I've only got one other friend at school, Calum can deal with it, if he wants to hang out with me he has to hang out with you too."

"I'm not too keen on Calum, you can hang out with him and I'll go where I usually go and sit by myself."

"No. You're my girlfriend and I am making the choice to put you first. I'll go with you somewhere private and Cal can hang out with his friends from Soccer."

"You really don't have to."

"I do, and I will. What class do you have first?"

"Well, thank you Michael. Maths."

"You're in my class, aren't you? Mrs. Hemmings, Luke's mum."

"Yeah."

The bell rings and we stand up and walk to math hand-in-hand. We take the desks at the back so we can talk, most of the time. As we sit down I catch Luke staring at me, I shoot him a smile followed by a confused look. He turns back to the front clearly blushing, he puts his head on his desk.

"Okay class! Today we are looking at Pythagoras Theorem again, in revision to what we did yesterday. Rewrite the sums from the board and answer them. I want this done quietly."

She hands everyone a work sheet and the girl that was sitting next to me moved up and stood next to Luke. He was sitting beside her friend so I guess that she wants to swap seats. He stands up and walks towards me and sits down, I look towards Mikey wondering if he wants to swap seats. He shakes his head and starts working on the worksheets infront of him. I turn to Luke and we have a conversation about how weird it must be to have your mum as your teacher. Michael nudges my arm and looks at my worksheets that I haven't even started. I look to his and they're all finished. I swear he's a try hard around me. Mrs. Hemmings walks behind our tables and sees that Luke's sheets are not even started, like mine. She makes Luke move seats to a single one up the front. I feel bad because it's my fault he didn't get his work done, I was the one that kept distracting him. Mikey picks up my pen and starting copying his answers onto my page. I take his pen and push his sheets away, working out the answers myself. I am almost done when the bell rings.

"Finish those sheets for homework! You are dismissed."

Luke is the first person to leave the room, but as Mikey and I leave, he walks back in. I let go of Mikey's hands and grab Luke's arm. He turns around and looks at me confused.

"I'm sorry I got you in trouble. But I had a nice chat. I...I have to go...sorry."

He turns and walks towards Mrs. Hemmings. I look forwards to see Michael, his hand held out for me to grab and his face bears a kind smile. I take his hand in mine and we walk to the tuckshop. After getting my food we walk to an area that is shaded by a large tree and sit down. We eat our food in a comfortable silence, I finish before him so I rest my head on his shoulder. He smiles at my comfort around him and continues to eat. I quietly giggle at him and then the bell rings. He stands up, puts the last of the food in his mouth and holds his hand out to help me up. I gladly take his hand and he pulls me up, I kiss his cheek once I'm up.

"Where am I walking you to?"

"Science block."

"I have science too, but you're not in my class..."

"Yeah, but I have Luke..."

"Great...more Luke...less work...what's going on between you?"

"Nothing. We just ran into eachother at the park yesterday and he stood up for me to me dad. He got himself banned from my house rather then telling the truth. Unlike you."

"Hey, you know why I did that. I want your parents to like me so that I can have a longterm relationship with you."

"I know."

We walk into the science block and go our separate ways to class. I walk in to class and see Luke sitting at the back alone, I sit next to him. He turns his head to smile at me before looking towards the door and frowning.

"You have to move. Penny is sitting there."

He seems worried, so I stand up and move to a desk somewhere else. Penny takes my old seat, and I eavesdrop on their conversation.

"You're not cheating on me are you, Luke? With Her..."

"No...no...never...She just sat there by mistake and I told her to move."

"I seen you with her yesterday. Don't you dare lie to me."

"I'm not. We just seen eachother at the park and had a little meaningless conversation. It means nothing. You mean more to me than she does, forget about her."

I hear what he says and feel the urge to butt in...but I remember that I'm not supposed to be listening so I just start doing my work and try to blur them out. It doesn't work, I can still hear them and Luke's next comments about how perfect she is and how worthless I am, making tears well up in my eyes. I put up my hand and ask the teacher if I may use the bathroom. The teacher notices my sad expression and walks me outside. She's one of my favourite teachers for this exact reason, she always knows when something is wrong and she's so easy for me to talk to.

"What's wrong, Sophie?"

"It's just something someone said in class. It kinda triggered a personal memory. May I just go to the bathroom?"

"Yes, of course."

She goes back into the classroom and I walk towards the bathroom. I wash my face, careful not to smudge my makeup. I get back to class and sit in my seat. I finish my work as the bell rings, I pack up my stuff, as I go to stand up I see Penny leaning over my desk.

"Stay away from Luke. This is your one and only warning."

I bite my bottom lip as she walks away grabbing Luke's hand when she gets to the door. I walk out slowly, hoping not to run into them. I see Mikey waiting outside looking around confused. Once he turns around I walk behind him, trying to sneak past.

"Sophie! There you are!"

I keep walking, trying to get away so he won't see what Penny and Luke are doing to me. I feel his hands on my shoulders turning me around.

"What's wrong? Why are you ignoring me?"

I just shrug in response and wriggle out of his grip, running off towards the bathroom before the tears spill. I run into someone and we both fall over.