Unexpectedly

Chapter One- That Brief Moment of Connection

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Chapter One- That Brief Moment of Connection

                Okay. Three words. My. Life. Sucks.

                I banged my head against my locker lightly, holding my Physics exam. Like the rest of my exams in Physics, there was a big fat D scribbled in red marker at the top right corner. I’m definitely failing that class, thanks to my brother (okay, so maybe it’s not entirely his fault, but still…) I groaned inwardly and peeled myself away from the metal locker.

                Not even the lockers would cheer me up. They’re a dull gray. Dull, boring gray. Why couldn’t they paint the lockers green? Or anything remotely cheerful? It sucks the life away from the yellow walls of the school corridors.

                I opened my locker with the code I had this year. I deposited my stuff inside. When I closed the door, Eadrine’s face was there.

                I smiled. “Hi.”

                Eadrine watched me. “You’re not going to explain anything? Anything at all?”

                I did not like the sound of that. Was there something wrong? I mean, I haven’t talked to him in three weeks (because he was out of school, sick with pneumonia. But his mother was too worried and they let him stay in the hospital just to make sure he doesn’t have the west nile virus), so what could I have done that needed explaining?

                “What do you mean?” I hugged my books close to me.

                Eadrine is the school paper’s editor in chief. He’s in charge of our paper, Gravity. He generally likes me, and I generally like him too. I don’t think I’ve done anything that could have pissed me off.

                “You haven’t passed anything in three weeks, Shea. How could you suddenly slack off like that? You know that the first printing is this Friday. You did not pass anything while I was absent.”

                I blinked. “What?” The words he told me barely registered. Bewildered, I looked at him like he was the biggest idiot in the universe. “Don’t make fun of me. You know I passed six articles.”

                He shook his head. “You didn’t.”

                My jaw went slack. What did he just say? Did he just tell me that I didn’t pass my articles? That—was the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard in my entire seventeen years of existence. He must be kidding me. Writing is the only thing that makes my life bearable. My spot as the feature editor was by-far the most important thing.

                “I did. Ask Shelby.” I raised my voice, making a few heads turn to me as students passed.

                He looked puzzled. “What does Shelby have to do with this?”

                Shelby’s his girlfriend. She’s not the brightest girl around, but she was nice in her own way. But what I do know is that fact that she’s just tolerating me. She thinks I like Eadrine.