The bell rings and the class chatter dies down. Science is such a waste of my time. I sigh as I look up and the teacher begins his speech about how important our project is.
"You all will be assigned a partner and will have to work out of class to get it done. Now you're partners are: Josh and Kristy, Tom and Jazmine," He drones on until finally he mentions me, "Isabella and Marcel. Good luck to all of you, I will give you the rest of class to find you're partners and start on you're projects." The chair hesitantly moves beside me as a body occupies it. When I look over my shoulder I see the nerd from a few days ago.
"Oops Hi, are you Isabella? I'm Marcel, I, uh, I wasn't sure who you were when our names were called but seeing you're all alone I figured you uh, you know..." He stutters.
Before I can reply the two jocks sitting in front of us turn around. "I feel sorry for you," one says to me while the other glances at Marcel. I get the hint and fold my hands in front of me on the desk and lean in. "Thank you for the concern but if you had never turned around in the first place I wouldn't have to see the vile thing you call your face and you wouldn't have had to apologized." I smile politely before going back to my notebook. The two jocks and Marcel were pretty shocked. I guess I kind of was too, who cares if Marcel's "a nerd". Like I said I'm tired of all these cliques.
When class is over Marcel stops me outside of the room, "Thanks for sticking up for me but I understand if you don't want to be my partner. I'd be fine just doing all the work, you'll never have to talk to me or anything, I'll even put you're name on some stuff."
Without much response I hand him a paper with my name and address, "Be there at 8." I walk off towards my locker, leaving him stunned. When I reach my locker, Audrey, my best friend, walks up and lights up a cigerette. "Aren't those banned on school grounds?"
She shrugs, "See if I care." I grab my bag and we head out the doors. We jump into our friend Steven's truck as he blares Headstrong by Trapt. "So what we doin' today?" Audrey takes a drag. Steven grins as he pulls into a parking lot. I read the sign on the billboard and punch his arm, "NO EFFING WAY! FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH LIVE!?" Audrey nearly chokes on her drag before coughing out "What?" We run out of the car dragging poor Steven along. Me and Audrey join in screaming with the crowd. "That's why they call me, bad companyyy!!"
