~Camara~
I kept looking straight ahead until the next bell rung for the next class to begin. Homeroom was taking longer to get over with this year, plus the morning announcements have'nt even came on yet. I sunk down in my chair wanting to leave this hell hole. I couldn't be here, not without Dauntrel. Some places in this school haunt me whenever I'm walking past them. Like our place by the water fountain where we use to meet up or in the court yard outside of the school. I looked out the window, the clouds were dull and it looked like it was about to rain. I then began to gaze off into la la land.
~Flashback~
"Dauntel baby!" I said as I hugged him tight once he came out of his history class. Right now, we have been dating for 6 months and I couldn't have been happier.
"Ready for lunch?" He said with the gorgeous smile of his. I nodded and he released my arms from around him. He took my hand and held it tight while walking with me to lunch.
As we were walking to lunch, a couple of guys popped out from around the corner and pushed Dauntel. His hand immediately left mine and I screamed. They jumped him and began to kick him in the face as well as in the stomach. I kept yelling at them to stop but they wouldn't. Nobody would jump in to stop them because they all feared them.
They had beaten him until a teacher finally came. Dauntrel would always get jumped by gangs because of his older brother. Ever since he had shot one of the members years ago and went to prison for it. He has since gotten all the rage and hate taken out on him. Yet, he still stands strong and that's what I love about him. Once all the guys were taken to the principals office, I helped him up.
"Baby.." I whispered to him but he shook his head and gave me a small hug.
"I'm ok. No worries...Just a few scratches" He said with a small laugh. I helped him up and took him to the nurses office before they sent him off to the hospital.
~Flashback Ends~
I shook my head and came back to reality when the morning announcements came on.
"Good Morning students, faculty and staff. This is your principal Mr.Brooks speaking and welcoming you back from a wonderful summer....I would hope you all had. Upcoming seniors! I would you all make a good example of yourselves for the underclassmen coming in. We need role models around here and a positive attitude! So make this year the best out of all the others Class of 2013! Have a great day!"
He went off the intercom and the bell finally rung. I jumped right out of my seat and grabbed my bag. Ms.Haggard handed us our schedules one by one as we left. I looked down at mine.
Homeroom Ms. C. Haggard
English Ms. P Cohart
Pre Calc Mr. F. Patrick
Physics Mr. D. Barnes
World History Ms. L. Stewart
Spanish 3 - Ms. T. Rodriguez
"What the fuck! Pre Calc!" I was never fond of math since middle school and now they decided to give me a pre calc class. I was in for it this year. I walked inside Ms. Cohart's class and like any other teacher they smiled that fake kind of smile like they didn't want to be here or something. I sat down once again in the back of the class and set my book bag to the side. Adarius came in after the late bell.
"Excuse me young man?" Ms. Cohart asked while tapping him on the shoulder. He slowly turned around to look at her. "Are you new?" He nodded his head but spoke not one word. She pointed him to a seat that was empty next to me. Of course, the irony right? I moved my book bag over a bit. The desk were aligned in pairs.
"As you can see, we will be doing a lot of partner work in here my dears" Ms. Cohart said with joy as she began to write something on the board.
I looked over at him again and he still had the brim of his hat down low. I rolled my eyes and looked back up at the board. The first group work we had do involved a story in our literature books. She handed us a worksheet and told us we had 20 minutes to complete. "What are we? 3?" I asked in my mind before looking down at the sheet of questions. Everyone started talking and working except for me and my partner.
"Ayo dude! Come on! We got work to do" I said to him, tapping the eraser end of the pencil on the paper. He looked down at it but still didn't speak another word. I raised my hand immediately.
"Yes Camara" She said.
"May I please work alone?"
"What's wrong with your partner?"
"He is doing his own thing. And shit I mines well do my own too"
"But I told you! This is collaborative work"
"So? He's not going to effect my grade! Why should I work with someone who doesn't want to? Were not in elementary school. I thought I passed that already"
Ms. Cohart immediately slammed her books and rose from out of her chair.
"You want to work alone eh?" I nodded and she looked around at everyone else who was shaking their heads frantically.
"Alright. Because of your fellow classmate Ms. Camara Lowe! We will be working alone! And the grades will be weighted more !. Separate your desk and hand me those papers. You will receive new ones!" Ms. Cohart went around to collect papers then everyone separated their desk. They all shot me a look of disgust.
I moved my desk away from him and he looked over at me. I couldn't see his eyes but I still felt an unfriendly vibe from him. I looked away once more and blocked him out. "This should be an interesting year...." I thought to myself as the class began to quiet down and do their own work.
