Mute (ImmortalFox)

Chapter 4

Eddie was waiting for you. He smiled and ran to you when you entered.

"Aleks! Hey guess what! We have a substitute! We should troll his sorry ass! This is gonna be so much fun," He rambled as you just nodded at his remarks. He continued talking to you as you both sat down together in the back of the room.

"Hello class! My name is Mr. Pounder and obviously, I am your sub. Your teacher apparently got into some accident or something, so I'll be here for a couple of weeks; teaching you morons how to do math," Your sub was old. His head had thin white hair lain across it. His belly stuck out far in front of him. He limped as he walked across the classroom.

"So for this attendance thing," he began reading names off the sheet.

"Edwin Cardona?" He called out.

"Oh Pounder please, call me Edwardo," Eddie stood up and announced. The class snickered.

"Mr. Cardona. Do you really want me to call Mommy? I can get your butt suspended in seconds. Don't mess with me kid,"

Eddie's face paled and the class fell silent. He sat back down without a word.

"Seemoose O'Doherty," He mispronnounced a students name.

"Right here," A blonde boy raised his hand across the room. You hadn't seen his face before. Perhaps he was new. He didn't bother correcting the mistake of the sub.

"Aleksandr Marchant?" he called your name. You raised your hand. Mr. Pounder didn't look up from the paper. He was waiting for a voice to confirm the presence of the student.

"Sir, he's here," Eddie told him for me.

"Ed! Sit down! I'm sure he can say his own name. Son, were you brought up by snarling wolves?" the class giggled again at his remark.

"So Aleksandr, you don't talk much do you?"

You shook your head. He just huffed and finished taking the attendance. He wrote the assignment on the board. You opened your textbook and instantly began to work.

"Hey Allyyyyy???" You heard Eddie's whining voice. You looked up to see him giving you large puppy dog eyes.

"Can you help meeee?? Gooby please????" he pleaded. You sighed and wrote out a simple explanation on a piece of scratch paper. His eyes widened as he understood the problem. He muttered a quick thank you and began quickly noting down the steps to the equation.

"Um excuse me?" You looked up to see the blonde boy standing in front of you.

"Can I work with you guys? I'm stuck," he shyly asked.

Eddie agreed happily and you nodded. He sat next to you. The blonde boy instantly began comparing answers from the worksheet with you. He smiled when he noticed he got them right.

"My name is Seamus," he introduced himself.

"I'm Eddie! And this is Aleks!" he shook your shoulders.

"Cool. You guys seem like the least douche-baggy out of the class,"

You smiled and nodded at his remark. This boy was nice; he didn't seem fazed at the fact that you didn't talk. He treated you like a normal person; something people rarely did anymore.

"So what do you guys think about Pounder? Seems like a sack of shit to me," Eddie asked us.

"I think he's cool. He's funny too," Seamus replied.

I scribbled a note to Eddie, telling him to stop being such a douche and pay attention for once. He read it and threw it back at me, laughing.

"Like hell that'll happen," he giggled.

You smiled and looked to Seamus, who was also chuckling along. For once, you kind of enjoyed being in class.

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The bell rung signaling third period to end. We all gathered up our stuff and made our way out. After looking at Seamus' schedule, you discovered that you only had one other class together. You were slightly disappointed, but weren't gonna open your mouth to complain.

You slipped your bag up onto your shoulder. Your stomach started to hurt. You lightly pressed your wound, only to be met with more expected pain.

You sighed and walked to study hall.

'I finally have time to finish dra-' You interrupted your own thought.

James is in that class...

You started to slow in your step. You were in no rush.


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Yay longer chapter!

And I actually had a math teacher who called us morons and said all that stuff. He was the best teacher ever :)