Beat the Cliché (DISCONTINUED)

Chapter two// why me?// part one

I silently sneak into class, Charlotte is in my math class and saved me a seat. Back row. Away from the teacher and away from all the brats up front. "You're late" Ms. Green, the math teacher, turned around and leveled her eyes. I've never hated math, in fact I'm pretty good at math. But it always relies on the teacher on how hard I work. "I'm sorry ma'am, it's won't happen again"
"I hope it doesn't" she slowly turns back to the board and continues where she left off.

After what felt like forever, the bell rang.
"Alex, can I talk to you please?"
I nod my head and walk to Ms. Greens' desk.
"Look, I know it's only the first day, but I've seen your marks from last year, now, I'm offering to tutor you after school on a Wednesday. I expect you to come to my class and we will work on what's dragging your marks down"
I smile and nod. A teacher has never offered me help. It's refreshing. "Thank you ma'am"
I walk out the class into hallway rush hour. Charlotte leaning against the wall waiting for me. "What was up with that?"
"She offered me help" she looked confused. "Wow. I know you didn't do well last year but you still passed! In fact the majority didn't pass, we had a crap teacher!" She said. Successfully cheering me up. "Okay we now have English with Mr. Johnson" we walk close to the wall, where we can't get trampled over by the 'normal' people.

Charlotte pulls me into Mr. Johnson's class. I almost missed it. I love having her in all my same subjects, but sadly not always the same teachers. We sit fairly close to the front, mainly because all the seats at the back were taken. Oh god no, I say to myself. I'm seated next to Ethan. I exchange a worried glance at Charlotte and she shrugs.
"Good morning class. Now today we will be discussing 'Romeo and Juliet'. If you have not read the play or, at least seen the movie, I suggest you do that for homework. Now why is this the most commonly known Shakespeare story?" Kathrine, one of the Ambers cronies, raised her hand.
"Because Juliet didn't have decent fashion sense, like some people in this class" looking back at Charlotte and I. The whole class laughs, we just shrug it off.
"And what is your name?" Sir asks the girl with the long brown hair. "It's Kathrine" she replies perking up. "Well I'm sorry to say Kathrine, but Juliet's fashion sense was, how does your generation now say it? On fleek?" The class erupted in laughter. I raise my hand. "Yes..."
"Alex" I answer him.
"The reason why it's one of the most famous Shakespearean stories, is because of the love between two rivals, it also helps that some are suckers for romance, even if it ends in tragedy. Romeo falls for Juliet only after 'love' at first sight, finding out she was a Capulet, Romeo being a Montague. It's also famous for the death of the two main characters" I answer. The class staring at me, gawking. "And may you please explain the death?"
"Juliet took some sort of substance that made the people around her think she was dead. She was to be awaken with a kiss from Romeo, Romeo, however didn't know of the plan and decided to kill himself. After kissing Juliet, she wakes up only to find a dead Romeo, once she finds his body she kills herself, for real, this time"
"Alex, you seem to know your stuff! But I have one more question. In your first answer why did you put air quotes arriving love?" He said with a smile, generally trying to be nice. "Well I don't believe in love at first sight, love is meant to be based off of knowledge of a person and their personality, they knew nothing about each other, so I do believe it was 'lust at first sight'". He raised his eyebrows in surprise to my answer, but he turned back to the board and the class decided to discuss the play, not giving the answer a second thought. "Now, for the first project for this semester" the class groan's. "I know, but don't worry! You won't get any homework from me since you have this project" he started walking around the class handing out the break down. "Now for the partners! Alex since you happen to be intelligent in this matter, you will be with..." His eyes travel around the class.
I cross my fingers. Please don't be Ethan. Please don't be Ethan. "Ethan! You two should work well together, since you both passed English with flying colours last year!" He assigned the rest of the class in partners. Poor Charlotte, she has to work with Amber. We start to pack up. "So... Uh. When do you want to start the project?" I turn around to see Ethan. His blue eyes, pitch black hair and pale skin made for one 'perfect' looking guy. Well, not for me anyways. "Maybe you can come over tonight and we can start rehearsing?" He nods his head and gives me his phone, I'm standing like a total idiot. Seeing my confused look he said "enter your number, you know, so we can discuss the project?"
Damn it Alex.
Do you always have to be so clueless?

I put in my number and give his phone back. "See you later" I wave good bye. I mentally slap myself. I wait for Charlotte as we walk out the class. The first thing we see is Amber clinging onto Ethan. Kissing him. I gag. I swear it's like you could see she was using her tongue. Charlotte pulls me away form the sight. "Thank you! Any longer and I would've been sent home" she waves away my thanks and we walk to lunch. We both make throwing up gestures and laugh until we get to the cafeteria.