How Not to Survive High School

Chapter 4 - Why Maths!

Quickly I ran down the flights of stairs hearing jeers behind me, "WATCH OUT BLONDIE, YA MIGHT FAINT AGAIN!" Not so secretive sniggers could be heard accompanying them.

Once finally going to the other stairwell and clamouring up the towering mountain of steps, I reached maths. The line waiting for Miss to arrive, they looked at me hopefully before deciding I was not the teacher and regaining conversation, a few people were laughing at me as I made my way down the hall to Jay, Eliza and Mo (short for Molly). Mo I have mentioned briefly, she is the loud, boustrus one of the twins, her sister Peg is not in our class. Mo's in maths and PE with us, and today we had both of those. Oh have I complained about PE yet?

Other than INCREDIBLY sexist teachers we do very fun sports like, tennis, badminton, run away from the people trying to through HARD tennis balls at your head and of course the non-existent football for the girls. Even when in a mixed class we still couldn't play football, the teacher would find some excuse to stop only the girls from playing football!

Anyway, I'm getting off track! When I finally completed the walk of shame to the back of the line Miss finally appeared. She glared at us all before grunting and opening the door, as we walked in she shouted, "ALRIGHT! GET A WHITE BOARD, SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP! ALL OF YOU!" We shuffled into the vast room staring down at the floor. I grasped a board and went to my seat. "TODAY YA GONNA DO THIS SHEET! BUT FIRST LINE UP IN AGE!" We all groaned. "SHUT UP AND GET MOVING!" The class was silent quickly as all the students made there way to the back of the class, even the big-headed Blake and the obnoxious Leo were silent.

5 minutes later and we were all at the back, Miss Lay stipend around putting us in groups of 3 - 4. Me, Jay and Mo were 7 days apart, Mo the youngest and me the oldest, and I would never let Jay forget it, we had a pretty good chance of being together. Eventually Miss got to us,
"RIGHT YOU, YOU AND YOU! SIT THERE!" My mood fell, I was with Hailey and Jerry. I didn't have anything against them, its just I did fit in with them. At all. They were smart, I was not. They were popular, I was not. They were EXTREMELY rich, I, as you can guess, was not.

I shuffled to the table, sitting right at the edge. They had already got it out of the pack half completed by the time I was sitting down! Looking over at Jay enviously I saw her group, her, Mo and Byron. I don't believe I have introduced him yet so I'll give a quick intro now, nerd, good friends with Jay and at one point had a 'crush' on her. Not real obviously, just some made up garbage by Blake. You should have seen there faces when I said she was taken! They didn't know then so after finding out, let's just say I would pay all the money in the world to have had a photo!

One of the many things I wish for is Jay's ability to go up and talk to anyone. Anyone in out class that is, seriously I turn into a stuttering deck and she's class clown! Sure she can't say no but still, she can get on with anyone!
I looked down, a piece of paper had been covered in doodles, looking closer I saw a dragon and girl. These of which I decided to name Raziel for the dragon and River for the girl.
"Miss! We're done!" I heard beside me, those two had there hands up in the air waving for miss.
"Perfect!" Miss Lay shouted, quickly followed by, "Seeing as we all appear to be done " only two out of the 12 or so 4 and 3 were done, "You will stay in these groups for the rest of the lesson, now onto the next task!"

I let out a small groan before quickly realising and trying to disguise it with a cough.
"You ok there Allie?" Harley asked,
"Yep, just got a soar throat." I replied a bit to quickly. Haley gave a nod before turning back to the lesson, this was going to be a long hour...

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After about 5000 years the saviour bell rang, next lesson was upon us! With joy I unfurled my timetable only to find my mood sinking. PE. I.e the worse thing in the history of humanity!
"Ugh, I know right! PE!" Mo complained, sympathising with me. Eliza and Jay were walking up to us.
"That was actually a mediocre lesson, wasn't it Mo?" Jay spoke in an unusually happy mood, (yeah, thats how excited Jay got) then at seeing my timetable she returned to her usual dreary self. "Seriously? PE?!"

After being dragged to the changing rooms we were told that all the groups would be playing indoor cricket together, amazing! (Obvious sarcasm is obvious) well all except the higher set boys. They were playing football, because apparently according 2 out of 3 of our gym teachers, girls are to fragile! There are 3 groups total, the higher set girls, the higher set boys and the lower set mixed group, today the mixed and girls were being put together, great, more ways to humiliate the none sporty kids!

As we were all getting changed I looked at the shorts in my bag, the longest ones barley covered up anything! And they literarily measured girls skirts! "Ugh! I hate these shorts! Why are they so, so?"
"Short?" Mo finished my sentence,
"Why don't you bring joggers like me?" Jay pointed out with a sarcastically sickly sweet face.
"Because it's like, 1000 °C out!" Mo interrupted chuckling.
"Well I think they look fabulous on me!" Eliza posed, quite literally, making a Vouge face (kinda like a serious duck face).
"Yeah well not all of us-" Jay was interrupted by Eliza,
"Tut tut! About to swear in front of Allie's innocents were we?" She butted in, Jay scowled. The rest of us laughed, until miss came in and shouted to the whole group to get in the gym in 30 seconds or a week's worth of detention!

Hope you enjoyed the chapter, please comment I would like some constructive criticism! But if it's about grammar I know I'm terrible! :\ Sorry for late chapters! Bye!🐙