Jayde and I walk to our first period together talking about different things like ice cream flavors and our favorite TV shows. And as is it turns out we like the same ice cream flavor (Cookies N Cream) and the same brand of shoes (Converse).
"Have you ever tried Cold Stone Ice cream?" she asks
"No, only Ben and Jerry's."
"Oh my god! Really?! Okay tomorrow I shall bring you a Cookies N Cream sample from Cold Stone. They have the best and richest ice cream in town."
"You don't have to do that." I say
"Fine you're right. I'll take you there instead." She smiles "my treat of course."
"Its a date." I say with a smile.
We turn a corner and enter into this huge classroom.
"Well here we are," she says "welcome to Honors English."
My first period classroom is huge! There are encouraging posters on every wall everywhere, there are 2 rows of computers in the back and surprise, surprise they even made room for a storage room. This classroom is as big as my own room.
A woman wearing black slacks and a green top walks over to us. "Good morning, Ms. Williams." she says with a smile.
"Morning Ms. Love." Jayde smiles back.
"How was your weekend?"
"It was pretty good actually. My brother was actually pretty decent this weekend."
Ms. Love laughs "Well at least he was sort of decent. Who is this?" she smiles and gestures at me.
"Oh this is Kyla, she's new to the school and since we both had first period together I thought I'd walk her."
"Hi," I say very awkwardly "my name is Kyla Anderson."
"Well, it's nice to meet you Kyla. I'm Ms. Love and if there is anything my door is always open." she says with a smile.
"Thank you." I reply with a smile. Ms. Love has very white and sparkly teeth like in those toothpaste commercials I was so tempted to ask what type of toothpastes she uses.
"You guys have a few minutes before class starts and since no one is here you guys can pick your seats first. I'll be at my desk if you need anything." She walks back to her desk clicking away on her computer where it was just Jayde and I alone again.
"Where do you want to sit? I normally sit closest to the white board so I can see better but wherever you want to sit I'll sit next to you."
The seats are arranged in groups of 4 and there about 6 groups spread out around the classroom.
"I actually love sitting up front closest to the white board it helps me take better notes and plus if I'm in the back I can't really hear anything." I say as I sit in the group closest to the board.
"I might actually be falling in love with you." she giggles as she plops in the seat right next to.
As more Riverbend students start piling in the classroom, the room starts to get louder and louder with every entering student
*Bing Bing Bing*
The class grows quiet as the bell goes off and every student takes their seats.
"Dan can you close the door for me? Thank you." Ms. Love asks. Some kid with red hair and freckles gets up and closes the door and sits right back down.
"Thanks Dan." Ms. Love says as she gets up from her chair and stands in front of the room to greet her students.
"Good morning, everyone!"
Everyone says "Good morning back" in a zombie like tone.
"We have a new student with us today and I would like each and everyone of you to give her a warm welcome. Her name is Kyla Anderson. Kyla would you come to the front of the room please."
I stand up and trip over my own to feet as I make it to the front of the room.
"Kyla can you tell us 3 things about yourself?"
I nod my head and turn to the front of the class. I stand there completely frozen and clueless about what to say deciding if I should sit down or actually let my brain concoct something to say.
"LET ME IN!" Someone says and bangs on the door. "PLEASE"
