Escaping My Past

Chapter 9

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I sat down, reluctantly. I didn’t really want to be near her. My friends said I should stay away from her and I didn’t like her very much either. She kinda pissed me off. Let’s just hope I get through class without doing anything stupid. I took a deep breath as the teacher walked in. Here we go, I hope he just talks through the whole class.

“Okay class. I’m gonna give you some papers with questions on, I want them back by the end of class. You’ll be working in pairs with the partner beside you. Good luck”

Great! I’m seriously gonna die now. What am I suppose to do? She probably doesn’t know any of the answer, or doesn’t do any of it and then I’m left to do all of it. I heard a chuckle beside me and turned towards the sound.

“What are you laughing at?” I scowled at her.

“You” she said. She was wearing a bored expression again. It’s really weird, that’s how she looks most of the time. Bored. Like she’s bored of life or something.

“Why?” I looked over at her. She was looking at me.

“Because you looked like you wanted to kill the teacher, because we’re working together.” She said in the same flat bored tone.

“You must’ve seen wrong. I’m almost hyperventilating of happiness to work with you.” I said, wearing the same expression as her, boredom. I rolled my eyes, when she gave the quickest smile I’ve ever seen, it wasn’t even real.

“Let’s just get this over with” I said and wrote our names on the paper. I looked at the questions, they weren’t hard. If I wanted to, I could probably answer them, but I didn’t want her to get any credit, since I would be the one doing it all.

“I didn’t know you were one of those who judge people based on rumors and what your friends tell you” She said. I dropped the pencil and looked at her.

“Who the hell says I’m like that?” I whispered fiercely.

She gave me a look that said ‘are you kidding me or are you just plain stupid?’, “You” she said it like it was the most obvious thing in the world.

“What are you talking about? I’m not judging you based on anything” I said.

“Oh sorry. So you aren’t the one who doesn’t want to talk to me because your friend over there has issues with me?” she nodded in Ana’s directions. She was looking over at us with narrowed eyes, like she didn’t like that we were talking to each other.

I was about to deny it, but she interrupted me, “I know I annoy you, which btw is really fun to do, but I also know that isn’t enough to keep you away from me. You can be civilized with people you don’t love, but the fact that you’re friends has said that I’m danger zone, has made you stay away from me and you use the excuse that you don’t like me to not come near me” she said. The fascinating thing – other than that she was completely right, was that her face didn’t change at all. Somehow the bored expression was glued on her face the whole time.

“And so what? You don’t know me, I don’t know you. Why is that such a big deal? It doesn’t even look like it interests you” I said, confused over that she made such a big deal out of this.