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Chapter 2

Bethany's POV

"'Glenley Woods, Our Home'?!" My best friend, Andrea exclaimed incredulously. 

"You're kidding right?" 

I laughed bitterly and shook my head. 

"Nope, 'fraid not." I answered glumly. 

Andrea's eyes nearly popped out of her head, and before I knew it, she burst into a fit of laughter. 

I glared at her menacingly, warning her to knock it off. 

This wasn't funny. 

There was absolutely nothing humorous about writing an essay about Glenley Woods.

It wasn't even about writing an essay. It was the unsaid but true fact that what we wrote had to be positive in order to do well. I’m sure that if I wrote my true thoughts about our ‘wonderful’ town, I would probably fail Mrs Melton’s class. And, I, Bethany Cross, does not fail at anything.

“Okay, okay. I’m sorry but I just can’t help it,”

“You will have to write an essay about how much you supposedly love Glenley Woods. Talk about irony at its best!” Andrea laughed, yet again. 

I rolled my eyes at my best friend, and together, we made our way to our next class.

When I entered Mr Harrison’s class, I noticed something different.

Some idiot obviously knocked his head on his way to class, because on my seat, sat a guy that obviously wasn’t me. Well of course, considering he’s a guy, but that’s not the point.

We’ve had the same seating arrangements in this class since the year started, which was already about a month ago. So, that gives him no excuse to sit on my chair. What an idiot.

Being my usual confident self, I marched towards Mr Dumbass and started shooting daggers at him with my eyes.

Mr Dumbass looked up at me with a strange look on his face, probably a little startled by me.

Serves him right for sitting on my seat.

‘’Um, I-i-i-is there anything I can do for you?” He asked, surprisingly genuinely and even little nervously.

I furrowed my eyebrows at him and decided to play along with his little act.

“Yes, actually there is.” I stated as sweetly as possible.

An average human being would be able to spot the fake smile that was obviously plastered on my face in a snap of a finger. But obviously, Mr Dumbass wasn’t the sharpest crayon in the box. Not that I was surprised.

His face merely lighted up with curiosity. But that look was immediately wiped off as I said with a smirk, “You can get your ass off my chair.”

With that being said, Mr Dumbass immediately shot up off my seat.

That’s more like it.

“I’m r-r-really sorry, I didn’t um, I’m just r-r-really s-s-sorry.” He stammered nervously and walked away as fast as he could.

Like I said before, what an idiot.

With one last shake of my head, I sat down on my seat and prepared for the lesson to begin.

“Class, I have an announcement!” Mr Harrison began.

“We have a new student in this class, his name is Blake Mathews , and I hope you will all give him a proper welcome to Glenley Woods High.” 

Before I knew it, Mr Harrison was pointing towards Mr Dumbass and giving him a warm smile that was almost, welcoming. 

Suddenly, my eyes grew wide. 

Mr Dumbass is Blake Mathews.

Shit.

So much for a proper welcome.

Authors Note :

Hi guys! So if any of you guys feel that Bethany's kind of a bitch, well that's kind of how her character is set up to be so don't get too worked up. Who's liking this story so far? Let me know in the comments below. 

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