Ericka's POV September 20th
I was sitting in study hall working on the notes I had missed yesterday. For being absent only one day, I missed a ton of work. I placed my history homework back into my folder and pulled out a blank lined sheet of paper. I was stressed, and I decided to do what made me feel ten times better on a crap day. Song writing.
"How am I feeling..." I thought, thinking of what happened in the past two weeks. I began to list them.
-I've grown confident.
-Kenzie always finds a way to take my confidence down.
-My heart is telling me to live Jordan back.
-My mind is telling me that all men are like my Uncle.
-Generally, I'm just confused and broken.
That was it, that would be my theme. How I generally feel. My mind began to think of words that would turn into lyrics.
'She's smiling in the light, crying in the dark'.
'She hides her true reflection, so no one knows who she really is'.
I hide myself and build walls to hide my past. I'm trying to make this song about my hidden life.
'Ignored by the world, she ignores them back.' Doesn't think she's beautiful, so she hides herself'.
I feel the emotion wellin gup inside me. There's a lump in my throat that won't go down, and I haven't even spoken to anyone. It's like I'm torturing myself, yet it helped me more than anyone else could. Before I could write the next few lyrics, the bell rang and it was time for me to go to Biology. I walked around the hall and up the stairs, only to enter my biology room as I usually did. My lab partner, Sean, was already sitting at our table as he usually was. I took my seat and he turned and smiled at me.
"Hey, Ericka." he greets me, smiling warmly. I can't help but to smile back at him. Sean was so kind, I was getting really close to him and he was one of my favorite freshmen. He notices that I have a harder time speaking to strangers. He's patient with me and doesn't go to the conclusion that I'm stupid, like how most people do. I've shown him what I can do, which is a while lot of things, and we work as a team.
Today we were getting a new lab, and of course Sean and I were partners. The point of the lab was to test for starch and glucose of various foods. The work was split up between us and the two people sitting behind us, Mikayla and Kasey. Moving to the lab tables, we decided that Mikayla and Kasey would test for starch while Sean and I tested for glucose. I quickly set up the heating pad, then went over to the nearest station to get small samples of the ten mushed up samples of food we were testing. I brought them back over to the lab table, where Sean was waiting with the supplies we would need for the lab.
"Alright, put ten drops of the Benedict's into each sample." I commanded. Sean quickly did so, dropping the Benedict's solution into the ten test tubes. I placed test tube numbers one and two into the boiling water, and watched as test tube one turned orange and the second one turned bright red. Sean examined the test tubes, mesmerized by the quick change.
"So, I'd say one is around a 3 while two is a..." he pondered over what the samples in test tube two would be. I chuckled at him.
"It's a four, definitely." I informed him. He nodded, realizing that it was a four. We continued the same process with the next eight, copying down their ranks as we got further into the lab. We ended up being the first duo completed with our part of the lab procedure. Sean gestured for a high five, and I mindlessly high fived him. We stayed at the lab table with the other two girls, who were still working on finding the starch results, because we needed the information. Once we got that, the four of us sat back at our tables.
