Call You Mine

Chapter 8 - The first challenge

"Hey!  Hey! Listen up!" Old Mrs. Revert yells over the thundering sounds of teenage voices during first period. It was hard for her to get our attention now that exams were over and the only reason kids came to school was to see their friends.

"Listen please!" her soft senior voice tries again.

Of course with wolfen hearing I could hear her over the throngs of voices ,but I refuse to care as I keep chatting with my Sam and Leslie, about her rehabilitation after the rogue attack. I had a feeling Sam had a crush on sweet Leslie and refused to admit it.

She had a Japanese mother and Irish dad which gave her amazingly weird but beautiful features. She had thick brownish red hair,  tiny eyes, freckles and really clear skin. She was about my height and basically her best friend was her earphones. She was a dancer.

Screechhhhhhhhh!

"Ahhhhhhhhh! " the entire student body in the class claps their ears at the sound of Mrs. Revert scratching the board. Mean old bat.

" Finally, I have your attention." she smiles pushing her cracked old spectacles up her nose. "As you may know, graduation is around the corner. But before that happens you have two final weeks to send out application, try to apply for internships and get some extra credit work in." she lifts off of her seat before walking solely on her tiny feet,  making it to the front of her desk before she leans her back with the table. "So I implore you to start working on it,  or else you're going to end in this town forever, doing medieval jobs." she huffs.

Ring!

We all start packing to leave English class when Mrs. Revert peeps up "The bell doesn't dismiss you, I do." she walks slowly back to her desk chair and sit down,  which takes forever.

"Then what the fuck is the bell here for then?" I hear Bobby Foley mumble under his breath from across the room. I chuckle along with Sam. He had heard too.

Perks of being a werewolf, I guess.

"You may leave but grab some college pamphlets of my desk before leaving. Class dismissed."

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"--and she was like 'the bell doesn't dismiss you, I do.' Bobby mumbled 'Then what the fuck is the bell here for then?'." Sam retells the story of Mrs. Revert to the table and the gang laughs.

We were finally having lunch together. Aley was still mentally barely there but here enough to participate.

"Thank gosh, she didn't hear him. That poor boy would have spent his last few days at Fillmore High, in detention " Chloe chuckles scribbling God knows what in her notebook.

" What you got there Chloe?" I ask curiously.

"My application to every teaching school in the state." she answers.

We all burst out laughing.

"What?" she frowns "I'm not joking."

"You're not?" Jake stares all bug eyed at her. She shakes her head no. "You do know you have to teach kids,  that's exactly like these idiots here, right?"  he motions all around the cafeteria. He was right, teenagers are a handful of barbarians and animals, the girls were savagely competitive and the guys were man-child's that made a lot of unnecessary noise.

"I can handle them, don't worry. I had to deal with your big head since we were in diapers,  I think I can deal with em." she smirks, staring at her red manicured finger nails.

"It's your funeral." Jake goes back to eating his sandwich.

"How about you? " Chloe raises her eyebrows at him.