I Dont Know

Chap IV : Meet Clark!

The bell kept ringing and my ears were starting to hurt. I had just went out from the rest room when it rang. When I said my ears hurt, it did hurt, felt like stung. Ughh.. what a way to change my mood. I half-ran to my line for the morning briefing. I was in front, the very front, where all people could see me extremely clearly. Ok.. this wasn't comfortable. I felt kind of glad because I didn't have to do this yesterday, though. The teacher asked me to stay at the back to see how the briefing went, expecting me to do the things my friends did. It wasn't monday briefing anymore. It was everyday briefing, but it lasted shorter. After singing the national anthem and hearing the teacher's speech, all the students went back to classes. Not long after that, Mrs. Lim came.

"Stand up." The monitor said, and we all stood.

"Greeting." "Good morning ma'am." We all said.

"Morning."

'Any command to sit?' My brain asked. After 4 seconds of mouthing each other when to sit, we all started to sit by ourselves. The teacher was old, probably around 65. Her head was already filled with grizzles and her skin wrinkled. She also wore glasses, which made her looked older.

"Ok, class. Because you have done your listening test last week, you're going to make a writing of anything you want, you have to write, you can't type. You will be working in groups of two, and I've chosen who you will be with."

The class started to get noisy, and I was sleepy sitting in the back, I didn't get enough sleep last night because I played piano untill 11. Then I woke up at 4 and played again because I was going to have the course today. It would be so great to perform at th...

"Tory... ark."

What? Uh oh... I slept? Really? Again? Oh my god, I really need to change my way of sleeping. I tapped a girl's shoulder beside me, and she faced me. "Yeah?"

"Sorry, but did the teacher call my name?"

"Oh. Yeah. You're paired with Clark for the assignment."

"Oh.., do you know which one is Clark?" She laughed.

"That one." She pointed to a boy with blonde hair, and wide shoulder. Shoulder wasn't a thing to look at, but I was in the back and he was in front. What else do you expect from me to look at?

"Ok class. Open the book page 59."

I grabbed my book from my back, and took my pencil and eraser. The class went like a normal class.

"Class dismissed." I stood up and stretched. I took my drink and started gulping half way of the bottle. My throat felt fresh. I went downstairs with Carrie. We sort of became friends now. After the finishing our meals in the cafeteria, we went back to class.

"Carrie, who are you working with for Mrs.Lim assignment?"

"Edrick. You?" Edrick? Kidding me?

"Umm.. wait, I forgot the name... Clark!"

"Clark?"

"Yeah. Why?"

"Nothing... it's just, there's a possibility of you working by yourself, because he's not the type that really enjoys working with groups, and he doesn't talk a lot."

"..." Why was God so cruel giving me this kind of person to work with? Unfair. I really didn't want to repeat what I did at QWERTY II where I was the only one who worked but we all got the same score.

"Tory?"

"Yeah?"

"What are you thinking?"

"Umm... nothing."