A Student's Affair

Chapter Two

I sneakily pulled out my phone and started texting Sophia.

(Messages)

Me: Anyone good in your class?

Sophia: Kind of. But some of these freaks keeps staring at me. What about you?

Me: Not at all. I gotta go. Teacher is looking this way.

(End of messages)

"Hi," I heard a voice say behind me. I turned around and saw a dirty blonde haired girl with brown eyes. She looked as if she was a sophomore.

"Hey." In a small town like this, I have never seen her before. "Are you new here?"

"Yes, how'd you know?"

I looked at her to see if her question was a joke, and realized it wasn't. "The answer is where you live. This is a small town. Where are you from?"

"Moved here from Tampa Florida," she acknowledged. "Though, I didn't know-"

Diingg Diingg

The bell rung, cutting her off.

She sits back in her chair and I turned around, watching Mrs. Timko move to the front of the class. I put my phone on silent and placed it in my back pants pocket.

"Good morning class. My name is Mrs. Timko and I am your chemistry teacher for this semester. If you all could please get up and move to this side of the classroom, I will be assigning you all to a desk," she proposed. Everyone groaned, including myself. I was happy with where I was and surely didn't feel like getting up.

"If there is a problem you can go straight to the principal's office and inform him about it," Mrs. Timko said with a serious look on her face. Everyone quieted up after that, and she went on with assigning seats.

"Samantha Algle..you sit here...Jordan Angle... You sit there..."
she continued calling names and placing people. "Macey Simone, you sit there behind Liah," Mrs. Timko tells me. So the new girl's name is Liah. I actually like the name. I sat down at the desk behind her. 

"Why do teachers always want to assign seats? It's so annoying," I whispered to her.

"It makes it easier to check for attendance," she answered.

I rolled my eyes. "It was a rhetorical question."

**

Class was finally over and I couldn't wait to leave this boring class. School itself is boring on the first few days with rules and expectations, but I guess it still beats actually doing work.

"Hey uh, Macey!" I heard Liah called after me. I turned around to acknowledge her calling.

"Yeah?"

"So I'm going to the cheer tryouts after school today. Kind of nervous since I'm new here and everything," she explained. "Do you know anything about the tryouts?"

"I'm actually trying out myself. What they tell you to do is straightforward. You just have to listen." Says the girl who didn't make the team last year.

"You're trying out too?! This is going to be so much fun!"

"Macey!" I recognized Sophia's voice. She was over by the door waiting.

"Yeah, I wish. but I'll see you later," I said to Liah, making my way towards Sophia.

"Who's that?" Sophia asked as we walked down the hallway.