SILENT RIVERS

Feelings Fade

Noah's POV

"Hey babe", i greeted Taylor with a kiss on the cheek.

"You're gonna mess up my make up", she whined grabbing her mirror.

" Oh it's fine", she replied before kissing me on the cheek.

" Hey man", Justin greeted me.

" Sup?" I asked bumping his fist.

" Coach wants to see you", he told me before heading down the hall.

" Thanks man", i told him.
" Must be about my scholarship", i thought.

"Morning coach", i greeted him.
I looked across the room to see Principal Carney standing and an uneasy feeling settled in my stomach.

" Is there something wrong?" Coach i asked.

" Yes, there is ",Principal Carney replied immediately," you're grades".

"And according to school rules anything below a C  average makes you suitable to sit on the bench while it's basketball season".

"Excuse me?" I asked.

" You were given one whole year to redeem yourself Mr. Grant and that year is up. So unless you can get 80% on all your sessional tests for this month , you will not be considered a part of this school's basketball team. Good day".

"What about my scholarship?" I asked.

" For the time being you don't have a scholarship", Coach told me with a look of disappointment.

" But i need this", i shouted with clenched fists.

" There's nothing i can do about it", Coach said," hopefully you adhere to Carney's criteria by March and then you can come back but for now Dillan will be sitting in as Captain".

I walked out of the room furious.

" What the hell am i supposed to do now?" I complained to Matthew," i need that scholarship!"

" You should've listened man?" Matthew said.

" That's all you can say?" I berated at him.

"Don't get angry at me" , he retorted," i warned you about your time wasting and the partying but you didn't listen, not once!"

" You listened to Cara instead", he continued," her dad's rich so she can do whatever she wants cause in the end she has daddy's money to bounce back on".

" I'm sorry.........", i began to apologize.

" Don't", he cut me off," just get you're shit together and get you're ass to class.

And with that he walked away.

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This was my first class since morning.
" You people have a group assignment", Our literature teacher said aloud.

" You will be put  into groups of two. What you will be asked to do is present a essay about real life situations of any choice except sexual experience or the lack thereof", she instructed.

" It can be about your family life dreams or aspirations, whatever defines you".

" The pairs are as follows", she said and began calling out names.

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"And finally, Noah Grant and N'Kaytri Adams", Mr. Hernandez announced.

" I'm sorry, who?" I asked.

" The dork in the corner on ths right", David whispered to me.

I looked around to the direction he was pointing but the person remained unknown to me.
Suddenly it dawned on me that it was the girl Cara was arguing with.

"Great ", i sighed to myself, " just when i thought this day couldn't get any worse".

" But i thought we were going out tonight", I argued with Cara over the phone.

" You know what, forget it!"
And with that i hung the phone up.