It Just Had To Be Like This... // Max and Harvey

~Chapter 4~

The bell rang to signal the start of form time. Other students came rushing in to fill all of the seat meaning the only seat left was next to Max. I sat down next to me and were both exchanged smiles.

"Good morning 9B." The teacher smiled at everyone.

"Good morning Mr Howard." Everyone replied.

"Ok class so today we have a new student. Would you like to introduce yourself?" The teacher smiled at me. I stood up. Everyone's eyes were on me and suddenly I lost my confidence.

"Um, Hi. My name is Poppy and I am rubbish at French." I stuttered. The remark had the effect I was hoping for and the class laughed a bit. Even Mr Howard laughed!

"You are lucky I am a german teacher and not a french teacher." Mr Howard smiled at me.

I sat down again but Ruby and Holly were glaring at me. They signalled me to look left and I saw Max staring at me. He looked down when I saw him. I just raised my eyebrows at the two girls. They rolled their eyes in defeat and went back to listening to the teacher. I felt a sense of dominance surge through me.

"Ok so I heard that we don't have an assembly today so you guys can just talk to your partners." Mr Howard just got out a load of paperwork and I turned around to see Max, staring at me again.

"Hi, do you know your way around school now?" Max asked me.

"Yeah nearly. Could I stick with you and Harvey for the day? I think I might still get a bit lost." I replied. I felt my face go hot. Do I like Max as well? Harvey grabbed a chair and sat next to Max and I.

"Hey guys, what you up to?" He said to both of us. Max just looked down and mumbled "Nothing. Why?" After he said this Harvey glared at him for a few seconds.

"Is there a hockey club in this school?" I tried to break the tension.

"Yeah, Wednesday I think." Max replied.

"I was thinking of joining!" Harvey nearly shouts.

"Yeah, me too!" Max winks at me. It gave me butterflies and once again, Harvey glared at Max. I found this whole thing so cute!

When the bell rang, I got out my new planner to see which lesson I had next. German. I didn't have to go anywhere but Max and Harvey had to go to Maths. After they left, I was sat there alone in the classroom with the only other people being Ruby and Holly. They kept glaring at me so I just ignored them. After about another twenty seconds, the class came flooding in. A girl came running over to me followed by a boy.

"hi! I'm Sophia. This is Gwidvall. He's almost too gay to function. Mean girls reference there!" She said to me with probably the biggest smile in the world.

"I'm Poppy. I'm rubbish at French." I said cheerfully.

"Gwidvall can help you, he's fluent." Sophia informed me. I'm glad I already made friends within a minute, maybe it was good luck?

The Mr Howard came into the room with a load of German worksheets. He asked Gwidvall to hand out one each. As Gwidvall collected the sheets, he tripped and fell onto the floor with worksheets flying everywhere. The class laughed but not at him, with him.

"Classic Gwidvall." Sophia shook her head and started to rummage through her pencil case. When I was handed a worksheet, I raced through it. I found German easy.

I put my pencil down and as mr Howard looked up at me he told me that I could do anything I wanted if it was quiet. I could see out of the corner of my eye Ruby and Holly were desperately rummaging through dictionaries and looking on google translate. I laughed slightly at this.

"Is something bothering you miss Hartford?" Mr Howard looked up from his work. I shook my head and looked down again.

It was about another fifteen minutes when the bell rang. I ran towards the drama block because that was my next lesson. I queued up outside the classroom when Max came running up to me.

"Hi Max." I said to him.

"Hi! Do you wanna go with me if we are in partners?" He replied breathlessly. I nodded my head happily. I could tell he ran the whole way there which makes sense because the maths corridor is pretty far away. That was when the drama teacher came out of the classroom.

"year 9, I only have one thing to say to you." He said angrily. What did we do?

"Do come in." He said in a very friendly tone of voice and opened the door to the classroom. When he saw me he held his hand out.

"Mr Hatton. I'm looking forward to teaching you." He smiled down at me. I smiled back.

We all sat down on the floor in a circle. Max sat himself down next to me.

"This is my favourite subject, partly because we get like no homework." He told me. I laughed slightly at this. The first activity was to do this weird game where we have to stand around in a circle and each take turns to chuck a ball at a random person but if you drop the ball or have it in your hands for longer than a second you are out. We played for five minutes when we got to the serious stuff. Max and I had to work in pairs on this small scene where we were both on a train and Max was supposed to be really dumb and I had a really short temper. It was so fun.

As we had about ten minutes of the lesson left, we played a game in the dark. It was basically where one person was on and they would try and scare the crap out of you if you went near them. If they catch you, you are out. We were all wondering around in the dark when suddenly someone grabbed me arm. I quietly screamed.

"Sh, its Max," I heard Max say. He pulled me into a corner and we both crouched down leaning against a wall.

"No one sees us here." He whispered to me through the silent darkness. I couldn't see him but I knew he was really close to me. I suddenly felt a hand on mine but unlike most times, I didn't flinch. I kept my hand where it was and didn't think too much about it. I suddenly heard a thud a few metres away and Max and I immediately sprang up as if we hadn't just been cheating. We were one of the only four to be left in the game.

As soon as the bell rang, the stampede of a class came rushing out towards the food hall. Max and I went to the form room where we would be meeting Harvey as we all had history.

"Ha drama was so fun." I laughed. Max nodded and for a moment, Harvey looked jealous. But why?

I got out a chocolate bar and cut a significantly large piece for each of us.

"Ok we aren't allowed to eat in the form room but we're rebels so... Meh." Harvey shrugged his shoulders and we all just stood there in silence for a minute. It wasn't long until the bell rang though. Thank god it couldn't have gotten more awkward... We all headed of to history.

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Hey!

sorry I couldn't have uploaded sooner, its that my phone had I virus so that was great! (note the sarcasm) Btw sorry if Poppy has a variety of surnames, she is now called Poppy Hartford.

~Amanda~