Broken Faith ✓

Chapter 10: Humming

I hummed with a little skip in my step as I walked to English. I had started singing a lot more and humming without even realising it and I didn't even know why. Still my brain could contemplate no answer and I was no closer to figuring out what was going on in my head.

But as I stepped into class, everything halted. I looked around the room and the tables had been arranged into groups, with a collection of two tables joined together and a total of four chairs.

Suddenly my stomach dropped as I scanned the room and realised Ryder was sitting at the group table in the centre with three of his other friends which meant his table was full. Miss Cameron was hunched over the group table that was nearest her chewing the end of a pencil diligently as she stared at me and another girl that were standing at the door then proceeded to look back to the class.

"Ok Jamie, I want you to get up and move to this table" she said to the boy sitting next to Ryder and suddenly it wasn't as difficult to breathe anymore as Jamie shifted ever so slowly to his newly assigned seat on the other side of the class.

Miss Cameron turned to me and Molly as she squinted her eyes at us both "Which one of you girls would like to sit at the table with Ryder, Leonardo and Rory?"

Why she couldn't just leave things as they were I would never know but I had this extremely impulsive urging thought to pee all around the table Ryder was sitting at, I mean if that didn't mark my territory I don't know what would.

I mentally smacked myself. WHAT THE HELL WAS WRONG WITH ME?!

Molly and I looked to each other and we both turned to Miss to say "I don't mind" "Yup neither do I". LIES. ALL LIES.

Miss looked between us both and I could feel my eyes pleading Miss Cameron when she smiled to me and said "Faith go sit next to Ryder".

Suffice to say she didn't have to tell me twice as I practically ran to the chair next to Ryder and sunk into it, tempted to pee in it a) because of relief and b) because I was getting territorial again. Sigh. I really didn't know what to do with myself anymore.

"Hey Faith! Good to see you again! Glad you're part of the group!" Rory said with a smile.

"Thanks Rory, it's nice to be part of this group too, after all, I still need to reject more of your jokes!"

I heard a laugh escape the person sitting beside me and I just couldn't get myself to look there after my ridiculous thoughts that had occurred just moments ago.

"So this is Faith?" asked Leonardo.

"Yeah and like I told you she has a sharp tongue so don't mess with her bro" Rory whispered loud enough for me to hear.

"Ok class listen up. The rest of the year you will be sitting in these groups and no one will be moving nor will I put up with complaints about wanting to move. Now I know we were looking at Hamlet, but I like to mix it up, give you a little variation so you guys don't get bored looking at the same text months on end, so the posters you guys completed about A Thousand Splendid Suns are now on the wall behind you and I am very impressed with your analysis and thoughts. For your folios you will be writing a group essay with the people you now sit with and I will give you this double class and tomorrow and the rest you will finish at home but the posters on the wall are there to help you so do use them. Off you go" she smiled and returned to her desk and we seniors were left to groan and moan and eventually start the impending work.

"So I want to get most of the work done today so the rest of the time we can kinda relax or at least have a little easier and not do work at home. Is that ok with you all? Actually scratch that, that is exactly what we are doing" I told the guys as I smirked at Rory and Leo, and ever so quickly glanced at Ryder that I might as well have not looked at him at all.