High School

Chapter 4

Arica walks down the hallway to her locker and changes out her Math binder for her Biology binder. She closes it then walks towards her English II class and take an empty seat in the left corner of the class. Taking out her supplies and placing them neatly on her desk, she lays her head on her arms and rest her eyes. Slowly as time passes students walk into class followed by Chris and his friends. Chris sits in a seat next to Arica while the guys sit in seats around her. The teacher walks in closing the door and putting his bag on his desk taking out the role book and a laptop.

Mr. Johnson: Hello class and good morning my name is Mr.Johnson. I am your English teacher. Today will be an easy day, you'll take an 20 question practice test to see where you are in English. When you finish please bring your test up to me. Now as soon as I am finished passing out the test you all may start (passing out the last of the test). You may begin class.

The students all began working on the test, reading and answering questions. Some circling anything while others took their time. Without any problems Arica reads through the passages answering questions like a wiz kid. She checks over her work then gets up sitting her test on Mr. Johnson's desk.

Mr. Johnson: You must be Arica I've heard a lot of good things about you, very promising young student.

Arica: Thank you sir

Mr. Johnson: You're welcome

Arica walks back to her seat and starts listening to her music again. Drawing a girl dancing in a dark room searching for a way to get out of the darkness. She takes the time to softly shade in the girls clothing and hair as she makes the background dark as possible. Satisfied with her art work, Arica looks up at the clock at the front of the classroom. 30 minutes left... 29 minutes left... 28 minutes left... She began to count down the time. 1 minute till the bell rings for Art class. The bell rings signaling Arica to hurry off to art class and find a good spot towards the back of the room. As she sets out her art supplies on the table, the art teacher walks in behind a few students. The teacher begins to place syllabus packets on each desk for the students to read. Arica starts reading through the syllabus to see what the break down of the class would be. She reads over the supply list, seeing that she already has all of her supplies and extra. As soon as she finished reading the last page of the packet, Blake, Chris, Mason, Jake, Josh, and some girls walked into the room. They all took seats in the back opposite side of room from Arica.

Mr. Anders: Hello class my name is Mr. Anders and I am your art teacher. Today we will be reading through the key topics on our syllabus, then you'll have free time to do whatever. However, you can not leave this class. Hopefully we will all have a wonderful semester.

Mr. Anders begins reading through the syllabus and the class follows. Some students highlight certain details in different colors; pink for class rules, yellow for supplies, and orange or green for grades. Arica opens her sketch book and begins to sketch the image of a girl with long curly hair; bloody tears streaming from her eyes, and her soul leaving her body in a smoke. She shades in the eyes with a blood red colored pencil while the hair is shaded a mid-darkish blue black, and the soul is shaded a depressing grayish color. Just as she stops to look at her drawing Mr. Anders walks by and stops in his step seeing just how detailed Arica is in her art work.

Mr. Anders: That is amazing. What's your name sweetheart?

Arica: Arica Michaels. It's really nothing sir *closes sketch book putting supplies into her bag*

Mr. Anders: No sweetheart that was an amazing drawing, hopefully if you show your classwork attention like that you may just pass this class very easily.

Arica: Thank you sir

Today's choice for lunch is potatoes, green beans, and bbq ribs with a side salad; pizza with cheesy crust; and a fully dressed salad with chicken bites and any choice of drinks from soda to juice to water. Arica walked in line grabbing a tray for her potatoes, green beans, bbq ribs, salad with light ranch dressing, apple juice, and a water. Scanning her I.D. card and looking for a table, she chose a table to the far right near a window and set to eat her lunch in peace. Sadly her peace was cut short by her bestfriend and his friends.

Blake: Hey loner wassup

Chris: Leave the damn girl alone

Joshua: Keep on and Imma slap the hell out you Blake

Blake: Well dang I'm just joking

Chris: Mhm sure

Mason: Man did you see Kourtia omg that chick is fine like some damn mamii

Jake: Son nah Madison Idk who told her to wear tight pants but dude bless jesus for that ass

Chris: Y'all niggas sound thirsty asf

Blake: Amber still the shi tho she fine and fast best of both worlds *smiles ear to ear rubbing hands*

Arica just looked at him with no expression while thinking how simple minded he is. The guys continued talking about how big the schools popular girls boobs and butts are. How many girls they slept with and how good they were in bed. Arica tried blocking out the stupidity spilling from the mouths of these attractive species she called her bestfriend and aggravations. One more class then dance practice and she's free of the hell hole she knew as school.

Ms.Glick: Good afternoon class my name is Ms.Glick. I will try to make Biology fun for us all. If you read over the syllabus you'll see my grading scale along with the sections on classwork, test, extra credit, and projects. Certain project will be partner work, I will pair you off with another student when the time comes for those projects. I do not want to send anyone to the office or give out detentions for misbehavior, so please be good class. Ok class today you'll be taking a practice test so I'll know where you all are in the Biology area of science. Please try your best on this test. The test will be 30 questions long with three passages to read. One passage each ten questions and a diagram.

Arica took her time reading the questions then the passages leaving the diagrams to help her figure out the whole idea of the passage. She still had ten minutes of class left when she turned in her test. Packing her supplies into her bag she took off her jewelry and put it in the front zipper of her bag. The bell rung and Arica hurried out to her dance class stopping to put her bag in her locker since it was on the way to the dance studio.

Practice ended so Arica grabbed her things from her locker and exited the school building looking for Josh's car. Josh was on the phone when Arica knocked on the passenger window. He unlocked the door getting off his phone waiting for her to put her seatbelt on before he began driving home. He left her out in front her house and told her he'd see her in the morning then drove off down the street.

Arica walked into the house walking to the kitchen for a fruit and cold bottled water. She went into her room pulling out some shorts, a t-shirt, and underwear to sleep in. She then grabbed a face towel and drying towel and tied her long pretty hair in a messy bun so it wouldn't get wet. Turning the shower on to the perfect temperature, Arica stepped in the shower cleaning herself. Her music played as she showered then stepped out to dry off, put her lotion on, then dressed in her night clothes. She cleaned up the bathroom then put her dirty clothes in the laundry basket.