just a dream | simanda ✔

chapter six: meeting him and coffee

Amanda had chosen to go to the school where Alesha worked and it was now the first day of school. She had already been at the school to set up her classroom but now she was running late to work as she had been up for half the night. It was like she was a first year teacher again because of the nerves she was harbouring.

The first day of school was over now and Amanda was grading the tests that she had handed out during reading to see where the students she had were. Some were below where they should've been, some where exactly where they should be and some where ahead of others. It was a fairly even distribution so it made it easier for Amanda to do small group work during the school year.

Small group work was one of Amanda's favourite things about teaching because it meant she could spend one on one time with each student in smaller groups. She finished grading the tests quickly and she still had to put some last minute things onto the walls of her classroom that she hadn't been able to the day before when she was prepping for the first day of school.

Amanda took the borders for the bulletin boards and she turned music on her phone. It was more fun to work that way with music. Amanda grabbed the stapler as she danced around to the beat. She wasn't the best dancer but it was still fun to do. Amanda began to staple the borders onto the bulletin boards, still dancing around.

Amanda finished putting the borders up on one bulletin board and moved on to doing the next. This one was quicker than the first to do.

"There. All done," Amanda spoke to herself. The bulletin boards now had their borders on. Her classroom was almost done.

Amanda was teaching the sixth years and they were the oldest students that she ever taught. She was used to teaching students that were in the second year. She discovered how much fun she had today with teaching older students.

She was still dancing around as she put the textbooks that the students had left out at the end of the school year. Amanda had told them to leave them out as she could put them back onto the bookshelves. The textbooks that she was putting away was the science textbooks as that had been the subject Amanda had been teaching before the end of the school day bell rang.

Amanda heard a loud knock on the classroom door and turned around to see Alesha.

"Hey. How are the sixth years? Have they pulled any pranks on you yet?" Alesha asked, coming into the classroom.

"Not yet. I'm waiting to see if they do try to. How are the fifth years for you?" Amanda responded.

"Not too bad. I do miss the kids back at our old school but have you seen how hot some of the female teachers are here?" Alesha questioned.

"Alesha, you're in a relationship!" Amanda chatised her.

"I can't help it. It's second nature for me!" Alesha replied laughing.

"Some of the male teachers are pretty good looking for what I've seen of them," Amanda said.

"Are you thinking about dating again, Mandy?" Alesha inquired to her.

"Maybe. I'm not sure if I'm ready to date, Alesha. I want to get used to teaching here first, I think," Amanda replied.

"You want to come to my room for a little pick me up?" Alesha asked. "I brought the coffee maker from my old classroom with me!"

"Sure," Amanda said, laughing. "You and your coffee addiction!"

"You've got one too," Alesha retorted.

"True," Amanda replied.

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"Here," Alesha said, handing a coffee mug to Amanda. "Made exactly the way you like it."

"Thank you," Amanda responded. "I swear I'm going to need coffee every afternoon this year because of my kids. They have so much energy."

"At least you didn't have them last year from what I've heard from Simon, Amanda," Alesha replied.

"Who's Simon and why?" Amanda asked.

"Simon Cowell. He teaches the same year I do and he had a good lot of your kids last year. He said that they were nightmares some days to deal with," Alesha responded.

"What's he like?" Amanda questioned.

"He's pretty nice but he's fairly blunt," Alesha said. "You would probably think he's cute."

There was a soft knock at the door while Alesha and Amanda were talking.

"Hey, Alesha, do you have those files on the students who need extra help this year? I can't find mine," A male voice said.

Amanda turned around and looked at the man in the doorway. He was cute, she had to give Alesha credit for finding the cute guys.

Simon had a muscular figure and it showed in the white tee shirt he was wearing. His hair was a dark brown, starting to grey a bit and it was close cropped to his head. He couldn't have been older than around forty-five or so.

"Yeah, I have extras, Simon," Alesha replied. "Oh, this is my friend Amanda. She has a good amount of your students from last year."

"Nice to meet you, Amanda. I'm Simon. I teach with your friend," Simon said.

"Nice to meet you too, Simon," Amanda replied. "How long have you been teaching?"

"About twenty years now," Simon responded. "How long have you been teaching, Amanda?"

"You look much younger than teaching for twenty years," Amanda said. "I've been teaching for ten years now."

"Should I leave you two alone in this room?" Alesha asked cheekily.

"Alesha!" Amanda chatised, swatting her friend on her right arm.

"Is Alesha always that cheeky?" Simon asked.

"Sometimes," Alesha responded. "Only really when I'm around Amanda."

"Does that mean you're always going to be cheeky?" Simon inquired.

"Yes; it does!" Amanda replied. "She's always cheeky and she can't help it!"

Simon chuckled at Amanda's response. Alesha laughed as well, cackling away which made Amanda laugh.

"She's right! I can't help but be cheeky! Look at what year I teach!" Alesha said, still laughing.

"We do have a cheeky bunch to teach this year," Simon replied.

"You think that you have a cheeky bunch this year? This is the most cheeky class that I've ever taught!" Amanda responded, laughing.

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Hello guys and now Simon is in the story! What do you think of this version of him so far? What do you think is going to happen to them next and if they'll go on a date?

I have like no homework today so that means I get to write uninteruppted today after school! I can't wait! I'm so excited for Halloween to come and it will be the anniversary of publishing my first ever songfic which was a Severus Snape songfic. I'm still proud of it but the cover is terrible so I'm going to remake it today. Bye until next chapter!