Queen of Queensbay

P A R T IV // G R E Y S O N

"Mr Collins, you are 1 minute and 27 seconds late!" Mr Underwood, my Chemistry teacher said.

"Oh," I replied and waited for my detention slip.

"Just... Go to your seat," Underwood sighed.

No detention? Wow, that's a first.

I went to my usual seat which was at the back left corner of the classroom. Normally it was empty because either people are scared of me or because I would me secretly making out with girls behind and no one wants to know what's happening at the back.

But as I went to the back, I realized there was a girl sitting at my usual seat. That girl who infuriated me in the morning. 

Look out, bitch. Greyson Collins is coming for you (don't get the wrong idea).

I plopped down on the seat next to her. She raised her head up to look at me then she looked back down and continued writing in her notebook.

She ignored me? Usually desperate girls would just start flirting and touching me. It seems like she's not desperate. 

Wow, that's a first. Or is it a second because I mentioned that sentence before.

Whatever. 

I peeked at her notebook and realized she was doodling on it.

"Oh look, the nerd is drawing!" I mocked the girl beside me.

"Yeah, you interested?" She raised her head to look at me. 

It was at that moment I realized she had very, very beautiful blue eyes. For some reason when it comes to people, the first thing I'll look at are the eyes because the eyes hide so, so many truths.

Yeah, I'm that freak who stares into your eyes when you are speaking.

She was drawing an anatomy of a T-Rex. Its organs were precisely drawn out with its' every muscles and nerves. Each part of it were labeled with different colored pens. 

I'm awed. Speechless.

"There's more at the front pages. You can look if you're interested," she said.

I turned to look at her. She was sitting on both legs of her chair and looking at the front of the classroom. 

I flipped to the front and saw anatomies of other animals. There was even a diagram of the lizard cell which showed the scientific truths of why lizards can generate new tails.

Amazing. Most things written on the notebook I had never encountered before. This girl must  be a genius to learn about all these.

Wait a second, aren't I suppose to hate her?

I slammed the notebook close and got a view of her name. 

Brianna Evely-

Before I got a full view of her name, the book was snatched from my hands.

"You bastard. I told you, you could look at the pages. Not the cover," she held the notebook and glared at me. "Are you that stupid to not understand me?"

"What the hell? How would I know? You are the stupid one to not have said it properly." I glared back at her.

"Mr Collins and Ms-" Mr Underwood hesitated. "What are you both doing at the back?"

Students looked to the back expecting to see both of us flustered from the mini make out session. Unfortunately, it was not a mini make out session that made me flustered. Just rage. Rage for this girl, Brianna.

"Nothing, he was just looking at my notes and was making loud, unnecessary, remarks for my notes." Brianna gave Underwood a humorless smile.

"Is that so? Well, show me the notes!" Underwood demanded.

"The notes are on Collin's desk. He can take it to you."

What?

Then I realized there was another notebook on my desk. It had only her first name Brianna on it.

When did she put that there?

I scrutinized the notebook and then at Brianna. 

I took the notebook to Underwood. He looked at it for a while and flipped it open.

His eyes widened as he flipped the notebook through.

His mouth were mouthing the word UNBELIEVABLE.

He put the notebook down and said, "I want to talk to you after class, Brianna. Please stay for a moment after the class." Then he looked at me and told me to go back to my seat.

I went back to my seat and looked at Brianna, who was continuing the anatomy of the T-Rex like nothing has happened. 

Even a teacher was shocked of her. I don't even need to look at the notebook to know the notebook was filled with vast knowledge on Chemistry.

This girl was absolutely not a normal student.

*****

"Did you know that in my accounting lessons earlier, this girl -her name was Brianna- she stood up and pointed out there was a mistake in Ms Phannie's  formula. She even went up to the board and rewrote the whole thing on her own." Haley said during break.

"Yeah! I had that Brianna for Biology, she showed us an anatomy of the human nerves. The whole frickin' diagram. It was so detailed! Every part was labeled and drawn out beautifully. And the was she spoke was so confident, like, I'm speaking and I don't give a damn to the others." Joanne said excitedly. 

"Really?" Tristan frowned. "But how could she be in Commerce and Science all at once?" 

Our school had a weird system. You have to choose Commerce or Science once you become a senior. In commerce you learn about banking, finance management, accounting and stuff like that. In Science, you learn about biology, chemistry, physics, etc.

"Apparently she is too smart. She must be a genius. I sat next to her during Chemistry today and I saw her doing an anatomy of a T-Rex. She showed me the entire notebook and inside were many different anatomies and diagrams we've never learnt of.  I got into a disagreement with her and when Mr Underwood asked what we were doing, she told him that I was 'making remarks' of her notebook and tricked me into passing her notebook to Underwood. Even Underwood was astonished with her notes."

"Unbelievable," Sean mused, "its too bad that I don't get to meet her though."

"There she is!" Joanne pointed to Brianna. She had a backpack slung on her left shoulder and was walking with Ashton, the swim team's other captain.

What? Can't a ship have two captains? Just, more competition between the both of us.

What was Brianna doing with Ashton though? She was smiling! 

"Psst, Grey," Tristan scooted next to me, "wasn't she the one who pissed you off in the morning?"

"Yeah. She was sitting next to me during Chemistry and pissed me off even more."

"Hot damn. She burnt yo' ass off twice in a day," Trist laughed and passed me a bottle of water. "Here, put some water and wash the burn off."

That bastard. 

I glared at the laughing Tristan and threw the bottle back to him.

But she is really a very interesting person and there's an invisible string that keeps pulling me to her.