Dark Alley

Chapter 14

     I entered English class - In my surprise I was the first one in the class. Of course I should've expected this since people in school really needs to eat lunch than learning.

     I chose to sit on a seat at the back and waited for the others to come. I felt like I'm back in the walls again. I'm alone and it makes me sick. I distracted myself by getting a notebook and started scribbling stuffs about how I started my day and how much I hated this place.

     After ten minutes of waiting someone came in and smiled at me. She looks haggard and stressed, a woman of sixty above, she smiled at me as if she saw an angel or something.

     "Hi," she said. "You're a little too early huh? Can't wait for some literature trivia and stuffs?"

     I did not answer.

     "I'm Mrs. Dekker by the way," she said as she slammed the pile of books she's carrying in the table. I assume she's the teacher of the English class. She studies at me as if she wants to remember who I am.

     "I'm new," I told her so that she can already stop looking at me - but she didn't.

     "Pardon me," she says. "I'll just look somewhere else while we wait for the others to arrive." I nodded thinking that was a good idea; Mrs. Dekker looked outside for a second then after she tried flipping the pages of a book the read it quietly. I think that's what mostly English teachers do. Read.

     It's been a long time since I read a book. I want to ask her about the book that she is reading. My curiosity strikes again but I tried to stop it - she's a teacher, a student isn't supposed to disturb a teacher. Unless if he's curious.

     "What are you reading?" I asked her from afar, I tried to say it loudly for her to hear it properly.

     "Oh this?" She says as she raises the book. "It's my favourite book 'To Kill A Mocking Bird', I won't be telling you much about it since this will be our topic for today." She grunts as her double chin appears. I don't want to brag to her that I too have read the book already and also it is one of favourite - I was forced to learn literature inside the alley. Until they don't have to force me anymore because I already learned how to love it - they took it away from me in one snap of a hand.

     "Fine," I say breathing hard. I wrote 'I want to read TKAMB on the scribbled paper of my notebook, then I kept my notebook back inside my bag after when I heard loud creaking and shutting of doors.

     They're here.

     "Hi Mrs. Dekker," a girl said, Mrs. Dekker waved her back as her and the other girls she's been with sits one row after me. Before she could sit she found me sitting at her back. She turns around her body and bent her back forward.

     Let's not talk about her chest.

     "Oh are you a newbie?" She says offering her hand to me.

     "Yeah," I said. We shook our hands together. She sat back in her chair after as she turns her head around me and smiled.

     "I'm Antoinette Green by the way," she said. I study her face. I notice her brunette hair, her blue eyes but it looks plastic, unreal and also the unusual color of her skin, it was light brown and it doesn't match her blue eyes - which I think is plastic. "And these are my friends, Kim and Veronica." Her friends both waved as she points them with their name.

     I study her friends. The two of them plus Antoinette are  like the girl version of Q and R. They almost completely look the same except for some of their face features. Kim has sharp eyes, dark skinned and also brunette. Veronica was completely like her, except for the freckles on her face.