Realize (h.s.) ~ Editing

Chapter 3

Harry's POV

By the time me and Alex get to class, everyone's heads turn towards us to stare and I roll my eyes. There's nothing to see here.

Right as we try to get to one of the seats in the back without Mr. Banks noticing, he speaks up and I stop in my tracks.

"Why are you two late?" Mr. Banks asks us with raised eyebrows, crossing his arms in front of his chest. I roll my eyes as Alex starts rambling an apology to him. She's always so scared of him, but in reality he's just an old wrinkly asshole who hates everyone because his life sucks.

"It won't happen again, Mr. Banks." She tells him after her rambling and I impatiently start drumming my fingers on my thigh.

He sighs. "Just go sit down before I have to give you two a detention." He replies bitterly and I don't hesitate to give him the middle finger after he turns around.

"Harry." Alex angrily grits through her teeth to me as we go to sit down, giving me a 'I'm going to kill you' look. I roll my eyes at her and smirk as I head to my seat, everyone's voices starting to fill the room as they quietly laugh to themselves. 

As I set my backpack down on the floor next to my desk, Mr. Banks turns back around, eyeing the class with suspision. "Is something funny?" He asks with force, raising up an eyebrow. When nobody answers as they try to suppress their grins, including me, he narrows his eyes at everyone once more before slowly turning back around.

I look over to Alex, her giving me her signature annoyed look. "What?" I raise up an eyebrow, smirking. She opens her mouth to say something back but Mr. banks starts to speak.

"Ok everyone, listen up." He begins. "In a few minutes, I'll be passing out the guidelines for a new project we'll be starting this unit." Everyone starts groaning, including me. Seriously, a project? We just started the new unit and he wants us to do a project for it already?

"Quiet." He spits and everyone immediately stops. "Now, part of it will be started in class today, but the rest you're going to complete on your own time with a partner." He says and I look over to Alex. Thank God we have partners for this, otherwise I'd be screwed. The room instantly fills with whispering voices, but Mr. Banks clears his throat to get everyone's attention again.

"Don't get your hopes up, because I'm assigning partners." He announces and I immediatly roll my eyes. You've got to be fucking kidding me.

"It counts as 20 percent of your grade, so I expect you all to take this project very seriously." Even better. "I'm going to go over a few things first, so pay close attention." I huff and lean back in my seat as he starts lecturing, almost ready to fall asleep. Just as my eyes start fluttering closed, the door jingling open gets my attention. I look up to see a guy with jet black hair and bron eyes waltzing into the room. He has tattooes scattered on both of his arms, and a lip piercing to top it all off. I furrow my eyebrows, wondering who he is. I've never seen him before so he's probably new.

"Well look who it is, another straggler." Mr. Banks narrows his eyes at him and the guy stops in his tracks. He just stands there, looking at Mr. Banks like he's from another planet. I don't blame him.

"Why are you ten minutes late to my class?" Mr. Banks questions the new kid.

"Uh, I was stuck in traffic." He replies with an accent, a look of discomfort mixed with annoyance clear on his face. His eyes scan the faces staring at him before looking back at the wrinkly asshole.

Mr. Banks scoffs. "Well do you have a pass?"

"No, sir."

He sighs and puts his eyeglasses on. "What is your name, young man?"

"Zayn." He replies and Mr. Banks glares at him before he glances over to something on his desk. "Zayn Malik?" Mr. Banks questions and he nods in response.

"Everyone, this is our new student Zayn Malik." He says to everyone before putting his attention back to Zayn. "Next time get a pass, or you'll earn yourself a detention." Mr. Banks sternly tells him before he goes to the empty desk next to Alex.

"As I was saying.." Mr. Banks begins again but I tune him out. As I turn my head to look at Alex again, I notice that she is staring at the new kid. The way her eyes roam him up and down make me feel slightly annoyed, my eyes never leaving her. She immediately looks away and down at her lap when he turns to look at her with that face I know the most when she gets embarrassed, and I begin to feel a tint of jealousy boil up inside of me. I can't help but glare at the guy as he smirks to himself, already starting to dislike him.

"Harry and David." I spin my head back to the front from my name being called. I hadn't noticed that he was assigning partners already. I sigh, annoyed. I really hate it when teachers assign partners. Were not in the dammed third grade.

"Last but not least, Zayn and Alexandra." He calls out and I clench my teeth.  I look over to them and Zayn is grinning at Alex while she still has that slight red-faced look plastered on her face.

"I wasn't going to have you complete this assignment, but Alexandra can just briefly fill you in with what we've been doing." Mr. Banks dryly states to him. Fucking hell. Really, out of all the people in this room she was paired with him?

Mr. Banks passes out the guidelines before dismissing everyone to find who their paired with.

"Ok everybody, go find your partners. There is 20 minutes left of class, so use your time wisely." Everyone starts moving around to find their partners while I'm taking my sweet time to find mine. Why did he have to pair me with David? I mean I have nothing against the kid, but I barely know him. Whatever. I guess I'm just gonna have to fucking deal with it.

I look over to Alex and the new kid one more time, glaring at him before getting up to head to the desk next to David.

[Sorry if this chapter is kinda short again :/ Don't be afraid to comment and don't forget to VOTE if you like the story so far! :) Also, I will be updating this story every Friday from now on. I will try to update earlier, though, if I can.]