Afraid To Fall

2

*Anisa's POV*

I cautiously made my way to my tutor room, while keeping an eye out for James and his horrendous crew.

I walked down the corridor to my locker when someone tapped me on my shoulder. I turned around, scared of what was awaiting me. I was relieved when I saw my best friend Felice. She was perfect. All the guys wanted her and all the girls wanted to be her friend. She was 5'6, she had such a lovely complexion and hazel eyes that complimented her unnatural black hair.

"ANISAAAAAA!" she squealed at me

"OMG FELICE! HEYY." I made an attempt to squeal back while she pulled me into a tight hug.

We both walked into our form class and registered our names. A few minutes later our tutor dismissed us for our first lesson. I peered into my school diary and saw that Geography was my first lesson.

SHIT. I thought, as I remembered that James was in the same class as me!

I then remembered that Felice was also in my Geography class, so I walked a bit faster to catch up to her.

"Oh hey, you left me." she said.

"Sorry, I didn't know I had Geography first. But hey, I'm here now" I say while punching her jokingly.

We entered the class and I could feel James' eyes burning straight through me. I HATE HIM SO MUCH!! I really don't get why he has to bully me when I've never done a single thing to make him even dislike me.

Everyone took a seat and our teacher, Miss Alexander, walked in.

"Right, good morning class! I hope you all had a wonderful week off school but now it's time to get back to doing some work." she said with a giggle.

"Ughhhh" the whole class grunted.

"Now if you remember, before the holidays I told you all about a project that you will each have to do? Well, we will be starting that from today." she informs us.

"Miss, will we be allowed to do the project with a partner?" Miley asked.

"Yes, of course." she replied.

Me and Felice turned our heads straight to each other. I literally couldn't wait, I loved doing projects with Felice. It was so much fun and we'd end up messing about for 2 lessons and falling behind everyone else.

"BUT....this time I will be deciding on who partners with who" Miss Alexander added on.

NO NO NO NO NO! I knew there'd be no chance of me and Felice working together now. All the excitement drained from my face.

Miss began reading the list of names.

"Harry and Laura"

"Lee and Hannah"

"Tim and Claudia"

The teacher went through pretty much the whole class.

Phew, neither of us had been called out yet. I thought.

"Felice and Jacob"

And then she said.... "and finally, Anisa and James"

My mouth dropped. My heart dropped. I felt numb. I couldn't work with James, he doesn't even want to talk to me never mind doing a project together. I'm gonna have to talk to Miss about not letting me work with James.

When everyone got up to go and sit with their partners I made my way over to the teacher's desk.

"Miss Alexander, erm I-I have a slight issue with my partner," I stutter. "You see we don't really get on, could you please change partners?" I pleaded.

"I'm sorry Anisa, but everyone else is happy with their partner and this is why I chose partners, so you can all bond together instead of staying with the same people everyday." She explained.

"Bond together." Her words were replaying in my head, if only she fucking knew how much he hated my guts.

I took a deep breath in knowing I couldn't do anything to change this now. I walked over to the table where James was sitting with my head bowed a little, I didn't want to look at him. He made me so fucking mad.

"Looks like it's me and you then, slut"

"Mhmm" I nodded, still not looking at him

"Oh so you can't talk now? You're fucking stupid."

I let his words fly over my head. I didn't need him causing shit for me, I had to get myself a good grade. I felt something on my cheek. A sharp burn. He'd just hit me..in class and nobody was doing anything??? DID NOBODY SEE THIS?

"If I'm talking to you, you'll look at me and reply, do you understand you whore!" he said with a massive grin on his face. He stood up and walked over to his idiot of a girlfriend, Ashleigh. She looked over to me and started laughing.

She knew what he had done. She looked over to her friends and said something which made them all turn to me and they all burst out laughing. Ugh! I was so done with everything and it was only the first day back.

I HATE THIS SCHOOL! I HATE JAMES! I HATE EVERYTHING...I can't do this anymore.