I woke up and hopped in the shower. Today we had to meet our home school teacher and I was dreading it. Why did boring old Michael have to join in?
I walked downstairs and everyone was ready for breakfast. I sat down and said good morning. They all said good morning back. "So are you guys ready for the teacher?"
"Yea...I guess." I said sighing. Michael rolled his eyes. "Yes I am! All ready to learn somethin!" he said smiling. I wanted to gag. He was too damn happy for me. I bit on my toast and my mom looked at me.
"So honey...I made you a dress. I wanted to know if you wanted to try it on after breakfast before the teacher comes."
I looked at her. Was she serious? This was the new age. Just because you live on a farm does not mean that you have to dress like it too. "I ughhhh...sure mom. Although I just bought this dress from Charlotte Russe. I wanted to break it in if you dont mind."
"Sure honey not at all." she said smiling at me. I gave a smile and finished eating. We all got up and I headed out to the back. Michael brushed past me and walked briskly to the shed. "Thank you for saying excuse me!" I called after him. He looked back at me and scoffed. "Oh whatever drama queen. You can last without one."
I scoffed and rolled my eyes. Was he serious right now? He was acting like a complete asshole! I went back in the house to grab my phone.
Great. Still no signal. Luckily I had games to play on my phone while I waited. Within an hour later there was a knock on the door.
"Ill get it!" Michael said running to the door. He opened it and there was a lady that was wearing a skirt and red glasses. She was clearly the new teacher. "Hello! My name is Ms.Granger, the teacher." she said with a huge smile on her face.
"Hello! Im Michael. Come in!" he said letting her in. I turned back in my room to comb my hair. Just then my mom called me downstairs.
"Emma! Come downstairs sweetie!"
"Im coming!" I said grabbing my phone. I ran downstairs and I met eye to eye with Ms.Granger. "Hello Emma. Im Ms.Granger. Nice to meet you." she said holding out her hand. I shook it and smiled.
"Nice to meet you....and nice skirt" I said pointing it out.
"Thank you. I just got it. So are you children ready to get started?" she asked with enthusiasm. Michael and I both nodded. We sat at the table and got started with math. "So you both are working on Calculus this year I hear. Lets start with some simple differentiation." she said pulling out calculus books and handing them to us.
She started the lesson and it was coming all too easy for me. I looked over at Michael who was extremely quiet. We were finally ready to discuss our answers.
"So whats the answer for number 1?" she asked. I opened my mouth and before I could speak Michael answered it. "Good job Michael. Emma do you have that?"
"Yes I do." I said upset. She asked us for the rest of the answers and he was answering every one before I could answer them. We were on the last one and he opened his mouth. I blurted out the answer.
"Great Emma that is correct." she said smiling. I looked at Michael and gave him a face. He gave me the finger under the table and I pushed him.
"Im so sick of your shit smartass! No one told you to answer all of the questions!" I said pushing him again. He pushed me back.
"Well you werent answering them fast enough dumbass." he spat back. I pushed him one good time and I fell on him. We started wrestling on the ground and Ms.Granger tried to break it up. "Hey! Stop it you two! I said STOPPPPP ITTTTT!" she said yelling. We got off of each other and gave the death stare.
"No fighting you guys. You both are very good at this. For now on we will alternate turns. Deal?" she said. He sighed and looked at her. "Deal. I apologize for that." he said. He looked at me.
"Well arent you going to apologize too?" he asked annoyed. "Not to you. Sorry for my behavior. It wont happen again." I said to her. He rolled his eyes and I gave him a look. We got back to our work and I could feel him looking at me out of the corner of my eye.
Stop looking at me Michael.
TO BE CONTINUED
