LUNA
Well it’s orientation. Which is mainly focused on the new coming 9th graders. They seem so young. even though i was only a 9th grader the year before. It’s all the same things. “You will now have 5 min passing times, new rules, blah blah blah. All high schoolers can go off campus for lunch.” The entire school day is about what you can and can’t do as a high schooler. The different boundaries for different grades. Why can’t they have it so the 9th graders have the first day of school to themselves?! I mean come on. I have to spend my BIRTHDAY at school hearing the same lectures each hour, the stupid whole school orientation! Why do they make the 10th-12th graders here this again? It’s the same old stupid stuff they tell us EVERY year. If something changes our parents get a notice, most of them aren’t important anyway! I don’t get why we are forced to come to school today and sit through all this. As Luna is thinking about this, she is disrupted by a familiar voice.
“HEY Luna!!” Jamie yells across about two rows of students in the auditorium.
“Hey Jamie!!! Good to see you! How was your summer?” after i said hi back to Jamie, he came up to my row and took an empty seat between me and some 9th grader.
“My summer was great! Good to see you too.”
“What’s your first hour class?”
“My first hour class? Lemme check... uhh I got Science, you?”
“ My first hour is Math.”
“I heard the Math teacher is a loser”
“Well whatever, i heard he’s a really good math teacher. And that he’s like in his early 20’s!”
“Meh, whatever, why are we all in here again?”
“Because of the stupid orientation... why am i forced to sit through this on my birthday???”
“Your forced to sit through this because we have to”
“It was rhetorical.....” Just after that, the Principal said “Ok, students time to get to your first class” Then the school bell rang, marking the start of the first day of school.
As Luna walks into her first hour class, she spots Riley. He was sitting in the back row, his brown hair easy to spot. Immediately she walks up to him and sits to the seat to his right, the only one open. . As Luna looks around, it looks like there wasn’t a seating chart. She holds her books tight, before pushing them under her. Thankfully, when the bell rings, the teacher doesn’t make anyone move. She sat nervously in her chair, hoping that he’d notice her. Just then, she heard the Math teacher announce that for their first integrated project, they would be working with the first hour science class, and they would be paired up with a person from math and two from science. Luna looks at Riley, he looks up and smiles at her. “Ms. Marie and Mr. Williams, seeing as you two can’t stop chatting, you will be partners, and be working with Mr. Milo, and Ms. Stender.” The second Luna herd Stender, she knew who she was working with. Jazz Stender. The most popular girl at school, and even worse, she knew who Jazz liked, she liked Riley. Jazz had even asked Riley out a few times, but he rejected her all of the times.
The kids from science filter into the room. Luna spots Jamie and Jazz coming closer to her. Jazz has her long blond hair in pony tail with little curls in it. Jazz takes one look at Luna, and a scowl crosses her face. Jazz really never liked Luna, since she knew Luna also liked Riley. As the girls were scowling at each other, Riley took Jamie to the side, and asked him if he knew who Luna liked.
“Alright class, lets start to talk about your first integrated math and science project in 10th grade, what we will be doing is building Rockets. Little model rockets, however, you will each change one thing or a “Controlled Variable” of the rocket, ie it’s wing shape, the nose shape, how long the body is, ect. The building of it and the experiment are the scientific part of this experiment, but you will have data and have to record how high each rocket gets which is the math part. You are in groups of four. In each group of four, you will have two rockets, One rocket you need to change something about the nose or the wings and the other you must change something about the body. This will mainly be an work time, type project. But we will give everyone some input on the aerodynamics. The tools you will have will be passed around shortly.”
“Ok, well i guess we should get started on our rocket...” Luna quietly stated.
“Whatever” Jazz replyed. The scowl had not yet left her face. “I think we should work one rocket with two people and the other with two people. how should we pair off?” said Luna. Jazz looks at Riley as if asking him to pair off with her. “Um, me and Luna could make one” Riley said. The moment Riley said this, Jazz had a look of sadness, rage, and utter disgust cross her face. “Actually i want to work with Luna” Jazz demands. “ Oh, ok, that’s fine” Riley said getting up to switch seats with Jazz.
As Luna hears this their is a look of terror in her eyes. “What is Jazz up to?” Wondering in her head. “Luna, stop day dreaming, we need to get to work” Jazz says this in a tone that is not only mean, but has so much rage and pissed-off-ness in it, it seems almost like it has no emotion at all.
“Uh, Jazz, not to be what’s the word, annoying or anything, but uh... why are we working together? you HATE me...” ‘
“Simple, I don’t want you working with Riley, I mean, I don’t care that he has a crush on you, but he is MY boyfriend...”
“Woah, what? since when was he your boyfriend?!”
“Uh, since like... The end of last year!”
“Oh...”
After Luna herd this, her heart sank. “I didn’t know he was in a relationship....”
“Well he is, so get over it!”
“Get over WHAT?!”
“Never mind! Lets start to work on our stupid rocket.”
Jamie and Riley both looked over at Luna and Jazz oddly.
“Okay then... we should think of what our rocket should look like” Jamie suggested.
“Yeah, okay, so what’s it going to look like?” Riley asked.
“Um, I don’t know”
“Yeah, neither do I...”
“So do you really go out with Jazz?”
Riley started chuckling “You’re funny”
“Well that’s what they were arguing about...”
Just then, the bell rang signaling the end of first hour. “Wow, that was a uhm... interesting first hour wasn’t it Jamie?”
“Yeah, totally”
“Jazz and Riley going out, who would've thought... I just don’t understand why no one told me...”
Jamie starts laughing. “You really fell for that?”
“You mean Jazz was lying?! I mean, she is like the supper popular girl as school... Most guys want to go out with her.... Even you Jamie!”
“Yeah, she totally set you up for that. Me? No, I’m not into her... I’m into someone else”
“OOOOooooOOO tell mee!!!”
“I don’t think I can tell you”
“WHY!?”
“Because if I told you, the person would know”
“...Me...?”
Jamie hesitated for a second. “No...”
“Ok then the reason you won’t tell me doesn’t make sense...”
“I just don’t want to tell you” He immediately turned around to go to his 2nd hour.
“Jamie, wait!”
He kept walking. Then thought “God that was a close one...”
