Teach Me Something New

Chapter 6

When we got to our lockers, Joy put her stuff in her locker before helping me with mine.

"I'll keep my bag with me today," I say, "Would save you from carrying my things as long as yours, it's not fair."

"Okay, well what do you have? I will still help you with sorting out your books." Joy asked, opening my bag that had my wallet and some other personal items.

"Double of Aqua Marine, then a free lesson," I say, looking at my timetable.

"That's right," Joy said, putting my textbook in my bag, before handing it to me to grab her own.

"Thank you, lets head in that direction now," I say, throwing the strap of my bag over my shoulder as Joy shut both our lockers doors carrying her own textbook and laptop.

As we made our way to our classroom, I saw that Janette was standing, at what I guessed was her locker. When she saw me she gave me a small wave, while I gave a small nod in reply I continued walking beside Joy with my crutches as we finally reached the hallway our classroom was.

As we took our seats, Mr Bow and the other students all flowed into the room, taking their seats as Mr Bow started to silently take the role as he looked at all the students, before setting up the protector and connecting it to his computer that had a presentation that was ready for this lesson.

"Hello, class, before we begin our assignments, I wanted to give you a brief introduction on the reefs around the country. And next week we will be watching Finding Nemo, to see how they portrayed the reefs around Australia too.

After the little introduction, we were given our assignment sheets, the assignment was to research an animal that lives in the reefs.

"What are you thinking of doing?" I asked Joy as I researched different animals that live in the coral reefs.

"I was thinking the Butterfly Fish. You?" Joy asked as she started opening tabs of the Butterfly Fish.

"Maybe the Hawksbill Sea Turtle," I reply, skimming through the list.

"Sounds like a good idea, Shadow" Mr Bow said, as he stood in front of our desk, taking note of what we decided on researching, before going onto the next set of students and repeating the same action.

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As the class came to an end, Joy and I saved all our work and started packing up a few moments before the rest of the class followed suit, finally noticing the time.

"What do you have after this?" Joy asked me.

"A free lesson, I told you that earlier," I say giving a soft smile her way, Joy sure is forgetful sometimes. "In fact, I don't have a lesson until the end of the day."

"Same as me, sorry," Joy said, blushing out of embarrassment.

"It's okay," I say, giving her shoulder a soft pat, "I know how you can be."

"I know, I've just been out of it this morning I guess," she replied smiling softly as we put my stuff in my bag before she got her own belongings and we walked out of the classroom, after the rush of students that left only moments beforehand.

Before heading towards the SACE floor we decided to stop by our lockers and put away all our books from the previous lesson, keeping out laptops handy to do some research and some work from other classes.

As we sat down in Ms Wilson office, I rested my crutches against the circular desk in there next to where I sat, in my usual seat as Joy sat in hers.