Salted Wound

Chapter 5 Anastacia- Aug 27, 2018

The weekend goes by faster than my brother's Halloween candy. Nothing much happened other than spending half the day with Luis and my mom on Saturday. Now it's a start to another week of senior year. Classes go by like always. It's Monday so calc, government, study session, and anatomy today. My tutoring shift will start after lunch, and I still need to stop by the office to pick up the student's information. I was supposed to have had it by Friday but I guess there was some paper jam. While I'm on lunch I decide to leave the group a bit early to get ready for the tutoring session in half an hour. We get out of anatomy and walk down the hall of the science building.

    "You're not coming with us to Pizza Plaza?" Naomi asks. I turn to her and gape at her pretty face. It's perfectly sculptured and she wears a thin layer of makeup. Her straight brown hair goes down to her breast and she wears her cute chic outfit; a loose white see-through long sleeve, mustard yellow shorts, and Timberland boots. She's the same height as me when she wears the boots. I can see why Noah fell for her.

    I shake my head, "I'm going to get my tutoring session ready. You know, do some background checking at the student and to know what exactly I'm going to go over with them," I start.

    "Okay, you want me to bring you a slice later?" She asks looking at me.

    "No, it's fine. You guys enjoy, I'll get some food at Benny's later," I answer with a smile.

    "Aw, okay! I'll catch up with you later!" She says and gives me a hug and watches up with everyone in front of us. Dante turns around and noticed my absence.

    "Ana! Are you coming?" He yells across the hall. People scatter across the building, all eager to get lunch.

    "Not today. It's fine, I'll meet up with you later!" I call back. He nods and continues with the rest of the group. I walk out of the building and walk through the lobby until I see Ms.Brown, the office secretary.

    "Hi, Ms.Brown!" I saw with a cheery smile. She looks up from the monitor screen and returns the smile. She's a middle-aged redhead with the fashion choice the resembles the 50's. I think she gets most of her clothing from the vintage store across from my neighborhood.

    "Anastacia, darling! How are you?" She asks with her high pitched voice.

    "Doing pretty good, and yourself?" I ask.

    "Well, I'm here," she shrugs and we laugh.

    "How can I help you?"

    "I'm here to get some information about my student I am tutoring," I say.

    "And the name of the student?" She asks looking at her screen.

    "Actually, I also need to know who my student is. I came by on Friday, but Cassy said they were having problems with the printer so I said I can just stop by Monday."

    "Okay, just a minute dear," she says and starts typing on her keyboard. I patiently look around while I wait for her response.

    "Okay, let me go get you those papers. Oh, but can I see your ID first?" she asks and I nod and start looking through my bag for my ID. Once I have it I hand it to her and she types some more stuff on the computer and hands it back. She gets out of her seat and I continue to wait.

    "Okay, dear, here's all of the student's information. Looks like you're gonna have fun with that one." She says chuckling, and I don't know if she's being sarcastic or if she really means it. She hands me a folder that's stuffed with papers. I smile and take them from her.

    "Thank you, miss!" I respond and turn my direction to the library. I look through the papers while I'm walking and the name finally appears. Zamari Sabian. Oh, damn. That's the guy that I saw last week when walking to anatomy. I think he's a senior if he had a class with Naomi. I usually tutor sophomores and freshmen. One junior and senior when I was a sophomore, but this time he's in the same grade as me. I enter the library and make my way to Ronda to make sure my study room is booked.