Life's What You Make It

Chapter 5

Beyoncé's pov

Dear all,
Tomorrow in period 4, you will take part in a practice English exam on King Lear. As preparation and revision, please read pages 45 to 58 and think about how Shakespeare presents King Lear in a negative lighting.
Happy revising
Mrs Carter

I pressed send after attaching my year 11 English class in the email. It was Shawn's idea, after telling him about Jasmine and how me and Nicki think she's struggling, he suggested we set them a practice test under exam conditions, as this will give us an idea if she really is struggling or if it's just for her school rep. Like every Monday morning, we were currently sat in a staff meeting before the school day started.

"Anyone have any notices?" The head teacher said.

"If anyone has the year 11s today, please tell them to check their emails from me, and remind them that they have a mock exam period 4 tomorrow." I stated as the other teachers nodded, noting it down. A few others had notices and then the school bell rang.

"Shawn wanna give up his lawyer career to become a teacher then?" Nicki said as we walked to our department

"Jealous you never thought of the idea?" I laughed.

"Hey, you never thought of it either!"

"Yeah yeah, fairs" I said. "If you see jasmine around, pull her in please"

"Yes boss" she replied as we both went into our classrooms preparing for the day

Jasmine pov

It was monday morning. The weekend went by pretty quickly, it was Mellisa's birthday so she had a house party. All I can remember is I got really really high. but in my defence I wanted everything to just go away, to feel nothing for once, and it worked. I still didn't know what to say this morning to Mrs Carter and Miss Maraj if they ask about Friday. I mean the marks gone now, it disappeared on Saturday morning, so technically they have no proof...

Me and Jordyn walked into school, bumping into Nathan and Mellisa on the way.

"Seen Mrs Carter's email?" Nathan asked. Me and Jordyn shook our heads. "Wants us to do a practice exam tomorrow, we've got to revive tonight like what?" He said

"You are lying, I'm busy tonight. They can't just spring this shit on us whenever they feel"

"Go speak your mind to her Jas, she'll listen to you" Mellisa said. I shook my head

"No, I'm staying away from her, you all know what she was like on Friday, pure ape shit" I reminded them. "Let's all come together and not revise then?" I suggested

"Nah, I need this to make me look good, she told my mum if I don't pass one more test, I be moving down a set. I ain't playing no games." Nathan said. I sighed.

"Fine then, but I'm not revising, I'll say I didn't see the email."

That whole idea about not seeing the email didn't go down very well. Mr Mead, our maths teacher very kindly reminded everyone at the end of lesson 3. The bell rang, signalling it was lunch, everyone gathered their stuff and headed out. To get to the lunch hall, we had to go through floor 2, which was where the English department was.

"Nath, hide me!" I said as we got to the doors of floor 2.

"What? why?" He asked

"Mrs Carter, I'm avoiding remember". He 'ahh'd' and I walked right behind him.

"Jasmine, a word please" I heard. My heart dropped. I nudged Nathan to keep walking as I put my head down, pretending I didn't hear her, it wasn't that crowded as I thought it would be, so she could definitely see me. "I know you can hear me. Let's not make this difficult"