The Boy Down The Street

Chapter Sixteen

I walk into my third period class a little late. I look around the room to see a quiz on everyone's desk and shake my head. 

"Oh so the one day I come in late you want to give out a quiz huh?" I look over to say to Mr. Zhang. 

"I had to." He says, "Your test is on your desk, but since you haven't been here you can take it tomorrow." 

"Thank you." I say putting my bag over by my desk. I walk over to Mr. Zhang's desk. 

"So I'm assuming I have a bunch of notes and things like that. Where can I find them?" I ask. 

"I have a few of them posted on my website but other than that you can find it on the table over there. There are some worksheets that are due on Tuesday, if you need the extra days for them let me know. Other than that there is a study guide for your upcoming test next week on Thursday, as I said a moment ago the work sheets, which you can use to fill out the study guide, your notes, and this quiz." He says. 

"Well take a breath in between Mr. Z" I say looking at him for a moment. "Please tell me you're joking." I say sighing. 

"Completely, I will not spend my weekend grading all of that. Look on Google Classroom for the notes for the study guide and take the quiz Tuesday. The worksheets are extra credit but I just assumed you were going to do those." He says pointing to the table. 

"You assumed correctly, I'm gonna get all of that and go work in the hall if that's okay with you?" I say. 

"Have at it." He says looking from me and then to the other students. 

I grab all of the papers off of the table and my bag and walk out into the hallway. I sit at the desk outside of Mr. Z's room and start to work on the notes. I decide to put in headphones before I work because I don't like the silence, I put them in and turn the music all the way up. 

*Rockin' That Thang starts to play* 

I start to bob my head to the song because I haven't heard it in so long. I grab my colored pens from my bag and start to take my notes. I continue to dance to the music while doing my notes. I wiggle in my seat a little bit and then everything goes black. 

I pull out my headphones. 

"Guess who." I hear someone say. 

"Seth?" I ask. 

"Not even remotely close." He says.

"Carlos?" I ask because I finally know who it is. 

"Man what?" He says pulling his hands back. "Chica you should know better than that." He says leaning over me. 

I lean my head back to look up at him and smile, he smiles back at me. 

"Do you want to come over so I can help you with the notes and stuff?" Jason asks. 

"I can't today, I have lawyer stuff to deal with." I say looking back at the papers. 

"Well that sounds a like a lot more fun than me." Jason says sitting across from me. 

"It's not." I say starting to twirl my pen around. I feel my face start to get hot and cross my legs. 

"So..how was your morning?" He asks. 

"Good. It was good." I say quickly, "How was yours?" 

"Pretty good, I stopped and got food before school with Carlos, and played ball so that's always a good morning. Did you eat today?" He asks 

"Actually I did, Logan bought me food from the diner today." I say smiling.

"You really like that place don't you?" He says with a big smile.