SHORT STORIES BY LAZYGIRL663

Story 6 My first day!

As I walked along the noisy corridors trying to find my class, it seemed that no one noticed me, which I like. I was more of a person to be pushing someone else in the spot light rather than being in it myself. As I walked along that corridor I kept bumping into lots of people and by lots, I basically mean everyone. I followed the same guidelines as I always have. 1. Look at the ground, 2. Say sorry loud enough for them to hear but not loud enough to get noticed and 3. Keep walking and pray to god that they don’t talk to me. As I walked in to my first class I met my teacher, Ms Solomon. She was nice and always liked to keep me company, I didn’t like that much but I put up with it. As the lesson went on and Ms Solomon kept talking about what we were doing this term, I faded in and out of focus, thinking about my previous school and how quiet the classroom was without boys, it was amazing and it made me smile. Although I missed having a Co-Ed classes it was good because now I could listen to the teacher with out her telling people to be quiet. But it looked like I had spoken too soon because the class had just erupted in laughter and I had no idea what was going on. I looked around franticly, trying to find out what was so funny and it turns out it was just Ms Solomon’s face that was funny, her face had gone white and she kept pointing to me and my sister next door. She had just fond out that I was a twin and was trying to cope with the idea but in the end all she needed was a couple of answers. I thought teachers were supposed to know everything but as it turns out I was wrong. She had a lot of questions about being a twin and what it was like. She finally finished her last question, as it was time to go. I left the classroom with people staring at me. I hated being in the spotlight it was terrible.

When I finally had the relief of getting out of the classroom, I walked to my locker (that I had thankfully not locked because I had already forgotten the combination) and put all my new books in the tiny locker, thinking about all the homework I already had. From a school with no homework to a school with 1 and a half hours of it, wasn’t great. I looked around and couldn’t see anyone and realized I was late so I rushed, I looked at the numbers above the metal doors MM1, MM2, MM3 , MM3 , MM4 ,MM4, MM5/MM6 finally I had arrived I looked around and saw the only 3 people I knew in the whole classroom Abby, Anna and Kiehanna. I sat next to Anna since I knew her best as the 20 minutes went on a girl called Lily Gubay stood up and looked at us like we were peasants and she was our queen ‘ okay, everyone please sit in a circle. We are going to play a game’ everyone slowly walked around and we some how ended up in a circle type shape. She told us that we would go around and tell everyone one thing about ourselves. Thank fully I was close to last and before Anna so I got to tell everyone I was a twin, as people went round they said stuff like I have 2 sisters, or I have a dog named spot when it got to me I said, ‘my name is Gabrielle but you can call me Gabbie, and I have a twin sister’ in a single second the whole room went searching for the ‘other half’ as they called Anna, when they finally found her, they started looking for differences and names that they could call up collectively, it was funny in a way.  As the 20 minutes went on the surprise of twins died down and everyone kept on going with telling each other about ourselves, when it got to Anna’s turn she just said that she was related to 4 people in the room. Which was interesting.

After morning tea, we all went to out next class and for me it was PRS, what the hell was PRS I asked someone. They gave me nothing and just said something to do with being a religious. As I walked in to class I realized that the teacher was really old and I would have to talk very loudly. As we walked in she said to the class ‘open your bibles and go to luke, 12,4. I was lost the whole class and it went really quickly as I left I realize that I was lost in the middle of a school I didn’t know. Fear went down my spine as I looked for my bubby, she had already left and left me behind in the process as I looked around I saw someone I though I knew and followed them thinking that they would just go back to there lockers. She went to her locker but it wasn’t in the middle school, it was in the senior school.  I realised that I would have to talk to her to find my way back to my locker. As I approached her the more I thought of how scared i was. I tapped her on the shoulder and stepped back and I’m glad I did because she swung around nearly hitting me with her books. She said sorry and laughed, I asked her where I was. She looked at me strangely as if I was from another planet and slowly answered that I was at PLC. I looked at her confused and ask where I was in the school and she smiled realising that she had heard me wrong ‘ your in the senior school and you need senior school’ she gave me directions and as I thanked her. She gave me a hug and I jumped. Were all people here so friendly? I fond my way back to class a lot easier with a guide.

Next class was math, I have always hated math and never was able to get the hang of it and being at a school like this it just made it worse. As she went on with equation after equation it got harder to keep in focus, I was on the verge of crying bye the end and when it was over I took a deep breath and walked out with my head hung so no one would see my red eyes. By this point it was lunch and I went to the bathroom and started crying not loudly so people wouldn’t ask questions, once I had finished I walked out of the bathroom to see a smiling face.