it was the start of junior year.
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"welcome students! my name is mrs. wood, and i will be your ap english teacher for this year! i know we all dread this part, but i need to start getting know you guys and your personalities, so we're gonna do an icebreaker! if everyone could just take as much toilet paper as they would like!"
she hands off the fresh toilet paper roll to a student on the other side of me, they take 7, the one behind takes 1, and so on. eventually, it gets to me and i decide to take 5, i pass to it back to mrs. wood. she takes 3.
"alright students, i told y'all to get as many as y'all like, because the number you took is the amount of facts you have to tell us about yourself. i'll start, i've been married for two years, i have a pitbull named rocky, and i can speak three languages. it's pretty easy as y'all can see, whoever wants to start it off can do so, and my final request is that y'all stand when telling us your facts! thank you!"
we all look at each other kinda awkwardly, and i was moving to stand up, but this tall lightskin boy beat me to it. "uh, hi. my name is caleb." i noticed he had six pieces in his hand. "my first fact is that i go by zion, i play for the school's hockey team, i have two siblings - one older sister, and younger brother, my dad is west african, specifically togo, and my mom is scottish and irish, i play guitar and sing covers on instagram! matter of fact..." he goes up to the board and writes his instagram name. "follow me on instagram at zionkuwonu!" he goes back to his seat.
"well then, thank you mr. zi-" "no problem mrs. w!" she looked back at him disapprovingly. "zion, please don't interrupt me. anyways, who would like to go next?" i guess zion made everyone feel comfortable, so people would suddenly antsy to get up and introduce themselves. when i finally got up, the board was littered in instagram names, but zion's was still the biggest, and his was in red. "hi everyone, my name is sade, like the singer. i play on the volleyball team, i have an older sister, i have a beagle named sammy that's my baby, i'm jamaican, and i'm an aries." i sat back down, and noticed that that boy was looking at me, but i just brushed it off. mrs. wood got back up from her desk and announced that we could freely mingle since i was the last one and we had an hour left til the bell rang.
small groups were beginning to form among us, depending on the side we were on, but that all changed because some boy beside me had a large stack of uno cards, and who doesn't like to play uno? so the entire class was playing uno, and it was great, i could see that this was gonna be a great class with no drama towards each other, but even better than that, i won five games before we left to go to our next class.
before i really even left the class, that boy was walking beside me. "sade, right?" "yeah, and you're caleb." "zion." "look, i'mma call you whatever i want, and what do you want?" "nothing...just wanted to invite you to the first hockey game of the season." "really? why me?" "because i wanna show you how much better our hockey team is compared to your trash ass volleyball team." i debated slapping his disrespectful ass, but decided that it was just the first day of school and i don't need to be fighting this thick browed rat, so i decided to speed up and actually pay attention to the schedule in my hand. i decided to turn around and give him a piece of my mind. "listen here CALEB, don't start talking out ya neck when neither season has started and you couldn't win a single uno game!" not gonna lie, our team did have a pretty bad losing streak these past years, but i was determined to change it. no matter how challenging it was gonna be. i found my next class and sat down.
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