The Gradient Of Life

Chapter 2

Argh. How much worse more could my life get?! What have I done to deserve this?! Yes I know I am so overdramatic right now but I can't help it! So basically Mrs. Charlotte has taken away my phone, and here I am walking to the detention room. As I reach the detention room, Mr. Danzack (the detention room cover teacher) motions me to come in. I walk over to his desk, then he scans the list of students supposed to be here at this time and finds me.

He nods and shows me my seat. I've never been to detention before, this is my first time. This is sooooooo awkward. So I have to sit in this eery silence with this male teacher for a full hour doing nothing. How fun! After about 10 minutes of torturous awkwardness, the door creaks open and in walks a guy who looks about a year or two older than me.

I've seen him a couple of times in the school but never really paid much attention to him. He walks over to his appointed seat, which for some reason is next to mine. He just looks at me for a second and then turns his eyes to his desk. If you'd ask me, I really appreciate his presence here, since it's not only me and Mr. Danzack in the room.

In looks, he is not bad looking. Average I'd say. Tan skin with dark brown hair just like my mum's. A sudden feeling of wanting to know him more overwhelms me. I would've spoken to him, but no, speaking is not allowed in the detention room. He just looks so mysterious. If only there was some sort of distraction for Mr. Danzack just so I can get to know this dude.

As if my wishes were answered, a bunch of badass goth kids enter the room and just sit on their chairs without batting an eye with the teacher. It's like they come here so often that they've already memorized their appointed seats.

Soon the place files up by more and more students and in a matter of minutes, the whole place is swarming with notes, paper planes, whisperings, silly excuses to go to the toilet or drink water. What else would you expect, this is a detention room, all the badass kids kicked out of their own classes come here.

Mr. Danzack has a hard time controlling the class, I almost feel sorry for him. Great, now is the perfect time to introduce myself to that guy beside me. Before I can make any move, he just taps my table and waves to me with a smile. I wave back to him. I mime to him "What's your name?" (don't even ask me how she came up with such a mime. LOL anyways...). He replies "Drew" in a voice loud enough for me to hear.

Then the school bell rings and I let out a sigh of relief. Fortunately we have recess now. I and Drew exit the class together giving glares to Mr. Danzack, who is used to them by now. We walk to the cafeteria in silence. As I enter, Ciara and Jasmine wave to me from their seats and motion me to come and sit at their table.

Then they look at the guy next to me and give me wiggling eyebrows, ugh these girls will never grow up. I shoot them daggers and proceed to the queue, with Drew following me closely behind. I really feel sorry for this guy, because whenever I saw him in the school hallways, he never had any friends or students walking with him. Our turn arrives, we pick our lunch and head off to my friends' table. I introduce Drew to them and vice versa.

We get to know more and more about him as the time passes. As far as my information is concerned, he is a not-so-known student in his class. He just hangs out with the nerds at recess, who apparently just talk about exams and lessons or spends his time playing football.

At other times, a popular boy notices his existence and decides to give him a chance by allowing him to sit at their table, but unfortunately they always think he is too boring, so the next day they tell him there's no room for him. Yes his life sucks more than mine does. Just then a girl taps on my shoulder. Chloe! God save me!

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