Mr. High School

Ch. 6 - Metallica

Thanksgiving came and went with minimal disruption. Just like that Monday was rolling around once again and students grimaced at the fact that they had to wake up that morning in order to go to school that day. Echo walked into school a lot earlier than she normally would as a guarantee that theres no interruptions for her intended talk with Adam. But little did she know that she got there before Adam himself arrived, she thought he was here super early. She began to study the room and look around considering she doesnt do so normally during class. She noticed that there was some assignments on the table and cautiously walked towards the table and began to see if she saw her name to see if it was graded. Graded it was 100, and Adam even left a smiley face, which he does to anyone that gets 100, which is usually her more often than not it seems. She wasnt too surprised by that because, well, have you seen their class?

Suddenly she heard Adam's voice coming from outside the class and chose to hide, she dont know what made her want to do so, but that was her initial instinct. So she spun around and looked for anywhere to hide and so she chose to dive underneath a desk near the back of the room and hope that she wasnt seen. "Ughhhh, Tater." Adam says as he closes the door behind him walking to his desk. She has visibility on him but shes very cautious as to not be spotted from her location. What does he do here at this time? she wonders. She proceeds to look at him trying to see what he does. Adam sets his stuff down and immediately begins to write on the chalk board. He writes what appears to be the lesson plan for the day, "Alright, hopefully they'll pay attention today when they see they'll be learning about how the human heart functions." he paused and then turned to his desk and sat down in it and let out a sigh of disappointment it sounded like, Echo slightly adjusted her position to try and hear him better. "I dont know what i'll do, it's tough times. I gotta keep going though, its my job after all." he says under his breath and she then feels bad for how most students dont realize how easy they have it with a teacher their age, even she acknowledges she's guilty of it too and isnt too proud of it after seeing him when he is alone, what he thinks about it. "I also dont know how much longer I can ignore how jealous I am, its not even negatively its just I feel like I threw away my best shot with Echo a good bit before Parker showed up and suddenly as soon as he did, it all went away." he says a little but mumbly as to not be seen or heard outside his room talking to himself, "but im happy for her if she is happy, its just deflating morally."

She then frowned realizing what she had suspected but wasnt sure about, Adam liked her, and from what she can tell, he still does. But instead of her initial reaction being that she knows she has a boyfriend, or actually a "friend with certain benefits", her first thoughts were of happiness, realizing Adam was into her, she felt relieved almost but then it was when it hit her that she was "with" Parker and then began to debate herself in her own brain. Im with Parker, why am I even giving this any sort of different thoughts? I mean I know that I once fell asleep in his class and happened to dream that I was intro him but. Since then I havent exactly been the same towards him and not in a bad way its just something changed but obviously I cant do anything now, regardless if I choose to or not because of Parker but I can push buttons to see which ones to push and when. She thinks to herself mischievously while still on the floor of the classroom.

Just then though she decides to craw near the door and slowly standup and open it as to pretend she is just coming into the room for the first, as she realizes the students may begin to start entering the classroom sooner than later. She slowly creeps up whilst looking at Adam making sure he doesnt look her way, she slowly turns the knob as shes now full standing and the door opens slowly while making almost no noise, she hesitates for a second but chooses to close the door as normal and begins to walk towards her friend teacher as if she wasnt there at all beforehand. Adam was caught off guard by her and her presence, and her earliness, "Hey Echo, you're here fairly early, what can I do for you?" he asks and with a smile too. She is standing opposite to his desk, "Hey Adam, I was wondering if you'd like to join Parker and I at a concert in 2 weeks?" Adam grimaced at that as he knew what he had doing that night, "ooohhh, I dont believe I can, is it December 8th?" she nods to him. "Damn, I got plans that day." she is a bit confused with Adam of all people having 'plans'. "Oh ok then, well, if those plans dont fall through, youre more than welcome to join us." Adam nodded, "thanks." Echo then stood there for a few more seconds, "are you ok Adam? you dont seem completely fine." she says seeing what his reactions are. "Im fine Echo, its just early in the morning and I need to deal with class of course, though for me its the teaching part." he says. "Yea but are you sure there's nothing bothering you? Anything thats keeping you in thought?" she asks curiously and he hesitates for just a second before turning to look at her and he says, "Im the same as always Echo, you don't need to be overtly concerned for me but I appreciate it, I really do." he says, and that answer as genuine as it sounds, its not something Adam would say normally. He'd slur around and stutter his words whilst coming close to saying something that only applied to her. This confirmed her suspicion and she was going to try and bring it out as much as she could when it best made sense to and yet not come across a type of way.