Chapter 2: Maths

We arrive at out first class and take our seats, shortly the teacher, Mr Johnston, enters and tells everyone to stand up and come down the front of the class.

"Ok, students, I know you've been going to school together for a few years now, but I would like you to have a seating plan," the class moans, "so that you can get to know other students. Now, everyone make a line and draw a name out of the hat, who ever you get, you sit next to."

We all get in a line and kids start pulling names out of the hat.

Sophie, a girl from our class, goes first, she pulls out the name 'Steven' and the two of them go take a seat.

Then, after a while, it gets to Minho, he pulls out the name 'Melody', so the pair go and take a seat up the back.

Then Brenda pulls out 'Brendan' so they sit in front of Minho and Melody.

When it's my turn, I reach in and pull out a card, I slowly turn it around, revealing the name on it, it was Newt...

"Ok, you two, take a seat." Sir said.

I turn to Newt and give him a weak smile, then we sit up the back, in the two seats next to Minho and Melody.

The rest of the class take their seats and we commence in our lesson.

"Ok class, please turn to page 207 of your text books." Sir says, then starts the class.

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The bell finally goes, signalling the end of this class. Everyone packs up and heads out the door.

"So, what classes do you's have?" I ask.

"Science, class 1, B block." Brenda announces.

"Yeah, so do we." Minho and Melody say in unison.

"Cool, I have Science in this block, I'm in 2. What about you, Newt?" I ask.

"Same as you." He smiles.

I smile back, "Well, we better be going, C'ya's!" I say as Newt and I walk to class.

We are greeted by Rachel and Thomas, as we arrive at class.

"Hey, guys." They say, and we enter.

Rachel and I sit up the back left, while Thomas and Newt sit in front of us.

We start the lesson, learning about things and getting a recap of what we already know.

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When the bell finally goes for recess, the students all pile out of the room.

Newt, Minho, Brenda and I all exit after the crowd dies down.

We gather in the courtyard of our dorm block with the rest of our group.

"Hey guys!" Rachel smiles as she arrives too.

"Hey!" I smile as I hug her.

"Do you guys wanna go get some food?" She asks.

"I'd love too." I smile and look at the others. They all agree and we head to the canteen.

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"Hey Mrs White!" We greet.

"Oh, hello children, how can I help you?" She smiles.

"Um, well would we be able to get some food, please?!" I smile back.

"Of course, isn't that what a canteen's for!" She beams, "What can I get yous'?"

"Um, would I please be able to get a packet of sweet-chilli chips and some iced coffee!" I ask.

"Of course." She passes me my order and then the others order too.

"Could I have a packet of honey-soy-chicken chips and a chocolate milk, please." Minho asks.

She hands him his order and looks at Thomas. "And you?"

"Ah, could I have the same please." He responds.

"Sure."

"Could we have 2 packets of sour cream grainwaves and 2 molten vanilla milks please!?" Rachel asks for her and Brenda.

"Yup, and you?" She gives a confused look to Newt, "Who are you?"

"I'm Newt, nice to meet you." He greets.

"Mrs White, at your service. What would you like?" She asks.

"Could I have some sweet-chilli and sour cream chips with an iced coffee, please?" He asks.

"Coming right up."

Once we get our food we go take a seat on the ground, and lean up against the wall.

We don't have many seats in our playground. The year twelves have seats in the A block, because they're in their last year of school and maybe a few scattered around, but they're all taken. But the grounds a good spot anyway.

"Lara, why are we sitting on the ground when there's a pick-nick table just there?" Thomas asks.

I look over and see a spare table, in the shade under an overhanging building, just a few meters away.

"Let's go." I say quickly and run over to it.

The rest follow and we continue eating and talking about our classes.

While we were listening to Minho, complaining about the previous two classes, I notice Newt, staring at me, it looked like he was trying to figure me out. I smiled at him and then all of a sudden I get whiff of molten vanilla milk, I follow my nose till it's right above Rachel's milk.

"Mmmm!" It smells so good.

Everyone stops and looks at me when I snatch it from her hands just to smell it.

I open my eyes and everyone's looking at me, either in shock, or confused.

"What?! I like the smell." I say casually.

They start laughing and I give the milk back to Rach.

The bell eventually goes and we have to go to class. This time Rachel, Minho and I are in A block for Geography and Thomas, Newt and Brenda are in C block for it.

We have Mr Brian and he makes us do a short test before writing notes for the rest of class. I really dislike Geography.

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Then we have English, Newt, Minho, Rachel and I are all in this together.

We write a few notes and then we get to finish our title page. Mrs Jones is great!

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When we get to lunch, we all buy some wraps from the canteen and sit at our table.

"So how was class?" I ask, no one in particular.

"Boring, you should know, you were there." Minho complains.

"I liked English." Rachel said.

"Yeah, English was good." Thomas agreed.

"What did you two do in English?" Brenda asked.

"Title page and a few notes." I replied. "You?"

"Ah, we did...... Um." Brenda thought.

"We wrote a short story and worked on improving it." Thomas responded for her.

"Cool, hey, should we go get changed into our sports uniform for P.E prac?" I ask, standing slightly. We are all in the same P.E class.

"Yeah, let's go." Thomas says, standing also.

We all get up and head to the canteen bathrooms to get changed, Brenda, Rachel and I walk up the stairs to the bathrooms and get changed.

Once we are done we head back to our table, where the boys are sitting.

The fresh smell of Rachel's perfume and Brenda's deodorant fills the table, along with Minho's hair spray and the boy deodorant smell.

We sit and talk till the bell, and then head over to the middle of the quad to get our names marked off and get told what to do.

"Ok, I'd like everyone to get a partner... of the opposite gender." Mrs Robinson instructs.

Rachel goes to Thomas, Brenda to Minho and I'm left with Newt, which I don't mind, I need to get to know him.

Sir tells us to do laps of the oval with our partner by our side.

It wasn't too hard, I just had to move my legs really fast to keep up with Newt and his long legs, I'm only up to his chin, and so that means my legs are short, but I kept up.

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Once we were done that and got to have a short brake, Mr Robinson told us to race our partner from one end of the oval to the next, just so he could see where in sport we are up to.

Newt and I sit and watched as the class run I pairs, we had been chosen to go last.

Rachel and Thomas raced, it was quite close, Rachel is the same hight as Tom, and she has LOTS of energy, but Tom won because of his practise. He plays football, she plays soccer, but he won.

Minho lost against Brenda, maybe because Minho was too busy worrying about ruining his hair.

When Newt and I went, it was difficult to keep up with his long strides, but I was gaining on him, and just before we go to the end, I did catch up, and our feet crossed the line at the same time.

It was an exhausting lesson.

"Good work, Lara." Newt smiled and shook my hand.

"You too." I smiled back, shaking his hand back.

We sat on the side lines for a while, until the bell went and we left to our dorms.

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I entered my dorm and collapsed on the lounge, Rachel lied on the floor and Brenda sat on the computer chair.

"Hey, girls, wanna invite the guys over at 5, to hang out?" Rachel asked, while playing on her phone.

"Sure, that gives me enough time to shower and eat." I say.

"Yup." Brenda replies.

"Ok, I'll text them." Rachel responds.

I get up and head to my room, I find some clothes and take a shower in my bathroom.

Once I'm done I dry my hair with my towel and put it in a high ponytail.

I collapse back on the lounge and play on my phone for a while.

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Soon Brenda and Rachel have also had a shower and taken a seat.

Then we wait.

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A/N yay, finished chapter 2, hope you enjoyed :)

So I hope you like chapter 3