At 7 am, a bedroom alarm clock went off. The clock kept ringing until the owner finally turned it off. A young man, with black hair and brown eyes, got out of bed.
"Ugh, it's 7 am! I'm going back to sleep." He climbed back into bed, and went back to sleep. About 10 minuted later, the boy's mother came in banging on his door.
"Courdrory Lopez! Wake up this instant! You're going to be late!"
At first he ignored her, which was a big mistake. His mother burst through the door, walked in, and threw off his sheets. "What are you doing?"
"Waking you up! Now get ready for school! I have to go to work!"
"Fine!" With that his mother left to get ready for work, leaving her son to ready for his first day of school. "Bitch."
"I heard that!"
*
Athena
"Hey, Athena!" I looked towards the voice, and saw Alexis. I waved back, and began to walk over to her. When I got to her, the expression on her face was that of concern.
"What's wrong?" I asked her out of curiosity.
"You should be asking yourself that."
"Huh?"
"You look exhausted."
"I do?"
"Yeah. What time did you go to bed? Better yet, what time did you wake up?"
"5:50."
"AM?"
"Yeah."
"Why did you wake up so early?"
"Because I ride the bus. Speaking of which don't you ride the bus too?"
"I don't have to, my brother takes me to school. You know what, from now on we'll be taking you to school."
"What?"
"Okay, I'm sorry, let me rephrase that. We'll be more than happy to take you to school, Athena."
"I can't ask you to do that."
"You didn't, I volunteered." Knowing she wouldn't take 'no' for an answer I said 'yes', but I had a condition.
"Okay, you can take me to school, but under one condition. Only in the morning. Not in the afternoon, I can take the bus home. Okay?"
"Deal."
"Now then shall we?"
"We shall. Later, bro!" Alexis said as she waved goodbye to her brother.
"Have a good day!" We both headed inside to the gym.
There were so many people. Some were on the floor, others were in the bleachers, or they were simply standing.
"Woah, so many people."
"I know right?"
"Um, let's sit over there." Alexis and I sat on the floor against the wall underneath a basketball net.
"Man, this floor is hard." I laughed a bit at my friend.
"So, any idea on what extracurricular activities you'll be doing?"
"Um, I'm thinking cheerleading."
"Oh, anything else?"
"Probably soccer. What about you?"
"Oh, um, I'm gonna do track. Indoor to be precise."
"Really?"
"Yeah, I can run pretty fast."
"That is so cool."
"Why, thank you." We both laughed, until we heard the bell ring. We immediately got up and went to our lockers.
"So, what's your first class?"
"Let's see it says I have biology first."
"Wow, me too."
"Great let's go."
Alexis and I made our way to biology, we looked around for the room number from our schedule. "Hey, here it is. Room 111." We walked into the room, and we were surprised to see no one was there. Normally, the teacher would be the first one in the room. "Hello, there." The voice startled us. When we turned we saw a young man in black khakis with a blue buttoned shirt, and a black tie. Alexis was the first one to speak, I was still trying to find my heartbeat.
"Um, hi."
"Welcome to Biology! And you are?"
"Alexis and Athena. Who are you?"
"I'm your Biology teacher, Mr. Storm."
"Mr. Storm?"
"Yes."
"You're a Biology teacher and your name is Mr. Storm?"
"That's right."
"Well, this is going to be interesting."
Alexis walked to the desks, I mean tables, and sat down in the front row. I followed and sat next to her. Not long after the other kids came into the room. All the sits were filled, you could say we had a full house. The bell rang shortly after, and the teacher began his introduction.
"Hello everyone, my name is Mr. Storm, and I will be your biology teacher. Now what do you say we get started?" Everyone replied with a weak 'yeah', and you couldn't blame them, it was almost 8 am, and pretty much everyone is still asleep at this hour.
"Listen, guys I know you're exhausted, I am too. Trust me I've been up since 5 this morning."
"Why?" asked Alexis.
"I have no idea. All I know is that when I got here it was 5:45, and I was in my pj's." Everyone started laughing, which helped us wake up a bit.
"Okay, everyone let's get started." Mr. Storm started his lesson, and about 45 mins. into the lesson, a young boy walked into the room.
He was tall with black hair and brown eyes, but he wasn't wearing his school uniform. "Um, hello, who are you and why are you late?" The boy didn't answer instead he handed Mr. Storm a note.
"Oh, I see. Everyone this is Courdrory Lopez, he's a freshman just like you, I hope you all will get along."
All the girls in the room starting talking about and I quote, 'how dreamy he is'.
"Why don't you sit next to Athena?" Mr. Storm said as he pointed toward me.
The boy walked over to the chair, and sat down only to put his feet on the table. Mr. Storm didn't seem to mind it, I guess it was his personality or he was just so tired he didn't care.
At 8:40, the bell rang, which meant we had to go to our next class. "Hey, Athena." I heard my friend's voice and turned around.
"Hm?"'
"Check it out, looks like the new guy's a total flirt."
"Looks like it. A regular playboy."
"I feel bad for those girls."
"What makes you say that?"
"Because they have to deal with his ego."
"Alexis, be nice."
"Why? It's true." I laughed a bit, then Alexis and I left the room, what we didn't know was that we were being watched, at least one of us was.
After Alexis was done getting her books, she said goodbye as she went to her next class. I was kinda upset that we didn't have the same schedule, but it couldn't be helped. I was just about to close my locker, until I saw a reflection in my mirror. I quickly turned around to see the new kid, Courdrory, staring at me. "Hey, Athena, right?"
"Yes. Can I help you with something?"
"Actually, yes, you can. How's 'bout you and I hang out some time? I mean after all you are a beauty."
"I bet you say that to all the girls, right?"
"Listen, babe--"
"No, you listen. I'm no one's babe. And I'm not like all those other girls, who fall for you the moment they see you. So let me sum it up for ya. I'm not your babe, I'm not your chick, and I'm most certainly not your mindless toy, that you can simply throw away when you get bored." He was speechless. I could tell by the look on his face that I had damaged his ego.
*
Courdrory
I was speechless. No one has ever rejected me before, especially not a girl. I couldn't believe it. I stood in silence, I was lost in my disbelief. Before I could say anything she left, and I watched her as she walked away. My first rejection.
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