EPISODE FOUR:
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3 hours and 51 minutes
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Mrs. Matthews was not in the least bit amused when I came barreling through her doorway. And she was even less thrilled when I knocked over her coat rack in the process. Her coat, umbrella, and the items contained in her unusually large purse spilled all over the floor. I apologized profusely and began to help pick up the mess I had accidentally made. However, I was told that: “I had done enough.” and then was told to: “sit down and cause no further trouble.”
I walked over to the corner table, where my friends sat, all while my face was beet red. Humiliation ran boiling hot through my veins as I took my seat next to Andrew. Although Mrs. Matthews was worlds away from even the slightest smile; our class (especially Andrew) found my clumsiness to be hilarious. I watched with shame as everyone pointed at me and hid snickers with their hands and occasionally a book. Andrew, however, did no such thing. He very clearly, and obnoxiously, laughed at me with a very deliberate grin plastered on his face. I sunk lower in my chair while burying my red face in my hands.
After a long upset groan and a deep sigh of defeat I looked up at my two friends who were still having a lovely time laughing at me. I felt my face very quickly scrunch up in a scowl.
“Evie, don’t be mad,” Lorie protested while wiping a tear from her eyes.
“Yeah,” Andrew said between chuckles. “You should be more upset about what you’ve gotten yourself into with Mrs. Matthews. She’s well known for vengeance.” Drew ended the statement with claw gestures that were very animated.
I smiled a bit, then sighed, and then decided not to ponder my mistake for too long.
“So,” I started, leaning back into my chair. “Where did you guys run off to earlier? I didn’t see you leave.”
“What do you mean, Evie? We went to class.” Lorie answered.
“Yeah, ya know. Like we’re supposed to.” Drew quipped.
“Yeah, yeah. Whatever.” I remarked.
“Plus. Zora looked like she had you.” Drew commented casually.
The statement was simple and clareless, but, soon after it was made my face reddened. The thought of Zora… having me… turned my heart into butterflies inside my rib cage.
“Evie, you okay?” Lorie asked.
“Yeah, of course… Just remembering the fall.” I added when my first statement didn’t make her worried expression go away.
“I was really funny,” said Andrew from beside me.
I slapped his arm and tried to defend my clumsy mistake. Andrew laughed at my feeble attempt at an argument and soon Lorie joined in. Most of my defenses were flimsy and silly.
“S-so yeah! It was an honest mistake!” I stammered in protest.
“Evie,” Lorie said with a comical sigh. “That doesn't make it less hilarious.”
“Yeah, yeah.” Andrew said enthusiastically, “You were like -” He proceeded to make a bunch of noises, faces, and hand motions to act out my fall in a more than dramatic fashion.
At one point in his two minute recreation made of hand gestures and comedic faces, I lost all my shame and began to laugh.
“It was kinda funny, wasn’t it?” I admitted.
“It totally was,” Lorie said.
“And, and Mrs. Matthews’ face was-” Laughing overtook his sentence, but he quickly regained composure, “I would pay to see that again,”
After a quick revisit into my memories of Mrs. Matthews’ reaction after my fall I agreed with Andrew. Her surprised and angry face was really funny. Mrs. Matthews isn’t a scary woman and everyone knows it. Some of the freshmen might find her intimidating because they don’t know her all that well. But us seniors, we find her funny to tease. Although what Drew said is true, about Mrs. Matthews being infamous for her revenge, her reactions are ALWAYS worth the trouble.
Mrs. Matthews is a short woman. She’s just under Lorie’s height (5’4”). She’s also a bit heavy and some people make fun of her for that(not me of course, that’s just plain rude). Despite some of the jokes made about Mrs. Matthews everyone respects her as a teacher at the school. But, everyone (even the faculty) will agree that it is very hard not to laugh when Mrs. Matthews is angry or even slightly annoyed. Her chubby cheeks swell up like red water balloons and her tiny hands fist up when she yells. This is quite a common occurrence too. Because of Mrs. Matthews’ quick temper and no nonsense attitude yelling is quite common in her classroom.
After we all stopped laughing I finally got a good look at the class. It looked like most everyone was here, with very few absent students. I noticed, however, that among the absent is one particular person that I know and that who actually could make a difference.
“Hey, Lorie?” I began.
“Yeah, what is it Evie?” Lorie siad looking up at me.
“I was just wondering where your leach was?” I said sarcastically.
Lorie’s face heated up. “He’s not a leach!” she exclaimed, clearly very irritated at my comment.
“Who’s a leach?” A voice said from behind me.
I dropped my head all the way backwards to see who was standing behind me. To my uprise it was, as if on que, the leach himself.
“Hey, William! We were just - ow!” I was cut off with a kick from under the table by presumably Mallory.
“Someone else,” Lorie filled in forcefully.
William looked confused as he pulled his chair closer to where Lorie was stinging across from me. Judging by the intense glare coming from Lorie I decided not to tell William that I thought he was a leach. In all fairness William is in no way anything close to a blood sucking leach. I only meant that he was constantly glued to Lorie. I’m honestly surprised that he doesn't drive her to school yet. William looked over at me with an inquisitive expression on his face.
“Yeah, we were talking about… um… about… Drew, who were we talking about?” I said very quickly passing the situation off to Drew.
“Sure, Evie,” He said with a glare. After clearing his throat he began, “We were talking about how Caspian practically kisses Mr. Zavich’s a**.”
The table went quiet. Lorie looked very startled. William began laughing so hard he started to cry profusely. And I choked on my non-existent water. To say the least we were all taken aback by the idea of Caspian Moore, head of both the basketball and soccer teams, kissing anyone’s a**, least of all our principal. After a small moment of initial shock our table erupted into obnoxiously loud laughter.
“Quiet down over there!” Mrs. Matthews yelled from her desk on the other side of the room. “Don’t you all have something else to do? Like homework? Or a test to study for?”
Our table quieted down and we all pulled out class or homework assignments, our notebooks, or our textbooks. The entire class seemed to have busyed themselves with work or studying. I know that the class would soon go back to talking and laughing but that didn’t make the temporary silence any less eerie.
I scanned my table. Andrew had some kind of math textbook out and was doing homework problems from it (He always is late with assignments, that’s probably due today). Lorie and William were sharing his airpods while doing some of their other assignments. ‘How cute. Those two lovebirds look so good together!’. Lorie and William have been dating for about two years now. I’m really happy for both of them. Even though I’ve only known William for four years I think he’s really a sweet guy. Plus, Lorie likes him. Seeing her happy is enough for me to accept William into our group. It was hard at first because I’m not trusting by nature but if they're happy I can put down my pride to keep that positivity. They seem like the couple who;s going to stay together through college and get married soon after. It’s always nice to see a future happy ending so close to you.
‘Hey, Evie, you’re staring,” Andrew whispered while bumping my shoulder with his.
“Hm? Oh, sorry. Thanks for telling me,” I said with a thankful smile.
“No problem,” He said and then went back to his homework.
The rest of the period went by in a b;ur. Talking, laughing, and occasionally irking Mrs. Matthews returned within about five minutes of eerie quiet. Our group got a little amount of work done but mostly just talked and laughed at our chaotic first period. I love that our first period is a free period. Then the bell rang and it was over, on to the next chaotic period.
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