"Hey, have you guys heard about that rumor about Becky and Mason?"
"What rumor?"
Asked one of the girls while slowly enjoying her sandwich. Her question became quickly overshadowed by the booming voice of a blond girl sitting right next to her.
"OMG, you mean the rumor that he cheated on her with that bitch from 2B?!"
"Which one do you mean?"
Asked another girl with short brown hair who was currently sitting cross-legged on one of the tables nearby as she continued to scroll on her phone.
"What do you mean, which one!?"
"Hey I don't know if you noticed but you literally call every girl from 2B either a bitch or a whore."
"Well DUU, because they are!"
The girl couldn't help but roll her eyes a bit at such an answer.
"Come on now, you are just overexerting."
"But it is true! Everyone knows that class is actually just this school's dumpster for the worst students that they have. "
The brunette girl just lazily held up her hands as a sign of surrender to cool down her fired-up friend.
"Ok, Ok, fine … So about that rumor?"
The first girl then quickly grabbed a free chair and started explaining her discoveries.
"Well, I just heard it from Lissa, who heard from one of her friends that knows one of Mason's buddies, and HE told HER that they met up by chance with that 'bitch' Aria while they were in a Star Sett club. Everything seemed fine at first, but then the two of them started chatting together, later on he started buying her drinks, and next thing they know, poof, both of them disappeared together with no one being able to get in contact with him for the next 2 hours!"
"Emm, I don't want to be that person, but I don't think that necessarily means that they did, you know ... THAT."
Said another girl who happened to overhear the conversation.
"Come on Ennie, didn't you listen to me at all earlier, that girl and all the other girls from that class are just a bunch of whores who will literally jump on any guy they can get their hands on."
'...'
'UGH, can't you people be a bit quieter, I'm trying to sleep over here…'
In the very right corner of the class sat a relatively small-looking girl with extremely messy raven black hair cascading from her dark blue baggy hoodie that seemed a few sizes too big for her, lying on top of her desk using her hands like a makeshift pillow.
The girl's head slowly rose up, revealing a pair of dark colored eyes that were neatly hidden behind a frame of thick, round glasses as she slowly scanned the surroundings of the class until her gaze landed on the clock in the top left corner of the room.
'Only 3 minutes left in the lunch break. Luckily, there is just one more class left for today … SIGH~ Still, I wish I could just go home already.'
A few minutes later, the sound of the school's bell signaled the start of the next lecture, accompanied by the sound of the opening door from which a young-looking woman with beautiful blond hair neatly done in a simple bun entered the classroom. The echoing of her high heels resonated throughout the whole class as she strode toward the teacher's desk with a big smile on her face.
"Good day, class~! Now I know that this is technically your last class of the day, but let's still give it our all, alright! So last week we started with singular integrals, so today we will discuss a double integral. To start, what is a double integral, and how does it differ from the singular one, well …"
The teacher didn't waste a minute as she began to scribble on the blackboard while explaining the new subject fluidly.
…
An hour later, the familiar sound of the school bell signaled the end of the lecture, with some students already putting away their notebooks in preparation to leave.
"Well, that will be all for today! Please remember to look at the set of problems we talked about earlier."
The teacher looked over the students as they slowly left the room, until she saw the one peculiar student she was waiting for. "Ah, Evelyn, could I ask you to wait here for a bit? I have something I would like to discuss with you."
The girl visibly tensed up as she halted her steps, standing rigidly next to the teacher while the last of the students left the classroom, leaving just the two of them.
"Em D-Did I do something wrong, Miss Violet?"
Evelyn's voice came out as almost a whisper as she nervously looked up at her homeroom teacher.
"Oh, heavens no, Evelyn, you don't have to be worried, it's just that there was something I would like to ask of you."
'Miss Violet wants something from me?'
"You don't have to be worried, it's nothing serious, it's just that our school is doing a sort of a … helping program, and as one of the best performing students from your year, I wanted to ask if you would be willing to help out. It is basically a program where one student, like yourself, would be assigned another student who is doing … not as well in order to help them improve."
'HUH?!'
"Of course, you would be compensated for your efforts, as if you managed to help one or even more of these students, the school would then give you bonus credits and even a letter of recommendation that you could use in your future applications for either a college or your future workplaces. So what do you say?"
"…"
"…"
The silence that followed was almost deafening, with only the slow ticking sound of the clock, even further elevated the awkward atmosphere.
"I … I don't know if I would be any good when it comes to teaching other people." Evelyn's voice became even quieter than usual. She just wasn't able to imagine herself teaching others; hell, she was hardly able to talk to other people.
She was always a loner, never really capable of conversing with others, maybe aside from her mom. It wasn't even that she enjoyed being alone or that she didn't crave companionship. I was just that …
"You can't undermine yourself like that, you are a wonderful girl, Evelyn, and I'm sure you would do an AMAZING job!"
"B-But wouldn't someone like the class prez? Amara, be a better pick than me?"
"To tell you honestly, she already agreed."
'Of course she did…'
Looking into her teacher's gentle blue eyes, Evelyn just couldn't bring herself to refuse her. After all, Miss Violet had always helped and supported her, so just downright refusing her would leave a sour taste in her mouth for who knows how long, but on the flip side, teaching other people just sounded like such a pain.
"Would I be able to stop with it if it seemed too much for me ?"
"But of course."
"Then I guess I could give it a try…"
1 hour later (Location class 2B)
"UGH! I'm so fucking bored over here!"
A girl cried as she gently slammed her head onto her desk. Her long, blond hair falling freely over her head.
"Aria, you know that this is a school, right? Nobody in here is having fun."
Said the girl sitting next to her as she brushed off her short, shoulder-length, dark blue hair while continuously scrolling on her phone.
"Then why are we supposed to go here every single day?!"
Another girl sitting close by with long flowing pink hair and a few blue streaks mixed in took a huge bite from her sandwich as she gigled while mumbling between her bites.
"HAHA, So you can get a job that doesn't include you sucking off some random guy for a pocket change for a living! … Oh, wait, you do that for free anyway. You know what, forget I said anything~."
"Fuck you Ivy! Why are you two even attacking me for? It's not like you guys are any different from me."
"Well, unlike you, I dooo have a boyfriend." Said the blue-haired girl, throwing her friend a smug grin.
"OHH WOW, congratulaaations Natalie, which fuckin number is he 4th or 5th this month?"
Natalie let out a small sigh as she finally put down her phone.
"Well, at least I have someone, you just go around collecting dicks like they are scout badges. I bet you don't even remember the name of the last guy you did it with. You know the guy you ditched us for, while we were in that shitty club this weekend."
"First of all! I didn't ditch you guys because we met up later on. Aaand second of all. I do remember his name. "
"Ok, tell us then."
Arias's usual playful, clear azure eyes widened a bit as a singular bead of cold sweat ran down her spine.
"Em aaa M-Maaark ?"
Ivy and Natalie shared a small glance toward their friend with a judgmental stare they both answered at the same time.
""Mason""
"FUCK!!"
Arias's defeated cry echoed around the entire classroom, but only a handful of other students actually seemed to react or care.
"How do you guys even know his name!? V help me out here, they are bullying me!"
The last girl with gorgeous long white flowing hair and deep amethyst eyes, combined with dark tanned skin, let out a small chuckle as she, up until now, had just silently observed her friends.
"Ok, guys, give Aria a bit of a slack."
After this, the sound of a school bell was heard with a loud bang as a tired-looking teacher entered the classroom. She slowly made her way toward her table as she plopped herself onto the chair, making her long brown hair done into a simple ponytail jump over her shoulder as her extremely tired-looking, unclear green eyes observed the class.
"Ok, listen up here, people! I have some big news for you! Thankfully for us as a school and unfortunately for you idiots, there have been some changes in the school's law that changed some big things, the most importantant one being, the thresholds for which the school decides the minimal amount of credits you dimwits need to stay here, and let's just say that as off now most of you idiots are way below that line."
The small silence inside the class changed in a second as the depth of the teacher's words hit everyone inside the room.
"WHAT THE FUCK!"
"You mean like you will be expelling us that's bullshit!"
"Yeah, do we have no say in this at all? This is like ... a violation of our rights!"
The teacher only let out a low grumble as she slammed her hand onto the desk.
"LET ME FINISH WHAT I WAS SAYING!!!"
After she cleared her throat a bit, she started to explain again. "Now, like I was saying, yes, 'currently' most of you lack the needed credits for you to pass and continue your studies here, but that doesn't mean you can't change that. All you have to do is study and up your grades up, but don't worry we are also aware that you people are hopeless, and the more people we lose the more money our school loses, so THAT'S WHY our school director made a suggestion where we will pair you up with other students that unlike most of you have a brain to offer free study sessions."
Arias' voice then sounded throughout the class, her voice carrying a certain degree of disappointment and disgust.
"Wait, that's it... Your big solution for us is to get homeschooled by a bunch of nerds?"
"Simply … Yes. Listen, if you guys don't like it. FINE, don't do it, no one is stopping you, but for your own good, I would suggest you take it. As of now, we have around 30 students who are willing to offer you their time, so if you are interested, you can come over here so I pull out the names of your future helper I also have to say that this will be done anonymously so you guys wont fight over who gets who."
The class then exploded with chatter as most thought that the idea was just stupid, while others cursed about the changes.
"Are they stupid or something?!"
"HUF well I'm not doing this bullshit."
"Yeah, how stupid is this! Right V? … V?"
Aria looked around in confusion as she saw an empty seat where her beast friend was sitting just a few seconds ago, with her eyes almost popping out of her sockets, seeing her BFF standing next to the teacher's desk.
"So I can just pick whichever I want. "
The teacher only gave her a lazy nod as V reached out toward the stack of small papers on the table before randomly picking one of them.
After everyone saw her take her card, more and more people started to flood the teacher's desk, and one by one, everyone picked up a random card with V already sitting at her desk and flipping over the card to see the name. 'Evelyn Grey.' Written on it.