Okay, this is chapter 2 and it follows Dylan's perspective now:
As Dylan left for Algebra, his soul seemed to feel lighter than it had all morning. When he arrived in Ms. Willowash's room, it seemed a more blissful, happy atmosphere than it had ever felt like, even on the last day of seventh grade it hadn't been this seemingly happy! He didn't even mind when he had to sit next to the worst kid in the whole grade, Joe Fink.
Joe was fat, stupid, ugly and all around obnoxious. His 'friends' hated him, his teacher hated him and even his parents hated him! Ms. Willowash asked them spend most of the time to talk to their neighbors and ask about their summer and the whole time Joe was screaming at Dylan to tell him about his summer because all Dylan could respond with was "It was okay, I guess." when he had actually had one of the best summers ever.
Finally, Joe realized that Dylan wasn't going to talk much, he made Dylan ask about his summer. Joe babbled on about how much fun it was to visit his Great-Aunt Sally's farm and milk the goats and whatever else while Dylan, of course, ignored every word and was too busy staring into oblivion and day-dreaming. When Joe saw that either way Dylan wasn't paying attention, he sat there and pouted. At the end of class Joe was so bored he had succumbed to tears, which didn't take much and happened so frequently that the teacher just patted him on the back and told him it was okay before sending them out.
And it was the same in Geography, only this time Dylan sat next to Tara, his ex-girlfriend, who was determined to tell him that he would regret ever thinking of breaking up with her every time she saw him.
He just stared blankly ahead, not even realizing that Tara had sat next to him and was angrily 'telling him off'. When she saw that he wasn't listening, she got angrier and louder. Then, when she couldn't get a single word out of him, she growled at him and gloweredin her chair, all the while making faces at him that might as well have been invisible. For once, someone had actually shut Tara Huntsley up! She had seriously never stopped talking for the first time in her life since she could squeal as a baby! No one had ever done that; not even her parents had been able to do that!
At last the bell rang and Dylan sprang up out of his chair for lunch so fast that it brought the desk down with it. But he didn't care and he bolted out of class before anyone had even gotten their books together. He ran so fast he accidently ran into someone that was also hurrying out of thier class on the way to his locker, sending them both flying backwards.
"Oh! I'm so sorry!" "It's my fault really. I was in to much of a hurry to get to lunch." they both said as they gathered up the randomly scattered books and papers strewn across the hall. He looked up to give the person their papers and books and looked into Alicia's shocked face. "Oh, hey! I was just going to meet you for lunch," Dylan said smiling and handing her her books. "So was I!", Alicia giggled. "So, I guess I'll meet you for lunch. You can sit with us," Dylan said. Alicia smiled and nodded "Okay."
Dylan quickly crammed his books in his locker and sprinted down the hal to the cafeteria with his lunch money jingling merrily in his pocket. When he got there he was the third person in line for lunch. Fortunately, since it was the first day of school, the cafeteria was serving pizza and he was one of the first people in line so he didn't have to deal with lunch rush.
As he grabbed food he scanned the doors for his friends or Alicia but only a few kids trickled in and they weren't either of these people. Dismayed, Dylan wearily snatched up his tray and sat down at a table. Then, all of a sudden the doors flew open and the lunch rush rolled in. Kids pushed and shoved over the spots in line and acted like they'd die if they didn't get that spot.
Then, as his group of friends shuffled through the choas to sit down at their table, Dylan saw Alicia shift through the hungry crowd with her tray and search for him. He jumped up on his chair, waved his arms and yelled over the buzz of the crowd, "Hey Alicia! Over here!" She spotted him, smiled and rushed over to sit with them.
"Who's she?" Mark whispered to Dylan. "She's my friend Alicia. She's new here and I met her in Homeroom." She scooted in beside Dylan. Dylan introduced her. "This is Tom, Mark, Anthony, John and Rick." They greeted her warmly but she was so overwhelmed by shyness that she didn't talk at all during lunch but just ate and watched Dylan chat away with his friends.
Dylan thought it was a great lunch and that they both had fun because, although she didn't talk during the period she would laugh and smile with everyone else. But when it was the end of lunch she muttered a hasty, " 'Bye." and left without another word, leaving them all there baffled.
I know it's longer then the first chapter but it was worth the writer's cramp ;D. I need comments on this so please comment!
