"Alice!" Eric whispered. I jumped, I had been reading "A Catcher In The Rye", one of my favorites.
"What?" I asked, putting my book down and peaking up at him through my square frame reading glasses. He just rolled his eyes and handed me a stack of papers.
"Take one and pass them back." He smirked.
I twisted around in my desk and handed them back, then looked down at my own paper. Ugh,I mentally moaned, Grammar worksheets are so stupid. We are advanced sophomores, we should already know about adjectives and adverbs. I ran my fingers through my messy blond hair and started reading again. The bell rang, so I drug my Hello Kitty book bag over my shoulder and wondered to lunch.
At lunch I sit by the band geeks and the art freaks. I am one of the art freaks. I love to draw, it's just something I'm good at. I don't have many friends that share my love for art though. I don't have many close friends at all really. Some people assume I'm unfriendly, but that's not it.. I just never have anything very interesting to say, especially to the red-necks here.
Drew and Derek, two brothers who play trumpet in the marching band fought over the spot beside me. After a quick but awkward dispute Drew came out victorious.
He smiled shyly at me.
"So what's for lunch?" He asked. I smiled back and handed him their usual pack of skittles. Drew gets the red and orange, Derek gets the purple and yellow and they share the green. I pulled my Twix out of my bag and started eating. I urged the time faster in my mind, I wanted to get to art. I saw a beautiful sunrise this morning while I was looking out of my window. Pink and orange clouds flooded the pale blue sky and the trees in my backyard were just black silhouettes. It could be an amazing painting.
The bell rang and I hopped out of my chair and bolted out of the cafeteria waving bye to Drew and Derek. The school was pretty small only tenth through twelth grade were in this building so not even 300 hundred kids were at the high school. I walked into the back room and grabbed my paint set. I moved to my usual desk to sit down but the teacher, Mrs. Kriston was already there waiting for me. She gave me her usual loony grin.
"Hey Mrs. Kriston." I said smiling back and awkwardly putting my paints on my desk.
"Alice! I have to talk to you. It's great news!" Mrs Kriston exclaimed and ushered me out of the room.
