Ms. Evenight ushered me up the hallway, passing students that all blended together. Quickly she shoved me into a small class room that was full of faces that showed a mixture of boredom or curiosity towards me.
“Oh, Caddee, welcome to Rosenberg’s!” Ms. Evenight whispered and then left the room. I stood there silently; hands in pockets, waiting for the teacher to pay attention to
“Oh! You must be Ms. Morgan,” said a perky young female teacher. “Welcome,” she shrieked and then looped her arm in mine, which I instantly shrugged off. She didn’t seem to be too offended by the gesture, but apparently the other kids noticed and tried to stifle giggles. “Anyway I'm Miss. Ronda and I will be you’re one and only History teacher. Say hello to everyone, they are all just dying to meet you!” she said warmly.
“Hi...” I sighed to the class and then strolled to the back of the classroom, to the only spare seat.
“This seat is taken...” huffed a Barbie wannabe. She flicked her ash blonde hair out of her deep blue eyes and gave me the stare that showed how much she hated me already.
“That’s just too bad” I smirked and then slumped down into the seat, giving her my best death stare. This girl was your average bitch and she wanted everyone to know it, so I wasn’t afraid to show her I was not so nice.
“Summer, please be nice...” Miss. Ronda said in a disapproving voice.
“Summer Matherson, pleasure to meet you” she held out her hand,
“Caddee Morgan” I said and crossed my arms, I was not shaking her hand. Summer grinned and then clasped her hands together on her lap.
“Okay, class! We will be following on from last lesson. Can anyone tell me what that was?” Miss. Ronda asked everyone. A geeky looking brunette up the front shot his hand up and waited to be called on. “Yes, Charles...?”
“The First Women’s Federal Prison” he said in a nasally voice. We were studying prisons in class, could it have been more of a coincidence?
“Well done Charles. Courtney, could you tell me something you learned last lesson?” Miss. Ronda queried.
“Something to do with alcohol...” said a ditsy looking red head with freckles who sat on the other side of Summer. They grinned at each other and I could tell at that moment that Courtney wasn’t going to be as nice as she looked. They both had this aura about them that let off that they were the queens of the school and no one got in their way.
“Of course you remember the alcohol! Your brain is swimming in it!” yelled a blonde boy with black highlights from the back of the class, he got everyone snickering and Courtney blushing bright red.
“Enough Thomas!” Miss. Ronda said in a firm voice. “Courtney is right. Most of the Prisoners were not hardened criminals; they were just there for drug and alcohol charges” she turned and sat in the chair up the front of the room and crossed her legs before continuing. “So can anyone else tell me something about the First Women’s Prison.... maybe what it would have been like or where it was...?” She questioned.
“Alderson, West Virginia” muttered a brunette boy in the row in front of me, who looked like he was drawing, and not paying attention at all.
“Correct Ayden! Well done!” Shrieked Miss. Ronda pleased that one of her students remembered something.
I picked up a pen and tuned out of the class, started to doddle on the edge of the desk. Just drawing little swirls and symbols that I had grown accustom to. I looked down at myself; in this new uniform, in a new school, in a new town, with a new life and a new story. I have to change everything whenever we moved, where ever we move. My parents think that if we keep moving it will keep me in line, out of trouble. That if I don’t stay in one place long enough, I won’t take my anger out on someone and get myself arrested again. Life is hard, and I know a lot of teenagers may say that but, I'm telling the truth. When you spend twelve months in a Juvenile Detention Centre like I have, then you have the right to say life is hard. But if you add the fact that I have had at least twenty one court convictions and one hundred hours of community service to the list, you have the right to say that life is screwed up.
