It was finally the day I've been waiting for, for the past two weeks and a half.
We are picking our new activities for P.E. today.
I don't know how, but I'm going to find a way to do the same activity that Ms. Reed is teaching. I don't think I'll be able to survive another three weeks without being in the same room as her for 80 minutes. That just sounds like hell.
Now let me be honest, I know I'm not the smartest person in the world but I would say I have some sort of knowledge. But if volleyball is an activity for gym today, there is no way Ms. Reed won't be the teacher for it.
It's just the most logical thing.
But there's not too much to worry about because me and Claudia are now walking into the gymnasium.
The one tire on my bike is still flat. Me or my dad haven't had any time to pump it up or go to a bike store so Claudia has been driving me to and from school.
Thank you, Clauds. Best Friend Award of 2024 goes to her.
"There's your bae."
I turn to look at Claudia who's pointing to Ms. Reed who is like 25 feet away from us.
"Shut up Clauds. She's going to be able to hear you."
I still never told Claudia or anyone about the day Ms. Reed drove me home.
I don't think I'm going to tell anybody about it. It's just better and safer that way instead of me risking anything that could potentially put Ms. Reed's reputation at risk.
We sit down next to Maisie and Max and we just yap until we have to go into the locker rooms to change.
But it's so useless because none of us change either way.
I leave my jean shorts on and my sweatshirt on the whole day and if anyone tries to interfere, I will fight them. I don't care.
Yes. I wear sweatshirts in early September in San Diego.
Right now us four are walking into the locker rooms and I just hope Ms. Bodacious comes in here and sees me 'stripping' off my clothes.
I'd only take my clothes off purposely. Only for her to see.
"What activities do you guys think they are going to have?"
Maisie was putting on makeup as always. It pisses me off like I don't get why you would put on makeup for P.E.
"Probably the same things as last time but I don't know. Maybe they'll add badminton? That's what they normally do."
I hope Maisie is right.
I would do anything to get my sensitive blue eyes out of the sun and badminton is played inside. Plus maybe Ms. Reed might be the teacher for the activity.
Me and Claudia finished up in the locker room pretty quickly. All I had to do was recomb my hair and Claudia put on sweatpants and had her t-shirt on. Max finished up a little quickly, coming out a minute later and Maisie took 5 more minutes.
"Alright guys everybody sit over here and settle down."
One of the creepy middle aged teachers ordered for all the grades to come over to where my friends and I fortunately were.
"We are going to have the same activities as we did last time but we are going to be adding badminton."
A huge sigh of relief came out of my system that I didn't even know I had in me.
That doesn't really matter to me though because tell me why Ms. Reed keeps making eye contact with me throughout the whole time creepy teacher is yapping.
Like do your job Ms. Girl.
"So seniors get to choose first, then juniors, sophomores, and then the freshmen."
Thank God I'm a senior. A really great perk that comes with being a senior is that we get first pick for activities for 80% of the year. I remember being a freshman and I barely got the opportunity to do the activity I wanted because it would always be full by time the sophomores went.
Me, Claudia, Maisie, and Max are making our way over to where the area to where people want to do badminton is. It's perfect because its a 2v2 game. I normally like to go with Max on this game because we are pretty unstoppable if I do say so myself.
As we are walking over I swear I can feel Ms. Reed's eyes on me.
Usually my instincts are right.
There were a few other seniors who chose badminton. Not many juniors chose it since there weren't many in this P.E. class but there were a lot of sophomores who chose it and a few freshmen.
"Do you think Ms. Reed is going to be the teacher for badminton?" I pull away from whispering in Claudia's ear. None of my other friends know I have a tiny crush on Ms. Reed and I'm going to keep it that way.
"I don't see why not. Just don't get your hopes up and don't even think about switching activities if you find out she's doing another activity."
Doesn't Claudia know me so well?
Me and Claudia go over to Maisie and Max to decide the badminton teams. This conversation was always useless because it's the same teams every time but you never know. Things can change.
"So it's going to be me and Max, yeah?"
Maisie sighs. "I suppose. Although it is very unfair because you two are the best out of us four and probably two of the best people who chose badminton."
Max and I smirk at each other.
We have been fortunate enough to be in the same gym class all four years of high school so our chemistry in badminton is pretty great. I met Max the first day of freshman year gym class; so to see how far we have come is pretty awesome.
I part away from my friends to try and find Ms. Reed in the crowd of kids.
"I'm surprised you didn't say Ms. Reed was going to be your partner."
I turn to my left and see Claudia right beside me. I flip her off as my eyes keep scanning the room.
"Yeah well we don't even know if she's going to be the teacher for this activity so it doesn't really matter even if I did want her to be my badminton partner."
On cue, I finally see Ms. Reed and she is coming my way with her laptop. I know I'm a very stupid person but I know what this means.
Ms. Reed is the teacher for badminton.
"Wow, look how lucky you are to have your crush as the teacher." Claudia says that with a sarcastic tone but I don't even care. All I care about is impressing Ms. Reed.
As she is making her way over towards the area I'm standing at, she makes eye contact with me once and then ignores me the rest of the time.
I wish I could look inside her head and see how annoyed she is that she has to spend 3 weeks with me in an activity for 80 minutes.
Hell for her, Heaven for me.
This might be cringe and a stupid simile but I honestly feel like a birdie hit by rackets up in the air jumping for joy. I'm so happy right now I could quite literally collapse right here on the floor. I think I might.
I'm looking at all of these people and I know that they have nothing on my viscous viscous skills. I don't even need Max. I can do this on my own.
It takes about 5 minutes for everyone to type their name down on the laptop. So now we are heading to the bubble to where badminton is set up.
I walk away from my friends and maneuver my way around the students to try and get to Ms. Reed who is walking alone.
"It's pretty nice outside today, huh?" I look up at the sky as I can tell Ms. Reed picks up her pace a little. Obviously I keep up because I'm literally on my knees for her 24/7.
"It was a nice day until I saw you over at the badminton area."
My jaw drops and I try to get her to look me in the eyes but she chooses to look straight ahead.
This bitch.
"Ouch Ms. Reed. I'm quite offended you would say something that cruel to one of your favorite students. I have feelings, y'know."
"I'd try harder if I wanted to offend you."
My face grows mad but honestly I'm a little embarrassed inside. Still, I see Ms. Reed smile a little so it's fine. I'm also a little mad at the fact because the reason why she is smiling is because she knows how I feel when she said that.
We get inside the bubble and we all sit on the bleachers for her to do attendance.
I zone out the whole time until something catches my attention.
"Jules Oliver?"
I look up to see Ms. Reed call out my name for attendance...Last time I checked we just had a conversation.
Not going to lie, I am a little disappointed that she called my name out even though she already knows I'm here. She didn't call out the freshman's name so why did she call out mine?
I raise my hand up slightly instead of saying 'here' and I can tell Ms. Reed feels a little regretful for calling my name instead of just marking me present.
But she's a teacher and she's gotta do what she's gotta do.
I mean, who is crazy enough to risk there job for someone?
Authors Words:
Next chapter going to be a like specials one