The Fighters

Chapter 9

Chapter 9

Just then the door opened, but instead of Mr. Olson it was....

The principle? Mr. Bates our school principle came into the room and stood up front. He cleared his throat to get the attention of the class, "I know most of you are wondering where Mr. Olson is. During the past weekend on a trip with his family he got caught in a hunters bear trap and broke his leg also hitting his head. He is currently in the hospital for a few days and will then go home. But because of this you will have a new teacher for the time being that he is gone."

Usually when a student hears this they are wondering if he will be okay and when he'll be back.. Well what I'M thinking is how the heck do you get caught in a bear trap??

Mr. Bates opened the door and motioned for the new teacher to come in. From what I could see the man was young and of course. As this IS a high school full of idiotic people and don't forget sluts... Most of the girls in the room, besides me, Becca, the guys and the emo and nerd girls, all pulled their shirts down and their skirts/shorts up. I don't get how they do this. There is only so far you can pull up your pants before it can cause extreme pain. I guess that's just me though. But really you couldn't even see his face yet!

Once they both got to the front of the room once again then our principle started to talk. "Class this is Mr. Sterling. He will be your teacher until Mr. Olson can come back. Well I'll leave you to it then." Mr. Bates slapped the guy on the back, smiled and then walked out of the room. All the attention was on Mr. Sterling now. For some reason he seemed faintly familiar, although he has brown hair and brown eyes so he seems familiar to a lot of people! Maybe its one of my Dad's co- worker's sons?? From when my Dad has those dumb dinners of his. That's probably it truthfully, I meet so many people there that its hard to keep them straight! I have no ides how my Dad does it!

"Now class since I'm new today will be a real laid back day. I'm just gonna do role call now and please tell me if you're here or not." Mr. Sterling then walked around to the podium next to his desk and started to call of names.

About half way through the door slammed open with a bang! I had my head down but no moved my bag off his seat. See? I don't even have to look and I already know who it is. Seconds later I hear him sit in his seat next to me. "Ahh you must be Damien Clark?.." Mr. Sterling called out. Woe someone has been informed. I'm guessing Damien just nodded his head because the teacher went back to his role calling.

"Jack Holigan?"

'Here!'

"Stacy Anderson?"

'Here sir!" There goes one of the many sluts again! Her voice is so high and squeaky I cringed at it. Is that seriously her voice or does she think that's seductive? "Alexis Parker?" Or cute? Well its neither. More like annoying! I felt a nudge to my elbow and sat up ready to glare at the idiotic moron next to me but was interrupted. "Alexis Parker!?"

My head shot up and I said ,"here," and avoided eye contact. He looked at me for a second longer than needed then continued down the names. Well that was slightly embarrassing! I put my head down again to hide my blushing cheeks.

After role call, which took much longer than usual but because of a new teacher, he collected our homework from last Friday. As all of the homework has been collected the bell rang. I quickly gathered my stuff and as I was grabbing my pencil my hand brushed Damien's. He looked up at me and I blushed,grabbed my bag and then booked it out of there! Why the heck did I blush!? Why would I? I don't like him and I didn't do anything embarrassing. Ugh whatever! What's done is done.

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It was lunch time and I met Becca at our table. I had grabbed a milk and apple because I wasn't all that hungry to get a full lunch which probably tasted worse than what I have now. And besides! Who doesn't love a good apple? Don't answer that..