Chapter 6

Driving down the street heading towards the school I make a couple of wrong turns before arriving in the school parking lot. With making them wrong turns it made me later than I had liked, especially on my first day. Climbing out of my car once I found a parking space, I grab my school bag from the back seat then lock the car, and head towards the main building.

Walking through the main doors I look around at my new school and try to find my way to the school office to get my transcript, class schedule, and books. The office was an easy find thankfully. After getting my class schedule I am asked to sit and wait to speak with the school principal to discuss my transcripts.

Ten minutes after talking with the principal I was dismissed to collect all my books and to go to find my locker. With my books in hand and a piece of paper with my locker number and combination written on it, I go searching.

Finding my locker, I put the books I don’t need for my first two periods. Keeping hold of my English and History textbooks I shut my locker after putting the other books away, with a map in hand I turn to head for first period English. As I turn in the right direction for my class not seeing where I was going, I bumped into someone dropping my books, map, and tran slip paper onto the floor.

“What a bitch,” is the first thing I hear as I bend down to pick up what I dropped. Picking up my tran slip paper and the map when I hear the most sexiest deep voice I have ever heard in my life.

“Here you’ll need these.” I look up from the floor to see the most beautiful shade of green eyes I have ever seen.

“Thanks for your help” I take my books back from this well built green eyed Greek god as we both stood up “I’m sorry I bumped into you,” he nods as a busty brunette linked her arm through his snuggling up into his side.

“Chase baby we better get going if we stay here much longer,” she pauses and looks in my direction making me feel uncomfortable with the dirty smirk on her face “We may catch bitch-itits.” Everyone in their small group laughed and they walked away leaving me standing alone.

Walking into English class I hand the teacher my tran slip and he points to an empty seat. Unfortunately, the empty seat is in front of the brunette from the hall. I sink into my chair as the teacher made my introduction to the class.

“Excuse me but Mr. Turner but when are we going to start the lesson?” I hear a voice directly from behind me knowing her voice from the hall.

“Right now, Candace today we are going to start discussing ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ by Harper Lee” he holds up a copy of the book, tapping the cover to the whole class.

“Would anyone like to start the discussion?” Mr. Turner looks around the room and then he looks at me “Savannah how about you?”

When I hear my name, I look up “Oh uh … this is one of my favorite books.”

Mr. Turner looks surprised at my admission “Care to tell us what you think Miss. Blakemoore?”

I start to twiddle my fingers, a habit of mine when I’m nervous. “Well, the book has a couple of meanings” I hear a boy from the back row fake cough ‘teacher’s pet’ and the rest of the class starts to laugh.

“It’s about understanding people if you give them a chance” Mr. Turner nods his head in agreement with what I’m saying. “Anything else?” He asks.

“Yeah uh the other meaning to the book is that good and evil isn’t always in black and white, you need to look beyond what you see before your eyes to know what’s real.”

“You’re correct Savannah and thank you for your view, now we are going to go in deeper with what has just been said.” The lesson continued without a hitch, making notes throughout, and writing down the homework of reading the first five chapters for next lesson.

As the bell rings I grab my stuff, standing up I hear the brunette now known as Candace saying to her friends “She’s a bitch and a book nerd while wearing the ugliest boots I’ve ever seen this is going to be easy.” They all laugh as Candace bumps into me as they pass leaving the classroom.

I’m left alone in the classroom with Mr. Turner, and he says to me “Excellent job today Savannah, and thank you for taking over the class with the discussion keep it up” he pats his desk with a bunch of rolled-up papers and leaves the classroom. He has got to be one of the coolest teachers I have ever had.