When we finally got to class we were greeted by about 30 pairs of eyes all fixed in our direction, their expressions a mixture of curiosity and confusion.

Turning my back to the class, I awkwardly whispered, "Sorry we're late sir, we got held up by Mr. Thornhill." Though whispering didn't make much of a difference, it was so quiet in the class I could've probably dropped a pin on the floor and heard it.

The teacher, without looking up from his work, nodded and gestured us towards our seats which were conveniently right next to each others. It was then the whispers and mutters of emerging rumours began.

"I wonder what happened."

"I heard that..."

"Hey isn't that him? The guy who beat up Michael..."

Grumbles and murmurs slowly filled the room getting more audible by the second until it soon became a full-scale class discussion. I let out a slightly annoyed sigh, it wasn't like I wasn't expecting it but I didn't think it would have spread that quickly.

"All of you! Get back to work! This isn't your cue to talk!" The teacher boomed and the noise instantly stopped. "You two take your seats."

Without uttering another word we both sat down and class continued.

"OK kids, today's lesson is all about the periodic table of elements." He tried to make it sound exciting but it didn't make me hate it any less. I groaned along with the rest of the class, excluding Victoria and a few other.

"But sir." One kid from the back whined.

"Ah ah ah, come on the quicker you learn to co-operate, the quicker we can get this over with. So will all of you stop acting like a bunch of toddlers."

I sighed at that comment and was kind of tempted to reply with some other witty remark, but I didn't for obvious reasons. I sat like always staring into space, thinking about things that had happened. I didn't catch any of the info about Calcium and its atomic number, or how many electrons Iron had, or about the man who came up with the table in the first place. (I will forever hate him.)

I decided at some point to close my eyes, the lesson was beginning to get too boring for my mind to take so I lay my head on my table. I was near the back so I wasn't that worried about the teacher finding me, plus he was too busy reading out a passage from the science textbook.

"The atomic number on the top of the symbol is the total protons in the element. The total number of protons is the same as the total number of electrons. You can calculate the amount of electrons in each shell of an atom, to do this you have to first know that the first shell can only ever have 2 electrons..."

I looked at the book and saw he was about 5 sentences away from the end of the page to where the questions were, I then looked at the time, it was 5 minutes past the hour and the lesson ended in 30 minutes. I still decided to fall asleep.

***

"Now open your text books to page 143 and answer questions 1 to 7." 

I awoke to the sound of sir's voice reading out our task and I cursed my brain for waking me up now. I looked at the time, it was 20 minutes past.

"Now based off what we have learnt today you, with a partner, create a table showing the elements with the least amount of electrons from the list given."

I shot up at this, as usual, I hadn't paid much attention. I swore in my head as if I didn't have enough on my plate to deal with already. I instantly turned to Victoria who had already sat down next to me, smiling.

"Let me guess, you were sleeping?"

"I would use the term resting my eyes-"

"So sleeping basically?" She sighed, "I swear what will it take to get you to pay attention?"

"Oh, I don't know, maybe a less agonisingly boring lesson."

"Oh be quiet," she rolled her eyes at me, "Come on already there's work to be done."

Victoria began explaining what we had to do while I tried to to understand the words that we're coming out od her mouth, but she might as well have been speaking in a foreign language. It took me about half the rest of the lesson to get it but as soon as I did we were off to work. We were surprisingly one of the very first to finish and got marked as excellent. I had never gotten excellent in my entire school life, so I was pretty dang proud of myself, even though it was most likely thanks to Victoria that I managed to get one.

When we had finished and we began to pack away, it was about 3 minutes until the bell. I had stuffed my books into my bag and my stationary into one of my blazer pockets. Then stood patiently by my desk for the class to end, this was the fifth period so the next lesson, which was ICT, would be the last one before I could go home. I was actually looking forward to the day ending, I was tired and needed to rest, I had had enough of school to last me a lifetime, and the kissing incident plus the Victoria/Celeste entity thing had scrambled my thoughts enough.

But knowing me, life would never give me a chance to rest. It was always one thing after the other with me. About 30 seconds give or take before the bell some teaching assistant arrived and called for me and Victoria.

"Sorry to interrupt sir but could Joshua Carter and Victoria Williams come to the headteacher office now please?"

"You heard the lady, Josh, Victoria follow miss."

Without replying, Victoria and I exchanged glances before grabbing our stuff and leaving with the teacher as 30 pairs of eyes all followed us out the door.

Keep reading for the next chapter.....

Chapter 14: Split personality?