The alternate world- part 2 The new girl
Buzz Buzz Buzz
I woke and half stopped, half punched my alarm clock. I laid back down and stretched, there was a series of cracks as I felt my spine relaxing. First day back at school today. “Fuck everything” I thought as I stood up leaving my shelter of warmth behind me. I took off my shorts, wrapped a towel around my waist and trudged into the shower. I turned the hot water on and felt it burn my skin, “Bastard!” I yelped before adjusting the temperature. I was always like this in the morning, especially on Mondays like today, factor in the first day of school part and I was really in a mood.
After washing my hair and body, I turned off the water and put my towel back on. Feeling refreshed I walked back to my room. It was pretty bare, apart from the furniture and some posters on the walls. Going back to my clock (which was also an iPod dock) I put on one of my favourite songs: 'Sonne' by Rammstein. As the music began I dried myself and began to put on my uniform. Grey pants, blue shirt, blue and yellow striped tie and a blue blazer. “Hi”, I thought to myself “I'm Jason Whiteley and I look like a total twat.” I hated my uniform, especially the tie. It was so constricting. I took off my glasses and put my contact lenses in, I hadn't worn them for a couple days so they stung a little.
I checked the time as Rammstein began the course (Hier kommt die Sonne...), 7:50. The school bus came at 8:10, half of me wanted to stay at home the other wanted to be there now. I had to go. My parents are very hard to reason with. My father was a successful businessman and my mother was a teacher herself, so they didn't take any bullshit. 8:00, time to head down to the stop.
I walked down the lane where my house was after saying goodbye to my parents, grabbing my bag and putting on my leather jacket. The town was quiet as always, there was nothing to do where I lived especially for people of my age, except go down to the small shop at the end of the road. For this reason I probably spent more time at my friends houses than in my own.
As I turned left to get to the bus stop a familiar voice called “Where's your motorbike Jason?” You're probably wondering why he asked me that. A couple of years ago I wore a leather jacket to school and one of the teachers asked me this question. It soon caught on. “Up your ass you twat” I replied. It was Jack Boardman; he was a funny guy, a Hanae, but he got a little annoying at times. I walked over to him and we knocked knuckles. “how were your holidays?” he asked me,
“Pretty boring if I'm honest, you?”
“Been working on my uncles farm, good times!”
“Yeah, where's Rachel?” Rachel was my neighbour that I hadn't seen all summer, she was usually here before me.
“I'm sure she'll be here soon”.
Right on cue, Rachel came around the corner. She smiled and gave us a wave which we returned. Rachel was also a Hanae, and I think Jack had a crush on her which I was always giving him shit for. We continued to talk until the bus arrived, we boarded and I took my usual seat. Two rows in front of the back seats; it was comfortable and next to a window.
No one sat next to me or talked with me, but I didn't really mind. I just put my earphones in and listened to some metal as I watched the endless farms and hills of the English countryside go by, until we finally arrived at the most decrepit place on earth: Everington High School.
I walked through the corridors and up a flight of stairs to our usual spot. As I opened a set of double doors six smiling faces greeted me. My friends were all here, I was usually the last to arrive. I walked up to Henry. He was a human and also my best friend, he shared many of my interests. He also loved metal music and xbox games, we had taken karate classes together when we were young, he was almost like another me. Then there was the other human Oli. Aaron the Jägae, Christian and Wacky the Hanaes and Keri the Jäsur. There was a swarm of greetings and questions about my summer from all of them as I arrived. After what seemed like hours talking to them, the bell finally rang signalling the first lesson of what was sure to be a very long day.
First lesson: English. A subject I always did well at despite not really liking it or trying very hard. Next was computing, which I hated with a passion. If I wanted to spend an hour exercising my thumbs you could just point me at an xbox for Christ's sake. Then at 12:30 it was finally lunch, a whole hour to just think and talk with my friends.
I met up with Henry in the courtyard and we went to the canteen to get some food. I got myself some egg and cress sandwiches and Henry got a bowl of cereal. “Seriously what is it with you and breakfast?” I asked him.
“You know me,” he said “I don't have time in the morning so I eat it now” he replied. We left the canteen and rejoined the hustle and bustle of the courtyard.
As we were discussing the topic of who would win if the four species got into another war with the others something caught my eye, a new face. I looked round and saw a Jägae walking away from us. I couldn't help noticing that she had a sweet ass. “Whose that?” I asked stopping a growing argument between Christian and Aaron, “Oh that's Jennifer, she's a new girl in my English class.” Keri said.
“She's hot!” Aaron half shouted.
“Are you seriously that much of a horny twat!” Keri retorted. As I watched she dropped some books and scrambled to pick everything up. “DIBS!” I screamed starting towards her.
“You fucker I said she was hot first!” Aaron shouted after me.
“DIBS!” I repeated to the laughter of the others.
I slowed down as I got closer to her. “Need I hand?”
“Yeah, thanks” she smiled at me.
As I began to help her with the books I asked “You new here?”
“Yep,” she replied “my first day. I'm Jennifer by the way.”
“Jason.” I said shaking her hand and surprised by the strength in her minuscule grip. “Welcome to hell on earth, where our motto is: it beats sittin' on your ass and doin' nothin'.” She giggled, so cute!
“Why don't you come and meet the others?”
“Okay!” she said.
I pointed to where the others were and let her go first. As we got close I shot a very meaningful glance at her ass then raised my eyebrows and gave the thumbs up to the others. They simply stood there trying to contain their laughter. “So,” I said “this is Henry, Aaron, Christian, Wacky, and I think you already know Keri” I said gesturing to each of them. I caught Aaron staring at Jennifer s tits and I think she had as well judging by her look of loathing. “Eyes forward dumbass!” I said tapping him on the head as the rest of us were in hysterics. “How about you tell us something about yourself? This place could use a cheerful story!” and as she did I found myself getting lost in her eyes. They were big and blue, like sapphires had been mounted on her face.
The end of lunch bell brought me back to reality and an end to Jennifer s story. As everyone went to their separate lessons I stayed to talk to Jennifer some more, I couldn't remember the last time a person had genuinely interested me since I met Henry. As we were talking Henry whispered “Careful Casanova she might be dangerous” as he went past. I flipped him the finger as he walked away smiling. Turning back to Jennifer I asked “What lesson have you got now?” She looked at her timetable, “Art” she said. My face lit up.
“Me too!” I replied “Come on, I'll show you to the studio.
When we got there and Mr. Ferne had told us that that we would be starting the year with still life drawings, we took our seats and began to draw various plants. I chose a rose because I thought it would impress Jennifer. “Jennifer MacMillan?” called Mr. Ferne. She walked over to him. “I understand that this is your first day” he said, “do you know anyone here?”
“Yeah I know Jason” she replied.
“Okay go and take a seat next to him while I get you a folder. Hey Whiteley!”
“Sup” I said in a slick voice turning to face them,
“I want you to take care of Jennifer, show her some of your work I'm sure she'll love it.”
“Yeah she'll be bloody thrilled!” I replied sarcastically. He laughed as he left the room, thats what I liked about Mr. Ferne. He was almost like one of us, he let us do whatever in his lessons as long as it was art related. We could listen to iPods and swear as much as we wanted within reason. Jennifer came and took the seat next to me. “Take a look” I said handing her my folder.
After a couple of minutes I had just finished drawing the outline of the rose when Jennifer said “You're right, I am bloody thrilled.”
“I knew you would be” I said snickering.
“No seriously these are really good!” she replied scanning through some samurai warriors I had painted last year. I couldn't tell if she really meant that like I could with most people. I don't know why. “I'm surprised you can even tell what they are.” I said.
“You two! Less flirting more drawing!” Mr. Ferne interjected much to the amusement of the rest of the class. We got to work.
After art I had maths, my least favourite subject. The lesson only lasted an hour but it felt like at least three. By the time I reached Chemistry at the end of the day I wanted to fall asleep. When the end of day bell finally rang there was a visible change in the behaviour of us all. We were energized that we had made it through the first day. Only god knows how many more to go!
I met with Henry by the school gates. We talked about the day, about the teachers, about how we wished it was summer forever. We got on our separate buses and my earphones went back into my ears. This time I was listening to 'Natural Born Killer' by Avenged Sevenfold. I watched the hills and farms go by from my usual seat as if it were any other school day.
I got home, watched TV, ate dinner, watched more TV until I decided that all I wanted to do now was sleep. I marched upstairs back to my room. I undressed and looked at myself in the mirror, I wasn't particularly strong although I was fast. “I need a shave” I muttered to myself as I ran a hand over my face. With that I pulled on some pyjama shorts and laid down to go to sleep.
As I laid there all I could think of was Jennifer. Her flowing brown hair, her deep blue eyes, her gorgeous ass, her cute little giggle. Maybe I was going crazy but the last thing I thought about was her feline muzzle touching the back of my neck.
Then I closed my eyes, and let the darkness take me.....
TO BE CONTINUED.....