Ch .1 (First day of school)

*this chapter is written in the perspective of the male lead*

Text written in *...* indicate the narrator's train of thought

"Russell, Russell", I heard my little sister call with a voice so shrill it could shatter glass. I covered my ears with a pillow and pretended not to here her calls hoping she would go away, but as usual it didn't work, she just kept shouting and banging as if her life depended on it. After a while I couldn't stand it anymore, a couple more minutes of sleep was not worth bleeding ears, so I got up, got ready and headed downstairs.

"his royal highness finally decided to grace us with his presence" my sister teased as I entered the dinning room.

"oh shut up" I shot back

" enough of that" mother said " Eat your breakfast and leave for school"

      Okay. it's clarification time, I know it sounds like a 23 year old man is going back to high school, but I decided to take a year off before starting my Masters. My mother said it was a waste of time so made me apply for an assistant teacher role at my sister's high school and I start today.

"hurry up Russell ,we're are gonna be late" Winter yelled.

" I'm coming" I yelled back, " hopefully if I'm late on the first day I might get fired" I added in a whisper.

I think my mother heard me cause she shot me a dirty look and said "no one's gonna be late in my house".

Hearing her words I got up and headed for my car.

We got in and drove to the school.

" you know what bro", Winter stated

" Know what?" , I asked.

" The fact that you have a degree in I. T, have a job and can afford a house, but you still live with us" She asked.

" Well..." I started

" You know what forget I asked you're probably too cheap anyways".

Before I could say anything, we had reached the school, so she jumped out of the car and ran away. *I swear I'll show her what's what when we get home*

I stood outside the school took a deep breath and walked inside to the principal's office.

" come in", I heard after I knocked on the door

" Good morning sir", I said when I walked in

" Good morning Mr. Zealand" He said, "welcome to our prestigious school, again ".he added

" thank you sir"

" you're welcome, but if I might ask why would such a qualified person seek for a position as an assistant teacher", he asked.

*it wasn't by choice* " Well, I decided to take some time off from my education to gain some real world experience, plus I want to share the little I know with the students and encourage them to take up careers in my field". I responded half honestly

" Ah okay then, I wish you luck" he said. " Go to the staff room and meet up with Mr. Anders, the resident I.T teacher, and he will inform you of your role" he added

" Thank You", I said and left the office.

I made my way to the staff room. I stopped in front of the door and looked at it. Inside that room were all the teacher who taught me when I went here. Some I liked others I couldn't stand, so much so that I did and said some stupid stuff to them when I graduated. I mean I'm not a bad kid, I never got into trouble, okay I never got into that much trouble when I was in school, but when I graduated I couldn't hold back anymore and acted out, but in my defense, if you take away so many of my PlayStations you're calling for a relatiation , but hopefully they've forgiven me, cause it's been a while. After 20 minutes of standing at the door , I worked up the nerve and entered the room. Fortunately or unfortunately, the first person I saw was Mr. Anders.

" Um.. Mr. Anders, the principal asked me to come see you" I said nervously.

"Ah, Mr. Zealand in trouble again are we", he said in a sarcastic tone

" Umm it not like that"

" haha, I know I was just teasing" he said while laughing

"hahaha" I gave a nervous laugh

" But I am quite surprised that the most difficult student I had that year has persued a career in I.T especially after he toilet papered my house and defaced my car with the words" I.T sucks"

" Umm ah, people grow, change and umm... forgive".,I said in a voice no louder than a whisper.

"Well, what's past is past we have better things to do than to reminisce in past events".

"yes please" , I said egger to change the topic

"Okay, today will just be an introduction, so after all the lessons we'll meet up here to talk in detail about your role" He stated, "Agreed?", he added.

"Yes" I responded

We had a total of eight classes that day. By the seventh I was used to the routine, enter, greet, introduce, lesson.

In the eight class, Mr. Anders asked me to introduce myself, like I did in the last seven classes,

" Well, there's not much to say", I started, "my name is Russell Zealand, I'm 23 years old and I'll be your assistant I.T teacher for this semester and I hope we get along fine. Umm.. my door is always open if you need my help", I said simply looking around the room.

As I was looking around the room, as usual , most of the girls were staring at me as if I was candy for the taking. What was unusual though was two girls in the middle row, who like the others were looking at me , had no admiration or any emotion for that matter for me in their eyes.

Call me self conceited but that really bothered me.

One of the girls had brown hair that reminded me of the sand at the beach and a milk chocolate like skin color, the other had jet black hair, like night, and a fair skin tone, they were pretty especially the first one ,but I'm no pervert.

"Russell', I heard Mr. Anders call my name .

"why don't you take a seat while I start class"

"Oh, of course" I said and turned around to take a seat

Normally, in the other classes, I took a seat at the back, but here I found myself sitting in the empty seat next to those two girls.

"hi", I said gently

"hi" they responded in unison and then turned to face the board

Whiles Mr. Anders was busily teaching there was only one thing on my mind, what were their names, *out of curiosity, of course*.

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