Chapter 5

Wearing his brownish suit as usual which appeared unwrinkled leaving everyone to wonder how he had managed to keep it in one piece.

Smiling the teacher tilted the frame of his blue glasses as he tried to see who was in and who was not.

“Good morning class, I hope you’ve all done your homework during the weekends” he said with a chipper voice causing the students minus Chloe to whine and grumble from his words, why he had to bring THAT up was beyond them.

The teacher however seemed unfazed by their responses as he continued to smile at them.

“I am happy to report that we have a new student today and he’s come all the way from America” the teacher said with a smile causing the class to either murmur while some were silent from the sudden announcement.

Chloe however wasn’t bothered nor did she care since the results would be the same- hatred, isolation and gossip.

Each thought was more distressing than the last thanks to her past experiences, but what could she do?

Everyone hated her and didn’t want her in the college, who would want to be friends with someone who was suspected of murder?

The teacher continued to smile as he looked around the room.

“Is Daniel Stevenson here?” he asked causing the group to blink and look around the room in confusion, seeing their reactions he then walked towards the door and looked at both sides of the hallway before slowly closing the door.

“That is really weird, he should be here today” he muttered before looking at his perplexed students.

“Sorry class, but can you stay seated for a bit while I contact the receptionist and the headteacher to see where he is” he said before rushing out the classroom to the students’ surprise.

Chloe however was mentally relieved that the attention was now shifted from her to the new student, although she was surprised that a student was even joining when almost half of the year had already ended.

Just as she was about think about ponder on what was going on the teacher then came back into the room.

“Mr. Williams, where is the new student?” asked a brown-haired male with light blue eyes, the teacher however smiled weakly.

“Well Simon, it appears that he’s chosen not to come today” was all Mr. Williams had said causing complete confusion in the class, even Danielle was at a loss of what to say since this was the first time a new student had decided to skip class.

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After college’s lessons ended Chloe walked home feeling tired as she juggled with the weight of her bag while her mind was still on school.

Unlike the other students she refused to think about the new one who decided to miss his first day at school for whatever reason.

After all it was his problem not hers, he wanted to ruin someone’s chances of joining getting a good education.

Just because he wanted to be selfish and not turn up when expected to by their teachers.

It was his problem not hers and there was no way that she’d ever allow herself to stoop low and waste any time on it because of someone, especially if they wanted to be irresponsible about their future.

Chloe knew that some people wanted to be something in life, some sadly don’t even get the chance to even go to school, college or university for specific reasons.

For example the costs of travel and the fees that the education system made every year the parents or students pay-out more than they would have liked.

And the loans seemed to have increased leaving more people thinking of having a job and skipping higher education, mostly thanks to how much they would have to pay back even if it they had to pay in instalments.

It wasn’t fair to some degree because the prices always increased every year, mostly because the government chose to do so.

Yes teachers need to be paid, but what was the point if there aren’t any students turning up because of low incomes.

Even Chloe had almost struggled because of how pricey all the colleges were but was lucky to even get to a college that would accept her.

Even if the prices were cheaper in her college, it had still been a battlefield just to get accepted thanks to what had happened to her two years ago.

Another reason to resent the media since she was never able to secure a job, after all who would want to work with a suspected killer who could ‘snap’ at any moment.

It left her sick and angry, but she was grateful that her parents still had their jobs in the end of the day.

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Now finally at home Chloe sighed as she took her shoes off and placed them on the shoe rack, once they were in their usual spot which was the middle shelf of the rack.

The tired teen forced her feet towards the stairs leading to her room.

Not caring if she was dragging her sore and tired feet thanks to the day she had.

On route her mother a lightly pale skinned who had long dark brown-haired woman with greenish blue eyes had popped her head out from the kitchen and smiled as soon as she saw who it was.

“Oh hi Chloe, how was college?” her mother asked with a bright smile on her face which then faded the moment she saw Chloe’s brooding look.

When she saw Chloe’s expression it had informed the mother of all that she needed to know- it was a bad day.

“Not good today?” Her mother asked kindly until Chloe had given at her a withered look, signalling that her day at college was anything but good.

“No” Chloe replied glumly as she moved her bag strap slightly so it wasn’t digging into her right shoulder thanks to the unwanted weight caused by her books.

“Anything new though?” her mother asked with an interested smile leaving Chloe to realise that her mother wasn’t going to let things go until they had talked about how college was.

Sighing and lowering her head slightly in defeat Chloe had then slowly walked towards her mother.

She then went to sit on a chair in the kitchen that was located near a large round table, was often used for their family meals.

Her bag strap was taken off her shoulders while her bag went to the floor.

“New student today” Chloe replied glumly but thanked her mother for the drink after it was handed to her and began to drink it slowly.

Her mother smiled as she sat down, the mother then made a noise that signalled that she was interested before she sat down beside her daughter.

“Oh? So what’s this new person like? Are they nice? Is it a boy or a girl?” her mother asked sounding a little too eager, this in turn left Chloe slightly uncomfortable since that could lead to unwanted problems.

After all her mother at times did try to get the unhappy teen to make new friends given the circumstances.

Sadly this had always ended in either the ‘friends’ being rude and hating her or avoiding her like the plague.

Mostly thanks to her ‘reputation’ caused by the media or by the people in either school or college.

Giving her mother a look she shook her head before sipping on her orange juice again, the tangy but tart taste left her slightly relaxed as she slumped a bit in her seat.

“It’s a guy called Daniel Stevenson, unfortunately I wouldn’t know if he was nice or not because he chose not to show up today” Chloe replied bluntly as she frowned at her mother.

Just hearing that the new student had not turned up for class shocked her mother a lot given that she took education seriously.

The older women had made sure that her daughter did as well.

“Does anyone know why he didn’t show up?” her mother asked still surprised from the information while Chloe shrugged her shoulders looking like she didn’t care.

This in turn made her mother frown at her rude behaviour.

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