PROMISE

"Did you guys know not everyone spreads their asscheeks while taking a shower?"

"What the hell?" Everyone said in unison as Jason uttered such nonsense

I was already having a terrible day after finding out my step sister took my favorite dress without my knowledge and now he was talking about unpleasant things at the cafeteria table. Our table was usually full of me, Xavier, Eleanor, Gina, Emily and her boyfriend Jason

"Did you guys hear Mrs. Margaret got fired?" I instantly dropped my utensils, I must have heard wrong, she was my favorite teacher

"What happened?" Jason asked. He and Emily loved gossip, it must be a reason why their relationship has lasted so long

"I don’t know what went down during the winter break but apparently she was caught with some student" Emily replied while I was trying to get my jaw back up

"Is she not married?" Jason paused from drinking his juice box

"Not anymore I suppose, I just came from the teacher’s office and her desk wasn’t empty so I guess they found a new teacher really fast"

I was still trying to get myself together. Mrs. Margaret was my favorite teacher, the only teacher who truly cared about me in this wretched school. I wasn’t close at all with the rest of the teachers as I was deemed the spoiled brat of the school, probably due to the fact I felt like I owned the school since my father made a lot of donations.

She was my history teacher and the only class I couldn’t help but skip since I could care less about what happened in the past, but instead of ignoring me like the rest of the teachers, she was persistent and made it fun

I still didn’t care about history but at least, it became bearable and the only class I could pass on my own regard. Now, I felt filthy for being associated with a woman like that

"Is that Blaire over there? I thought she would leave the school after the break" Emily pointed out the average red head, making the whole table turn their heads

Great, my day was truly going terrible. Not only did my step sister, Marie take my dress, my favorite teacher got fired and now my ex boyfriend’s new play thing was still in the school after I threatened her to leave

"The audacity she has" Gina scoffed and I raised my eyes to meet hers. She rarely spoke so I always paid extra attention to her, her words were as short as her temper

"Don’t pay her any attention, I got something for you after school, how about that?” Xavier put his arm around my shoulder and I took a breath. He was truly a great friend but sometimes I wish he would stop with the touching. He seems to think because we almost had sex once, we were more than friends

I lost my mind after I ended things with Nathan and tried to use Xavier as a rebound but I simply couldn’t. We technically grew up together, he was more like family to me at this point, but this guy couldn’t seem to get it into his skull. Our quality time was now starting to feel like a make out session each time. I had to stop it but there was no one to make Nathan jealous so I might has well go with the flow, considering Nathan used to think we were more than friends when I was still with him

"You can pick me up after cheerleading practice" I winked subtly at him and returned my gaze to the rest of the table "I'll be going first, I'm curious who the new teacher is”

"I'll come with you" Eleanor got up as I did. I gestured my head to my tray for her to trash it and meet up with me which she did and ran up to me

"You're okay right, I know how close you were to the last teacher" She gave a tight lipped smile

"You talk as if I was the student that slept with her" I huffed and looked at my locker as a signal for her to open it

"No, you would never do that to a teacher" She was right, I couldn't understand the big deal about older men, imagine making a joke and they just stare because they don't understand or even worse, if they took it literally

She brought out my history textbook and apple MacBook "I hope your new teacher is as nice"

I inwardly scoffed, it wasn’t about being nice, it was just hard for me to genuinely like someone. Eleanor always tried to make me feel positive about everything, it was a joke at this point

Eleanor was my polar opposite in absolutely everything that if anyone asked how we became friends, I wouldn’t recall the moment specifically. While she was a blonde, I had jet black long hair, thanks to my Brazilian genes. While she liked quiet places and books, I loved parties and well, more parties. School or reading was never my thing, although my grades were perfect.

And no, it wasn't because I was 'smart' or anything, you could say I was a master at using my connections for my own benefits, but again who wouldn't? I paid other students to do my homework, manipulated guys to steal the attendance and put my name as if I truly attended the class

The bell rung alerting it was time for class and the hallway soon became full of students so I made my way to the much awaited class of the day, history.

It was my last year in highschool and I couldn’t wait to graduate, school was filled with weird people who thought they were important and I bet their parents never made a donation

The door sprung open revealing a tall man with blonde hair, his suit conformed to his slender build and he made his way to the front of his class, the scent of his cologne filling the classroom

"Hello everyone, my name is Nicholas Lorenzo, Mr. Lorenzo for you guys obviously" He looked around the class, who offered a light chuckle in return 'My apologies for being a bit late, I was checking the student information on this class and it seems we’re off to a good start"

He seemed nice, maybe history without Mrs. Margaret wouldn’t be so bad after all