As he started calling off names. There was a knock on the door. Being closest to the door I felt obliged to open it, and I saw the guy from this morning standing awkwardly in front of me. I go back to my seat and let him come inside. 

 Mr. Sharmen: "Hello there, so you are late..I see"

 -"I guess I am"- comes the husky nonchalant reply. 

 Mr. Sharmen: "and why are you late?"

 -"I am sorry this is my first day here, I got lost"-

 Mr. Sharmen: "I am not giving you detention this time" 

 I let out a sigh that I didn’t know I was holding. And why was a holding my breath for some strange ‘BOY’ getting detention. This is weird…

I caught myself staring at his as he walks to the end of the room and  sits on the lone chair apart from everyone in the class. I saw other girls checking him out and the guys just staring at him…there was something about him. 

 Mr. Sharmen: "Since this is your first day you should introduce yourself to the class"

 -"Hi I’m Shane McCutcheon"- and he shrugged his shoulder.

 Alice: "Wow! that was Sooo elaborate, I can start writing his biography from that!"

 There was a slight laughter in the class. He just shrugged and sat down. 

 Mr. Sharmen: "It would be hard to get an A in this class but if you get a C in the class but get a 5 in the AP I will give you an A" 

 After that statement I never saw Shane awake in the class. The bell rang, and we were the only people left in class. Until Al noticed that Shane was still fast asleep. So she went to wake him up. He got up groggily thanked Alice gave a half smile at me and rushed out of the door. 

 Jenny:"He’s strange isn’t he?"

 Alice: "Look who’s talking!"

 Dana: "Be nice Al.."

 Alice: "I was kidding..you that right?"

 Jenny:"Ofcourse I do"

 In reality Dana was the only one who could control Alice and her outrageous ways. They definitely had something going on between them. I mean Alice was bisexual and she never hid it. But Dana’s parents were very orthodox so….She was the star tennis player and the captain of the varsity tennis team she’s even nationally ranked. 

     The rest of the day went by uneventfully. Fortunately our whole gang had lunch together. Thank god Clive isn’t in any of my classes. He’s just a pain in the ass sometimes. He’s a dumbass anyways. 

        After lunch I had Journalism, Alice was in my journalism class and so was Cherie Jaffe. She always thought me as her competition because she wanted to be the captain. But even her evil ways couldn’t get her anything more that being the co-captain. I offered her to be the captain but the other cheerleaders objected. The bottomline was that she hated me! As if I cared. 

      After that I had math. I was taking Calculus. It was a big deal in our school to take Calculus as a Junior. Our class was mostly seniors. We had seating arrangements. The desks were arranged in pods of 4. I found my name in a pod in the corner of the room. 

 I looked over to the other desks in my pod. One pod had no name on it. But I looked at the other two desks of my pod and my heart skipped at little. 

 Tbc