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important as what had happened to me.

  I imagined how I was going to tell my sister about what had happened, it was a good day and nothing could spoil this, or could it?

  “Take out a piece of paper, we have a quiz now” the sub declared loudly from the front of the class behind the wooden table which he stood.

  I was surprised, confused but calmed down as I had an idea about what I had heard.

  I had totally forgotten about the test reason being that, I was busy doing my sister’s homework while she played her annoying emo songs.

  I was nervous but the good thing which had just happened was too good to be true or destroyed by a mere quiz which could not bring down my grade from my hundred percent perfect score.

  The substitute walked around handing each and every one a sheet of the green half sized paper which had a map of Spain on it.

  I took mine and hurriedly began writing.

  The quiz was easy and when I was handed back my paper, I had gotten a 10/10 as opposed to most of the others who at most got an 8/10.

  Daniel then turned back and was staring at me before asking.

  “How many did you get, I got an eight”

  I wish I could say “me too” but it would have been a lie.

  “The quiz was difficult so I got a 10/10”

  He smiled and turned back as Selena was calling out his name thus pulling away his precious attention from me, I had to do something about Selena, not kill her but eliminate her for she played a huge role in Daniel not noticing me.

  As I could see, she was showing Daniel her paper which she got an eight on ten. I was mad, it was me who was supposed to be in her position not her, and I had to fail the next test in order for us to have something to talk about.

  The class still wasn’t over, while turning my head towards the west wall, I noticed that the red second hand was moving slower than usual, I wanted to get out of class but twenty five minutes was still left, so much for me to wait.

  I sat on my seat feeling extremely nervous and annoyed at Selena who seemed to be flirting with Daniel, her hands were caressing his soft cheeks and she would feel his soft hair frequently and laugh with him, she was making me jealous and evil.

  The substitute sat behind the table manipulating his iPhone 4 while we made noise without him caring, he had already done his job and now he did not care about what we did.

  The anger which built up inside me was devastating, I even thought of punching Selena in the face and bear the consequences, why did she have to flirt but with Daniel? there are many boys in school.

  The bell rang and everyone dashed outside with their back packs strapped to their backs, leaving me, Daniel and Selena alone in the class.

  Daniel was packing his books and I mine and Selena, she was just whispering to his ears and he would laugh after every time she whispered, this to an extent, made me want to strangle her.

  I had finished packing my books but Daniel had not and I could not let them stay alone unattended, I became tired and dashed outside without even saying goodbye to any of them.

  As I got out of the god forsaken classroom, Martha stood by the door waiting for me and immediately as my left feet stepped outside, she began babbling.

  “How did it go, did you get his number, should we celebrate?”

  Her numerous questions were serving as a pain to my neck as answering them was going to be boring.

  “Yes, it went ok but the only problem is that girl Selena”, as I was letting out the last word, Selena walked out the door holding Daniel’s hand as if she had ownership of him, this made me extremely annoyed so much that if we weren't at school, I would have punched her.

  They passed by us and surprisingly, Daniel smiled at us, and I back at him which was actually good.

  “Yeah, Daniel likes you”, Martha declared.

  “I wish”.

  “Yeah he does, did you not see how he smiled at you”.

  “Of course I saw him do it, am not blind you know”.

  She laughed as she walked away towards her wildly decorated locker while I decided to walk to mine.

  My locker being far from the class, I had to run through the congested hallways which stretched as far as the eye could see.

  While trying to maneuver myself through the hallways, I bumped into someone totally unexpected, his eyes, his ears, his clothing, he had just thrown all my books to the floor and he bent down to pick them up.

  I had no idea why he wasn't in history class; I had not cared about his annoying presence for he was a pain in the neck whom I hated than Selena multiplied.

  “Hey Mary”, he called out, his dorky eyes staring right into mine while he was putting my books disorderly in my bag.

  I had nothing to say to him and I wanted to say nothing to him, he was the most annoying person on the planet.

  “Hey peter, how are you today”, I declared.

  “Fine, how was class today, I did not come because my mom’s step sister’s childhood friend was sick and I had to babysit for her so she had to go and I had to stay at home for a little longer so that I could babysit for her, can you imagine, it was fun and all but I rather come to school and see my friends and you of course, I walked to school and the street light was red and I had to wait and someone smiled at me and it was a girl and so I smiled back and blab blab…… am here”

  He had spoken nonstop and all I could hear was “annoying blab, annoying blab”, he was so annoying that he added EST in annoying to form annoyingest (annoyingest is not an actual word in English), he was so annoying that I had to tell him in his face.

  “Peter, do you think I care about you?” I asked

  He seemed confused with the question I had asked.

  “What do you mean?”

  “Peter, I don’t give a …..” I could not finish my sentence because Daniel had just walked by and smiled at me.

  “Peter, never mind”

  I took my back and started walking to class when he called out my name loud, so loud some people were looking at me.

  “Martha, see you soon”

  I was so angry and super annoyed, I wish he were dead, I would kill him myself if I had to.

  I just walked shamefully through the remaining hallways to my class and sat at the back seat with no word being said to the teacher who could not stop staring at me.

  “Why are you late?”

  “Hum, the hallways were populated” I answered questionably as if he had to know.

  “Ok take a seat”.

  He must have been stupid, I was clearly seating down and opening my biology book, was he stupid?.

  I sat and stared at him for five minutes before totally losing all my concentration, I ignored him and fell asleep; my dreams were evil as I could see myself beheading Selena and Peter.

  “Young lady, get up” he declared loudly while standing directly above me. "Why are you sleeping?”

  “Sir, I had a bad dream so I did not sleep”.

  “Ok, next time don’t sleep in class, ok”.

  “Yes sir”, I answered.

  He smiled at me while walking back to his table which also was a lab table, test tubes and beakers scattered everywhere.

  The familiar voice which always did announcements came on the radio; I was confused for it wasn’t time for announcements.

  “Hello students, nerds and geeks and my cool friends, you will be unexpectedly dismissed right now because we need to prepare for the dance tomorrow, if you are a nerd, dork or geek, don’t bother leaving cuz you suck, the dance will be epic” I could hear her turning the pages of whatsoever she read from.

  “So, call your parents to pick you up for tomorrow, we rock the party” she emphasized the word party with a loud shout.

  I was confused and depressed, tomorrow was the day of the dance and I had not found a date yet, not to talk of a dress and I had an annoying geek following me around school.
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  The door was the pathway out of the class and out into the hallways, the dance was in twenty four hours, a thousand, four hundred and forty minutes and eighty six thousand, four hundred seconds and the list goes on.

  I dared not step out of class for Peter may have been waiting for me to pounce on me with his annoying comments which had never made any sense at all.

  I took hold of the left strap of my backpack and dashed outside while praying I did not see Daniel or Peter and my prayers were answered, as I stepped outside I could see not one of them.

  I rushed outside of school without telling Peter I was leaving and ran home.

  Arriving home, my mom sat in the brown soft comfy sofa and was watching “you are an idiot for believing this is an actual TV show” and she seemed to be enjoying it so much that when I passed by, she did not flinch nor care to move.

  “Hey mom”.

  “Ah you're home,” she continued watching the stupid TV show while I climbed the rows of stairs to my room.

  I felt a strange feeling as soon as I stepped in my room, I felt as if something was wrongly placed, my eyes fell to the small mirror I had left lying on the bed.

  I picked it up while dropping my back on the soft carpet.

  I looked into it and noticed I wasn’t that ugly, Peter was a geek not me, he was annoying, not me.

  “Are you there sis”, my sister called out while knocking on my door slightly hard.

  “Come in”

  She walked in and could not stop looking everywhere, shuffling her eyes through all my well-arranged stuff, not anyone in it’s wrong place; she opened her mouth in awe as she was astonished by my gross affection towards cleanliness.

  “So how about Daniel?” she asked.

  “Sit