I finally got up off the pavement in the parking lot and walked through the front entrance door into my first block class, “Mr. Macmillan” for Creative Writing.
The halls were flooded with teenagers as they rushed to their classes. Jerry and Joe were still laying down on the pavement floor in the parking lot. I tried to tell them to get up so that they can get to class but they were looking in the clouds searching for the UFO.
“Good Morning everyone!” Said Mr. Macmillan as we all sat down.
“Please find a seat and sit down.”
I did just that, I sat in the front row, I always sit in the front row.
“For those of you who don’t know me, I am Mr. Macmillan, but you can just call me Mr. Mac for short. I will be your instructor this semester for first block Creative Writing.”
“TAKE OFF THE WIG!” yelled someone from the back row.
“Thank you Justin, but it’s not a wig. Please raise your hand next time you would like to speak, thank you very much.”
“Well if it’s not a wig than what is it?” Justin asked.
“It’s my hair young man, thank you Justin. Now as I was saying. You can simply call me..”
“It looks like a dirty mop.” Justin said. The whole class erupted in laughter.
Mr. Mac didn’t say anything back. He took off his glasses and sat down on his desk.
“Alright, now since this is the first day, I would like to know a little about you, considering that you will be my students for the remainder of this semester. Tell me two things about yourself and what you wish to accomplish this year.”
“We’ll start with the front row, please...” Mr. Mac said as he pointed to a girl in the front row.
Her name was Samantha. She is medium height, long ponytail with blonde hair. She told me once that she liked me, and I liked her back... I think. I wanted to go out with her but ever since me and Christy started dating she’s been ignoring me.
“Hi, my name is Samantha. I love to go out with friends and have fun. I also like reading and watching TV. This is my first year as a freshman, I really want it to be special...” Samantha said and gave me a quick glance.
“I have three brothers and sisters, I’m the youngest. And... yeah.” Samantha said and sat down.
“Thank you very much Samantha.” Said Mr. Mac. Then he waved his hand for the next person to stand up and introduce themselves.
“Hi, my name is Steve. I like to uhh... Skate, watch TV.” Steve said and then sat down.
Justin began laughing along with a few other students in the class.
“That’s not enough Steven, please tell us what you would like to accomplish this year.” Mr. Mac said.
Steve remained seated. “I just wanna pass.” He calmly said.
“Ik that’s right Steve!” Justin said and began to clap.
“Okay, thank you very much young man.” Mr. Mac said and waved for the next student to stand up and introduce themself.
A couple of other students in the first row stood up until it was my turn, my head was laid down. I was starting to develop a slight headache and it felt like the entire room was spinning. The girl sitting next to me nudged me in the ribs with her elbows to wake me up.
“OUCH!” I said out loud.
“It’s your turn.” She said.
I immediately jumped up and stood on top of the chair on my desk.
“My name is Atata Watasinkito from the tribe of Hahtaqwtfhug, this is my first semester here as a freshman. I am looking for a wife.” Jason said in his dad’s Liberian accent.
“Uhh... Okay.”
“What would you like to accomplish this year young man?” Asked Mr. Mac.
“I wish to get married.” Replied Jason.
“Aren’t you already married to Christy?” A random girl yelled from the back of the room.
“I do not know this ‘Christy’ in which you are referring to.” Said Jason.
“Jason let’s come back please, tell us what you would like to accomplish academically this year in my class.” Said Mr. Mac.
“I want to find a wife and get married.” Jason continued in his dad’s Liberian accent.
“Okay... Please have a seat young man.”
Jason got down from the chair and went to the front of the class where everybody could see him. He began dancing. He snapped his fingers rhythmically and began beating his chest while chanting a tribal chant that he learned from a Nigerian movie he previously watched with his family.
The whole class erupted in laughter. Justin got up to the front of the room and began to join Jason as he was chanting and dancing. The class continued to laugh. Mr. Mac took off his glasses and pressed his fingers between his eyes and nose bridge.
“I don’t get paid enough for this shit.” He said under his breath.
Justin took off his sneakers and stood on top of the desk and jumped and did a backflip. He landed firm on his feet and afterwards stretched his hand out and bowed, a few of the kids clapped amidst their laughter.
“Okay okay that is enough!” Said Mr. Mac.
“You two please have a seat or else I will have to send you down to Ms. Mickens office!” He said.
“Who’s that again?” Justin asked.
“The principal.” Mr. Mac replied.
Jason and Justin immediately ran back to their seat. Even though Ms. Mickens was hot and very attractive, everybody knew that she is not the type to be played with. She will suspend you before you even get to her office.
“I forgot these jawns.” Justin quietly crept back up to the front of the room and picked up his sneakers and went back to his seat to sit down.
Afterwards, the rest of the kids went and introduced themselves. We still had about fifteen minutes left. Mr. Mac told us that we could just talk to each other, since this is the first day we would not be doing any work until tomorrow.
While everybody was talking to each other Jason got up and went to the front of the room where Mr. Mac’s desk was at. He had a newspaper out and was reading it.
“Sir, I would just like to apologize for the way that I acted. I want you to know that this is not me, I am a very respectful and nice person. I love to learn and I think you’re a heck of a guy!” Jason said, he no longer had a Liberia accent.
Mr. Mac looked up at him and gave a faint smile. “Well that’s very kind of you Jason, I accept your apology, and I look forward to having you as a student.” Said Mr. Mac.
“Thank you sir.” Jason said and walked away.
He didn’t go back to his seat. He walked towards Justin, he was standing up talking to some random girl, Jason didn’t know who she was. He walked between them and folded his arms and looked at Justin.
“Bro. You need to go up to Mr. Mac and apologize.” He said.
“I’m good bro.” Justin said back.
“You said his head look like a dirty mop, that’s not nice bruh.” Jason said.
The girl that Justin was talking to began laughing. She was a slender short girl with long blonde hair and green eyes. She covered her mouth as she laughed.
“Well I’m not a nice person.” Justin said.
“If you don’t go up to him and apologize I’m gonna shoot you in the face with my laser beam cannon.” Jason said as he delved his hands in his pocket to take out his laser beam cannon.
Justin immediately turned around and began running the other way. He went up to Mr. Mac’s desk and apologized. As he was walking back to his seat Jason walked up to him and met him halfway.
“I’m proud of you bro.” Jason said as he extended his hand.
Justin grabbed his hand and shook it. Then he began laughing. “Broo!”
“What?”
“How high are you?” Justin asked.
“Bro, I don’t even smoke, what are you talking about?” Jason said.
“You smell like Amsterdam bruh.” Justin said.
Jason ignored his statement and put his arms on Justin’s shoulder. “Bro, who’s the little white jawn you was talking to, she’s bad!” Jason said.
He was asking about the girl that Justin was just standing up talking to. He was saying that she’s very attractive.
Justin began laughing. “You want her bro?”
“I wanna marry her.” Jason said.
“Go tell her bro!”
Jason immediately turned around and walked to where Justin was previously standing. The girl was still there, but she was no longer standing. She was sitting down on her chair with her iPhone out.
“You might as well put my number in there.” Jason sat down on the chair next to her and said.
“Why should I?” The girl said back.
“Because I love you, and I wanna marry you. I want you to be the mother of my 45 kids.” Jason said with a serious expression on his face.
The girl looked at Jason in the face and bursted out in laughter. “You don’t even know me!”
“Yeah I do.” Jason said.
The girl folded her arms across her chest. “What’s my name then?” She said.
Jason thought for a minute. He didn’t know her name, but he was a good guesser. “Samantha!”
“Nope!”
“Brittney!”
“Nope!”
“Claire!”
“Nope!”
“Emily?”
“Nope! Do you give up? Or are you going to keep making a fool of yourself?” She said.
“I give up. Please tell me.” Said Jason.
The girl held her hand up to her mouth and began to snicker. “My name is Olivia.” She said.
“That’s a beautiful name.” Jason said.
“Thank you.”
“Can I ask you a question Olivia?”
“Yeah.”
“You have the most beautiful eyes in the world.”
“Awww thank you.” Olivia said and smiled.
“What’s the question though?”
Jason thought for a minute. “That was it.” He said.
Olivia began to laugh. “Omg bye!” She said and delved her head back down and began to play with her phone.
Jason reached over and grabbed the phone from her hands and laid it on top of the desk in which he was seated at.
Olivia tried to reach over with her hand and grab it, but Jason yanked his hands back. Olivia laughed out loud.
“Can I please have my phone back?” She asked.
Jason opened her phone up and went to her contacts and put his number in it with his name.
“My name’s Jason, call me tonight.” He said and handed her back the phone.
The bell then rang, alerting everybody that it was time for second period.
Jason’s second block is Mr. Moretta for English. As he was walking through the hallways headed to the class, somebody grabbed him by the shoulder. There were many kids in the hallway so Jason didn’t know who it was. He quickly turned around and saw who it was, it was Justin.
“Yo bro, spark me up.” Justin said.
He was asking Jason to smoke some weed with him and get him high.
“When bro?” Jason asked.
“I’m trying do it now frfr.” Justin said.
“We got class though dummy.” Jason said back.
“You got third block lunch?” Jason asked Justin.
“Yeah.”
“Ard me too, we gon do it then.” Said Jason.
“Ard bro, where you gon be sitting at?” Justin asked.
“Prolly with my girl at the back. Just look for me bro, I ain’t hard to find.” Jason said.
“Ard bro.” Justin gave Jason dap and they both went the opposite direction to their class.
Mr. Moretta was a short man. He wasn’t elderly, nor was he young. He looked maybe to be in his late 50s or early 60s. He had black hair which was tied in a ponytail. He was dressed in a green sweater and tan pants.
“Wassup bro, you good?” Jason said as he walked up to Mr. Moretta with his hand extended.
Mr. Moretta looked at Jason’s hand and shook his head. “I don’t shake people’s hands that I do not know.” Mr. Moretta said.
Jason drew his hand back. “Oh...”
“Ahhh I’m just busting your chops! Come here.” Mr. Moretta began to smile and wrapped his arms around Jason and gave him a hug.
Jason already knew that he was going to like Mr. Moretta. He went in the room and sat down at a table in the front of the room. As he looked around, he was unable to see any familiar faces, nobody that he knew was in the class with him. Except for Jahlisa, who was seated at the back. Jason quietly ran up to her and pinched her hand.
“OUCH!” Jahlisa said and quickly drew her hand back.
“HEHEHEHE!” Jason laughed and ran back to his seat and sat down.
“Hello everybody. My name is Mr. Moretta, but you can call me Mr. M for short.” Mr. Moretta said.
“I’M GONNA CALL YOU BRIAN!” Jason said.
“Only my friends call me that.” Mr. Moretta looked at Jason and said.
“Oh...” Jason said and sunk his head down.
Mr. Moretta began to laugh out loud. “AHHH I’M JUST YANKING YOUR CHAINS THERE CHAMP! YOU CAN CALL ME BRIAN.” Mr. Moretta said.
We didn’t really do much for the whole class. Everybody just introduced themselves and we watched a movie until the bell rung. As Jason was walking out the door Mr. Moretta stopped him.
“I like you Jason, I think me and you are going to be best of buddies!” Mr. Moretta said.
“Don’t call me Jason, only my friends can call me that.” Jason said calmly.
Mr. Moretta stopped smiling and slowly dropped his head. “I’m sorry.” He said.
Jason then began to laugh and wrapped his arms around Mr. Moretta and gave him a hug.
“I’M JUST JERKING YOUR CHICKEN BRIAN!” Jason said and began smiling.
Mr. Moretta smiled as Jason let go of him. As Jason was walking out of the room he also smiled. Last year it was Mr. Keen, this year he knew that it was going to be Mr. Moretta.
Now it was time for lunch, Jason’s favorite period. As he was walking over to the cafeteria he saw Justin, he was talking to some redhead girl. He walked up to him.
“Yo bro!” Jason said as he gave him dap.
“We out?” Justin asked.
He was asking Jason if he was ready to leave so that they could go smoke. They were going to go outside in the woods to smoke. In Penn Wood High, during lunch break kids were allowed to go outside and eat, they didn’t have to stay in the cafeteria.
“Yeah hold up, let me just...” Jason said and he began to turn his head and look around. He knew that they had to be somewhere amidst all of the students. Jason finally saw his two friends, Joe and Jerry. They were walking into the cafeteria along with all the other kids. Jason ran up to them. He introduced them to Justin and said that he was trying to smoke some weed before lunch.
“Bro, but he’s white!” Jerry said.
Justin began laughing. “He get girls though bro.” Jason said.
“Word?” Jerry asked. Jason nodded his head.
Jerry then shook his hand and hugged Justin. “Welcome to the team my friend. Yo bro you gotta sister?” Jerry said.
The four boys then walked out of the building into the woods to smoke some weed together.