Chapter 2

Alex is introduced here.

 

        Like Sean, other students were heading to the cafeteria while the rest went to their fifth period classes. Two Junior boys walked through the halls. One of them was sixteen years old. He had short brown hair and hazel eyes. His attire consisted of tan shorts and a white tee-shirt. On his back was a green backpack. His name was Alex.

        The other boy was seventeen and he stood to be nearly six feet tall, which was an inch taller than Alex. He had short dark brown hair and green eyes and wore the same thing as the other boy. Slung over his back was a red backpack. His name was Vincent.

        “So what do you have now?” Vincent asked.

        “Lunch,” answered Alex. “What about you?”

        “I have Physics.”

        “Oh, guess that means we don't have the same lunch this year.”

        “Nope, guess not.”

        It disappointed Alex a little. Vincent was Alex's only friend at the school. He had other friends before, but they all went to different schools now. Since he didn't have any other friends, it most likely meant that he would have to sit by himself unless he found other people to sit with.

        “That sucks,” Alex said a couple seconds later.

        “Yeah,” agreed Vincent. “I might get my schedule changed though. There are a couple classes that I want to change, so I might get the same lunch as you.”

        “Maybe.”

        They now neared the cafeteria and the two parted ways. As Alex walked in, he looked around at the other students, seeing if he knew any that he could possibly sit with. Not seeing anyone yet, Alex walked over to a table that was located in the middle of the cafeteria and sat down. He sat his lunch bag down on the surface of the table and pulled out his lunch to begin eating.

        As he sat there and ate, Alex looked around the cafeteria a little more. He spotted Sean sitting at a table in the back by himself. He had never met the boy before, so he didn't know his name or anything. The thought of going over there and sitting did come to mind though. There was really no point in sitting alone when he could maybe join him. Besides, he could always end up making a new friend. Before Alex could get up and move though, a couple other boys sat down at the table. They were people in the same grade as him. Since they were there now, Alex didn't bother moving.

        Once lunch was over, Alex made his way to his fifth period class, which was Algebra II. Math was one of Alex's least favorite subjects, mainly because he was never really any good at it. No matter how much he studied or how much he paid attention in class, he never understood much of it. He somehow managed to get decent grades regardless though.

        When the brown-haired boy got there, he took a seat at one of the desks in the middle. He waited patiently for class to begin and watched as the other students entered the classroom, one of them being Sean. By the time class was going to begin, all the students were seated at their desks while talking to one another. Sean was sitting in the back of the room by himself. Alex noticed this and thought about going over to sit next to him, but the bell rang by then and the teacher started talking.

        The teacher quickly went over the attendance so she could learn everyone's names. As she called out the names, everyone would say here. After a short while, the teacher came to Sean's name. Like all the other students, Sean called out here, but did so a little quietly. Not hearing him, the teacher called out the name again. Sean said that he was here, but this time a little louder while also raising his hand to show where he was at. The teacher heard him this time and looked at him.

        “You want to move up a little?” she asked.

        “No, it's fine,” Sean responded.

        The teacher just gave a small shrug of her shoulders before moving onto the class syllabus. Alex didn't really pay much attention though. The teachers always did the same exact thing at the start of every year and Alex kind of got tired of listening after so many times.

        The class rolled by a little slowly. When it ended, everyone stood up from their desks and began to head out the door. Alex quickly slipped the papers that were passed out into a binder before shoving it into his backpack. He started to walk over to Sean, planning to say hi to him, but before he could, the boy walked out of the room. Alex just stood there and watched him for a moment before exiting the classroom himself.

Reviews

[Mekin]

Hmmm, I noticed something about your stories. The settings are oddly similar. Almost always taking place in school. Either College and/or High School. And they kind of follow this similar formula. I'm thinking you noticed it too since you're the writer. I feel it would be a good change if you restrain yourself from basing your books around school. I want you to explore other settings and such. And be slightly more detailed with your writing. Involve more of the literary tools. However, this does not change the fact that I like it. I just don't want for you to get too comfortable with 'school' being the primary setting. I glad to see, that you are exploring further from the school phase. Anyway, good work.

[joshua deathdealer]

It is a little blunt but I enjoyed it. Good work.

[courtney]

this story is not my style i guess, its like your doing all the thinking for me u straight up and tell me everyones name before there really introduced.i have to agree with amund om this story.

[Amund Schofield]

Well, time for me to nit pick. If this is now being told from Alex's perspective, and he does not know Sean's name, I would not use it until he learned Sean's name when the teacher had role call.

" He waited patiently for class to begin and watched as the other students entered the classroom, one of them being Sean."

That's the sentence I am talking about. I would replace Sean, with "the kid from lunch." or however you choose to word it.

Also, great goody, you're using two completely different perspectives on the same boy. First you have Sean's perspecitve. He sees others seeing him as detestable. Then you have Alex, who wants to be friends, but just isn't pro-active enough. Very good choice there.

[Amy]

Good Chapter, I liked it.
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