Nerd • L.H.

Chapter three.

{{My English isn't very good, so sorry about that...}}

Melanie's POV

He steps back and closes his locker. While he is is doing that, he keeps an eye on me.

"I will help you with the 'speech'. But we have to go to our next lesson. Our Biology teacher isn't very nice. She hates everyone, except for Michael, and no-one has ever seen her smile. I like all the teachers here except her."

Together we walk to our next lesson. Everyone who is standing in the hallway, look weird at us. But I don't care. We turn left and walk into the first classroom on the right. I hope the teacher is not that bad as they say.

"Hello, Melanie is it?" I nod. "Welcome. I'm Mrs. Clarke. I'm your Biology teacher. You can sit at the table next to Michael." I walk to the back row with tables.

At first I thought that this would be a school without much bullying, but I'm wrong. I mean, look at Luke, he is a nice dude who studies much and is bullied because of that. Some people don't think about the impact or consequences. They only think about themselves and wanna be popular. I hate them. I had agreed with one of them to do something after school because he seemed pretty cool and nice. But now, I hate him. I hate Michael. After one hour! I never thought that this was possible. Hating someone after one frickin' hour.

"Hey Melanie," I hear. It's Michael. "So today after school, the plan was to do something together like talking and maybe listen to music. But you heard the conversation with that loser over there. Do you want to watch how we are going to punish him?"

"I don't know," I reply, "my mam texted me a couple of minutes ago. She said I must come home after school, so I could explain her what my school is like."

"Then you tell her that you are first going to hang around with someone from your school."

"No, I can't. It is my mother."

"Yes, you can. Or is there another reason you won't come? You can tell me."

"Maybe there is also another reason. That 'loser' is pretty nice. He is shy and smart, I don't get why you do this to him."

"What did you just say?! You really think he is 'nice'?! This is hilarious!" He start laughing.

"I'm serious! You can't let an other boy make YOUR homework and if he didn't make it because he has his own homework, you punish him?! That is horrible. I thought you were a cool guy who was nice and careful. But I was wrong. You are a stupid, mindless bully!"

"QUIET! OR DO YOU WANT TO SAY HELLO TO THE SCHOOL HEAD?!" the teacher screams. Now I understand what Luke meant. I keep my mouth shut. In the corner of my eye I see Michael looking at me. He looks hurt, but also furious.

I turn my face, and he shakes his head. "You don't know what you just said," he whispers mysterious, "you really don't know." After saying that, he turns his head back. I don't know what he meant, and I also don't know what is going to happen.