Welcome back for Part Two! BTW, if you have not read Part One, do so now because if you don't you won't understand anything. Anyway, I hope you enjoy it!
Dear Sokeefe shippers,
You may not exactly like this story, but as Keefe Sencen would say: "Things have to get worse before they get better."
Dear Sofitz shippers,
You're going to really like this story, but it might be a little weird. But as Fitz said a long time ago, "We could all use a little more weird in our lives."
Thank you !
"Good morning everyone. I know this is a little different—but please bear with us." Their new principal—Mr. Leto—said as he stood up on the shiny, new amphitheater stage. "I just want to start off the second semester by saying that I hope you all try your hardest to succeed. That's all for announcements,"
Then he left the stage, leaving everyone to talk gossip about their new principal. Some people said he was a jerk, and even some girls said he was "cute"—which Sophie found very disgusting.
"So," Biana said walking beside of her and Dex. "How do you guys think this semester's going to turn out?"
"Oh, you know—everything's going to be sort of normal, but then Sophie's going to get hurt, cause the world to become chaotic, and then we'll all die," Dex said as they walked into the Freshman atrium—that was severely modified.
At the Winter Gala last December, Foxfire had caught on fire and it had to be remodeled. The outside looked very much the same, but the inside was totally different.
The Freshman Atrium was now on the right side of the building and it looked a lot more orderly than it had before.
"Sounds about right," Biana said nodding her head. "But you forgot about the part about how Sophie gets hurt. It has to be something tragic—like: There was a fight for her love between Keefe and Fitz, and sadly, Sophie had to break both of their small hearts. Then Tam got so mad because she was so incompetent that he ran over her with his motorcycle. Dex happened to be with her and almost killed Tam, but Linh stopped him and started yelling at Dex, who had to get defended by Biana. Then Wylie, Marella, Jensi and Maruca became shooketh because they'd never seen Linh yell, so they are totally out of commission. Then that soon caused everyone to realize that Sophie was dead! Then the world becomes chaotic."
Sophie rolled her eyes. "How about we stop being negative about this year, and start thinking about the good things? I could pass all my classes, I could fall in love, or I could even not get injured or killed,"
"Not likely," Biana and Dex both said with a laugh.
Sophie sighed before walking up to her locker and putting stuff inside of it. "What are your new schedules like?" She looked over her paper and sighed. She didn't really like her schedule for this semester.
"First I have Theater, French, Lunch, Art, Gym, Physics, and Study Hall," Biana said, at the same time Dex answered, "First I have History, then Biology, Lunch, Band, Gym, Physics, and Study Hall."
"Biana, we have Theater together," Sophie told her, looking over her schedule. "And Dex, we have Biology together."
Dex laughed. "Nice—maybe you won't fail a science class this time,"
"I didn't fail," Sophie said with a smug smile. "I got all one-hundreds on my EOC's if you remember."
Dex smiled. "Yep—but it was all because of me. If I hadn't given you that motivational speech, you would've failed."
"If I remember correctly—and I do—you didn't give me a motivational speech, you just told me 'You're Sophie Freaking Elizabeth Foster! You've got this!'."
Dex opened his mouth to say something, but was cut off when Marella came through and asked, "What do you guy's schedules look like?"
"Boring," The three of them said at the same time.
Biana folded up her schedule as she went to her locker. "I think they just got lazy and decided to just do whatever they wanted us to have,"
"Or," Dex said with an eye roll. "Maybe they didn't have time to make good ones because the building got burned down."
"How did that even happen, by the way?" Sophie asked as she shoved everything in her locker.
"I heard that Dame Alina was cooking food in the teachers' lounge—then the oven caught on fire. That's why she got sacked." Marella said, eyeing her schedule. "Seriously, I can't find anyone I know that have the same classes as I do,"
She showed the three of them her schedule, and the only person that shared anything in common with it was Biana.
"You have Art and French with me," Biana said with a shrug as she put away her stuff.
Marella let out a relived sigh. "Thank goodness!" Then she walked away to her locker.
"Great," Biana groaned once Marella was out of ear-shot. "Now I won't get anything done. She'll just talk about cute boys and gossip."
"Isn't that what girls do anyway?" Dex asked with a smile.
Both Biana and Sophie punched him on each arm. "Hey!" He argued.
"That's what you get," Sophie said. "Stereotyping girls like that,"
"Yeah," Biana agreed. "We talk about way more important stuff,"
Dex laughed. "Yeah—like what?"
Biana thought for a minute. "Um...I can't think of them all right now—because there are a lot—but I know we do talk about important things. Isn't that right Sophie?"
Sophie nodded with a laugh. "Yeah, like how all boys are a bunch of jocks."
"I'm not," Dex disputed. "I'm a total nerd,"
"Exactly!" Both girls said just as the bell rang, dismissing them to their classes.
Sophie walked with Biana, looking back at Dex and waving. "Bye! See you in Bio!"
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Sophie soon found out that Tam, Linh, and Maruca were also in her Theater class—along with Biana. So that was good. But sadly, Wylie and Jensi weren't there, so it felt kind of lonely.
"I wonder who the new teacher is." Maruca wondered, staring at the closed door of the office.
Last semester, their old—and very beloved—drama teacher, Mr. K, had ran into the fire to save Linh, but he hadn't made it.
Their group shrugged their shoulders and only a few seconds later the office door opened and a man with olive toned skin and a blond pony-tail walked through the door and into the classroom.
"Good morning," He said, looking a little awkward. "My name is Mr. Teirgan, and I'll be your new Drama teacher. I know I probably can't fill Mr. Kenric's shoes, but I want you all to know that I will try my hardest to reach his expectations."
Everyone just stared on at the new teacher. He seemed nice enough, but they all probably missed Mr. K a lot.
Then Linh's hand shot up. "Excuse me?" She said when he looked at her. "Are we allowed to call you Mr. T? Mr. Kenric let us call him Mr. K..."
Mr. Teirgan smiled. "If you want to call me Mr. T, that's fine."
Everyone started mumbling amongst themselves about "Mr. T", before the roll was finally being taken.
"Now, you're first task," Mr. T said after he'd taken attendance. "Is to research the play The Lion King and the play Hamlet and write their similarities and differences. Then you will present Wednesday. You may work in groups of two people—but that's it. When you present, I want them to be as creative and intuitive as possible. You can start...now!"
Tam and Linh automatically paired up together, and for a second, Sophie thought Biana was going to work with Maruca. But Maruca got up and started working with a girl the size of a stick with curly brown hair with blue eyes.
"Wait," Sophie said, staring at the girl. "Isn't that—?"
"Stina Heks—the birthday party crasher?" Biana finished. "Yep, I think they became friends over break or something. I told Maruca that she better be careful, but she didn't listen."
"Huh," Sophie said, crinkling her nose. "Weird—why would Maruca become friends with her?"
"No idea," Biana said, before taking out a sparkly, pink notebook. "Now, let's start doing research. You know all there is to know about plays—plus, you have a photographic memory. So you tell me everything you know, I'll write it down and we can both make it super creative. How does that sound?"
Sophie nodded. "Sounds great,"
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"What happened to you?" Jensi asked as she and Dex sat down at their table at lunch. "You look like you've been through Tartarus and back,"
"I understood that reference!" Keefe called with a giant grin. "Because I read Percy Jackson over break—it was really good,"
"And I understood that reference," Tam said, pointing at Keefe. "Marvel's Avengers—the first one,"
Keefe nodded. "Yep—I also watched all of those movies over break too."
"Okay," Fitz said with a laugh. "Now, back to Jensi's question—what happened to Sophie?"
Everyone stared at her for a long time—so Dex finally answered. "Mrs. Galvin gave us a project to make in class and Sophie messed the whole thing up. Then Mrs. Galvin started yelling at her, and Sophie decided to be all rebellious and say 'Well maybe if you'd actually teach us this stuff, this wouldn't happen!'."
Everyone laughed, while Sophie hid her head in shame. So much for starting the semester off positively.