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12 o'clock, Anna is preparing her lunch with the other teachers. Damn it the microwave is broken, so she will have to go to the counselling staff's lounge. She doesn't like going there because Jerome always tries to shoot his shot and fails. Anna is a closeted lesbian in an unhappy but safe marriage.
Beep..beep..
She takes her burning hot tupperware of lasagna out of the microwave and quickly drops it on the table behind.
"Noo be careful!"
Anna looks behind and there he is, our dear Jerome, the school counselor. He has a phD and all, so the reason why he would chose to work in such a place is a mystery to most of the staff.
"Oh I'm sorry!" whispers Anna as she takes out the files under the lasagna. The folder got slightly stained by some sauce under the tupperware.
"Eh it's fine. I can always just change the covers." replies Jerome. "Have you met the new student yet? I met her for the 'first day at school' session. She seems like a smart but very introverted girl, will you help her to be included in team works?"
"No, I haven't. What's her name? Let me check if I have an email from the principal.. no nothing." Anna isn't surprised.
"Eve Yang, hmm go see Principal Vasiliev, he might have forgotten, or do you want me to come with you?" offers Jerome in a flirtatious tone.
"Oh haha it will be fine like that, thanks though!" responds Anna as she tiptoes her way out of the room.
She walks to Principal Vasiliev's or shall we call him Konstantin's office. Many feet away she can already hear his laugh, but only his. Is he drinking alone again? It wouldn't be the first time.
Knock Knock
"Yes come in?"
"Hello, Principal Vasiliev. I.."
"Call me Konstantin, what have I said?" teased Konstantin while he frowned his eyebrows, before exploding in laughter again.
"Yes sorry Konstantin, I wanted to ask you about the new student? Eve Yang?"
"Hmm let me search for something.." answers the principal as he browses through his desk to find a document with her informations. While doing so, he knocks over the tiny bottles he's been drinking. "Oops! Ah, there is her file!"
"Thank you." Anna then leaves with the file on hand and spots a bench in the hallway. She quickly finds Eve's schedule and sees that she will have a class with her today. It says that Eve has already taken a French class, so she should be fine in Anna's language class.
1 o'clock, classes start in 15 minutes. Anna doesn't have any classes for this period. She then glances over the schedule again and notices that Eve had a gym class today, and at this time of the year, the students are evaluated on team sports. Anna wondered if Eve was an outcast.
"Hi Dasha, I see that you had a new student today?"
"Oh don't talk to me about her! She slowed her team during volleyball so much that I benched her."
"Whoa isn't that too much for a first day at school?" asked Anna with a hint of disgust that she usually hides better with Dasha.
"Well she better get used to my way." retorts Dasha before walking away with her usual prideful posture.
Wow I wouldn't be surprised if she was a killer or a hitman in her past lives, sarcastically thinks Anna to herself.
Anna takes the opportunity to finish her corrections in her office. She only has time to correct one, the first student's on the list. Oxana Astankova. She is ironically the first in her class too. This girl has a gift in languages. She learns with so much ease and pronounces any language like a native. "Should I pair her with the new student just for the first 2 weeks to help her get used to the rhythm of the class" wonders Anna to herself. What interrupts her distracted session of correction is Gemma.
Gemma and her are secret lovers, although Gemma is not closeted. From the first day they met they felt a spark, a connection. Gemma was always the pursuer and Anna the pursued. They liked their relationship like that.
"Hi Gemma, I.. missed you" shyly said Anna as she was blushing.
Gemma grinned and slowly walked towards her desk. She then closed the blinds behind Anna's chair and slowly kissed her. Anna softly moaned and said" I can't wait to see you tonight."
"Me too. By the way I have this new student in my class, Emma or Eva... Eve! She is very timid but draws very well. Better than the average even, look!" She handed her a drawing Eve almost finished today.
Anna was impressed. It looked just like the painting she had in her bedroom, the one she stared at when she was waiting for her husband to finish when they had sex. "Wow yeah it is really detailed. Impressive!" approved Anna with a nervous smile.
"Ugh I have a doctor's appointment at 3, gotta go now if I want to catch my bus!" Gemma was quite clumsy with her cars and always got into small accidents, so she decided to stop driving altogether.
Anna was then left in her office alone again.
2:24 shit! Her class was about to start in 6 minutes! Plus it was at the 4th floor and the elevator was broken.
Panting after running up the stairs, Anna entered her classroom and the students greeted her as they usually do. She was a well liked teacher, as she was not too hard and genuinely cared about her students. "Hello everybody! Oxana, Eve? Can you both come forward?"
Oxana raised an eyebrow and came. Eve was slowly walking with a sudden anxiety. Wow that girl is kind of pretty, Eve thought, but I'm straight, she also thought.
"Yes?" asked Oxana.
"I know you like to sit with your friend Nadia, but for this week and next week, can you please sit with Eve? Just to get her used to our pace and to answer her questions." Anna was 50 percent sure she would say yes.
"Uhh no? Why do I have to be her nanny? Can't you ask someone like Sebastian? No one likes him and he has good grades.."
"Oxana! I didn't teach you those manners. Look, I am asking for a simple thing, just to be friendly with a classmate for 2 weeks. I will give you a 5% boost to your grade if you accept." offers Anna.
"Um I don't want to be forcing someone to be my friend. I don't mind being alone, I am used to it..." comments Eve while looking at the floor.
"See? She doesn't like me either!" mockingly shouts Oxana.
"Well that makes a thing in common for both of you already! Ugh I am tired, just go sit with her at the back, end of discussion!" ordered Anna.
Oxana rolled her eyes and took her stuff to sit at the back with Eve. Eve did not dare to meet her gaze, but saw Oxana staring at her in the corner of her right eye. She pretended to not know.
Luckily for both of them, there was no team work that day. Just a pop quiz, which are usually made easy to help students boost their grades and also to evaluate Eve's level in foreign languages.