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Friday, September 5th

•Michael's POV•
I sat in my desk waiting for Algebra to start. I prepared my algebra book, took out my homework out of my binder and set it beside each other. We had a ten question homework page filled with easy algebra questions. I finished it in 5 minutes last night.

I don't really like Algebra much. It's really boring. I like English because we get to read stories and and write paragraphs. It's more better than solving a math problem with so many numbers.

Ariel was one of the last to come in the room. She rushed in, looking a bit worried and sat in her seat right in front of me. I quickly ripped out a piece of paper out of my notebook and wrote down "Are you okay?" and handed it to her. She looked back at me with a weak smile and looked back at the paper.

I recently had seen a post on Instagram about her. One girl, named Bethany posted a picture of her. Ariel didn't know she took a picture of her. She was wearing that pretty dress she wore last night and she was in this light pink room full of girls sitting down next to Nia and Latoya. The caption said, "I don't know why she's trying out to be a model. Not to be rude but isn't she a little heavy to be a model?" I saw that post last night and I was so confused.

What do she mean "A little heavy" ?
She's perfect.

Ariel handed me the paper I read it and it says, "Yeah? Why?" nicely written on paper with a pencil.

I wrote down, "I saw a post about you." and I gave it to her.

"Listen up class!" Ms. Steely shouted over the voices in the classroom.

Everyone calmed down a little bit as Ms. Steely turned on the projector and grabbed a pencil from behind her.

"First, I'm going to pick up your homework and grade it. Pass your papers forward please." She said in her high pitched light voice.

I nicely smiled at my full homework paper and handed it to Ariel while she gave me the notebook paper under the table. I read the paper and it says, "Which one did you see?"

Which one?
There's more?

I wrote down, "This girl took a picture of you in modeling tryouts I think that is. You was wearing that pretty dress from yesterday." I secretly handed it back to her because the teacher was looking our way.

"Mr. Jackson." Ms. Steely called out my name.

"Yes." I replied.

"What are you doing? Don't share homework answers." She nicely said to me.

"Oh." I scratched the back of my head. "I wasn't. She just- uh- dropped something. Uh- she dropped her paper and I gave it back to her." I lied.

Ms. Steely nodded her head and collected the papers a student have to her and set it on her desk.

Ariel gave the paper back to me quickly and secretly and it says, "Wait. I haven't see that before. Did they say something bad about me"

I wrote down, "Yeah" drew a straight face beside it and handed it back to her.

I heard her sigh while writing and hesitate a little. She gave the paper back to me and slouched in her chair making me feel like I made her mad.

I read the paper and it says, "What did they say about me? Did they say that I'm fat or something?" with a nearly drawn sad face beside it.

I wrote down, "Yeah. Something like that." I handed it back to her feeling a little bad.

She sighed handed me back the paper that says, "Oh. Well it's okay. I'll fix that."

I wrote down, "Why fix it? You're perfect." and handed it back to her.

She gave me the paper that says, "Thanks but I'm still gonna do it."

"Did you make the tryouts?" I wrote down and gave it back to her.

She wrote down some stuff that took about a minute and gave it back to me. I read it and the paper says, "I don't know. They're gonna let me know next week. So is cheer, the coach is gonna let me know next week too."

I quickly wrote down, "Cool. I hope you make it." drew a smiley face beside it.  Then, I wrote "I know you made the modeling cause you're so pretty." I handed it back to her and heard her sigh again.

She gave the paper back to me after writing down some stuff and it says, "There is no way I made the cheer or modeling. It's because I need to loose weight." with a sad face beside it.

I wrote down, "Loose weight? No. You're perfect." and handed it back to her.

"Michael!" Ms. Steely called my name while everyone popped their head towards me. "What's the note there you have in your hand? There is no note passing in my classroom!" She yelled walking to the back of the classroom with her hand out.

"Give me the note." She said.

"But- I-" I started.

"Give me the note!" She reiterated loudly. "Just because you're in a little famous group, doesn't mean you should break the rules!" She scolded.

I handed her the folded paper and she snatched it out of my hand. She pulled her glasses down to her chin, opened it up scanning through the written notes Ariel and I wrote.

"Since you want to break the rules and pass notes in my class and not wait until the end of class, I'm going to read it out loud." She said and I heard a few students chuckle.

She's so nosy!

She walked to the front of the classroom still looking at the paper.

Ms. Steely cleared her throat , "A girl took a picture of you at modeling tryouts wearing that pretty dress!" She exclaimed reading the paper loudly while students chuckled softly.

I looked at Ariel and she's slouching her chair covering her eyes.

"What did they say about me?! Did they say that I'm fat or something?!" Ms. Steely shouted out what Ariel wrote. "I think you're gonna make modeling tryouts because you're so pretty!" Ms. Steely enthused reading the paper, trying to be funny.

The students stared at Ariel and I laughing at us.

"There is no way I made the cheer and modeling because I need to LOOOSE weight!!" She gibed making a weird face.

She then ripped the paper and threw it in the recycling bin, "See class, this is why you don't pass notes in my class because I WILL read it in front of everybody." Ms. Steely spat.

"Yeah, I hope she have fun loosing weight to get make the cheer team and modeling." I heard a person say across the room laughing.

Everyone laughed loudly and Ariel stormed out the room crying in her hands.

Now that was just rude. I thought Ms. Steely was a nice teacher.

I sat feeling embarrassed thinking about whether I should get up and talk to Ariel or not.

Imma talk to her.

I got up quickly out of my seat and rushed towards the door.

"Wait. Woah. Woah." Ms. Steely stopped me. "Where do you think you're going?" She asked.

"I'm gonna talk to Ariel." I mumbled opening the door.

"Get back in here and sit down before I call the office!" She demanded.

I loudly sighed and hurried back to my seat while everyone kept laughing.