2 Chapter 1

Kiana's POV

I take a deep breath, letting out all my nerves. Relaxing my shoulders and cracking my back, I wave to Aiden who is in line behind me now. We're both trying out for the musical Hercules for drama club, it's based off the disney movie. I look down at my sign up paper, looking at the part I circled, I have one of the five goddess's circled. The way Mrs Weater explained it was, these five girls will sit on a bench at the bottom of the stage through out the whole musical and sing when one of there songs comes on. Nothing too big, but nothing too small either. Peeking through the curtains I see that the girls before me, are just getting started so I'm going to be waiting for a while.

Glancing at Aiden again, I see him and his red hair and tall and skinny physique. He reminds me of a skateboarder dude, and I know that is total stereotyping of me. But it's true, even the way he dresses make me think of skateboarder... and everyone knows to stay away from skateboarders. Aiden is different though. First he is my best friends. Second, he is in drama class and he can sing and dance. Third, he plays baseball. Fourth he is well liked and doesn't really have people who don't like him. Fifth, and I'm being honest with myself here he is pretty good looking, but I myself have been put in the friend zone. I remember back in our sophomore year, I had a huge crush on him, but it never went anywhere. Now, I just think of him as my very good looking best friend.

"Kia why are you staring at me? Do I have something on me?" He asks worriedly cutting my thoughts.

I mentally shake myself out of my dream land and give him a small smile .I thought of his audition .I remembered him saying something about Pain or Panic ;the two workers for Hades but I am not sure if that is what he has chosen or not. 

"No, you're fine. Quit worrying dude it's going to give you wrinkles you know." I smirk at him, and narrows his eyes at me.

Then his face softens a bit and a smile spreads across his lips.  

"So what are you trying out for?" I ask, raising my eyebrow.

He chuckles and hands over his paper.I scanned the paper with my eyes and see he has chosen Pain.  

"You know you could do better than that. Like Phil or Hercules even." I said while handing the paper back.

He scoffs.

"Like you? Wanting to be one of the gospel singers" He replied scrunching up his nose in a cute way.

I sighed in defeat as he got a point . We sit a little longer and chat about who we think is going to get what part. Talking about how Gina is most likely to get Megera since she is Mrs Weater little teacher's pet and she can sing but her acting could use some work too . After another fifteen minutes my name get called. I stand up relaxing myself again.

"Good luck, and break a leg." Aiden wishes behind me.

I nodded my head in reply .

"Hello Mrs. Weater!" I greeted .

I handed her my paper and she smiles warmly at me .Then she starts questioning on what role I want to play and if I'm okay with a speaking part.  Once we have done everything and she plays the keys on the piano to one of the songs from the musical and I sing reading the music sheet she gave me.  

"Great job!" She applauds as she plays the last note.

"Thank you Ms Anderson for auditioning.We will have the final results posted at the end of the week."

I head out as she calls Aiden in. I smile at him giving him a thumb up and he rolls his eyes in return . Chucking I grabbed my school bag and jogged to the study hall. I slide into my seat next to Carmen, another one of my friends.

I inform her on how it went. She congradulates while giving me a side hug .Then she started blabbering to me her theory on Caden and Anne's break-up. I barely keep up about school's gossip and not really caring about it either. . They we're together for a couple of months but everyone knew that relationship was going nowhere. Anne has a thing for Arlos , Caden's best friend.Of course Arlos isn't interested in her. So to catch

Arlos's attention she went out with Caden. 

Arlos and Caden are the school players. They will never be in actually real relationships.

I tried staying out of all of there drama which is hard to do with Carmen because she always some how knows whats going on. I could careless. I have school and college to think about. Hence why I'm boyfriendless! I'm proud of it though for being a junior and not having  one relationship in high school.I'm sure I've set some kind of record here. Don't get me wrong I've had crushes but I've never acted on them. 

Once the bell rings, I go straight to American History, it's my favorite class next to drama. I take my seat in the front row next to the window and wait for Mr. Parker to come in. He is alwasy late for this class because he has lunch break during the period before this.

I look at the rest of the class counting how many are here today, and I realize it's not even a class. It's just me. There are only eight of us in here, yeah small class, and today it seems the other seven are all gone. It's happened before, it's mostly the other really smart kids like the chess club people and the mathlets.  Both those groups are gone today for big tournements. When Mr. Parker come back, he roles his eyes seeing how it's just me.

The two of us go way back.He is my older brother's friend. They meet in college, and have been friends since, including he did just get out of college last year .I'm partly sure he is only twenty-one, but I know Patrick is twenty-two.

"Well, Kiana what should we do today?" he asks leaning against his desk glancing at the clock.

He scratches the top of his head combing his brown slightly curly hair .He never remembers these plans about tournaments so he never knows what to do when everyone is gone.

"Hangman." I reply stand up grabbing the market for the board.

"It's your turn" I smile.

He smirks and starts making the lines for the saying. We have a little tournement like thing of our own going on challenging each other with history topics in hangman.  

"R"  I begin .

For next fifteen minutes we keep on playing . While we are in the middle of game l the door opens, we both stop and as the principal stride in.

"Mr. Parker Ms Anderson I'm happy to know you two take class seriously. " said the Principal ,Mr Wilson ,yes Anne's father .

"She is my best student. I'm not going to teach a full lesson while the whole class gone." Mr. Parker politely reply him.  

I set the marker down seeing this is going to be a conversation that might take a while.

 "Can I help you with something?" Mr Parker ask looking at the papers in Mr. Wilson's hands. 

"Not you, but Ms Anderson can" he said glancing at me .

He holds out the papers to me and I see it to be a student 's test papers. He/She had scored F in both test . I look at the name, and started feeling confused.

"Arlos Kingston ? What do I have to do with his papers,Sir?" I questioned

"As you can see, history is not one of his strong subjects. I'm looking for someone to tutor him. Mr. Parker was right when he said you were his best student."Mr Wilson answered .

"You want me to tutor Arlos ? Are you kidding he won't listen to me!" I laugh handing the papers back at him. 

"Oh I bet he will. He has been told the stake of what could happen if he doesn't get his grades up. He said he would prefer a tutor .I didn't say who it would be either. I chose you. Of course you don't have to do if you are not willingly to"

Mr. Wilson said guilt tripping me.

I close eyes thinking long and hard about it.

"You also will get the volunteer hours,  you're not doing it for free." He added .

Volunteer hours? I need those, and tutoring will looking good on an application for a teaching degree.

"Fine, but I deicde what days and for how long." I agree. 

"Deal." He smiles, and hands me back the papers. He leaves without another word, and I look at Mr. Parker. 

"How bad is he?" I ask, setting down the papers. I walk back to the board grabbing the marker. 

"Second lowest in the class." He says

I sighed

I am very looking forward to tutor him .

Note the sarcasm .

Author's Note

This is the end of chapter one.Thank you so much for reading and giving this story a shot. I will update next chapter as soon as possible and honest feedbacks would be appreciated.