Chapter 11 Leave me standing, twice

After he spoke those words, he left abruptly. She stood there for a while recollecting herself,he was the first person to speak to her in this way. But it wasn't his words that scared her, it's the way his eyes turned, it was so scary and what was that tone. It's calm and yet unsettling. She took in some air, a deep and hard breathe, and left to the hall. 

On Wednesdays the school organizes a debate time, where anyone can volunteer or can be picked out to participate in, and the whole school is there to witness. The purpose of that was to encourage the pupils of the school to learn broadly, not just what is taught in class, but about life and experiences and national and international situations. The debate session was very broad, they even debated about a topic so weird as "the benefits of another global war" yeah, weird. And since today was her first day she hadn't arrived too early, she entered and the first thing she heard was any volunteer, she was walking in and the first familiar face she saw was Jones Williston. He was Standing at the podium in a very comformed manner, like he was born to rule. 

"You there, come up here" she wasn't sure if she was the one being spoken to, but if she's learnt anything from few minutes ago, she's sure this guy was going to let her pay back for her bad mannerism. She was more than ready to prove that she won't go down without a fight. The audience were whispering " but she's new here, she doesn't even know the topic for debate, what's Jones doing, that's Mr. Bruce's daughter I heard she has a bad temper" good God she hated all the murmurs around her but she hated having someone treat her like a normal person. She walked up the podium and stood gracefully and the murmurs stopped as the conductor read out the topic for debate again" Human cloning should be legalized". 

Jones was the first to go, followed by another boy and she was the third person. As she discussed the topic people were shocked, she didn't know they would debate on such a topic and she was new so how was she speaking so fluently like she had rehearsed for this. Even Jones was amazed, to him this girl just beat him hands down. The scores spoke different (Jones had 97.53%, the other guy had 90.70% and Micha scored 94.10%)but for someone who was new she did extremely well and that made whole school respect her immediately, she was very rich and super smart and had this mean look on her face. Yeah, they were intimidated real quick. Jones walked up to her after the scores were mentioned and the audience started clapping.

"That was very impressive" and turned away to leave, but halted in his tracks when Micha said "I would have said same but I don't like lying, anyways I'm Micha" she stretched her hands out but he didn't shake or even look at her hand and replied" I also don't like hypocrites and I'd be one if I  shake your hand, what I mean is I don't like you". Yeah, he just did it again, spoke and left her standing, again. That prefect had to be taught some lessons and she wouldn't mind teaching him, herself.