Her saving Grace

Chapter 2

Chapter 2

“Kevin!” I said, an automatic smile forming on my face. I really missed him, even though we did see

each other a couple of times during the summer.

“How are my two favourite girls?” He asked, hugging me and then Jasmine. The three of us then

lapsed in a conversation about our summer vacation as we head to our lockers.

After we got our books, we stood in the hallway ar d continued talking. Class was not going to start for

the next five minutes. I then looked down the corridor to see Lucas corning towards us.

“Lucas!” I greeted when he neared us. I then looked at him and frowned. “What the hell happened to

your hair?”

Lucas smirked and ran his hands through his new itairstyle. His black hair was comb over to one side.

Much like how Justin Bieber used to wear his hair. “I wanted a change. Pretty cool, huh?”

“Dude, you look ridiculous.” Kevin stated.

“You’re just jealous that I’m going to get all the girls now. I mean, no one will be able to resist this look.”

He said smugly.

Jasmine and I laughed. Lucas looked at us. “What’s so funny?” He crossed his arms.

“Keep telling yourself that buddy.” I patted his cheek teasingly. Okay, I was joking because any girl

would want him, with or without the new hairstyle. He also knew how to charm the ladies. Kevin as well.

After all, they were both handsome, intelligent and funny. However, Kevin was more of the flirtatious

one.

“Whatever, you know it’s the truth.” He replied. Suddenly, the shrill of the warning bell cut off any more

conversations. We began to walk to our homeroom that we were in together.

We went to the back of the class and sat down. Kevin and Lucas sat beside each other, while Jasmine

and I sat in front of them. The teacher was not here as yet, so I got up from my seat and went to sit on

Kevin’s lap, so we can continue to talk until the teacher comes. Jasmine copied my actions and sat in

Lucas’ lap.

“What did you do for your summer vacation, Lucas?” Jasmine asked. “Parties and going to the beach

mainly.” He responded.

“Yes. Lucas and I partied hard and picked up honeys at the beach.” Kevin added, giving Lucas a high

five. “We invited Kayla a couple of times though, but she only came once.” He added, holding up one novelbin

finger.

“I was preoccupied most of the time.” I defended.

I didn’t want to tell them the real reason I couldn’t make it. It was hard to get out of the house during the

summer, because of Allan. I would lock up in my room mostly. But I couldn’t tell them that because my

friends did not know what my home life was like. I wa! afraid to tell them.

“I wish I was here.” Jasmine said. Just then our teacher, Ms. Baker walked into the classroom and

Jasmine and I sprang up from the boys’ lap and went to our seat quickly. Thank God we made it in

time, before our teacher looked around and saw us. Ms. Baker greeted us and then began with roll call.

“All of the trigonometric functions of an angle can be constructed geometrically in term of a unit circle

centered at 0.” Mr. Malcolm, my maths teacher was saying, while I tried to keep my eyes open.

I don’t normally sleep in class but, right now I wanted to sleep for two reasons. One, I could not sleep

last night, because Allan was up all night, so I waited until he went to bed, which was really late. Two, I

really, really hate trigonometry.

“The trigonometric functions are most simply defined using the unit circle. Let be an angle measured

counter clockwise from the x – axis along an arc of the circle….” Mr. Malcolm continued. I rest my head

on my hands and soon I didn’t hear anything else as his voice trailed off.

“Kayla.” I heard my name being called after a while, but I was too tired to lift my head. “Kayla!” I heard

again and I groaned. Just five more minutes, please.

“Miss. Green!” The person shouted and I shot up quickly, looking at a very frustrated and angry Mr.

Malcolm. The students laughed in amusement. “Miss. Green, can you please solve this trigonometric

problem?” Mr. Malcolm asked, crossing his arms.

I shifted my eyes from him and squinted at the bo4rd to the problem he pointed on. Solve sin(x)+2=3

for 0°< x