Completely Still

Chapter 2~

When I first opened my eyes, I didn't know where I was. I was thinking to scream for help, until I remembered everything that had happened. Me fainting on the first day of school, exactly what I didn't want today. Great. Now I was at the medical room at the back of the office, with the first aid teacher Miss Fanney organizing some pills it seemed. "Uh, Miss Fanney?" I asked nervously. Miss Fanney turned her attention towards me "Zoey! Are you alright? Does your head still hurt? I've called your parents and said what happened but apparently it happens so much they think you can handle it. Is that true?" she asked. "Yup, I feel completely fine, and yes this happens alot at home and I usually wake up I'm fine, just like right now" I replied. "So you think you'll be fine to go back to class? Right now it's around..." Miss Fanney glanced at her watch "Lunch recess". "Sure, so can I just head on back now?" I asked, hoping she would say yes because I had to get some fresh air from the horrid smelling medical room. "Ok, but take it easy the rest of the day ok Zoey?" "Ok I will, bye!" I answered, then left the office medical room, running to the back doors. Before I got there though, I heard someone say "Oh look, it's Zoey. Had another fake headache just to skip class again?" That jerk. Why did Owen have to be in my way? I realized Claire wasn't there so I had to come up with something, but something so smart he'll ignore me for the rest of the day. "I wouldn't be talking if I were you. You don't even know how it feels, not being able to go to friends' houses in the summer, and my headache isn't just a small one, it feels like a stroke. My parents thought I was dead the first time it happened. So I suggest you think before you speak next time, idiot." I was pretty proud of my speech, and he said nothing back. Maybe he wasn't expecting me to respond. He just looked at me weirdly and left. I HAD to tell Claire and the others what had happened, so I ran out. I meet them in the peace garden, they didn't really see me coming though.

"Zoey! We've heard what happened in class, are you ok?" Dominica asked anxiously. " Of course I'm ok, if I wasn't ok I would still be at the office!" I replied. "But," "I finally got revenge on Owen." I said mischievously. "Ohh! Please tell!" Rachel begged. So I told them what had happened along with some more conversations about what I had missed when I blacked out. Apparently math was boring (duh), And I had pages 8-9 numbers 1-5 for homework. After a while the bell rang and we started to head towards the lines. "See you guys at last recess!" I cried to Rachel and Dominica and with that me and Claire got into line. "ZOEY!" Ugh. The crowds of people asking me if I'm alright had begun. "Are you ok? You just sorta fainted in math, which I can understand, math is soo boring." the same voice, who now I could see was Christine, said. It's not that I don't like Christine, but just the people repeating the same question gets on my nerves. "Oh yeah, Zoey, are you ok?" asked Sarah. "Yeah I'm-" Gale cut me off, "Zoey! You looked so pale back in math! Are you ok?" See what I mean, same question over again. "For the both of you, I'm just fine. And did I really look so pale?" I asked, trying to get a laughing type of conversation going on. "Oh yeah, it totally creeped me out! You should've seen yourself." Gale said, half laughing. Then all of us started to say about times when we fainted. That's what I like about Gale, she knows how to make people laugh. She's also has this voice which no one can ignore. Mrs Korin started to lead us in and we continued talking up the stairs. "I feel so bad for you though, you looked in alot of pain" Sarah said sympathetically. Oh great, the conversation I didn't want to start again. "No it's fine, I barely remember it anyway" I said quickly before anyone could continue with the conversation. "Well I still feel bad, Zoey." Sarah replied.

We got to class and went to switch our things because we had french in the afternoon, which I forgot, and I realized I didn't know who our french teacher would be. So I got my pencil case, lunch bag and water bottle and went to go in line. Claire was already in line. "Claire, do you know who our teacher will be?" I asked. "Uh, I'm pretty sure it's Mrs Ionier, but you gotta pronounce it with that accent français! Yawn-yay." She replied and I already started to laugh at the horrible fake accent. We went down the hall to the other class, and I found my seat. I was, thankfully, not next to Owen. He was behind me though, but hey it's not next to me so I was happy. On one side, Emily sat next to me, a girl who I don't really know well but she's still nice, and always shares her snacks so bonus for me! The other side was Marley, Gale's best friend. On each of our desks were 2 pencils and an apple to eat. I could tell that Mrs Ionier would be nice already. Mrs Ionier walked in and looked at our class. "Bienvenue mes amis! My name is Mme Ionier! Today we won't be doing much, just colouring your name tags and a work sheet, both of which I am about to hand out." She said, picking up a pile of papers. She handed them out and for the rest of the period we worked on it. The time flew by and after what had seemed to be 20 minutes it was recess.

"What?! It's recess already" Claire asked with disbelief. "Sure is, so hurry up so we can get to the peace garden before Dominica and Rachel!" I said, already starting to leave the classroom. Claire followed close behind, and we were both laughing and trying to beat the other to peace garden. We got to the peace garden, and I won, maybe I did have an advantage of being ahead though. We waited for Dominica and Rachel, still panting from the running. After a minute we sat down. "Where are they? Washroom?" I asked. "Probably, yeah." Claire replied. So we went on talking about summer and YouTube. Oddly enough, they never arrived. "I wonder where Dominica and Rachel are for so long, it can't be the washroom." Claire said, shaking her head. "Maybe they-" my thought was cut off by the bell. "WHAT?!" Me and Claire cried at the same time, then bursting into laughter. "Well you have to ask them after school, I have to go straight to my moms car." I said to Claire. "Yeah, they better have a good reason!" Claire responded, making her voice all sassy.

We walked to the line, looking for Dominica and Rachel. We did find them. Except with Claudia and Elise, two girls from the other class which I don't know well because I've never been in their class. Claire must've noticed too because she had a look of disbelief on her face. "Wha..? They were outside the whole time? Why didn't they come see us?" she said sadly. "I don't know, maybe they didn't find us at recess? Tomorrow they'll come back... Probably" I said with a slight bit of uncertainty. Truth be told, I had no idea why they didn't find us. "But we were at the peace garden like all of the other recesses." Claire said, her voice almost a whisper. "We'll find out, now come on, we're going in!" I said starting to walk inside. We had snack and kept on working on the sheets Mme Ionier handed us before. I didn't have that much fun this time, I was still wondering about what happened at recess. When it came time to switch back, I could see Claire looking a bit uncomfortable too. We walked back to class without a word. When the bell rang, we walked out of the school and I walked into my moms car without a word.
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Later that night, when I was in bed, I wondered why Dominica and Rachel weren't there. Maybe because they didn't feel like hanging out with us. Maybe they promised Claudia and Elise that they would hang out with them. Or maybe just because if me. Me and my headaches that make me so "weird". I wondered why I get my headaches, because the doctors had no idea the first time it happened and still now. I was starting to get tired of thinking, so I drifted off to sleep.