Chapter 5
Grant Ward nervously sat in the principals office, waiting for Director Fury to come back with his schedule. He knew that he was supposed to be in the advance classes, he just didn't know when those were. There were a few times he wanted to jump up, say that he's changed his mind, and go back to Hydra High, but he kept reminding himself that he was doing this to help Skye. He was a little worried when the bell rang and Director Fury was still not back, but when the vice principal Maria Hill came in and told him to follow her he calmed down a little bit.
Director Fury was waiting for them in the hallway, along with two students that had a band that said 'hall monitor' on them. Ward took note that the band on the girls arm looked stained with something, which was odd because the guy's armband looked brand new.
"Grant Ward, I'd like you to meet Antoine Triplett and Kara Palamas. If you need help finding a class you can go to either of them, and they will be glad to help, isn't that right?" Even though Director Fury was speaking in a really calm tone, both Antoine and Kara tensed up and said,'yes sir.' Director Fury looked at both of them like he was trying to decide if they were telling the truth or not. "Kara! Why don't you show Grant to his first class?"
"Yes sir." She spoke more clearly this time, waiting for Ward to receive his schedule from the principal before mentioning for him to follow her.
"Why does he go by director?" Ward asked quietly as they started down the halls.
"I honestly have no idea, when he explained it to us in freshman year he was screaming in a megaphone and everyone was to busy trying to not become deaf to remember." They both laughed at this before Kara stopped at a row of lockers.
"He forgot about the fact that you need a locker. You can have this one, this one or that one because they're empty." Kara stated as she pointed at three different lockers. Ward shrugged and chose a random one, raising and eyebrow when Kara giggled.
"What's so funny?"
"Oh, it's just that the guy my girlfriend used to date has the locker next to yours. I've been meaning to pull a prank on him, but I haven't really gotten one yet." She sighed, waiting for Ward to throw some things into his new locker. "So, Grant, what school did you come from?"
He froze up at that, hoping she wouldn't judge him based off of Hydra.
"I prefer to go by Ward, because Grant is kinda a lame name, but I transferred from Hydra." He said quietly.
"Oh, I can see why you left." She laughed slightly to herself. "For future reference, don't mention that to your locker buddy, he might try to hurt you."
"Thanks for the heads up."
"It's just part of the job." She shrugged, finally guiding him to the chemistry lab. "Okay, so your teachers name is Ms.Weaver, and she's probably gonna have you sit with FitzSimmons because your new. Don't worry, those two are the smartest in the school, so you should have no problem catching up. You ready?" She stopped in front of the door, placed her hand on the handle and turned to face him.
"I guess?" He gave her a unsure grin and she opened the door.
The room fell silent immediately and everyone's eyes were on him. Kara noticed and said very very loudly, "Must you stare at people when they enter a room, or do you guys not have common manners?" Everyone grumbled something while half continued to look at him and the other half went back to the work they had.
"Ms.Weaver! You have a new student! This is Grant Ward, and before any of you can ask," She directed that part to the students, "He is in this class, not a different one."
Most of the students started protesting, saying things like how he didn't look that smart or that they didn't need anymore students in this class.
"It is not up to me about who gets into what class, if you want to complain please go to Ms.Hill! Have fun with that!" Everyone got deathly silent when Kara shouted that. She muttered something along the lines of 'have fun' and left the room quickly. He stood frozen in the front of the room, not sure what to do.
"Mr.Ward why don't you got sit with Fitzsimmons? They're right there!" Ms.Weaver pointed at the two students that we're giving him the worst glares. He gave them a small wave and sat kinda close to them. He put a distance to make sure they don't kill him.
"Hi." He said, pointing at them. "Which one is-"
"I'm Fitz she's Simmons. Wherever you transferred from there must've been a mistake because there's no way you belong in here." Simmons looked a little annoyed for a second.
"What Fitz is trying to say is that it is very unusual to have new students. It's nice to meet you Grant." She offered her hand out. It took Ward all of one second to figure out that Simmons was Skye's ex.
"I like to go by Ward, and it nice to meet you too." 'I'm gonna help your ex make you jealous' he thought as he shook her hand.
"We're learning about new ways to sedate someone with drugs." She explained, going off into a rant full of sciency things. He got lost like twenty times until the bell rang and she offered him her notes to copy down so he'd be 'better prepared' for an upcoming test.
And by upcoming the test is in two months.
He went to his locker and saw who he was guessing is the locker neighbor that Kara was talking about.
"Hey man, I'm Ward. I just got transferred." He held his hand out, but the guy just scoffed and walked away. He waited by his locker to meet up with Skye so they could put the plan in action.