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they get so jumbled up in my little head and I get so confused.” Sienna sighed forlornly with slumped shoulders.
    “I knew it! I knew you must have gotten that question wrong.” Miss Bloom exclaimed a little too zealously.
     
    “I could tell you were struggling. You know you don’t have to be ashamed if you find this work a little too challenging for you. You just have to tell me. You don’t need to do the entire chapter. Just do as many questions as you can.” She said patronizingly and gently squeezed her shoulder as if to say ‘Oh you poor dumb child who can’t even differentiate, don’t despair, there’s always a McDonald’s or a diner you can flip burgers at’. Contrary to popular belief, not everything taught at school is needed for everyday life.
    “Come on, don’t look so down and don’t be thinking you’re stupid because you’re not!” Miss Bloom said ardently oblivious to just how condescending she was.
    “You’re right, I’m not.” Sienna said sweetly and beamed up at her. She walked towards the door but quickly came back unable to walk away meekly like before.
    “Oh and one more thing.” She said and grabbed the board pen and began crossing one of the equations that Bloom had done wrong. Instead, next to it she wrote the correct answer with its working out shown. She put the pen down and smiled condescendingly at a bewildered open-mouthed Miss Bloom and gently squeezed her shoulder.
    “That’s just been bugging me all lesson.” Sienna remarked with a wicked mischievous glint in her brilliant green eyes.
    “Thanks for letting me off the homework. I can always count on you, Bloom!” Sienna shouted over her shoulder as she left the classroom and entered the hallway. Bloom called her name out after her, which she promptly ignored. Sienna put her hood up and put her earphones in drowning out the bustling, murmuring, humming human sounds all around her, replacing it all with Lana Del Rey. It seemed as though she was the only one on earth who seemed to understand her these days.
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    4.
     
     
    “Sienna! Hey, I’ve been calling you for ages.” Rose shouted as Sienna pulled her earphones out. She had just made it to the high school cafeteria. Rose sat down next to her, closely followed by Noah. “Oh my god. You will not believe the amount of girls that have been checking Noah out today. It’s unbelievable! They all think he’s a new kid or something!” Rose laughed.
    “Really, stud?” Sienna laughed along.
    “Oh come on, its not that funny. And I’d hardly call it unbelievable!” Noah commented but looked down at his tray of food abashed.
    “Uh oh! Looks like somebody’s getting a big ego.” Sienna shook her head slightly with a huge grin on her face.
    “Not even close. You know there’s only room for two women in my life.” Noah said courteously.
    “Yeah, your mom and your grandma.” Sienna remarked causing Rose to snort with laughter.
    “Hey, how are your mom and dad? Are they still fighting?” Rose asked after a brief pause realizing Sienna hadn’t talked about them for quite some time.
    “Mr. and Mrs. Rivers fight? Since when?” Noah asked incredulously. The shock was evident on his face. He had on countless occasions come by her home and not once did he sense even a smidge of tension between the couple, nor had he ever heard Sienna complain of any fighting.
    “I thought your parents were…I don’t know…happy? They’re practically the same as that couple on Modern Family.” Noah said lightheartedly trying to lighten the tense mood. She could see how people would see it like that especially given her mother’s stunning Colombian good looks and her Caucasian father.
     
    “They are. They just fought that one day. I don’t know why I was so worked up about it.” Sienna said airily and shrugged her shoulders like she didn’t have a care in the world. She was going to tell them about her father, about how he left last night, it