The Other Gilbert Rewriting

Rewriting the stars

Chapter 1

Heather Hathaway looked out the window in her class. She badly wanted this school year to be over. This year has been very difficult for her. Starting with her best friend moving miles away...and then her parents divorcing...it just seemed as if everything was falling apart in her life....

Her parents divorcing...this was the part that bothered her the most. She had known that her parents relationship wasn't okay. The yellings...the cursing and all the fighting.. but she just didn't expect them to get a divorce! Why will they want to leave each other after being together for so long? What about her?

Heather blamed her father for everything. He is the one who caused the divorce. He is the one who decided to go off with some woman... claiming that she is his first love...just thinking about him made her really angry. How can he just abandon her and her mother like this?

On top of all of that she was really worried about her mother. After the divorce, she has been awfully quiet..it must have affected her a lot. Heather felt really bad about it and what made it even worse was the fact that she couldn't do anything about it. She had to just watch her suffer.

She was still lost in her thoughts when someone tapped her from behind. It was a classmate, a very annoying classmate Kelvin. Heather rolled her eyes. This was another thing bothering her. This entire school... everything just irritated her. "What's up Heather? A penny for your thoughts?" Kelvin asked smirking at her.

It was the last day of the school term....Heather struggled hard to control her temper. She didn't want to cause a disturbace on the last day. "Please leave me alone Kelvin. I really don't want to deal with you" she replied. Heather had a lot going on in her mind and he was just being a jerk..

"Why? Why don't you want to deal with me? We should have some fun today. We won't be seeing each other for a few weeks after today"Kelvin said. He really liked pestering Heather she always fought back..and it was fun for him. She was...a source of entertainment for him.

Heather swore under her breath. she is not going to lose her temper. She is going to play it cool to the end. After today, she won't see him for a while. Heather frowned when she remembered that the holidays were only a few weeks long and she will have to come back again very soon for her last year of high school.

Kelvin was disappointed that Heather didn't give him the reaction that he wanted. What is going on? This is so not like her. She should at least try to fight back or yell at him to buzz off, the way that she always did... why is she so quiet? He was determined to get a reaction from her. "Hey Heather....why won't you play with me?" He asked poking her from behind.

Heather had had enough. She completely lost her temper with him. Why does he continuously have to be a jerk?? Why won't he just leave her alone? She had a lot going on in her mind as it was already...can't he be a little considerate and just leave her alone when she asked him to?

"What really is wrong with you? Why won't you just leave me alone? Why do you keep bothering me like this?! Don't you have even the slightest consideration for other people? You keep pestering me even when I tell you not to. Am I a joke to you? Am are having fun with all of this?!" Heather yelled at him.

Kelvin smiled happily. He got what he wanted....a reaction from Heather. But even more than that she had just gotten herself in trouble. That is just great. "I'm happy since I already got what I wanted but I don't think that you will be happy...the Geography teacher just saw you, you see.." Kelvin said.

Heather cursed under her breath again. Kelvin has to be the worst person alive. how is she ever going to explain this? She stood up as the teacher entered the class and walked up to her. She glared at Kelvin. Why does he have to do this to her every single time? What will he gain?

"Do you mind explaining to me what all of this yelling is about Heather? Do you think that this school is a place where you can come to and raise your voice whenever you want? Or you think that you can do whatever you want since it's the last day?" The teacher asked. Heather sighed. Now she's going to get it..

"I told her the exact same thing sir but she just won't listen to me. She keeps raising her voice at people whenever she wants. Do you think that this is right? I don't think so either sir. I think that she should be punished" Kelvin said. He sure was having lots of fun. Heather just made his day.

The teacher looked at Kelvin. How dare he put on a show in front of him? He had seen everything that happened when he walked past the class. Derrick is clearly the one who provoked Heather first! And besides, Derrick is quite popular in school for being a bully. He has to receive a warning today..