Chapter 2: Beginnings

After searching around the school block passing students, and too antisocial to ask for directions, I finally located my class. Glancing at my wristwatch I notice I'm late. I hesitate to go in, the door is slightly ajar and I peek inside, knocking lightly, the teacher along with the rest of the class turn to see the new kid. Great.

All eyes on me.

Yeah, I've been listening to strip that down whilst looking for my class. Anyway, I open the door wincing at the noise - I'm causing when the teacher ushers me in. Look away people. Please look away.

"Um. . . Hi I'm the new student, Daniella Swift," I half whisper.

Don't be so scared! I remind myself. Nope, still scared.

"Ahh, the new student yes please do come in," the teacher replies, smiling at me weirdly. 

She's dressed in a white blazer matching pants and a blue shirt. Her blonde hair pulled up tight into a bun, and looks no less than fifty. She's standing in the front of the class leaning slightly on her desk. I walk in, standing in front. My hood slightly falling of my head and my earphones round my neck. I looked around taking in my surroundings, behind the teacher is a board with Romeo and Juliet notes.

Yuck. I hate that story. There are tables on either side of the classroom kids occupying the seats looking bored theres a passage in between goes till the end. Some students I notice smoking at the back of the class near the windows trying to avoid the teacher. I myself wouldn't of noticed if it wasn't for the glasses I wear.

"Is this the literature class?" I ask a little louder.

"Yes Daniel, I am Mrs Timberlake you may take a seat next to Miss Jones," teacher says. Pointing at a brunette girl.

I nod ignoring how she pronounced my name wrong and sat down next to the girl. Her chestnut brown hair the same colour as her eyes tied back into two plaits and wore a bit of neon coloured make up. Odd choice. Makes her look colourful.

"Hi, I'm Rebecca but you can call me Becky," she says sporting her pretty smile.

"Hey I'm Daniella Swift," I reply awkwardly, "but I'm guessing you already know that"

"Oh it's Daniella - with an a," Becky says with a chuckle, "Mrs Timberlake tends to mispronounce words, don't worry about it"

I nod slowly, "but isn't she a literature teacher?"

"Yip"

Well okay then . . .

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Becky seems like a really nice girl. She's good company outspoken, funny and sweet. Maybe I'll actually make friends this year? At the end of the period she told me to meet her in the cafeteria. I wonder what her other friends are like? We had to go separate ways . She has french and I'm stuck with maths. The teacher Mr Alan was really strict and started pop quizzing me to check if I'm good enough.

Like what the heck. Good enough for what? When I was done I heard the other kids snicker and give their worthless comments. As I walked down the passage one of the girls tried to trip me but I heard two voices say watch out which prevented my fall. Looking around I see a boy with white hair smile at me before turning to his red head friend. The only empty two seats were in front of him.

"Loser," I heard the girl say and her friends giggled.

I rolled my eyes and took a seat in the empty chair. This time I really didn't want to meet people or make any friends. Most of these kids look like snobs. I swear that girl who tried to trip me is the same one from the morning . The one that the bunch of girls were gathered round. During lunch break I went to find Becky in the cafeteria. It's a mess. Tables and chairs are scattered around, students walk about, most are in a queue including Becky.

"Hey! Daniella over here!" she calls for me We get our lunches and I follow her to one of the tables.

"Danny meet my friends," Becky introduces with a sweeping gesture of her hand.

Around the table are three kids - two blonde identical looking boys. One has glasses and is busy drawing in a notebook whilst the other has snapback on and headphones. They both are dressed in same colour clothing green and blue. The third person is a bronze skinned girl with soft, ebony curls that fade into a dark pink along her back. 

"Hey I'm Daniella Swift," I introduce myself still awkwardly.

"Danny these are the twins Tyler and Anthony and this is Audrey*," Becky says.

"Sup dude," the boys say in sync. Cool. Twin telepathy.  My mum and uncle do the same thing.

"I'm Ty , the smarter, skater and all around charmer," Ty grins with a wink. He's definitely the arrogant one and his brother the quiet one.

"Ty is just a skater he's delusional about the other two," Becky whispers to me sitting down. I laugh and sit in between her and Tony.

"Nice to meet you guys," I reply. 

"Don't be so polite we already know you want to slap Ty for being so arrogant, don't worry we want to also," Tony teases Once we're seated.

"Hey!" Ty pouts and Audrey quietly giggles, her golden brackets cluttering against each other.

I look at the notepad Tony is drawing on, "Wow, that's really good"

It really is. A sketch of the riffle tower with shaded beams all accurately drawn like he was studying the real thing. Pretty awesome if you ask me.

"Nah, I can do better," he shrugs nonchantly. What?!

"He's lying Tony's work is out of this world," Audrey gushes causing the timid twin to turn red.

Becky agrees, "He must show you the sketch of the big Ben, that's one of his best"

Even more red.

"Maybe later then yeah ?" I ask. Tony scratches the back of his neck, sunshine blond locks falling on his eyes as he gives a faint nod. 

"So Danny now that we're all friends tell us about yourself," Becky asks once we've all started devouring food like there no tomorrow. Know this is the kind of friends I could get used to.

Awesome they regard me as a friend, mission accomplished. I'm happy they do, I really don't want to be a loner for the next two years.

"Well what do you want to know?" I ask taking another bite of my pizza.

As I spoke to them I learnt about each of them. Becky is running for president of the student body, likes music, parties, travelling, make up, romance novels and series. Ty is a skater, basketball player and hip hop dancer. Loves food and video games. Tony's well an artist and plays the piano and enjoys cricket. Jenny is gothic and likes all things associated with it and also skates. She and Becky aren't really into sports.

"So, Danny what are your hobbies?" Becky asks, "Wait hold on . . . Look it's the populars"

We all turn to see the double doors open and a whole group of kids walking in. Some of them in football kits, talking amongst themselves and cheerleaders with them as well holding some of the boy's hands or chatting loudly. I notice the whole cafeteria watching the group get their lunches and sit down on two separate tables. On one table is four boys all dressed in black with one blonde girl who just left to sit with the rest of the group on the other more populated tables.

"Make way for the beaches and busted people," Tony says in a bored tone.

"Is that some kind of code?" I ask confused.

"Nah its our swearing substitutes for the cheerleaders and players," Tony says.

"Football players or the other kind?"

"Both," he shrugs.

"That's X-Ray, captain of the football team," Ty points discreetly with his thumb.

I turn and follow his gaze. A white headed boy . . . Wait. Yeah the same boy who warned me before I tripped. He's sitting with his friends all four of them dressed in black . One is a brunet the other boy has black hair, the third the red head from maths.

"Who are those boys?" I ask.

"Those are the badboys of Holdenbridge high," Becky says. "Aud, you're good at descriptions, please enlighten Danny for us"

"Well there's Xray captain and the worst badboy of them all, I think he has a criminal record," She begins and my eyes widen. "Then there's Mark the redhead, intelligent but uses his skills for hacking"

I notice a small laptop blocking his face.

"He's a mastermind with computers then there's Trey Harper, he's more of a joker then a badboy but still gets into trouble. Then there's-"

"Jackson Hemsworth," Becky interrupts in a dreamy voice her head resting against her palm. Jackson is the one laughing, I think at what the brunet did.

"All good looking bad personality," Audrey adds.

"Not Jackson, he's perfect," Becky says. She is so whipped.

"That's only because you like him," Ty teases and gets a potato chip thrown on him.

"Hey!"

This. This is what friends are for.

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I catch up after school with Becky in the hallway,"so is there any sports for girls? "

"Yeah there's softball and cheerleading.   Tryouts are usually on weekends in the morning," She explains shutting her locker. .

"So no football?" I inquire walking with equal strides. 

"For boys obviously, wait you play football," Becky asks a bit worried, her eyebrows scrunched. Crap.

"Whaaaattt, no way only boys play football right?" I lie through my teeth. This school doesn't offer football for girls? That's so horrible.

"Yeah for a moment I thought you wanted to play," she laughs a bit forced though.

Wait let me get this straight. No football ? I think I died a bit inside.

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Hey people your'll finally met the badboys and Becky's gang. Who names their child X-Ray anyway?

What do you think?

*also that star was about Audrey.  To anyone who read this chapter before the 28th May pls note I changed her character from Jenny.

Catcha next week. 

See you in the next one. 😉