Kaley was dragging me through the hallway. I almost dropped all my things but barely held on.

"Cmon Taylor! It's right here." Kaley shouts as she opens the door to homeroom.

When I walk in there's 3 rows of desks, in columns of two.

I catch my breath and look up. I see Brandon turn towards me and wave at me. I instantly feel my face heat up.

"Ohhhh. It's the boy from before." Kaley whispers into my ear.

I also see some boy whisper something into Brandon's ear, causing a slight blush to form on his face. I wonder what that boy told him?

"Sooo? Are you just gonna stand there, or going to say hello?" Kaley whispers, laughing slightly. All this does is make my face heat up more.

"Cmon!" Kaley shouts pulling me along.

"Hey Taylor." Brandon says

"H-Hi B-Brandon..." I say stuttering.

"I know you have a crush on him Taylor. You should tell him." Kaley whispers as she takes a seat behind the boy, as I sit behind Brandon.

All I do is roll my eyes and look at the front of the room. Shortly the bell rings and the teacher walks to the front of the class.

"Good morning class. My name is Ms. Sperry! I'm your homeroom teacher for the year. I'm happy to see that most of you are ready for you first classes." Ms. Sperry says.

I look around and see most people with multiple different text books on their desk, along with their laptops. I guess a lot of people are ready.

"This homeroom period will only be 45 minutes long. The entire year, this period will be 45 minutes long. This period will be showing you the news for the day, and you'll have some time to socialize." Ms. Sperry adds.

She turns around and sits at her desk right as the announcements come on. It's the usual at the start. Do the pledge of allegiance, and take a moment of silence. I still have yet to figure out why we do the silence.

Then they continue with the announcements. There's not much that happened. Just welcoming everyone to school, saying the lunch, all of that stuff.

"The first two tryouts for teams this year will be for the Football teams, JV and varsity. The next will be for JV and varsity Cheerleading." The teacher says after announcements end.

My eyes light up when she says about the Cheerleading tryouts. I really wanted to tryout for that.

"Ok, now we are taking attendance. When I call your name please say here." Ms. Sperry says pulling out a sheet of paper.

"Caleb Bringers?"

"Here!"

"Ashley Charlotte?"

"I'm here!"

She goes through a couple more. "Taylor Chase?" She calls.

"Here." I say.

"Brandon Orlen?

"Here!"

She finishes calling names and sits at her desk. "You may all use the remaining time for socializing."

Brandon turns towards me which causes a blush to form on my face. Ok, I definitely have a crush on this guy. I don't think this is natural to blush so much.

"I'd like you to meet my friend Tristan. He's been my best friend since elementary school." Brandon says pointing to the boy next to him.

He holds his hand out and I shake it. "Who's this next to you." Brandon asks.

"Oh! This is my best friend Kaley!" I say enthusiastically.

"It's nice to meet you!" Kaley shouts. She then leans towards me. "He's a keeper Taylor." She whispers.

"KALEYYY!!!" I shout as my blush grows. I can see Tristan have a smile grow on his face.

Not a few seconds later, someone taps my shoulder. I turn to see a black haired boy. He wasn't skinny, but he wasn't big either. He was medium. He was also taller than me.

"Hey there. My names Caleb. What's your name sweets?" He says.

"Oh hi. My name is Taylor, and I'd prefer you not call me that." I answered quickly.

"What's a pretty girl like you doing with these three." He says pointing towards Brandon, Kayley, and Tristan.

"Excuse me but these are my friends." I say glaring at him.

"Why don't you just dump these three and join my group." Caleb adds.

"Uh no! I would never leave Kaley, or any of my friends I made myself." I respond angrily.

"That'll change." He responds really quietly.

"Excuse me? What did you say?" I ask glaring him down.

"Oh nothing! Have a good day with your friends." He says sarcastically.

As he walks away, a black haired girl appears in front of me. She's familiar. Hello Taylor." She says. And then I recognize her.

My eyes widen. I jump, causing me to fall to the ground. Kaley gets in front of me. It was that girl, Victoria. The girl that bullied me throughout school.

"Stay away from Taylor. Kaley says angrily.

"Ugh. Your to overprotective. I just wanted to apologize." Victoria says causing Kaley to have an expression of surprise on her face, along with me.

"R-Really? You want to say sorry." I say hesitantly.

"Yes. I am truly sorry." She says.

If I knew better I'd be able to tell she was crossing her fingers behind her back. Unfortunately, I believed her.

"I-I...almost forgive you." I say as Kaley turns to me with an almost completely shocked look.

"She bullied you for years! And your just going to forgive her?!" Kaley yells.

"Kaley. I don't completely forgive her. She's going to have to do more than apologize to me." I respond seriously.

"Of course. Well have a good day Taylor." Victoria responds winking at Brandon.

"Who exactly was that?" Tristan asks.

"That was a girl that bullied me for years...." I respond.

"Bullied? Why would she bully a girl like you? Your nice from what I've seen." Brandon adds

"For a stupid reason. I don't know why anyone would bully me for this reason. But I don't want to talk about it." I say blushing because of his compliment.

The rest of the day went amazingly. No one made fun of me or bullied me. It was such a nice change. When I get home I write in my journal.

it's one hundred percent confirmed I have a crush on Brandon. I blush whenever he's nice to me. Kaley and I'm betting Tristan knows I have a crush. I hope Brandon doesn't.

Victoria actually apologized to me. It's a little hard to believe but I think she's being honest. Hopefully she is. She did some horrible things to me before.

Again something I don't want to talk about. I have plenty of things that I prefer not to talk about. That's just my life for you.