"- No Selena! I've already explained to you that it will never work out between your father and me!

- But you don't have the right to replace him with another man! It's not done mom!"

We've been driving for a good ten minutes now on the road to my high school. I was looking forward to getting there, but here we are again, for the thousand and first time, fighting with my mother. And the truth is that I can't take it anymore. It annoys me more than anything else that every time she wants to replace daddy, all because of some bullshit. I can't help it if my dad has always been like this.

"- He made me sad Selena! Do you understand that I need a change of scenery?"

I look at her. So it only took her this moment to realize that she was sad because of him and that she needed to leave him and get away from him!

"- And it makes me sad that I had to leave college with my friends to end up in this godforsaken corner of America.

- I remind you, Selena, that this is the school that has managed to accept you. Besides, you'll have the chance to make new friends. Don't you think?

- Yeah.

- And since there are several children to take care of in "this godforsaken part of America", well, you could finally realize the dream of your life to be able to babysit in the neighborhood!

- Bof."

And that's all I say to him. The drive to the high school is coming up fast. This silence is killing me but I don't feel like talking anymore. At least not until tomorrow.

We finally arrive and Mom pulls up. I give her a rather dry kiss before opening the door and getting out of the car quickly.

Lots of people are standing around where I assume is the playground. It reminds me of middle school. It was actually at this exact moment in the year that I got to know Cara my ex-best friend before. She was my best friend and I will never forget her. Even though what she did to me broke us up, I will never forget how she was with me.

I still see kids separating from their parent at the big gate that fixes the exit street from the playground. More kids still hanging out with their parents. It disgusts me. It's high school, damn it! Finally our parents won't be behind our backs telling us what to do and how to behave. We're free now.

The school principal arrives with his deputy and his whole team. Surely to make the introduction of this school year in this school. With their presentation, the main rules of the school and all the blabla of the beginning of year. Just the usual. I wonder if these people aren't a little bit drunk from pulling out the same disk every year. Personally, there is a moment when I'm going to lose it.

Their presentation lasts five long minutes. Then comes the time to assign each student to their class. Like every year, the names are listed in alphabetical order. So I'll have to wait a bit because "Gomez" starts with a G. Which is no longer a surprise. Just as they were about to get to the letter G, I felt a familiar look on my face. I don't know, but this feeling makes me uncomfortable. I don't know if I'm going crazy or not but I feel it. There are so many people around that looking for this person and their gaze would waste my time.

"I repeat "Gomez Selena!""

Shit. I turn crimson with embarrassment. Everyone turns to me but I don't know why. Yet I know absolutely no one here. I pick myself up and walk to my classroom with a determined step. The feeling of the eyes glued on me never left me once. I think I'm delirious. Once all the students in my class are complete with only a few absent, whose names I didn't have time to hear, we are on our way inside the school.