Midnight Love || Samantha Larusso

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The girl slipped on her white converse before stepping out the house for her second day of school, she sighed before stepping onto the sidewalk. Edith had to walk to school since her dad left early and mom was already at work, she was going to try and make some friends today, she'd only talked to one person in that school and that was the brunette girl from social studies.

If she did make friends she didn't want to tell them about her school fight, West Valley
High already had a pretty good reputation of bullying, last thing Edith needed was more homophobia in her life.

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Edith gulped down her emotions as she pushed through the crowded hallway, why was everyone bitching today? She continued to look down at the floor until she bumped into someone, not looking back she carried on walking "Watch where you're going!" The dirty blonde rolled her eyes and didn't dare to look at the boy.

She arrived to her english class, after asking the teacher where to sit, Edith sat at the back of the class, grabbing a pen out of her pencil case and looking ahead of her.

"Hey can i borrow a pencil?" Hawk turned to see a dirty blonde girl with glasses in front of her, she seemed focused and oddly familiar, the two glanced at each other trying to make out where they knew each other, Hawks bright red spikey mohawk distracted him from his face and his new confidence made him seem cocky.

Edith's admired his features, she looked into his eyes and trailed off in thoughts, Hawk stared at her blankly "Hello?" he waved his hand in front of her face mockingly and laughed.

Edith sighed and gave him a pencil unpleasantly, two definitely where opposite now, whilst Hawk was tough and confident, Edith was still shy and anxious, if only the two knew about their changes within themselves.

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It was now lunch and it was safe to say Edith was a nervous mess. Yesterday she sat in the back of the cafeteria by a window whilst reading 'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban' she always found it comforting as it was one of her favourites, ever since she first read it when she was younger she'd been in love with dystopian story's, it was the book that started her obsession.

Edith loved dystopian story's for many reasons, one being that she felt it created a separate reality that she could escape to and was completely different from the real world.

"Hi!" An enthusiastic voice snapped her out of her thoughts causing her to jump.

"Sorry, didn't mean to scare you" Edith admired the tall tan boy standing in front of her, his hair was long but pulled back and he was wearing a red hoodie.

"oh, um it's fine" She said sending him a wide smile, causing her dimples to show.

"Well, i'm Miguel, nice to meet you"

"I'm Edith!" She took his hand that was held out and shook it, a silence fell between them as they let go and Edith gripped onto her bag strap.

"your new here right?" Miguel spoke up.

"yeah, i am"

"oh, I was the new kid once too but it's pretty great here, my friend said you sit next to her in social studies and you seem pretty cool so I thought i'd come say hi"

"yeah, she's super nice, um hi!" Edith giggled.

"If you ever need somewhere to sit, me and my friends would be glad to have you!"

"thankyou" Edith said before walking over to her spot she sat at yesterday, It was by a window and she leaned her head against the glass, the sunlight shining on her skin.

She looked around the cafeteria, everyone here was in groups and there wasn't really a 'popular' stereotype, so far she'd seen no bullying apart from someone picking on a geek in the library.

She spun her head around and linked eyes with a black haired boy, he was skinny and It didn't take a long time for her to recognise him. "Demetri?" Edith muttered and her eyes widened in shock. Meanwhile Demetri sat there with his brows furrowed, the two were having a staring contest, but they were also so overwhelmed with shock they couldn't move.

"Earth to Demetri!" Yasmins says looking up at him, she followed his eyes and saw he was staring at a girl, she felt a little jealousy "Are you checking out that geek in front of me? Do i not exist!l She raises her voice and Hawk snickers and he turns to the girl too.

Then it hits him.

That's Edith Jones.