Pocrescophobic

Chapter One

Highschool. How did it come so quickly? Highschool was always so far away until today; my first day of highschool.

I sit in my mother's volkswagon bug dreadful yet excited to start my first day. I can see the school just a block away, teasing me to step foot inside the place.

Now it is right in front of us. My mom turns into the cule de sac. I grab my backpack that's full of unused binders, books, notepads, pens,pencils, erasers, markers, and other "back to school" items that were on the list the school sent out two weeks ago. I have only seen the school once before today. I saw it a week ago when I registered. That was when I picked out my locker which is in the back of the school since I was part of the last group of kids to register.

I get out of the car, tell my mom goodbye and walk up to the one way glass double doors at the front of the school and push on the bar a couple times until I realise there ks a sign that says pull. I pull open the d oors and go down the hall into a loud overcrowded cafeteria. My heart stammers and anxiety picks up in me as a girl laughs then falls into me.

"Watch out!" She says as she walks away, then I hear her telling her friend "fucking freshman." her friend laughs and they start talking again.

Great. I've been hear less than five minutes and I've already messed up.

I feel embarrassed at first, but as I realise it was not my fault my heart slows down and I feel a it better. I check my schedule.

1st p : 7:50am-9:02 /World History /Lodder /58

I check the clock. 7:45am. The bell rings just as I am checking it leaving me five minutes to go to class. I shift my backpack, take a deep breath, and mentally prepare myself for world history.

There are four hallways splitting from the cafeteria.one of them is the hallway that I walked down from the entrance. I remember seeing the office and room numbers in the 90s. I see a sophomore looking guy looking at his schedule and tap his shoulder.

"What?"

"Uhm sorry but I was just wondering if you knew where room 58 was?"

"Weren't you here for the tour?"

"No, I missed it for-"

" building two" he cuts me off and points toward a building visible from the cafeterias glass doors. "Its the second hallway to the left you should be able to find it from there" he finishes, and hurries down a hallway alongb with the ocean of other kids.

I follow his directions and see room 58 with a large dark skinned man with glasses, a pink dress shirt, and black slacks standing in front of the door greeting each student with a handshake and a "Welcome to World History I'm Mr. Lodder". I'm last in line. He greets me quickly when I'm up to the door and slightly pushes my back to hurry me inside.

"Hello class" he begins. "I'm going to take attendance. Please dontsay anything other than 'here', you are old enough aren't you?" No one answers. "Okay then. Angel?" He drones on through the attendance and then about his plans for the year.

I check my watch. It reads 9:00am. I stare at the watch face as the secondhand ticks and ticks and ticks. 9:01am. The last minute finally passes and the bell rings. I sling my backpack on and rush out the door with the rest of the class. I remember that by locker is on the back of building two and run towards it I hurridley open my locker *32, 16, 14* , pull all of my new school supplies out other than my pencils, pens, and my planner and put them in the locker. I close the locker, shut the lock, and look at my schedule again to see the rest of the classes for the day.

2nd p : 9:05am-10:04am /Chemistry /Wald /39
3rd p : 10:09am-11:08am /Honors Algerbra 1 /McDonald /48
4th p : 11:12am-12:10pm /Study Hall / Garder /96
Lunch 12:15pm-12:44pm
5th p : 12:47pm-1:42pm /Honors English /Del /82
6th p : 1:45pm-2:50pm /Physical Education: Yoga /Clark /91