I didn't take my meds today.
Two days ago Caitlin Adams asked if I was bipolar because I was into her on Monday but by Friday I had figured out that she was too demanding.
But those words, that question... it seeped into my soul and tarnished my tho...
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GRAFFITI COVERED the silver lockers and the overhead lights flickered whenever someone slammed the doors too hard. This definitely wasn't Lakeland anymore. Here, budget cuts were a thing and nobody ever got to see what the fundraiser money went towards.
"Fearne! Oh my gosh you're back! Fearne!" A bouncy brunette pushed her way through the crowds and slammed herself up against my body. Squeezing me tightly. She was taller now than before but not by much, her cheeks still held that cute baby chub that she had been sporting since kindergarten and they were still naturally rosy.
"Hi Sophia." I laughed.
"Tell me everything! You look different!" She held me at arms length and feasted her eyes up and down my body.
There was a gleam bouncing off her brace when she smiled at me but I could notice a straighter difference in her teeth behind the metal.
"There's not much to tell." Except that I met a boy, he changed my whole belief system, I fell in love and lost my virginity.
"I can't wait to hear all about it at lunch. Meet you at our spot." she bounced away, her red bag moving rapidly with each of her steps.
"Fearne Rosenberg! As I live and breathe." I spun around and waved at Aiden.
Apparently boys grow like weeds, he was tall and filled out like he ate a diet of steroids in my absence.
The greeting was awkward, I felt like he wanted to hug me but that would've been inappropriate so instead we just swayed on our feet until eventually I gestured for a high five and he didn't leave me hanging. "So how about that date?"
I laughed "you waste no time." We walked together up the familiar corridors of Fresco High, here I wasn't invisible.
I grew up with these kids and after being here five minutes the gossip had already started, people watched me from a distance and they cared about my business.
"I think I've waited long enough for you and I know the deal with your father but I'm a gentleman, I can respect you're his until marriage."
I smiled politely at him, my father would never accept Aiden as a credible candidate. I already tried.
"Anyway, I'll see you at lunch and you better join my book club again." He winked at me, his crystal-like blue eyes shimmering with excitement.
He used to be a boy, a mathlete and a bookworm, president of the chess club. Now he looked like a man, his shoulders got broader and his face now had short caramel brown facial hair growing in.
Nothing else about Fresco changed, Laura still called me an ugly ginger bitch and Kara still got passed around the boys like a used tissue. Dylan still acted weird. Katie's celibacy club was still going strong, to which I got invited to rejoin by twelve different people and our dinner table still had one wobbly leg.
