A Tale From Sunnyvale

Chapter 1

"Fuck Nick Goode and welcome to fucking Shadyside."
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Oh boy, I had no idea what was coming for me one month ago. We should probably start there, yes? From the start.

November 2nd, 1994

"Wake up!" I faintly heard my brother, Nick, yell. "Hmmm, no." I said back, still tired. "Ava!! Up now or else I'll take a cup of ice water and pour it on your face"
"Well you're no fun" I stated and slowly got up. Nick was standing at my door, giving me that annoying-ass 'better get out of bed' look.

I looked over to my brother for a second and saw his outfit. He was wearing black jeans with his red and white shirt that he loves oh so much. "You're wearing that to school?" I said to Nick as I was making my bed. He gave me an annoyed look, "Um, yeah. What's your problem with it?" I rolled my eyes, "Everything." He instantly walked out of the room while giving me the glorious middle finger. "I love you too!" I yelled.

I hurriedly picked out my outfit for the day: Light blue jeans, white tank top, black belt (not that kind of black belt), and a red flannel. I start to walk to the door, today is gonna be.. okay I tell myself as.. I trip on a shoe. A shoe. That's great. "Ow.." I quickly got up, grabbed my backpack and this time actually walked out the door.

I ran down the stairs as fast as I could, I was almost late to school. "Hey, Will" I said running to the kitchen counter as I grab a piece of toast. "Hey-" He starts to say but I start to run past him to me shoes. "Bye, Will." And he just stands there confused. He tends to do that a lot. I put the toast in my mouth and start tying my shoes, my new converse in fact (dad gave them to me as an early birthday gift).

- little time skip -

As me, Will, and Nick walked to school we were all doing it in silence. But the nice silence, but also the awkward one. See, Will knows I'm lesbian but Nick doesn't. Nick is kind of homophobic but me and Will think it's just because he's bi. We know our brother. One year difference between us and Nick doesn't change a thing.

We got to the doors of the school. Damn, it was crowded, people everywhere. Once I finally got through the doors I- "Ow!" Bumped into someone. "Oh my goodness, I'm sorry." And that person was Cindy Berman. Also the person who just said 'I'm sorry'. "Cindy? What are you doing in Sunnyvale?" This is it. This is it. My crush is now in Sunnyvale. What the fuck am I gonna do?