Living a New Life with Sam Pottorff

Chapter 10

POV: Sam

It's the frist day of school. I'm so scared for this. I grab some khaki shorts and a random button up patterned shirt. I put on my navy blue vans and grab my penny board. It's about 5:50 when I make it out of the door. It only takes me 5-10 minutes to get over to Zoe's house. I see she is looking amazing, and we skateboard over to Starbucks to get out drinks before school. It is one of my traditions to go and get starbucks in the morning before school, especially first days.

We get to school 30 minutes before school will start. We get our lockers and put our bags in them. Then put our locks on the and walk around with our schedules. It was a good thing that we got to walk around to each classroom and find a path way from each. It makes me feel less nervous if I know where I'm going. I know Zoe feels the exact same way.

I've only been in this school for a totally of 10 minutes and I already see people staring at me. It seems very weird for people to be looking at me. I get this a lot, but not normally at school. I was at this one school for 8 years, and was treated normal, even with the Youtube stuff. Now, this is the bigest thing ever to have a famous person in this school. I don't want to get special treatment from my teachers, but It does help when I'm travleing so much. I travel for vidcon and playlist, and I might be in and out of LA and Flordia for Youtube stuff. I also am trying to write a book and make a TV show, plus come out with a fashion line at PacSun. Yes I have a lot on my hands.

The great thing about online school, is I could take it where ever I was. It didn't really matter that I was in LA or Flordia. My mom will try and get people to come over to Florida more so I won't have to miss so much school. It was her idea for me to be in an actual school, and not just online. She did have a good point. My whole entire life was online. All of my friends were made online, All of my school was online, my job was online, and what I loved was being online. It was starting to get to a bad place when I was starting to cut. I had the worst body image and I was online too much. It didn't help thta all of the mean comments just over flowed my life, instead of the nice comments.

I am better now, but I need to stay offline more or else I will trigger and cut again. It was a really horrible time in my life, that I don't want to go back to. Having an online presence was a great thing in my mind. I loved helping teens with body image and other important things. It was work, but it was the kind of work that you want to do everyday for the rest of your life. It was fun, and exciting. I loved it, and would love to go back to it, soon.

We go to first hour and she talks for the entire hour about what will happen this year. Then we played a game so we could learn each others names. We did this for all 7 hours. It was a very uneventful day. I wanted to go somewhere fun with Zoe. We skated to our house and then to the beach. We swam and tanned. It was fun and exciting.

"So Zoe, how was school?" I asked.

"Oh, It was normal, I guess. It was nice having my boyfriend with me for the whole day. I loved that," She said.

"Yeah? Well I loved having my girlfriend there with me at my first day of public school in 3 years," I said.

"Really? It's been 3 years for you without public school?" She asked.

"Yeah, It was a great place for my Youtube life, but not for my social life." I said.

"Sam?" She asked.

"Yes my love," I said.

"Can I tell you something?" She asked.

"Anything," I said.

"Okay, so about a year ago I was bluimic. Well, I still am, but I was diaonogsed a year ago. I have been in and out of help centers and I just wanted to let you know that I might be missing school more than you thought. I don't think It's a big deal, but If I can't do this school and eating disorder, then I might ned to be homeschooled or put in online school. I just wanted you to know this so you wouldn't be suprised about anything that will happen in our lives," She says.

"Okay. I also have something to say. I cut. I'm not proud of it, but it happens, a lot. Since I'm online so much, I have had too many death threats. I mean you know how it is on Youtube. people used to hate me a lot more than they do now. I hated myself so much due to this and I thought that maybe hurting myself physically could help my emotional pain. It didn't really help, but I kept on doing it anyway. I have scars on my arms but I try my best to hide them as much as possible. I might be switching to online school with my Youtube stuff and I think I have more coming." I say.

We both hug and rock back and forth. Zoe is crying and I'm trying to comfort her. She also confesses to me that her mom is threating her and beating her. I told her she can always come over to my place, and my mom could probably let you move in. Zoe stops crying and she gets back on her penny board and we skate back to her house.

Her mom wasn't home so we were able to pack most of her things into a couple suitcases and bring them to my house. We grabbed the most important things and we can come back soon to get other things. I asked my mom if Zoe could move in and I explained her living situation and she was prefectly fine with it. She said Zoe could sleep in my room, and her belongings could be in another room or in my room.

We get all setteled in and the doorbell rings....

Authors note: hey guys! Hope your having a wonderfully grand day! I hope that this story is good?! The next part will be put out soon, sorry for the suspense. Bye my beautiful viewers, until next time!