The Ghost Of You

3 months and 12 days before

"I hope you have an amazing day at school. Be kind to your peers, perhaps it will work out this time." Charlie's dad patted on his shoulder before dropping Charlie off at school. The school was the only one in town, and was noticeably smaller than all of his other schools. There couldn't have been more than 100 students at this one. 

"Thanks dad." Charlie said before heading out of the car onto the school grounds. A big crowd of people his age was sitting on the grass as he passed them by. One of them, a girl with messy eyeliner and mascara underneath her eyes shouted

"Hey you! Boy in uniform! Over here!" she laid down on the grass in the other girl's lap. That's when Charlie noticed that he was the only one wearing the uniform the school provided. In her left hand she had a cigarette that she was continuously blowing on.

"You're new right? I'm Margot, Margot Johnson." Charlie got closer to her, and sat down by the students. They all looked somewhat the same, like the types of people your parents tell you not to hang out with. The girl that had Margot in her lap looked at Charlie and giggled while whispering something into Margot's ear. Margot laughed back.

"She says that you look like a twat, completely stuck up." Margot laughed, and the rest of the crowd laughed back. Charlie understood what types of people those were, the ones that bullies others. They didn't want to be friends with him only pick at him. He began standing up when Margot made another noise.

"Don't leave. I like twats. Have you ever smoked a cigarette?" she held out her cigarette towards Charlie, he had never smoked before. Could she tell from the look of him, he hadn't even had his first kiss yet.

"Uhm... Yes." Charlie lied, he couldn't look like a complete idiot. Margot raised her eyebrows, before handing the cigerette to Charlie. He had never had this much smoke that near him, he was about to throw up from the smell of it.

"Oh don't waste it! Blow on it!" she said while crossing her arms. She knew that he hadn't smoked before, she just wanted to see his reaction to smoking for the first time. Margot always said that it was the most precious of all. 

Charlie took the cigarette up to his lips. Blew on it quickly before pulling it away and coughing like a smoker of 50 years. Margot giggled with a huge smile on her face. Charlie thought he had embarrassed himself. He gave back the cigarette and stood up and headed inside of the school building.

His first class was math. His favourite subject, you didn't have to be socially acceptable to be good at math. Like his other classes, debate and social studies. 15 minutes late, the same girl from outside the school building came into the class.

"You're late." Mrs Harrison told her off, she giggled and sat next to Charlie. She smelt exactly like you would think, a mix of coconut body lotion, cigarettes and cherry cola. The cigarettes were overpowering though, by a lot. 

"Heeeeeeey new boy." she exclaimed while giggling, did she see him as a joke he wondered to himself. The teacher seemed to be annoyed by her presence, she did this often, didn't she?

"What's ur nameeeee?" she continued, she laid her left hand untop of Charlie's math book, causing him to not be able to open it. She was strong, a lot stronger than she looked. She had a very petite body, she was about 5 feet, how was she so strong Charlie wondered.

"My name is Charlie. Charlie Johnson." he sighed quietly, he was quite a teachers pet. It was important to be liked amongst his teacher, they were the ones grading his work after all. Margot laid her bag on his table and searched through like airport security. She took up a stick of gum and popped it into her mouth.

"Sooo, I haaave this party and you should totally come, if you want to of course. I just want you to make some friends here so you won't be aaaall lonely." She caressed his shoulder, why did she do that? Charlie didn't really have any plans, and he was quite desperate for friends...

"Sure." He answered and Margot's face lit up. She handed him her phone, and he typed his number into it. She smiled as she took back the phone, and renamed him to "Char" 

"Peeerfect! I will see you tonight." She packed her things that had spilt all over the table into her bag and took it on her shoulder before heading out even though the lesson wasn't nearly over. Margot's favourite spot at the school was the small entrance right next to her math class. She had smoked there since her first day.

It was her secret hideout because it was a fire exit so no one really hanged out there. She received her first nude there, from Miles that she went to middle school with that moved to North Carolina, or was it South Dakota? She doesn't really remember. 

She also had her first kiss right there, shocking that she had her first kiss at 14 right? It was with some senior guy that regularly bought her cigarettes, he played the guitar too! He even wrote a song about Margot, she always wondered what happened to him. He dreamed about moving to LA and opening a record label. She hopes that's the truth for him. 

Margot had really changed since freshman year though, Margot was naturally a blonde actually. She always had the lightest hair in her grade. She also has natural freckles that she covers up with makeup now because some guy in 10th grade asked if she had pimples all over her face. Margot dyed her hair when she broke up with the senior guy, he would always call her blondie or barbie. And who would want to be compared to a barbie doll, not Margot.