The school of popularity

Chapter two: My first assembly

It's lunch time so I head to the cafeteria to look for my brother. As soon as I enter I see Carter and the football team at the largest table in the cafeteria. There are a few more boys then before, which must be the rest of the team. I head over and I'm greeted with a hug off Elijah. Quite shocked, I reach out and hug him back. He smiles, walks back to the table and introduces me to the rest of the team members that I haven't met yet. "Hey Harper, meet Liam, Oliver, William, Noah, Lucas, Henry, Ethan and Jacob" he says really fast as I try to remember all of their names. " How's your first day going so far Harper" Carter says when I sit next to him. "It was good, I found all my classes okay and the library is hugeee."
"It's time for the ratings" one of the boys whispered. I look at Carter hoping for an explanation but he looks as confused as me, so I look at Elijah and he's already ahead and starts to tell us what it is. "it's an assembly where you give your ratings" he explains.

Half an hour passes, we've all finished our lunch and we start to head to the assembly hall. As I walk in I get hit with the scent of daisies, the walls are pure white with random specs of colour splattered all over, making them look like tiny flowers. We walk over to the navy, velvet looking chairs. As we sit down the seat is warm and comfortable. "It's so pretty in here" I say to Elijah as he sits next to me with Carter sitting next to him, "I guess" Carter says actually noticing the room. I'm sitting straight and looking forward exited to witness 'my first assembly' "you can't sit here" a high pitched voice approaches. I look up to see a blonde girl wearing skinny black jeans, a tight white cropped shirt and the tightest ponytail I've ever seen. I don't know what to say, but before I even think "she's with me" I hear Elijah whispers over my shoulder. Matching the chairs the velvet navy curtains start to open, "with you... why is she with you?"
A loud voice comes echoing from the large speakers "please can everyone take their seats and get ready for the first rating of the semester. The blonde girl aggressively sits down on the other side of me, as a tall blond woman in a tight fitted suit approaches the stage and a bright spotlight beams towards her. "That's Mrs Davis the head mistress" Elijah whispers. I start to worry, what if no one votes for me?, Elijah noticed me worrying and puts his hand on my shoulder, reassuring me that it's going to be fine. "Hello students of sunstone academy, my names Mrs Davis and I'm your headmistress".
"Are you worried about your ratings" I whisper to the blonde girl next to me, "worry...why would I need to worry, do you know who I am?" I sit staring at her waiting for the answer. "Ohh your the new girl.... Harper right?" Confused at how she knows my name I reply
"yeah, what's your name?"
"hi, my name is Amelia Davis, I'm Mrs Davis's daughter" Amelia replied.
That makes sense why she isn't worried about the ratings, her mother won't let her get a low rating. Its time to rate as a bright light shines in my eyes. I look down and notice an ipad on the small ledge in front of me reading, 'welcome back to Sunstone Academy, please select your railings below.' I look over to Elijah and he's already finished voting. He looks over at me with a mischievous smile. "Do you need help?" Elijah says still smiling,
"Yes please."
"Right, all the pupils that you have interacted with today will pop up on the screen and all you need to do is either like them, or dislike them." Seems pretty simple. Obviously I feel too bad to dislike anyone, until the rude girl next to me pops up. I mean, if she gets sooo many likes I'm sure on dislike won't make a difference..... no I can't do it. As I go to click the like button Elijah accidentally nudges me and I click the dislike button. Oh no! "Hey! Elijah" I whisper with worry on my face, "are these ratings anonymous?"
"No, it pops up on the board who's liked you and who's disliked you" I look at my feet feeling so worried as butterflies are going crazy in my stomach. A large gasp surrounds the room.
"Amelia Davis 2,499 likes and oh... 1 dislike from Harper Garcia" not even looking up from my feet I can all of a sudden feel thousands of eyes on me...

Feeling mortified I rush out accidentally slamming the doors behind me, soon after hearing them slam again. "Harper wait up!" A female voice shouts down the hall. Not looking up I assume it's Amelia. I start to apologise and saying how I didn't mean to press dislike. When she continues to say, "it's fine, I mean it won't make a difference anyway, but you could of told me that you hated me."
"What! It was an accident, I don't hate you."
"Whatever you say harps" she sniggers as she walks off.
Harps.... Harps, you know what maybe I do hate her.