If the Story Aligns

Chapter 1-New Beginnings

Rhea Griffin

Fuck. New school, again. Transferring to my 6th new school out of the almost four years I've been in high school really teaches you something about people.

Thank god this will probably be the last time I'll transfer before I graduate, with only 5 months left of school, I have a pretty decent chance of making it without having to be the new girl again.

Some people claim I'm a "bad girl" which is fucking annoying because I'm just a normal person who has been kicked out of school 5 times. That may sound bad, but the majority of the time it wasn't my fault.

I had a plan for this school though, stay out of trouble, stay away from people. If I don't interact with people I wont be fucking thrown under the bus for something I didn't do.

It's my first day and I have no one weighing me down anymore. I turned 18 last month so I was finally able to leave my psycho aunts house and live on my own. I've always been a pretty independent person but I guess I was required to have a legal guardian until now.

On my way to school, I looked around and realized this town has a lot more trees than the last place I stayed. That may be nice, a change, fresh air.

My motorcycle may not be the best choice for this town though. It's a shitty old thing I saved up to buy, it's not pretty but it works and I need transportation.

This town wasn't necessarily small, I have been in smaller but it still seems like the type of town where most people know each other. Which may make it a bit harder to blend in.

Damn. Everyone in this town seems extremely rich, I could tell just by the parking lot. Mercedes, Challengers, Jeeps, Trucks, and everything in between seemed to litter this parking lot. Which is also a good sign it may make it easier for me to blend in.

I already had my schedule, I called ahead to get everything prepared and a map that I memorized so I wont look like a lost puppy. I quickly made way towards my first class which I was utterly thankful that it was so close to the entrance.

As I entered my first hour, it was only the teacher and a few students.

"Hello, my name is Rhea Griffin. I'm your new student." I stated in my "customer service" voice.

"Hello Rhea, I am Mr. Rhodes, you can take a seat in the back corner, I believe that one is available."

"Thank you sir." I responded as I made my way back.

Honestly, this is the perfect spot to just lay back and not pay attention, it's history anyways, not anything I don't know. Quickly, more students started filing in until almost the whole class was full. I was looking at the board until I was interrupted by a light voice.

"Hi, are you new? Obviously you're new, oh my god. I'm sorry, I'm Elysia." says this short brunette.

"I'm Rhea, it's nice to meet you Elysia," I say confidently, she seems nice and unproblematic, and I'll need at least someone to show me around a bit.

"Honestly, thank god you're here, you already seem ten times better than half of these assholes in this place. About time we had a new face." I surprisingly laugh at this remark.

"Are the people here really that bad?"

"You don't even know." she groans...

. . .

The cafeteria was filled to the brim with people, I spot Elysia walking towards me with more confidence than I could imagine for that short of a person. I am 5"9 and I would have to say she's a good 8-10 inches shorter than I am.

"RHEAAAAAAAAA" she half-yells "Girl, I've been trying to find you for like ten minutes, honestly we shouldn't even stay here let's go somewhere."

"Fine by me." As we start leaving the cafeteria I notice a few people looking at me and I put my hood up to avoid the stares.

"Wait, fuck" Elysia says "I left my bag in my last class, meet me out front I'll just go grab it real quick." She quickly walks away.

I head out front when I go to open the door and am met with it slamming into me. "Fuck. What the fuck?" for a second I think I am seeing double.

"Oh shit, River I think I just hit someone with the door." a tall blonde boy says.

"Roman, you're a dumbass look at the girl in front of you obviously you just hit her with the fucking door." Another tall blonde boy says. Twins. That would explain the seeing double thing.

"I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to do that, I should've gone through the entrance door rather than the exit." I think the one named Roman says.

"No shit." I say as I try to walk past them.

"Wait, wait, wait.... I haven't seen you before, what's your name?" Roman says

"Rhea." Then try to walk past again. This time the other brother, River? Stops me.

"Hey Rhea, I'm sorry about my brother, he can tend to be an annoying son of a bitch sometimes. I'm River, that's Roman. You can go ahead and leave, we just rarely see new people here, or hit them with doors, and we are curious."

"Thank you. It was nice meeting you." I bluntly say and walk by.

As I go to leave I have to open the door once again, this time I do it more cautiously as the twins watch me. I turn around real quick to see the twins staring at me when I'm met with something hard. Fuck me.

"ASHERRRR!" one of the twins say.

"Watch where you're going, we just hit her with the door and now you hit her with your body. Damn, she's having a great first day." The other twin says.

I finally decide to turn around to look at what I hit, a very tall man, taller than the twins, looking back down at me. Asher.

"Hey, I'm sorry about that, I wasn't paying attention" he chimes.

"You're good." I say and briskly walk away because I am not about to deal with the same exact conversation again. As I'm leaving I hear the twins and Asher start to talk, I ignore it and make my way outside to an already waiting Elysia.

"What took you so long?" She questions

"Someone hit me with a door," I say and decide I am not going to elaborate "Let's go get food."

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