The One I Never Expected

Chapter 1: Back to School

Chapter 1: Back to School

Lewis Carter. Most people call him Lew. He was considered popular at Buckingham High. And no, we do not live in London. We live near Laguna Beach, the place where MTV shot one of their famous reality shows in. Anyways, Lew and I are best friends, and we always have been. He has this wavy black hair and that drop dead smile that makes all the girls in the room have heart attacks. I've never look at him that way. He was just an old family friend that I've known for a while. As for me, I'm not so drop dead gorgeous and all the guys don't come crawling for me. It's more like they crawl away from me and my fizzy red hair. Most people ask themselves why Lewis Carter, one of the most popular guys at school, is best friends with me. Trust me, I ask that question to myself too. And I honestly don't know why.

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"Syrena, Syrena. Wakey, wakey. You don't want to be late for senior year." The sound of Lew's voice echoed in my head as I was sleeping silently on the bus to school.

"SYRENA!" Lew shouted in my ear. My eyes quickly flew open and I sat up so fast, like a bullet has just been shot through my heart, that I slammed my forehead on the seat in front of me.

"Ow." I mumbled while rubbing my left hand on the spot between my eyes. I turned to look at Lew, still rubbing my head, and gave him a glare. He looked at me, grinned, then stood up and walked down the aisle to leave the bus.

"See ya Sur!" Then Lew left the bus and I could see him walk past my window and wave to me. He caught up with his group of popular friends and gave them all "bro" hugs.

I gathered up my bags and fixed my glasses so that it was in the right positionn. I headed toward the aisle and walked to the exit of the and bus hopped out. A group of girls were in my way giving each other hugs and talking about their summer. They were in short shorts and tank tops so that all the guys can see their bra straps. They gave me a glare when I walked out of the bus and whispered to each other.

"Look its troll girl. Her hair is so big I could find my lunch money in there. Did you hear that she hasn't taken a bath in a week?" A girl in a light pink tank top whispered into her friends ear while glaring at me.

"I can hear you guys. For your information, I've taken a shower more than you have. At least I don't  have armpit smell radiating off of me. And I don't really give a damn." I shouted while raising my right eyebrow up. I really don't care about what people think of me. I'm like that Jamie Sullivan girl from A Walk to Remember By:Nicholas Sparks. She really doesn't care what people think about her even though she has only one sweater, well now two. The only thing that is different between us  is that she has cancer and an amazing boyfriend. But I'm not into boys that much, not actually at all. I mean I do have a guy best friend but I don't like him. Who has time for boys? All they give you is a kid, and I don't want to be on that Teen Moms show on TLC. A girl from my school is already on that show. Cameras follow her everyday..

When I walked inside the school building, a bunch of people were kissing against the lockers and talking to their loved ones, including Lew. He's been going out with one of the popular girls at our school. Her name was Alexa Smith. In my opinion she was one of the biggest bitch in the school. She's nice to me but that's only because Lew tells her too. She also really hates me too because Lew hangs out with me more than her. She always offers me a piece of gum but I never accept it. I mean who knows, she could poison that thing because she hates me so much.

I looked for locker 693, which was obviously mine. I passed by lockers 687, 688, 689, 690, 691, 692, and when I reached 693, Alexa was kissing Lew right next to my locker, locker 694, which was hers. She stopped kissing Lew and looked at me while Lew caressed her neck.