Only You- (Robin Arellano x you)

Chapter 3- Oh shit...

August 18th 1969

I stand outside the school, ma stood beside me. My first day of 4th grade. New school.New people. And absolutley no friends.Great. "Are you alright mi amor?" Ma asked. I shook my head slowly. And let out the breath I didn't realise I'd been holding. Ma crouched down beside me, going to my height. "Your going to be fine". She said brushing a strand of hair from my face. She kissed my forehead and brought me in for a hug, stroking my hair, which had been scraped back into a loose ponytail,one of the only ways to control my curly hair.

We pulled apart and she held me by my shoulders, her eyes glossy "Ve a mostrarles de qué estás hecho cariño."( Go show them what your made of sweetheart) she whispered. And then walked with me to the front office, Frank was following closely behind,not having said a word the entire time.

This was strange for me, after we moved here, ma started showing me more care, rather than pretending I just didn't exist like she has done for the past 8 years of my life. It was weird for her to show me affection or praise, it felt almost wrong. Having not experienced much affection growing up. It was an odd feeling that most people are used to, so they don't find it so odd. But then again, most people's parents don't just go missing.

We entered the reception and were then told to wait there. The principal was to speak with Ma and Frank. I was to go to lessons, I was getting a buddy. To show me around the school and stuff.

One of the teachers came back with a girl, she had golden hair that tied in two plaits, with a red ribbon on each end. She was wearing a white dress with red flowers dotted all over it, along with white converse. She looked neat and presentable. She had big brown doe eyes and a button nose,with freckles dotting her cheeks and nose. This girl was the very opposite of me. I had tanned olive skin,and bright green eyes, with brown curly hair tied into a loose ponytail, I was wearing loose denim shorts, with a white t-shirt, and with a pair of black ankle length converse.

The teacher then started talking "Hi there, so Elena  this is Tia, she will be your new friend and buddy, she will give you a tour of the school, where your locker is, all your classes and etc. Tia this is Elena." Tia then came over to me and pulled me into a tight hug. "Cant...b-breath..." I choked out. " Oh sorry!" she said akwardly smiling. And stepping back. She took my hand and said "Come on, I'll show you round." and with that she took me around the school, filling me in on absolutley everything and everyone. "-and so thats where the maths department is, that is soooooooooooo boring!" she said giggling and I giggled with her. "Annnnnnnndddddd your locker is riggggghhhhttttt HERE!" She said loudly and suddenly, making me jump. Stopping at a plain blue locker that was right next to another locker, that was covered in glitter and pink hearts. " OMG!!!!!" She squealed. "Your locker is right next to mine, we can be locker buddies too!" Tia exclaimed. "We are allowed to decorate our lockers by the way, hence mine," she said waving to hers. " I can help you if you like. "Yeah that would be great," I said smiling at her.

"We have to get to homeroom, we have an 1 hour and 30mins in there every morning. I can go and introduce you to everyone!" She then again grabbed my hand, and dragged me down the corridor. Talking all the way: "Whats your favourite food?" "Where did you transfer from?" "Why did you come here-". She eventually stopped talking and asking questions. We stood infront of a room that said 'Welcome to homeroom 4a'. "You ready?" Tia asked tilting her her slightly, she could tell I was nervous. "Erm... I think so?" I replied still staring at the welcome sign. "You'll be fine." She then took my hand and opened the classroom door.

Once the door opened all eyes were on us. Every kid in the room was staring. I. wanted. to. die.

"Oh hello, my loves come in,come in," A women with a strong spanish accent, got up from the desk she was sat at, stopping the conversation she was having with a group of girls. I kept my head down, as my shoes had suddenly become very interesting. She was wearing a pair of smart black pants, and a lilac coloured blazer, she wore rounded glasses and her hair was identical to mine, messily tied into a loose ponytail, while being wild and curly. I didn't see many people with the same hair type as me. Apart from my mother,Obviously.

"Gracias,Gracias for welcoming our new student Christine, you can sit down now if you would like". She said. Wait, what her real name was Christine! "No thanks I'll stay with Elena," she said quietly to the teacher, shooting me a winning smile, standing next to me once more.

"Clase, we have a new student who will be joining us, would you like to introduce yourself dear," she said kindly, looking at me expectently. "Tell us your name, and where your from, take your time."

"Err, hi, my name is Elena Woods, and I come from Boston. And thats it." I finished awkwardly. "Wonderful, Elena  alright clase, carry on with the task," she clapped her hands twice and everyone went back to doing activities in groups. Tia then nudged me,"See you were great!" she whispered, I smiled at her. I'm really starting to like this Christine.

The teacher then started talking to me again, " Welcome to North Denver elementry, I know Christine, oh sorry mi amor, I apologise I know you like the nickname Tia," She said to Christine. Tia just nodded, for her to continue, "Anyways my name is Señora Gonźalez, but you would probably prefer to just call me Ms Gonzalez, as everybody mostly does." She said smiling. "Realmente no me importa,pero supongo que es tu español, no?" (I don't really mind, but I take it your Spanish, no?)   I said to her, smiling wryly. "Ahhh, así que no es sangre de Boston de principio a fin ya veo. " (Ahhh, so not boston blood through and through I see.) She said laughing.

(A/n Also sorry guys my keyboard isn't working properly and I couldn't do the proper upsidedown question mark, sorry guys please don't get mad at me! and also idk if an 8 year old would be going into 4th grade or 3rd grade so if its wrong just tell me, bc i dont know, as I'm british so the school system is different :D love you xx)

Tia was looking incredibly confused at our conversation, which I found somewhat amusing. " I'm Spanish" I said. "Oh, yeah okay that makes sense, now yeah." she said giggling. "Alright then chicas, go and complete the activities I have set for you and Tia introduce people to Elena, to make more friends." Tia agreed with her and led me over to a table, with two boys and a girl. They were the same people from the beach. Just as I was about to say something Christine said,  "Hey guys,El gonna be joing our table from now on, annnnnndddd guess what! you guys dont have any say in it because she's my friend." And she sat next to the mullet haired boy calmly, smiling at them and motioned for me to sit down, as I sat down next to the girl, Christine then mentioned "Oh yeah, and everybody this is El." They all said hi and the girl next to me started talking.

"So your the mystery girl from the beach then. We didn't exactly have a lot of time to talk so lets start over, I'm Donna, Donna James." She said smiling sweetly at me, extending her hand. I noticed she wore pigtails with ribbons with a checkered dress, and mary-jane shoes. They were cleaned and polished, not a speck of dirt on them. She had dark brown hair and chocolate eyes. That was long and straight.

"Nice to meet cha, i'm El, but you kinda already know that." I said as I took her hand and shook it laughing.

"I'm Finney Blake," A boy said, he had brown fluffy curly hair, and brown eyes. He wore a checkered shirt with loose denim jeans and black converse. "Pleasure to meet you finney blake" I said in a very poor british accent, making everyone fall into a fit of giggles. " And I'm Billy Showalter, i'm the one that delivers everyones newspapers in town. So lots of people call me paperboy, for a nickname." He had sandy blonde hair that was cut into a mullet and blue eyes, he had a blue hoodie on, with jeans and a pair of red vans.

I was laughing at something finney had just told me, when I made eye contact with a pair of brown eyes from across the room. When I reaslised they belonged to none other than bandana boy, from the beach, I smiled at him, he then flushed pink, and turned away, he then accidently knocked the glass of paint water all over his front shirt and trousers.

For a minute I thought I saw amusment, but then I know I must have imagined it because he was then staring at me with anger filled eyes, he stood up and stormed out the classroom, but as he passed he muttered "La voy a matar jodiamente," (I'm going to fucking kill her). I watched him nervously, when he walked back in. I thought he might hit me for a second. Then he looked at me,smirked then sat back down.

Oh shit....

(A/n Hey guys sorry for not updating for a while, my grandad got taken into hospital, so I haven't had that much time to write. If you guys could vote and comment, it really helps to motivate me when I know people enjoy reading my writing.(Not forcing!!) . Anyways love you all, hope your having a great day/week!)