slowly gone

Chapter 1 ; The First Day

*Marimba alarm ringtone plays*
Great, the day is here. My first day of high school. Am I excited? No. Do I want to go back to sleep & pretend that school isn't an important part of my future? Yes.

"Shut the hell up" I say to my alarm as I try to turn it off , wishing it could hear me.

I quickly walk over to my bathroom (thankfully I have one in my room) and begin to brush my teeth. I'm already as late as is so I didn't have time to take a shower .

"Wore this two weeks ago."
"Wore this last month."
"Ew why do I still have this?!"
"Ah, perfect" I finally found a 'Wang' Crop Sweater with some Adiddas Joggers & Galaxy Sneakers.

For my hair I decided to do a French Braid & accessorized with a Black Infinity Scarf & my favorite pair of Ray Bans.

I finally walked down the stairs after demolishing my room just to find a cute bag that matched my outfit for school & grabbed a granola bar.

"Bye mom, bye dad"
"Bye" they both said at the same time.
"Try catching up with your brother, he left for school about 2 minutes ago & have a great first day sweetie" I heard my mom say as I closed the front door.

I didn't really bother catching up with my brother Lucas because since he was a senior in high school, he always liked to do things by himself ; plus we never really had a strong "brother-sister bond"

After walking for 10 minutes, I finally made it to school. After I spoke to some facility and got my locker number, I made my way down the halls looking for locker '94A'

"Finally" I sighed as I found my locker after walking down the halls for almost 3 minutes.

As I put some stuff into my locker, a tall figure stood next to me and put in the combination to his locker '93A' . He looked mysterious but also strong and buff. Plus his jawline was definitely something to stare at. I felt him look at me through the corner of his eye and looked uncomfortable which brought me back to the real world and reminded me to stop staring at him. I closed my locker and walked down the hall to my first class : 'Biology' .

As I took my seat I was surprised to see that my 'locker neighbor' walked in right after me and sat in the desk to the right of me. I tried not to stare at him throughout the class & thankfully it went by fairly quickly ; as well as the rest of my day. The final bell of the day rang indicating that it was time to get out of here. As I made my way out through the front door, a student wearing a varsity football jacket walked up to me and placed his arm around me. I jumped at his action and questioned him.

"Um excuse me, but who are you?" I said as I pushed his arm off of me and turned to face him eye to eye.

"I'm Robert , your Prince Charming baby girl" he said with a wink.

"Um no, I don't think so" I said as I walked away.

"C'mon babe , don't be like that" he said as he ran after me & stopped in front of me while putting his head in my neck to kiss it.

"Leave me alone, I don't even know you!" I yelled as he grabbed me, pushed me into his body and began to kiss my neck, and came up to my jawline.

"LEAVE HER ALONE" I heard a harsh deep voice yell as Robert let go of me and I turned around to see no other than my 'locker neighbor' standing about 3 feet away from us. He was with a group of boys, all carrying Adiddas duffle bags and wearing basketball shorts.

"Fine. I'll let her go. I wouldn't want to bang such a fat slut like her." I heard him say as he pat my stomach which was sort of sticking out due to my crop sweater. "Stop eating Big Macs sweetheart, it'll help" I gasped as he laughed and walked away . I turned to my locker neighbor who was standing next to his group of friends who were laughing at me.

At that moment, I felt tears come to my eyes. I had never felt so embarrassed. I turned around and began to run home like a sobbing little girl. I put my bag in front of me so no one would look at my stomach. I stopped running after 3 minutes. I was too tired and out of breath from crying and sobbing , and my house was another 9 tiring blocks away. I found this big rock under a tree that I was standing near when I stopped running and decided to sit there and cry until I was good enough to start walking again. After 5 minutes of being under the tree, I saw my locker buddy running down the block and he stopped once he saw me. He jogged towards the rock and I heard his beautiful deep voice again.

"Are you okay?"
"No. Were you running after me?" I asked.
"Yeah."
"Oh.."
We sat there in silence for a few seconds until I looked down and saw my stomach. After I realized that he was kneeling right in front of me, and witnessed everything that happened back there, I began to cry even more.

"Hey, hey. Look at me" I heard him say.
He took his thumb and wiped my tears away from my face.
"Don't cry, you're beautiful. And you're definetly not fat. You don't have to listen to what that jerk says, he's does that to all the girls after they've rejected him."

"Thank you" I said , as I placed a small smile on my face and let it fade away within seconds.

"No problem. Live far from here ?"

"Sorta." I sighed

"Don't worry, I'll walk you home" he said, as he got up and gave me his hand as support to pick myself up.

"I'm Ethan by the way."

"Marie." I said to him as he grinned at me and shook his head.

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"Thanks for walking me home, and for cheering me up" I smiled as I looked up at his tall figure.

"It was no problem. See you at school" he said uncomfortably as he turned and walked away. I wondered what happened but then I turned and saw my brother standing at the door.

"Why were you hanging out with him ?" he said a bit angrily.

"We weren't hanging out, we ran into each other on the way and he just walked me home. What's the problem?" I replied.

"That's Ethan Cruz, that's the problem. He's a fighter, and a player. Stay away from him. He's hurt many girls emotionally. " he said sternly

"Uh okay.." I said hesitantly. I didn't really believe what my brother said because Ethan seems like such a nice guy. I don't think he would do something like that. But hm, it's whatever.