When It All Started

Chapter 1- Before

I always thought that high school was a dream, but it wasn't. Things went crazy. People got more mean and teachers got more strict. My friends were falling apart till I had no friends at all. I lost my friends because they were wonderstruck by boys and drama.

It just tore us apart till we couldn't stand each other any more. Who knew that drama could tear apart people who were once so close. I was a loner. My first week as a freshman sucked. the only thing that made it worse is that my teachers gave me at least ten pages of homework, from every class, each and every night.

I wanted to tell the teachers so badly to stop giving me so much homework every night, even the weekends, or I'm going to shove it in there faces.
But it was funny to think it in my head though. Starting high school definitely made me think more about what is in store for me in the future. According to junior high, high school is way harder and they challenge you way more than they did in junior high.

In high school there is more drama, homework, and parties. On the bright side they have cheerleading and athletics coming up soon and my mom wants me to tryout for cheerleading to make more friends.
I hate to be girly and cheerleading is like a bomb exploding with only glitter and rainbows popping out of it.  Cheerleading is the only reason for girls to wear short skirts and talk to sweaty football players and not to mention they smell awful. But if my mom wants me to do it I will.

The next day I walked into school and a girl with a perky smile ran up to me. "Hey do you want to tryout for cheerleading", she said with that sketchy smile on her face "you look like you have the perfect personality to do it". I looked down at the paper than I looked back at her. She smiled at me so hard that I could tell she desperately wanted me on the team. I snatched the paper from her hand and said " I'll think about it".

I did think about it. The only reason that I even thought  about it was because my mom wanted me to become a cheerleader so I can make more friends. But I knew the real reason was to make everyone stop talking about my brother ramming into a chicks car and killing all of her three friends while he was drunk. He was under eighteen so they kept his name out of the paper, but people still know about it and they make fun of me everyday even in eighth grade. But I still want to do this for her.

She is the only one I have left after my dad packed up and left us all alone. I always would think about how terrible my life was in class and never listen to the teacher but however I still managed to keep a straight A honoral. Then an ear piercing school bell rang, cutting me off from my thoughts. I got up, walked out the door, and saw everyone staring at me and laughing. I usually see that on a daily basis but this was something els.

I walked to my locker with my head down and ran into someone. I had dropped all my stuff and he helped me pick it all up. "Why is everyone staring at you" he asked. "By the looks of it your new, huh" I said. We both got up and he handed me my book.

"Yeah I moved here from Florida. My name is Brian if you were wondering"  he said. "Well my name is Alex" I said. I said thank you and i went to my locker as fast as I could before I missed my bus and brian followed me there. As soon as I got there I knew why everyone was laughing at me.

I saw  two signs that read 'loser' and 'go kill yourself' in capital letters and pictures of the girls my brother killed in the car crash. "That's messed up" Brian said with a desturbed look on his face. That's just what I needed. To be publicly humiliated I thought as I sat there and looked at my vandalized locker. I looked at Brian and said "Why are you still her?".

He pointed to a locker and said "Well, this is my locker". "Oh" I said "sory about that I'm just mad". "It's okay" he said "see you tomorrow".
I grabbed my backpack and slammed my locker in rage. Then I tore down everything on my locker and threw it in the trash.

When I got on the bus I saw Brian sitting in the seat I sit in all the time. So I sat in a different seat till the bus stopped by my house. I got off and soon after me was Brian. To my suprise he lived next to me and how I didn't know beats me. I didn't care if he lived next to me or not I just wanted to go to my room and think.

I barged into the house and dropped my backpack at the door. "Hey Alex are you hungry. I made meatloaf" my mom said. I ignored her and went up stairs to my room and before I slammed the door I said "I'm not hungry". I didn't want to go back to school I just wanted to stay at home.

I go to my room and flop on the bed. I sat there thinking then eventually I dozed off. I slept like a baby and woke up to the warm sunlight hitting my skin through the window. But something was different. I could hear sirens and people screaming.
Then my mom had barged into my room with to duffle bags and dropped them on the ground. "Get up, get dressed, and pack your bags with only what you need!" she said. The only thing going through my head was what is going on.