Back To The Start

Chapter 1

Chapter 1

[EDITED: 28/12/2013]

{Elysse's POV}

   I slump down on the cafeteria seat as I close my eyes and take slow deep breaths. I had just finished running 10 laps around the school and I could not feel my legs at all. I was entirely convinced that my gym teacher hated me. Not that I didn't know that before, but today he really seemed to seal the deal.

   Everytime I'm around, he gives a face as if I'm some plague or something. Why you ask? I don't even know the answer to that question. It's been happening since Day 1; a.k.a the first day I walked into class... late. But that shouldn't be a reason to make my life a living hell right? Since that first week of gym class, I've been coming home sore muscles and waking up feeling the same thing, but worse. He makes me run extra laps, yells at me more than the other girls, and finds every excuse to send me to the principal's office. Long story short, my gym teacher is an asshole.

As I continue to rest on my seat, my peace and quiet atmosphere is interrupted by the loud chatter of my best friends talking to one another just 3 metres away from me.

"Okay, so dogs and cats CANT get married?" my friend Joanne asks with a confused tone. I open my eyes gave her a look that said, “What the hell are you even talking about?” My other friends gave her blank expressions because not even they knew what was going on at the moment.

"No Joanne... I don’t think cats and dogs can get married," my other friend, Lauren, giggles.

“Wait, why are you guys even talking about this in the first place?” I ask.

“I don’t know! At first we were talking about our plans for the weekend, and then this girl suddenly brings cats and dogs into this conversation”, Hanna laughs. 

Joanne playfully rolls her eyes and shrugs. I chuckle to myself, wondering how on earth is this girl my best friend.

“So how was Mr. Pio today? Still giving you a hard time in gym?” Lauren asks.

I groan, replaying the thoughts of what happened during that gym class.

Sweat.

Screams.

Crying.

Vomit….

   "Well actua-" and before I can even finish talking, a sharp pain takes a hit at the back of my head.

"Ow!" I hiss. I turn around and I pick up the rubber football lying on the ground. Laughter fills my ears as I tilt my head to the right, only to see the idiot who threw it at me in the first place.

Of course, I should have known.

The person I hated with passion.

  "I told you this football attracts ugly things," he says, laughing with his other idiot friends that I hated too. You have got to be kidding me right now.

Who is this boy you ask?

The one and only, Carlos Montez.

He and I never got along, only because he made my middle school life a living hell. He used to tease me every single day, pick on me, call me names, and other cruel things that I think people are better off knowing. And what's immature about all of this is that its already been 6 years and he still doesn’t know how to grow up and stop.  His friends aren’t as bad as him, but because they're Carlos's friends, they feel the need to make me their target too.  I don’t know what I did to him to deserve this but I swore to myself that karma's gonna bite each of them one day. Hopefully hard too. 

I roll my eyes at him and softly sigh to myself. "What the hell do you want now?"

He grins his stupid boyish grin at me, "Oh nothing, I just wanted to see how many ugly people this can hit and it only hit you, meaning…", and he stopped his sentence there, giving me a smirk that made me wanna kick his ass, right here, right now.

Asshole.

"You think you're really funny don't you?" I spat out sarcastically. This only seemed to amuse him even more. He pushes Lauren off her seat, which she squeals at the unexpected force that caused her to fall on the floor, landing on her butt. "Jerk," she mumbled to herself as Joanne helped her off the ground. 

"Okay, seriously dude? Can you just stop being an asshole for at least one day?" Hanna said bitterly.

Carlos just snickered and sat on the seat across from me, ignoring Hanna's remark. I looked at Joanne and Hanna apoligetically but they just shrugged and rolled their eyes towards him. I gave Carlos an icy glare, hoping he'll take a hint and finally leave us alone. But he stayed still on his seat, not even moving an inch. He stared at me with a mischievous face but I paid no thought to think of what he was planning in that messed up head of his. I eventually gave up with the staredown and stood up to leave, until he shouted, "Wait!"

He just never stops. I looked at back at him irritated, "What?"

"You forgot this!" he says, and suddenly all feeling was lost in my face as he threw the same rubber football directly at it. Now you've got to be fucking kidding me.

He laughed and stood up to walk back to his friends, where they were laughing too at the "hilarious" move Carlos just did. I felt my face flush into hot red; not just because it hurt a bit, but because the embarrassment that Carlos always causes for me. I looked around the room and saw a couple of groups giggling, after witnessing me getting hit with a football the second time. I have had it this time.

I grab my pink smoothie I was drinking earlier and I walk to their table to give them a piece of my mind. He clearly wasn't paying attention to my presence walking towards him because without a warning, well for him that is, I dumped the entire drink on his head.  I  managed to get some on this friends too; didnt want them to miss out the fun. Laughter echoes the room from the other students watching us, and the boys’s cheeks begin to match the colour of the smoothie on them. My friends giggle as well, with dropped jaws at the embarrassment I caused for them.

"I told you this smoothie attracts idiots," I mock him, with the same tone he used earlier for me. With that, I give them one last bitchy smile and grab my things. I begin to walk out of the cafeteria with my friends, casually smiling like nothing just happened back there.

I smile to myself as I hear Carlos's final words before exiting out the place completely , “That bitch!” 

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Hey hey! Okay, so I just updated this chapter today. It's not that different to what I had written previously. I just added more detail and information. 

This is still a fanfic, just in case if ya'll Rushers are confused as to change of Carlos' last name. I may or may not be changing all the characters last names.  I know my chapters are really short so that's why I'm editing all of them to make them longer and yeah lol. 

I hope you enjoyed this updated version of this chapter!! Btw, this updating stuff wont be a daily thing. I don't have all the time to work on this :(