Breathing Wild H.S

one

Emma's POV:

I close the door of my car and start walking to the entrance of my new school.

It is the first day of school for everyone, so the traffic getting to school was pretty hectic.

It is my senior year of high school and my dad got a job offer in California, so here we are. We found out in May, just as I was ending my junior year. We made the move in the middle of June, and it all happened pretty fast. I'm kinda sad that I had to leave all of my friends in Virginia for our last year of high school, but I promised I would keep in touch with everyone.

I walk into the administration building and a nice looking lady asks me what I need.

"I transferred to this school over summer and I don't know anything about my classes. May I please have a schedule?". "What's your name Hun?" She asks. "My name is Emma Kessler", I answer.

She hands me a blue piece of paper with all of my classes on it and gives me a smile. "Have a good day". "You too", I return the kind gesture.

I walk out of administration and into the courtyard. There are so many people and all of them have their own little 'cliques' so I decide to just walk around and see where my classes are while I'm waiting for the first bell to ring.

Just as I'm seeing where my 7th period is, the first bell rings. I walk down the hall and there are so many people in the hallway it is hard to get by.

I accidentally bump into two people making out against the lockers and my binder falls onto the floor and some blank pieces of notebook paper scatter. "What a great start to the day", I mutter to myself before bending down to clean up the small mess that's on the floor. The couple barely glances down and then goes back to being all over each other.

I'm startled when someone puts their hand gently on my upper back. I turn to see who it is. I see a blonde/light brown haired guy kneeling down to help me gather my stuff.

"Do you need help?", he asks. "Yes, thank you so much", I smile at him gratefully.

We gather my things and I'm standing back up and brushing off my knees. He sticks out his hand to me and says "I haven't seen you around here before. I'm Niall", he says as I shake his hand.

"I'm Emma, I just moved from Virginia", I say to him as I take a few steps down the hall.

"That's cool", he says as I start to slow down a little bit.

"This is my first period so I better get in there" I say to him, turning into the classroom.

"Hold up one sec!" He says and I turn back towards him. "Want to come sit with me and my friends at lunch today?", he asks.

I give him a smile and say, "sure! I'll try to find your table" say and wave bye.

I walk into the classroom and I sit two rows back from the front. I turn and look at everyone that is seated already. I feel kind of weird since everyone is in their own little groups and talking amongst themselves.

A few minutes later, the late bell rings and right as it ends, a boy walks into the classroom.

There are no open seats except for the one next to me so he has to take a seat there. He dumps his nearly-empty backpack onto the floor and plops into the chair lazily.

The teacher starts to introduce herself I take notes when she starts explaining how assignments should be turned in and she gives us a brief overview of what we should be working on.

After she does all of that, she passes out a short passage for us to read and annotate.

The room slowly becomes silent and I begin to read the passage.