We start heaing people in the hallways so we know soon the class will be filled with students. The first other students start to fill the room and soon Nea, Mary, Riley, Sienna and Lory sit down next to me. Riley is our only male friend in the friendgroup, he is different than the other boys, he is not a dickhead. As soon as the last student arrived the teacher says "Well, now that you all are here, each of you will have to write down their name on a sheet of paper which i will hand to you and put it in this bowl.
Oh no, i know what that means. He will collect the papers and put each paper on a table where the persom has to sit on.
He hands out the papers and we write our names on it. We put it in the bowl and he stars putting them on the tables. As he is done he says "Now look for your name and sit down on that place" We start looking for our name and i find mine in the last row of the class one next to the wall. I sit down and check for the names next to me. At the table left it says "Luke" which is someone, i definitly don't like. And on the table right next to the wall it says "jabez" I see that Mary sits in front of me and the others are somewhere else.
Well it could be worse.
As everybody sat down the teacher says "We got a new student, so it be great if everyone would stand up and introduce themselve" while looking at Jabez. The entire class follows the teachers look and looks at Jabez which looks uncomfortable, so I stand up first and say." Hi, my name is Trista and I'm 17 years old" Now people look at me and start standing up. I sit down again and listen to the people introduce themselves.
The teacher tries to motivate us for this school year. He tells us about how important the finals are and that we have to focuse on school and mental health. That there are teachers we can talk to if we have the urge to talk to somebody and that this school will always support us.
Well obiously they will try their best, our parents are paying for this school.
"Here are your timetables" he says and hands out papers.
I hear the class complain. "The first two lessons on monday are Math? Thats torture! And then three hours P.E. ? Are you trying to kill us?" someone complains. "No we are not Simon." This name makes me shiver and desociate. I remember everything and start to panic. The feeling of a hand in mine distractes me. "Are you okay?" Jabez askes. "Oh yeah. Thank you" I say and put some loosen hair behind my hair. I look at the timetable and see that be got a lesson of spanish after P.E. . I look at the teacher which says "Well, we only got 5 minutes of lesson left, whih means you can leave because i won't start math for 5 minutes." Everybody starts packing up while I still try to relax. As soon as most people left I star packing up too and see my friend waitng for me outside. "For fucks sake, 3 hours of P.E. is torture." says Riley but Nea says "Well, there is classroom change, which will mean only two hours of practise and one hour of theory" I look at the timetable and see it. We go to the cabines only to relise none of us did bring their Sportclothes. "well, what do we do now?" i ask the girls "I don't know." Mary says. "We probably just should explain it to the teacher" Lory says "yeah thats a great Idea, Telling the teacher we didn't bring our stuff cuz we are retarded" Sienna says with a sarcastic tone. "c'mon ,THe teacher will understand" i say and go to the sporthall. There are nearly all guys, still in their streetclothes. Now all the girls are there with us, also in streetclothes. "Well, I see noone brought their clothes for sport, what a pity, you still will have to do sport. " The entire hall starts complaining and i walk up to the teacher and tell him. "Well, it's our first day back to school ,noone new that we'd have P.E. today. How should we know that we have sport today? I mean, we could just do theory lessons instead of practical work, i mean its the first day, so we should start relaxed and don't rush straight into it." The teacher nods and agrees with me. The entire class cheers and thanks me. We start walking to the classroom where we all sit down and start theory work. We fill out papers and read the book which the teacher handed out. The class is boring. "Well, you all worked pretty good today, I let you leave now. Even though we still have 40 minutes left." The teacher says and we all start to pack our stuff and leave. I just finished my writing though and started to pack while everyone already left. I see Jabez and call his name out. He turns around, looks around and than to me. "Did you call me?" he askes. "Yes, my friends already left and I probably won't find them for now, so I wanted to aks if you would like to go to the library with me. I wanted to get a certain book and then if you want to we can go outside and sit somewhere" He looks at me confused and then smiles but stops staight afterwards. "You want me to go with you? " "Yes?" "Why?" "Why not?" now he looks at the floor, then back up into my face again and says "Sure". We start walking to the library where I look for the book. "Which book are you looking for?" "Grimm Suicide Love" He looks at me shocked so I look down and continue looking for the book. Jabez starts helping me. We both look for it untill he found it and hands it to me. "Thank you very much" i say with a bright smile on my face. I smile at him and say "now I gotta go the the librarian. She scans the book and Jabez and me walk outside. I look for my friends and find them. "Oh, there they are" i sa to Jabez and point at my friends. "oh well, i better go now" he mumbles. "What? No? You don't have to leave. Jabez, you can join me and my friends. I mean you are new to the school and don't know anybody here, so it's perfect for you meeting new people" "I dont like meeting new people. I in genreal don't like people" he dryly replies and i look at him confused. "but its fine, you can go to your friends and have fun with them, ill just listen to music then" he continues. "No, i don't wanna leave you alone. You know what, we can sit over there and listen t music together" i say, pointing at a bench which is a bit more hidden. "sure" he says and we walk to the bench i just pointed at. "What music are you into?" i ask and he says "Well, do you know My Chemical Romance, Paramore or Fall out boy?" "Uhm, kinda, i had a time where i listened a lot to those Emo-Punk bands. "Well do you know Rebzzy?" "Yes" i say kind of ashamed. "Are you ashamed?" "well yes, if people would know that they would make fun of me for that." "Well, fuck those people, fuck basic idiots, Fuck all of them" he says and laughs. I smile relieved. "Well let me show you something you probably don't know" he says and puts on a song.
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Its going downstairs.
RomanceShe lives in her selfmade bubble. He, the new student lives the brutal reality. Both of them are haunted by traumas, only difference, they handle it different. She pushes them aside while he keeps fighting with the trauams. They both find their way...
