Fifteen Is My New Unlucky Number

The Day Before

"Agh! I forgot to set my alarm again! Shoot, I didn't finish my homework! Ouch! Aglaea! My hair is stuck in my tail again! Aquata! Where is my book bag? Mom is breakfast ready?" I shouted as I tried to untangle myself from my seaweed sheets and hair.

Aglaea gracefully swam in, looking as beautiful as ever, especially since it was 7:45 am. She quickly untangled my hair and swam out with a small smile on her face, "Even if you never set your alarm, it's good to see that you, and your morning routine, haven't changed."

I stuck my tongue out at her retreating tail and hurriedly got my stuff around. Shoot, which shells should I wear today? Ummm, oh the green! Green's my favorite color. I quickly tied them on and swam downstairs.

Mom had the morning kelp on the table and was slowly moping around the kitchen, like every other morning. I sighed and quickly scooped up my breakfast to eat in my room while I finished my homework.

"Your book bag is on the floor by the couch... As usual," Aquata said without looking up from some college paper she was writing. I scrunched my eyebrows and stuck my lip out at her in a pout, that she didn't see, before swimming over and gathering my school stuff.

With my breakfast in my mouth, I swam back upstairs to finish my homework. Thankfully, I didn't have very much left, so I finished it quickly and was on my way to school in minutes.

I swam through the doors and straight to my locker. Dumping my books, and gathering the needed materials. Crap, my first class is on the other side of the building, I'm gonna be late! I turned to speed swim to my next class but instead swam into the last person I wanted to see, Mishell. Shoot! While my peripheral vision watched my books slowly float away, the rest of my attention was on my lifelong bully and her school of followers flanking her.

"Excuse you! Who do you think you are? Running into me like that!" She snarled. She looked like an angry barracuda and, trust me, it wasn't the prettiest face.

"S-Sorry," I whispered and tried to slowly swim around her while gathering my things.

She flipped her white blonde hair over her shoulder and swam away. She passed a few of my text books and, with a swish of her tail, sent them crashing into the other wall of lockers.

Mishell was the prettiest girl in school, maybe even prettier than Aglaea, and that's saying something. She has shoulder length hair that looked almost white. Her pale skin was like ivory and she had the biggest pair of blue eyes you'd ever seen. But, you know the saying that 'Beauty is only skin deep'? Well, for Mishell, it counts for double.

Brrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnggg!!!!

Shoot! That the bell! I'm late for home room! Ugh, why couldn't I have been the athletic one.

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"Hey! Yo! You!" I kept swimming, surely they weren't talking to me, no one ever talks to me. "Hey! I'm talking to you!" My head shot up and I looked around. Were they talking to me? No one was looking at me. I looked around once more and found four pairs of. eyes looking at me. But the one I'm guessing who was talking to me, was standing head of the others and smirking.

I gulped. Yes, they were talking to me. Remember how I said that no body talked to me? Well let me rephrase that: the only time people talk to me is when they are picking on me. And the person who was currently staring at me was one of my more frequent teasers.

I turned and swam, trying to zigzag though school traffic and loose them. But there's one thing you need to know about me: besides the fact that I'm not very fast, when I'm panicked I don't think straight. So of course, with me being me, I made a right turn down the wrong hallway; which happened to be an empty dead end. Great, trapped, let's see what they want this time.