Highcliffe Academy

Chapter 5

Okay, I am so sorry for not uploading in like, forever but I've been super super busy with exams and both me and my sisters birthdays were super close so we had to celebrate those and all that. so super sorry! I'll try and upload more frequently in the future.

At the end of my first day I dropped my bag on the floor and curled up on my bed. My day which had started which such enthusuasm, had left me feeling mroe rotten then I could ever remember feeling, more so then  when my mum told me I had to give up playing piano because it was distracting me from school, when my best friend told me we couldn't be friends any more because people thought I was weird and when my dad didn't come to my 10th birthday party because he had a busniess meeting in Egypt and eh hadn't told me so I was waiting for him to come all day. All I wanted to do was curl up and cry, but I couldn't even do that because of some stupid thing known as room mates.

"Charlotte, are you okay?" Asked Alice as she came in.

"I'm fine." I mumbled

"Jess didn't mean to hurt your feelings..." She started

"I said I'm fine!" I snapped back. If everyone was going to think I was a social reject then I was sure going to act like one!

"Well if your sure..." She said and sat on her bed and opened a book. Then Jess decided to make an apperance.

"Hey Alice, how was your first day?" She asked

"It was alright, science was really hard though. I'll never be able to remember how to find the gradient on a distance time graph!"

"I know, but maybe we'll go over it again. Can you belive they set us homework already? How in the world am I meant to write 50 words about my summer in Korean after one 2 hour lesson? It's utterly ridiculose! How was your day Charlotte?" She asked, as if nothing had happened at all.

"It sucked." I answerd then I picked up my laptop to check my emails.

"Come on, it can't have been that bad! You were really good in Special Skills!"

"I wonder what could have possibly gone wrong in my day?" I asked sarcasticly. I couldn't belive I didn't have one email from my parents asking how my first day went!

"Oh...that. Sorry Charlotte, they'll all have forgotten about it by tommorow and it was only a joke." Jess said, starting to look a little awkward.

"Yeah, because with your type, it's only ever a 'joke'." I snapped

"Hey! What's your problem? What do you mean my type?"

"I mean brainless fools who mess around all the time and who hurt other peoples feelings then laugh about it because it was 'only a joke'!" I yelled at her.

"You know, it's not just my fault you don't have any friends." Jess said scowling, all her usual bubble completly burst. "You don't talk to anyone, you just look at anyone who trys to talk to you like they are about to shoot you and if any squeezes 2 words out fo you, you talk so quietly they have to get you to repeat yourself 3 times! So don't go pointing your finger at me, because no one would you think you were anti-social if you at least tried making friends!" Jess was creaming by this point."

"Can you stop now..." Alice started

"Well maybe I wouldn't be shy, or as you call it, anti-social, if I didn't have people telling me I was a freak, or a bookworm, or a swot or any other name that pops into their heads when they see me. Maybe if my friends didn't ditch me if I needed them most and maybe if I didn't have people spreading rumors about me on my first day I wouldn't be scared of telling them anything about me!" I screamed

"Well maybe if you didn't act like one, they wouldn't say you were one!" Screamed Jess

"Can someone please tell me what on Earth is going on in here?" A voice said, and we turned round and saw not only the entire corridor peering in, but also a rather angry teacher I hadn't seen before. I blushed and looked down at my shoes, I hated being in trouble.

"I think you two had better come with me." She said, a deep scowl fized on her face. I gupled and Jess looked horribly awkward. I wonder what kind of punishments there are at this school? Oh please they don't make me re do the obsticle course!