Purple Scarf

1. Um, excuse me

I pull the black beanie over my long brown hair. Then I grab my favourite purple scarf and wrap it around my neck to hide the nasty scar. I can barely look at it. It's been four months since the 'incident' and I can still feel the knife pressed against me.

"Jay! Hurry up! You'll be late for your first day of school!" Holly yells up the stairs. Holly is my mom but I call her by her name now.

I shake the thought of the knife out of my head and run downstairs.

"Holly do you have to rush me all the time?" I ask while I quickly eat my breakfast.

"Yes, and do you have to call me Holly?" I nod and put my plate in the sink. She just sighs and grabs her keys. We both get in our red car and she drives me to my new school. Once we get there I just stare at it for a couple seconds.

"Jay you should get going. Class will start soon. I also need to get to work" I sigh and open the door. I quickly close the door and swing my black backpack over my shoulder and go inside.

I've been walking around the school for ten minutes trying to find my class. I'm not the best at finding things so I decide to just go to the office. I walk in and see a short round lady sitting behind a counter.

"Um, excuse me" she looks at me and smiles.

"You must be Jay Casey. I'm Mrs. Herson. What can I help you with?" She keeps smiling.

"I'm uh having trouble finding my class." I look at the clock and I'm already five minutes late.

"Ok well I'll have Ben show you around." I nod. If you haven't noticed I'm really shy, but you probably know why. She pages a class and a couple minutes later a boy walks in. He's taller then me, he has long brown hair and ice blue eyes. He moves his hair out of his eyes and smiles at me.

"Hi, I'm Ben Wilson." He holds his hand out and I quickly shake it and put it back in my jean pocket.

"Hi, I'm Jay."

"Ben could you please show Jay to her classes? I would but I have so much work to do." Mrs. Herson says while she types something on her computer.

"Of course Mrs. Herson." We leave the office and he holds his hand out. I stare at it for awhile.

"What? I'm not holding your hand." I say putting my hands deeper into my pockets.

"No, give me your list of classes so I know where to take you." He says as he giggles. My cheeks go red and hand him the paper. He reads the list and smiles.

"We have three classes together. So let's get to science." I nod and follow him to the class. Once we get there I mentally face palm cause I passed this class four times. Ben sits at his spot and the teacher walks over to me. He's tall, skinny and has short grey hair.

"My name is Mr. Doug. This is eleventh grade academic science." I nod a bit before he continues. "You must be Jay Casey." I nod again. "Well you can sit beside Chelsea." A blond girl in the back waved at me. I go over to her and sit down at the empty desk.

"Oh and Jay can you take your hat off" Mr. Doug said once I sat down.

"Um well I have a note from my mom saying that I can wear my hat." Everyone gave me the same look. I knew what they were thinking. This girl is nuts. Mr. Doug came over to me and I showed him the note. He nodded and went back to the front of the class and started the lesson.

"What's wrong with you? Are you an alien or something?" Chelsea whispered to me then started to giggle with her friends. I knew it was coming. The bullying starts today.