MoonStruck

Chapter 1

"It's time for breakfast!" yells my mom up the corridor.

"OK, mom I'm coming." I yell back. Breakfast means school, and school means torture. I walk down the stairway ready to eat my breakfast, the only good thing before school. My brother trudges down the stairway.

"Hey, sis... bring me the milk please."

"No! Get it yourself!"

"River go get your brother the milk."

I sigh. I do everything. Well I don't know why my brother can't get his lazy butt up and actually do something. I know why my mom is the way she is, she is scared of about everything. Well, my old dad got arrested for abusing her so I can expect why. I scurry to get the milk to my brother. I dart up the stairs to get my school stuff because my bus will be here in about ten minutes. I grab a cereal bar and I sit on the porch.

The bus pulls up taking me to my misery. I wave to my mom at the window, and trudge up the bus steps. She closes the curtain. I look forward and someone sticks their foot out, but I have no time to react. I fall straight on my face. Everyone laughs but a girl about my size and age. I go up to where she was sitting, but no one is there. I was probably just imagining things. I sit down, now just noticing that the bus was moving. We stop at another stop which is mostly just sixth graders getting on the bus, but they hate me because I can outsmart them and like everyone else in this school even the teachers. I am smarter than the teachers which is strange, because the teachers went to college and I'm only in the eighth grade. We stop once again, but this time at the high school. A lot of high school kids get off carrying their belongings, one more stop before torture.

The bus rolls on the bumpy road and it starts to snow. Why is it snowing it is in the middle of spring, but as soon as I think that it stops snowing. The bus halts to a stop at the school. I wait until everyone gets off before I get off, the bus driver says to have a good like she says to everyone else. Even though it wouldn't be a good day.

The torture begins when two kids come at both sides of me.

"Hi, River! How are you doing?" says a girl mockingly on the left side of me.

I stay silent.

"Hello?? Earth to River I asked you a question!"

"And I didn't answer what do you think that means?" I say bluntly. She doesn't answer. It looks as if she would walk away, which would be too good to be true. We walk for a few seconds before the girl on the right side of my face tries to tease me by pretending to punch me in the face. I know she wants me to flinch, but I'm not scared of her.

All of a sudden I feel the pain as my jaw is punched, I fall to the floor and my books scatter.