The Next Season

Chapter 1, A New Year

A lot has changed since last season. My boyfriend Shawn had managed to help our school's lacrosse team win the championship! It was a great time for us. My brother's were really happy we won that year, especially since it was Landon's senior year. In the summer, my dad came back from Iraq. My brother's and I were really happy he's home. Another great moment from last season was when the guys asked me to join the team. I was a little pushed off by the idea, but I was honored to be there. I managed to help the team win all the tournaments that summer, with a broken wrist. It's just that crazy.  

It's weird to think that within a year so much has changed. I don't think I want it any other way. 

My fingers stop pressing the key on the keyboard. In English, we have to write a paper about certain things in our lives that changed for the better in a year. For me, I just finished enough on this paper. It just needed to be a paragraph. The printer pushes out my paper and I turn it into my teacher. She grabs the paper and I walk out of class with my book bag with me. I walk down the hall to my locker to grab my lunch and switch out my books. 

"Kara!!" I turn my head and Lilly comes running up. 

"Hey Lilly! What's up?" I ask her.

"Guess what?!! Ryan is taking me to Le Chavez!" Lilly practically shouts.

"Oh My god! That's great! You gonna dress nicely?" I ask. I close my locker and we walk towards the cafeteria.

"Of course. Also, Ryan and I are gonna do it tonight! I'm nervous but excited." Lilly explains to me. 

"Wow. You sure about it? That's a really big step." I say to her.

"Yeah I know, but it feels right for both of us." Lilly says. 

"Okay. You can always back out." I say to her. We finally reach the cafeteria and we sit down next to the lacrosse team. 

Most of the guys are talking to each other and laughing. I take a seat next to Shawn and Lilly next to Ryan. Half of the school year has gone by and we still sit at this table talking. Shawn, Lilly, and I are Sophomores, while most of the other guys are juniors and Seniors. 

"You ready for tonight Lil?" Ryan asks her. Lilly gives him a small giggle followed by a smile. 

"You guys are gonna do it? Awesome!!" Noah shouts over the loud room of students. 

"Shhh! Don't shout it to the world!" Ryan snaps at him. 

"Don't worry, no one heard me. I'm just surprised you guys are doing it before Kara and Shawn." Noah says back. 

"We're not that type. When we are ready we are ready." Shawn says. 

I look at him and smile, but it's true. We are not ready to have sex and both of us are okay with it. 

"How was class today?" I ask Shawn. 

"Eh boring as ever. You would think the beginning of the second term would be better, but it isn't." Shawn says. 

It's a new trimester and today is the first day of classes. It's suppose to be easy but also boring. We all sat here at our table talking and laughing about the next classes we have. 

"You have spanish? Good luck chica." I say to Lilly. She sort of sucks in spanish but oh well I think Ryan can help with her espanol deberes (spanish homework). 

"Espanol es facil mi amiga (spanish is easy my friend). It's gonna be my easy class this term." Lilly says back. 

Her and I took Spanish last year and a little bit in middle school. We kid around most of the time to mess with the guys. 

"At least you don't have PE with Mr. Miller. He's seriously to tough for a regular class." I say back to her.

"Good luck. That is gonna be rough for you, but at least it is at the end of the day." Lilly tries to cheer me up. 

"I'm happy about that." 

The bell rings and everyone gets up and walks off. I walk into my next class, French. I take a seat in the back next to an empty seat. Soon other students fill in before the bell rings again signaling class. After the bell rings, a brown haired boy walks in and takes a seat down next to me. 

"Good afternoon class. I am Mr. Long. I'm passing around a paper that is the syllabus for this class." Mr. Long says to us.

God can this be anymore boring. We reach our syllabi's and then the teacher starts reading it to us.

"Pss." I turn my head to my right towards my seat partner.

"Is this class boring or what?" He asks me.

"Oh it's entertaining to the zombies." I respond back. 

"Haha, nice one. French isn't really my strongest class." He says.

"Mine either. I'd rather do more PE classes than this." I say back. 

"Haha. Yeah, I have that next with Mr. Miller. ugh!" He exasperates with a large quiet sigh. 

"Really? I have that class next to." I say to him. 

"Excuse me? Am I bothering you guys from your important conversation?" We look up to see Mr. Long staring at us.

"No sir," We say in unison. 

"Okay. Well, since you both are well introduce to each other. I will let everyone know that you will all be doing a project three times in this class. You will have a partner and that partner is the one right next to you all." Mr. Long told us.

"Well, I'm glad I'm partnered with a pretty girl like you and not somebody else." The brown haired boy says next to me.

"Thanks, but I have a boyfriend." I say back to him. 

"I figured you would be taken. Let's be friends?" He asks.

"Sure, we can be friends." I say back. 

The bell rings signaling for the next class. The boy and I stand up grabbing our bags with us. 

"Oh by the way my name is Dakoda." He says to me.

"I'm Kara. See you next class period." I say to him and then he walks off with his friends.

I meet up with Shawn and walk him to his class. He has two morning classes with me, but after that not so much. 

"Bye Kara. See you after school." Shawn says and kisses me on the forehead. I wave goodbye to him and then walk off to PE. 

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