Face Your Past

Chapter 2

              Walking through these halls was torture. Heads turned as I walked by, not because I was Serenity Frost, the girl they hated but because I was a new and fresh face. If I could blur myself into the distance and go unnoticed I would. I would gladly pretend to not be me. I had thought about it actually, changing my name, pretending to be someone I wasn't, the truth was I liked my name and I liked me, why change that? So I took in my best deep breath, a few more minutes of them not knowing who I was, the second I stepped into that first class and they said my name it was over.  I was ten seconds away from that door when I was stopped suddenly by a muscular arm blocking my way.

             "Haven't seen you before beautiful." He spoke confidently winking at me. I felt the bile rise up in my throat as I looked up at him. Aiden Ferguson, Greek god, golden boy, boyfriend to the girl I hated the most (or was when I left.), and complete asshole. Every girl in this town our age had been in love with him since we were old enough to think boys were cute.  I, myself hadn't been a victim to this since we were in grade school since he went from being my friend to dating the devil herself.  How I was ever friends with that pig is beyond me. He became popular and loved by many and became ashamed of me so we stopped talking and he started standing on the sidelines while his friends picked on me and laughed at me and he laughed right along with them.

             I rolled my eyes at him. Reflex. And started to duck under his arm but he stopped me. "Where you going?" Another eye roll.

             "Class?" I said sarcastically. 

             "Well aren't we a ray of sunshine." He snipped at me.

              "My ray of sunshine dried up long ago, sweetheart," I said biting back.  He smirked at me and a look of something I thought I recognized flashed across his face before he got really close to my face giving his best award-winning smile. If I didn't hate him so much I might fall for that smile.  He brushed a lock of my hair behind my ears and smiled even bigger when he noticed me shiver.  What? I'm still a girl okay! I'm not blind.  I almost laughed at the thought of how he'd react when he knew who I was. I disgusted him, he hated me, everyone he knew hated me. Then I smiled at him and as I ducked under his arm to go to class I turned around and blew him a kiss.

              Well, that would be hard to live down.

               I tried to duck into the back, unfortunately, the teacher Ms. Gains was having none of it. She motioned for me to stay up front. Crap.  She looked down at my name but didn't seem fazed by it.   She seemed to be reworking her seating chart.  Double crap. Alphabetical. Which placed me next to Ferguson. I asked her not to introduce me. I begged her really. She shrugged and pointed to my seat.  As students filed in and took their seats there he was. And he was directly pointed next to me. 

              "Well hello again." He spoke deeply to me looking directly at me. "How did I get so lucky?" He asked. What was up with this boy?  I ignored him, I had more important things to worry about. Like this teacher who was looking directly at me or these students who were whispering about me. Fantastic.

             I had gotten through two classes before it happened. The first two teachers I had, either saw the pleading in my eyes not to introduce me or just didn't care and then there was history class. Mr. Carmichael who I didn't even bother pleading with because I knew better. He didn't take kindly to such things. He waited until everyone was in class, including Aiden who was in the back of the class with his best friends Garrett and Kyle. Close to them sat the bimbo barbies, Katherine (the devil herself), Trina, Amy(my former friend) and Kia. The entire class was filled with people I grew up with and hated. My other former friend Tyler included, he was sitting in front of the others but still part of them. Well, that's great. My only two allies in this black hole had joined the dark side.