Only He Can Do It.

4.

Let's do this.

Benny parks outside of the school and we both just sit in silence for a second, filtering through our thoughts. Benny puts his hand and my knee and taps it then gives in a little squeeze of encouragement. 'C'mon let's go' he says and gets out the car while I take a deep breath in the slowly back out again. I follow my brothers action and get out, taking my school bag with me.

Just as when I'm going to go into the school gates I wrap my pinkie around Benny's. It may seem strange but its a little thing we've done since we were young. Whenever one of us a nervous we link pinkies, just showing a sense of by both unity and support between us.

As we enter the school and tell the reception we have meeting with the headteacher we wait for him to call us into his office. 'Good morning, Mr Osborne, I believe you are Alisa's brother?' Mr Jackson says as he shakes Benny's hand and then turns to me after Benny nodded towards him 'and you, Miss Osborne are joining us here at Parkfield High, nice to meet you both' he says this after shaking hands with me too.

We all sit down and Mr Jackson gives a lecture about the expectations of his school and welcomes me in and makes me aware that he knows of my past struggles with school. That makes me both wary but a tiny sense of comfort that he knows I'm gonna need help settling in.

After Benny leaves and gives me a hug as well as saying good luck to me, I'm alone with Mr Jackson in his office. 'So Alisa, here is a map of the school and your form group is caller 11H. Do you have any questions before we go to your first class?'

He looks at me expectantly but I say no, even though the number of questions racing through my mind seems endless I decide to keep quiet.

'Very well then, let's go to...' He looks at my timetable and figures out what lesson I have 'English' he looks up and gives me a small smile and I return one out of politeness.

As we make our way through the school, its as if Mr Jackson is giving me a mini tour. I appreciate that because I have no idea where my classes will be and map reading isn't exactly one of my strengths.

We arrive to my class and Mr Jackson introduces me to my class. My English teacher, Miss Clark tells me to sit at a table and I do as I'm told. Next to you is a guy with reaosnably long hair for a guy, it comes down to his shoulder and he has a head band pushing his dark away from his face. 'Hi' he whispers to you after Miss Clark has finished speaking to the class and set everyone a task. 'Hi' I say back and look up to see him smiling at me. 'Andrew' he says to me and gives me a nod 'Alisa' I say back and try getting back to my work.

Dammit, Alisa. Stop being so antisocial. This guy is trying to be nice to you.

As the lesson progresses Andrew keeps trying to make conversation with me and to be honest he isn't as bad as I thought and easy to talk to. In that lesson I learnt he is Mr Jackson's son. He has a sister called Emily who is a year younger than us. Even though his dad works at the school and it should be seen as a good thing, its anything but, Andrew despises him and that's why he lives with his mum.

When the lesson ended Andrew apologised he couldn't be with me at break time, he has a detention but he said that he'd catch up with me at lunch because we are in the same maths class as well.

I'm ok with that...I guess. I seem to like this school, I know one person in it so far but school really doesn't seem as bad as I thought it would be. Benny was right.

I'm walking through the corridors aimelessly, trying to figure out where I need to be. I'm looking down at the map of the school and just trying to figure out where I'm going.

Thats when it goes wrong.

I bump into a resonably tall figure. I hit my nose on his chest. Damn that hurt. 'Watch where you're going' he says to me. I look up to meet his gaze, green eyes so bright. His accent foreign. Australian? I think. Maybe, but it was pleasant, I love other peoples accents they just seem interesting. The guy has an interesting look going on. Red hair, an eyebrow piercing. His school uniform seems to be customised to his liking. Rolled up sleeves, tight school trousers. Badges all over his bag and blazer but altogether it looks good.

'Oh sorry. I'm new here. I don't exactly know where I'm going, you see. And I'm distracted by this stupid map' I say quietly, embarrassed that I've already messed up today. My cheeks glowing red and I just want the ground to open up and for me to disappear in it.

'No worries, I'm new too' he laughs and gosh his smile looks good, showing off those quite nice teeth of his. 'Michael' he says and puts his hand out to me.

***flashback***
'Take my hand Alisa' my Carl calls out to me. I take it and its a stupid decision, I realise that just after his grip tightened. He yanks me down and I swear it feels as though my elbow and my shoulder are coming out of their sockets because he pulled so hard. I'm on the ground now, face to the ground, blood trickling down my face due to the connection

'Let go.... please. Carl' I'm sobbing because I just made a fool of myself. I can hear everyone's jeering and nasty comments towards me being such an idiot.

I feel my eyes shutting because I'm losing consciousness now. Oh. One last kick at my side by someone near me. My eyes close almost immediately after that. But I can feel the one tear falling down my cheek

***end of flashback***

It seems as though that one tear is now trickling down my face again and I soon become oblivious to the fact Michael is still standing there with his hand out. 'Sorry. I can't do this' the tears now falling more and more as I push past him, his face of pure confusion and sadness now becoming evident.

Well done, Alisa. You screw everything up. You stupid ass.

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