Shattered

Chapter 5

I put on a Nike cat to cover my face and hair in case there will be any bitches in this school. The apartment is awfully quiet today maybe it feels my sorrow I feel today morning. I let the music consume me as I walk towards this so called amazing school.

As I come closer to the school, I regret ever coming to New York. There is a bunch of students or shall I say prostitutes around the school wearing revealing, short clothing as if they need someone to touch them everywhere. I thought the boys would be better but sadly they weren't. Most of them didn't have any t-shirts on as much as I loved the view it was too much. I see one boy who actually wore clothing and he covered his face. He saw me looking at him and turned to stare at me which to my surprise walks towards me.

He is wearing an Adidas jumpsuit and a pair of Jordans. He is looking at me intensely and shakes my hand.

"The name is Chris and may I ask why you don't look like a slut." He asks seriously

"Not really bothered. But, I can be your slut if you want." I wink and he guffaws loudly. We skip into the school building and I turn to Chris. There are so many questions I would like to ask. Before I can ask those questions, he gets grabbed by a bunch of muscular boys.

They punch him and hurt him any way possible till he wishes them to stop for him to gasp for air. Instead, he just laughs whilst they punch him. He peers over to his watch to check how long they have punched him for. He yawns and takes out a breakfast bar for him to eat.

He coughs and shouts out "It's that the best you can do. Please, hit me anywhere that's not toned in my body. Oh I forgot, my body is fully toned. I'll let you punch my toned little bottom, if you like. Or your main course could be my belly." The boys glare at him intensely. They spit on him and whisper 'Fucking Freak' before they fled to find someone else to attack.

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I am escorted by a young receptionist to my first lesson which is Mathematics. This is my favourite subject so I hope everything goes well. She opens the door and whispers 'Good luck' as I enter the classroom.

Everyone in the classroom stare at me with some girls turning around and laughing secretly which we all know what they were laughing about. The strange looking male teacher looks at me intensely and instructs me to come forward. I hand my slip to him and it squints at the small yellow sheet.

"Everyone, this is Charlotte. She is from England and she got a scholarship here in this school for her academic success" Most people here generally do not care and are distracting themselves in various ways. I search for a seat in this boring classroom and find one seat at the back. I go towards that seat and make myself at home.

The teacher goes on about a hard mathematical topic that I learnt years ago. I try to distract myself into looking at something nice here but sadly there isn't. A loud ping from my bag breaks my thoughts and I see it's from Lily. She has sent numerous text messages which I haven't touched and new messages appear on the phone screen. I'm so focused on the messages that I don't even notice a loud rather angry voice shouting my name.

"Charlotte, would you like to tell the class how to solve this mathematical equation as we all know that you were so focused on this lesson" The teacher has a frown on his face and everyone is looking at me with disgust.

"I don't know the answer?" I knew the answer to the question but I didn't want to present myself as a very intelligent person today out of all days. These people in this school look like people who judge people too quick. In order to cause no problems in this shit school, I need to bury the old people that was known to the world in London.

A fake blonde-haired girl snorts and makes fun of my accent. Her minions decide to laugh along with her and take the mick out of me too. The teacher says nothing to what they are doing right in front of him and decides to carry on with his shitty lesson. I look at the clock throughout the whole lesson dreading it to finish.

The bell finally rings and I rush out of the classroom. I don't know where I'm running to but all I want to do is to separate myself from this unknown school atmosphere. A hand grabs my arm and turns me around to face the person. It was the same boy with the dazzling smile and hypnotizing eyes. I scrutinize his face to wonder why he is here.

"Sorry about what happened earlier with Lauren, she just craves attention especially from beautiful girls like you." I restrain myself from blushing and look down on the floor for some kind of distraction. I think of things to say to him but I get interrupted by the voice of Chris

"Hey, I was looking for you" Chris looks at who I'm with and turns his face into disgust. He tries to hide his disgust for this mysterious boy and smiles intensely at me.

The mysterious boy smiles nervously and scratches his hair.

"I have to go, Charlotte." How does he know my name we didn't properly meet and we just encountered with each other for a short duration. He walks off slowly making me dream about him. He turns around and shouts his name then carries on walking till we can't see him no more. The name, Luke will be engraved in my pathetic heart for a long time.

I turn around and try to find Chris but it seems like he has disappeared. I wonder why he has some issues with Luke and this drastically led to their unsettling relationship.

The whole day finishes like a blur and I rush back home. I'm too tired to wait for mum and allow sleep to overtake me.