I walked down the stairs of my house, and picked up the keys to my black Volvo, and shook it by the key ring so that all of the things stuck to it rattled. “Are you gonna get up now?” I asked my 14 year old brother Justin.
“Yeah” was his small reply, and he got up and headed outside, and we were on our way to the first day of a new year to school.
My mother is a very good lawyer, and father owns a few companies and also writes books. Both very attractive and intelligent. My older brother, Jaden, left for college on a scholarship. And Justin, is an all rounder, and captain of his swim team. I, Alice, myself am a 16 year old, gets high grades and all guys fall at my feet, head cheerleader and popular, but single, I’m waiting for the right guy.
I parked my car in an empty space, and both of us headed to the building, and I went to my locker. "Alice!” I hear a familiar voice go.
“Tiffany..” I say back less excitedly to my 'best friend', and soon i'm in her arms. "Wow! I missed you so much! I haven't seen you in ages!" she said, glad to see me again. She wasn’t a cheerleader like me, she was in the school drama things and got lead parts, and she had a boyfriend, Dan, who is 2 years younger, bi-sexual and also takes part in the school plays.
“Oh me too, how was you holiday?” I replied.
"It was alright I guess, did some things with Dan, went Disneyland, you know.. the usual. And yours?!" She explained.
“Um, it was… interesting and tiring” I shrugged.
“Oh, with my parents it’s always the same! Stay home and do their chores, and look after Dads farm” she told me, and I listened, and nodded, and then Dan showed up.
“Hey girls!” he said with a grin forming across his face, he hadn’t changed at all.
“Oh, hi Dan” I smiled, as he walked towards us, and put his arm around Tiffany.
“Hey Dan!” Tiffany said happily, pulling him into a hug, “I missed you.”
“I missed you too baby” he said, and no sooner they were making out. So I cringed at their happiness and walked away, with my favourite book under my nose as I walked. And there was a bump, and I looked up to see a new and beautiful face of a guy, maybe a little older than me.
“Sorry!” we both apologised at the same time and then a second later we were both chuckling.
“Oh, hi I’m Alice,” I said smiling.
“Hey, and I’m Kaleb, and new here.” He informed.
“Oh, Kaleb” I said, “I’m guessing you’re a sixth former.”
“Oh, yeah, sixth former” he sighed.
“Right” I said “do you have anyone to show you around?”
“Uh, no” he said.
“Mind if I?” I offered.
“Not at all” was his response. He smiled down at me, he was pretty tall and I could swear he had a six pack under that shirt of his.
“So…” he started as we were walking, “what book were you reading?” He looked curious to know.
“Oh this?” I raised it up to show him, “I’m reading Go, I’ve read it like 5 times.”
“Oh, cool! One of my favourites as well” he said, impressed.
“You read?” I asked surprised, “Not many guys do around here, but that’s great.”
“Yeah, I’m not from around here,” he said to me “reading is one of my best hobbies”
“Oh, awesome, me too!” I said “I mean about reading.”
With that we got to his class and I had to leave for mine.
My first period was English with Tiffany.
I walked into class, and the second bell hadn’t rung yet. Tiffany was sitting on her usual desk, and I sat on mine right next to her.
Tiffany smirked as I sat down.
“What?” I asked, settling down in my seat.
“Who was that guy you walked away with?” she asked quietly, but very curiously.
“Oh, Kaleb, he’s a new guy, a Sixth Former.” I said plainly.
“A senior?” her eyes widened. “Wow, Alice you think he’s the one?”
“Tiffany! I just met him!” I explained to her.
“But he is quite cute.” She didn’t seem to get it.
So I nodded and the second bell rang and we got to our English work.
And then lunchtime came.
We headed out for the cafeteria, me and Kris. Kris is another friend if mine, he once told me about his crush on me, but he wasn’t ‘the one’ so, I guess he got over it… but we’re cool. He had even changed over the summer, I noticed he had worked out a little now, as I could see his buffed up body. He actually looked pretty good.
And when we got there I got to meet up with my other friends.
See in our school, we don’t have any cliques. No popular table, or Chess club table, or the computer geek table, we were all equal with each other.
So anyway, I met up with my friends and we all sat down. Everyone made a topic to discuss with the people sitting close to them, when I spotted him.
Kaleb was sitting at a table with some guys that were also Sixth Formers. And those guys weren’t just any normal Sixth Formers. They were the angels as some obsessed girls would call them. Josh and Will, They were the school stars, the president and vice president of the student government. All girls would do anything just to make them at least look their way or something. I didn’t see why though, I mean yeah, they might be very good looking and good in studies and had many extra curricular things, but still…
So, anyway Kaleb was just sitting and laughing with them and his eyes caught mine and he gave me this breath taking smile.
I couldn’t help but to smile back, and then Josh and Will glanced my way.
Did I mention that Josh and Will were friends of mine? Come to think of it, the whole school was a friend to me.
So when they saw me they smiled as well, and I could sense some jealousy spreading around in the room.
I gave them all a little wave and just then Kaleb signalled me to go and join them, and so I did.
Kaleb patted the seat next to him, for me to sit. I smiled and took a seat next to him.
“Hey” I looked at them “Kaleb, so I see you have met Will and Josh?” I said casually.
“Oh yeah,” he said looking over to them.
“Hey! Alice!” Will greeted
“What’s up?” From Josh.
“Nothing really guys, so how was your vacation?” I asked.
And the conversation carried on…
Soon enough lunch was also over and we rushed to our next classes, I could see that Tiffany had a lot of questions for me, but I was grateful that the next two classes I didn’t have with her.
I just waited for school to end.
