Aimless

Chapter One

   Life is never simple. Can't a girl get some coffee in the morning without standing in line for half an hour? I thought impatiently. Okay, so I was super early to school and it didn't really matter. But my time to just sit and listen to music before class was the only thing keeping me sane throughout the day these days. And I really needed some sanity today. It was about to be a long day of hearing about how excited everyone was for prom and probably a few half-assed "You should really come, we'd have so much fun! You can't not go to your senior year prom!" from my friends Lena and Amara. As much as I love them, sometimes even my best friends don't quite understand me. I know they would have a lot more fun without me there moping around. 

   Staying in my car for the last possible minute before second bell was definitely a good call. Everyone was already talking about prom in homeroom. No reason to hear more about it than I needed to. It made me a little sad to think about how I wouldn't be wearing a beautiful long dress and how my hair would most likely be in a ponytail tomorrow evening rather than a stylish updo, but I knew I made the right decision. I'm just too shy to go public events like prom. I'd end up standing around feeling awkward the whole night. My high school wasn't big enough for there to be some perfect guy shying away all four years who I would suddenly meet at prom and fall in love with. And that would be my only hope for a fun time at prom. I know lots of people go to prom with their friends and just try to have fun without guys, but I'm not even social enough to do that. So tomorrow night my plan was to stay inside and watch a gross amount of the classic TV show Friends. How could I be sad about prom when I had five awesome friends who lived in New York City?