The Love of High School

Chapter 1

Here's my story, chapter 1, for The Love of High School. I would like to give credit to LEIDEE D. Without her/him this story wouldn't be possible. Their story, I see you, created some ideas. Then it was just a chain reaction from there. So please read her story, it's really good, . All rights of Xena go to the cast, creators, and director. The characters I created for my story and their personality belong to me and LEIDEE D.

Here are the characters name's with who they go with on Xena: The Warrior Princess:

Carmen – Xena

Lily – Gabrielle

Jack – Joxer

Adam – Ares

Chapter 1

Carmen's POV

Right now I'm sitting in Chemistry class pretty much ignoring the teacher. Don't get me wrong I respect the teacher, I admire her but I understand what she's talking about. I mean who doesn't understand Dimensional Analysis, mole-to-mole ratio, or Avogadro number. So I'm just here sitting at my desk sketching the girl of my dream's, Lily. She sits a few rows ahead of me and she's a member of the cheerleading team. When I'm drawing her, all I think about is being with her in my dreams because I can't have her in real life. I mean come on, who can like a loser like me.

After I have my sad thoughts about no one liking me and what a loser I am, I notice we have five minutes left of class. Since Mrs. Lane, my chemistry teacher, gave a lecture all period, I don't have homework. So I pack up all my stuff and wait till the bell rings. Since today is Wednesday, chemistry is my last class of the day. We have seven periods but with a blocked schedule it's about time to leave. Lily has cheerleading practice today after school. I would usually watch her...and the team, but today has been a long day, my emotions has been all over the place, so I'm going home.

When I got home I saw that my mom wasn't home yet from work. It was just me, my little brother, and my mom that live at home. This week my little brother, Jeremiah hasn't been home because he's been spending his time outside of school with our mom's boyfriend. He likes him and they do a lot of thing together, but Robert, my mom's boyfriend and I bond over cars. He has a body shop that he owns and he got me working there. He offered me a partnership but I declined because I felt more comfortable as him as my boss.

So I'm home alone and I think about fixing myself a small plate of pizza rolls. They are my favorite snack or meal. After a couple of minutes they are done in the microwave. I pull them out and set them down on the dining room table to let them cool. I also pull out the ketchup out of the fridge and squeeze some on the plate of pizza rolls.

Fifteen minutes later

I'm done eating, next I work my way up to my bedroom and get a start on the little bit of homework I have. Tomorrow is Thursday, which means the odd periods, I only have Spanish and ISU US History homework. I'm in Spanish 3, its pretty easy for me since I'm from Greek descent, I pick up easily on foreign language. My Spanish teacher, Señorita Shane, teaching style is just horrible. So, I grasp what I can of what she says and then learn on my own.

After I get done with Spanish homework, I put it away and get out my college homework. I love this class because I enjoy learning from past events. I also learn about what happened to Greece during WWII. While I work on my college homework, Jack showed up. So now we are hanging out and he starts talking while I'm working.

"Hey, so how was your day?" Jack asked.

"At the beginning it wasn't bad, but at the end it was tiring," I replied.

"What did you do in chemistry?" Jack questioned.

"Mrs. Lane did a lecture for the whole period, but I was sketching Lily," I responded while blushing. Jack and I are really close best friends, so he knows everything about me and my personal life. I also know everything about him and his crush on Adam.

"Aww, is someone blushing," he teased with a smirk while his eyes gleamed.

"Hey, I wouldn't do that if I were you, because it's no different than you being a love sick puppy going after Adam," I defended.

He breaks eye contact with a hurt look on his face and looks down to his lap. He's sitting on my bed while I'm sitting at my desk chair. I don't mean to be insensitive and mean but if he's going to tease me about Lily, then I might as well throw it back in his face. Adam is the most popular guy in school and the star quarterback. Many girls are all over him and wants to be with him. This fact is what hurts Jack because of the popularity of Adam. Jack thinks that Adam is straight because of a supposed crush he has on me.

I keep reminding Jack that I don't like him and he doesn't like me, he doesn't really personally know me. We are two polar opposites on the school social spectrum scale. I think Adam is bisexual, but he's never had a boyfriend, he just comes off that way to me.

"You seem busy with your homework so I'm going to go, bye Carmen," Jack said sadly.

I rushed over to him, because he was already to the door, to stop him. "Wait Jack, I'm sorry for being insensitive, but you don't think my crush on Lily is hard too? I like her a lot and I'm hurting too because she doesn't even notice me."

He's crying now so I comfort him by rubbing his shoulder. He sniffles and calms down before responding, "I'm sorry too Carmen. I shouldn't have teased you and I know you're sad too. I'll see you tomorrow, good night."

"See you Jack, good night," I replied back sadly.

After he left I went back to my college challenge homework, but I couldn't stay focused because my thoughts went to Lily. So I push my desk chair back and hide under my bed covers crying.

End of chapter 1, I hope you enjoyed it!