Life as Mariah (sophomore)

The first day of school part 2

So I took my seat next to hoodie boy. He had not noticed that I sat down next to him, or that I was staring at the side of his face. Of course people were staring at the "new girl", and of course I could feel my face blushing. The teacher however had just walked into class. "Sorry guys, I had to hurry and print out these pap- oh... Is that a strange face I see?" Not sure if should be offended by that or not."come on up to the front of class kid" oh fuck I thought walking up to the front. "Now what's you're name?"

"Mariah " I said plainly.

"Oh nice nice. What school did you come from?"

"Uh it's in Louisiana, I'm not from Texas." I said awkwardly

"Oh wow, would like to sha-"

"Actually sir I'd like to sit down" I interrupted and the class said "ooooooh"

"Very well, you may have a seat"

And with that I made my way back to hoodie boy who now had his head down, surrounded by his arms on the desk. The teacher began to teach and I took notes. After the teacher passed out our assignment I realized that I had no idea what as to what I was doing.  Then it hit me, hoodie boy was right next to me.

I tapped him lightly on the shoulder. He hesitantly looked up at me with gorgeous blue eyes. "Hi, um do you know how to do our assignment?" I asked politely.

He looked over at my paper and said,"no sorry" in a nervous voice and then put his head back down.

"I'm Mariah, what's your name?"

"Josh"he said plainly.

"Are you-Are you ok?" I asked genuinely concerned, this boy is looks like a model yet he's here with his head down when should be walking around flirting with girls like the other guys here.

"I'm fine... I'm just having a bad day." He said with a sigh.

"I feel ya" I said understanding. "Wanna tell me what happened?"

"I'd hate bore you on your first day, just because I'm in my feelings right now."

"Well, I mean we have twenty minutes of class left, neither of us know how to do our assignment, and neither of us have anything else to do, so why not?"

"Um ok." He said sitting up. He was tall and thin, his skin pretty tan, and had dark brown hair. He had the perfect facial features and surprisingly no ache which a lot of boys have at the school for some reason.

"So Im failing a lot of my classes- not because im stupid or anything- just because I've missed a lot of school. They're talking about taking me off the basketball team. I guess I'm just like really stressed out right now. On top of that things are kinda bad at home. And I'm having problems with people at school."

"You poor thing." I said resting my hand on his shoulder. "Honestly there's nothing I can tell you that will make you feel better, but you will get through this."

"Yeah I know, it's just kinda overwhelming right now."

"Well if you need someone to talk to, I'm here and I'm always free" especially for someone as good looking as you.

"Thanks"