"Dakota, wake up. Its time to get ready for school." My aunt Katie said. I turned over to my side and groaned, not listening to her. "Dakota, if you're not ready in an hour, then I'm going to kick you out and send you back to your parent's house."Katie warned me. After she said that, I shot my eyes open and said, "No no no no please don't do that. I'm up!!" Katie rolled her eyes and left the room, while I went to the bathroom and undressed to take a shower.
So you're probably wondering who the hell I am. I'm Dakota Collins and I'm 17 years old. I'm from Miami, Florida but I ran away from home to stay with Aunt Katie because of family issues. So now I'm in Brooklyn, New York. I am 5 foot 7 inches, so I guess you could say I'm a bit taller than the average height for girls. I have brown reddish hair and boring brown eyes. Some people say that my eyebrows are unusual but they seem to like it because it suits my face. I'm not your average teen girl too. I don't like too much makeup, cheerleading, fancy cars, guys and other crap. Ok, well I do like guys but most of them annoy the hell out of me. People usually think I'm more of a dark person I guess, because I have a lot of dark clothing. I'm not emo or anything, its just that I prefer not to stand out in the middle of a place wearing freaking neon clothing. That's it I guess. (Dakota looks like Lily Collins.)
I got out of the shower and changed into dark black shorts with studs on one side, a printed tiger shirt with sleeves cut-off, and my black vintage combat boots. I added some band wrist bands like King The Kid, N'Sync, Fall Out Boy, and Imagine Dragons. I looked back in the mirror to do my hair and makeup. I brushed my hair, letting it air-dry because its naturally wavy and I only put a small amount of foundation, mascara and eyeliner. I checked myself to see if everything was alright and then went downstairs. (http://www.polyvore.com/roar/set?id=99606751)
"Hey honey, what do you want to eat?" asked Katie while she was running around the house to get ready for work. She lives alone and has to work to support the house because her ex-husband, my uncle, left her.
I didn't want to make her late so I just shrugged, "Uhm I'm not that hungry. I'll just take an apple and eat on the way there. Thanks though." I grabbed an apple and my bag and started to walk out the door.
"Do you want a ride Dakota?!"she yelled from the kitchen. "No thanks! I'm gonna walk there. Thanks though!" I yelled back and shut the door behind me.
I heard the school is about 20 minutes away from where I'm staying at and so I left extra early just to get settled with all of this crap. I started walking along the sidewalk and took out my phone and headphones and started listening to Iris by The Goo Goo Dolls.
Halfway through the song, while I was minding my own buisness, someone ran into me and ran me over. Really really REALLY HARD.
"Hey! What the hell?!" I shouted angrily at the stranger. I felt some pain on my right knee, and turned to look at it, noticing some blood gushing out slowly. "Great. Now I'm fucking bleeding. Thanks a lot." I said sarcastically.
"Damn, you're fiesty for a girl," the stranger said, "and I like it." he ended with a smirk. I turned to look at him and rolled my eyes at him. "Well I'm fine, thank you." I shotted back at him, helping myself up. The guy who ran me over got up too, and said, "Oh. Yeah uhm. Sorry about that. I don't really pay attention to anything when I skateboard." "Well obviously. Now excuse me, I have to go find my new school and possibly have knee surgery now." I said, while I started walking away from him. The guy ran up to me and started walking next to me, and said "You on your way to Ellington High School? Cause thats where I go to, and the least I can do is walk you to the guidance office and the nurse because I feel awful.." I looked at him for a second and turned away and shrugged. "Sure, why not." I said.
We both walked in silence for the rest of the way there. Well, I did. He tried to have a conversation with me, but I just nodded my head or replied with a one word answer. Since we both got here early, nobody was really here, which was a good thing because I didn't want anyone to see me with a bloody fucking knee. The guy walked me to the nurse's office and said, "Well, sorry about earlier. I didn't mean it. When you're done, just ask the nurse for directions to the guidance office. See ya later." and he just walked off. "Great." I mumbled.
I slowly walked into the nurse's office and asked the nurse to check out my knee, and she just cleaned up my knee for me with a bandage around it. After that, I asked for directions to the guidance, and once she told me, I started walking to the guidance office. On my way there, I noticed some people starting to come into the school building and staring at me. Great. People are staring to stare at me. So much for staying invisible. I quickly walked to the guidance and asked for my schedule.
5 minutes later, the lady gave me my schedule and I thanked her and left. I looked at my schedule and cursed at myself. Fuck. Where are the classes? As I kept walking, I accidentally bumped into someone. I looked up and said, "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to run into you. It was my fault, I wasn't looking and so I apolog-". The girl laughed at me "It's fine, haha! You must be the new girl everybody is talking about. I'm guessing you're probably confused with your schedule. Want some help?" she asked. I relaxed and sighed, gratefully. "Yes please. That would be so much help." i said as I handed her my schedule. She looked at my schedule and smiled, "well its a good thing we share all 7 classes together." I smiled back "Oh yay. I know someone now in all of my classes."
We both started walking to our first class, which is Chemistry. "Oh, I'm Dakota Collins" I said to her. "Well nice to meet you Dakota. I'm Cara. I love your outfit. You're so pretty, I'm like so jealous."she said nicely and giggled. I smiled and blushed "Oh thanks. I guess? Haha. You're so pretty too." I said nicely. While we were walking, I looked at Cara from the side of my eyes. She was like a model. She's blonde with blue eyes, and has like a perfect body too. I got a little jealous of her. "Well here we are." Cara said once we reached the classroom. "Oh yay. Fun stuff.. Crap, I forgot to stop at my locker! I'll be right back!" I started walking to my locker and heard the bell ring. Shit. Already late on the first day. I started searching for my locker and found it. "Are you fucking kidding me?"I said while I was trying to unlock my lock. I started banging on my locker and had no luck.
While I was being unlucky, I heard voices down the hallway and saw a group of guys. Well 4 guys. Attractive guys. Like really really attractive guys. They started talking and walking this way and I looked back to my locker, trying to unlock it for like the 100th time. I sighed frustratingly and gave up. Just as I was about to turn around, an attractive black hair guy leaned up against the locker next to mine, with one arm. I held my breath, noticing the little distance between us.
"You need help babe?"he smirked. I scooted back to keep distance between us but ran into the brunette guy who ran over me today, and saw him smirk too. The other 2 guys were just standing there smirking. Does everybody smirk? I coughed "Uhm.. uh. I'm fine." I said quietly. The black hair guy smirked at me again and opened my locker by banging on it with a fist and said "sure, whatever you say babe.". I rolled my eyes "I'm not your BABE so how about you stop calling me that okay?" I shotted back at him while I was putting stuff away in my locker and getting my textbooks and putting them in my bag. "Well, you're still fiesty like this morning" the guy who ran over me this morning said. I fake smiled at all of them and walked past them and headed towards my first period.
I wonder what Cara is gonna have to say about this.
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Well thats my first chapter. I know its not good. sorrryyyy
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Lost and Found
JugendliteraturDakota Collins, ran away to escape her past because she no longer wanted to be apart of it. So, she's staying with her aunt in New York City, trying to start over. She meets some new people, but someone in particular, Jace Herondale, caught her eye...