head over high tops.

    When I was little my mom always used to say "boys are nasty and you shouldn't go near them." I think the reason she'd always tell me that is because when I was about 3 ,before I could've had a memory of him, my dad left my mom on her own to take care of herself and I.

    Now 12 years later im 15 and just starting my first year of high school. Im excited, scared, nervous whatever your supposed to feel the first day.

    Oh, and by the way my name is Dawn. My mom named me after her sister who died before I was born. Im around 5'3 maybe 5'4. I have long straight red hair that goes just below my shoulders and im an only child.

    But back to high school. For the first day I decided to wear my black veil brides t-shirt with red skinny jeans that have a rip in both legs and my high tops. I put on thick eye liner and straighten the few waves that are in my hair.

   When I walk downstairs I find my mom sitting making breakfast. She looks up from her book and says "oh, hey I made you a pancake." I look at it. Its terrible, slightly burned around the edges, my mom couldn't cook to save her life. "I dont really have time to eat" I reply glancing up at the clock.

   "Oh fine, I know you dont want my pancake so can I at least drive you to school?" I think about it, my original plans were to walk but I decided itd make up for rejecting her pancake. "Sure," I say with a smile, "itd save me walking energy anyways." With that she grinned at me and walked to the garage, pulling out her keys from her back pocket.

     I watched as she stealthily slid into the drivers seat and started the car. I got into the cars passenger side and startrd thinking. *what will happen today? Maybe I will have a heart attack, or maybe I'll meet someone. What if I did meet someone? That would be fun. This is a public school so I could meet someone. oh I hate private schools not letting me dress the way I want always so strict.*

   I look up as I feel the car stop. What I see scares me, were at the school. I look over at my mom and she looks at me now very serious. "I don't want you bringing home any boys. Got it?" she said. "What if its just a friend?" I ask innocently. She thought about it for a second and slowly said, "sure but no boyfriends until youve moved out ok?" I grinned thinking shed just say no and replied "ok." 

  Suddenly the seriousness in her face was replaced with a grin as she said "have fun!!!" "I shall!!" I replied being a nerd. I hop out of the car and start walking only looking back once to see her drive off. Another year. But different from all the others. This is gonna be great I thought to myself. Pushing open the double doors I gasped. I had never been in this school before and I didn't realize how huge it was. There were tons of people crowding the hallways and then I realized something. This is where the big kids were. Some of these people were absolutely huge. Now I know im not that big but some of them were around 6'2.

      I immediately ran to the side of the hall, bumping people as I went to make way for a group of boys who were huge. One glanced at me as they went and then just kept walking. I saw him talk to his friends and a few more looked but then went on pushing everybody out of the way. *Jerks* I thought calmly to myself.

Then I thought im gonna get squished and chuckled quietly to myself.

    As I went through the first half of the day it felt a big blur. I got lost several times and had to ask for directions. A few times the people I ask decided to be butt holes and tell me the wrong way to go. Lucky for me, they dont mark tardies for sophmores the first week. Finally lunch time came and I am starving!! I look at the choices and see pizza, burritos, a hamburger, or a salad. I go with the pizza line deciding its better then the others.

   I got my food quietly and looked around for a spot to sit. I sigh and go to sit alone when I hear someone yelling, "hey!!! Girl with the red hair." I look in their direction and see a girl also wearing a black veil brides t-shirt and blue skinny jeans. I smile and make my way over to her. "hi, do you wanna sit with me?" She ask grinning. "Sure", I reply thinking she looks cool. " we sit down and talk for a while.

   While sitting with her I got her name, which is Gillian but I decided id call her gillbug and I got her phome number. Lunch was over and I noticed we hardly ate but just talked. We both grinned at each other and threw away the rest of our food. "Whats your next class?" I ask not wanting to be alone. "Art," she said looking at me. I noticed we were around the same height as I said excitedly, "thats cool, so do I." She smiled and grabbed my hand running through the hall. I yelped shocked and confused until we got to her locker.

    "Sorry I wanted to run and didnt want to explain." she said trying to open her locker. " No problem," I said out of breath. *Why does this school have to be so freaking huge?!* After a while of fumbling she gave up and just hit her locker opening it. I giggled and said," hey I always do that." She grinned at me getting her stuff out. After we wondered around as older students cleared out leaving sophmores wandering around aimlessly looking like lost puppies. Finally we found it and walked in to a class that was full.

    When we walked inside everybody turned and looked at us. I looked back at them and smirked knowing we couldn't get in trouble for being late. "haha!", someone laughed from behind us making both of us jump. " I told you all someone would be late!" I turn around to where the voice was coming from and came face to face with Mr.Gardelli, the art teacher. He laughed and said" go find a seat you two," and putting on a corny serious face said", dont be late again or ill give you detention!!" I chuckled as me and Kat found two empty seats in the back.

    Art was great, the teacher just told us some rules and then we got to throw paint at eachother after we put on plastic aprons. I had spots of blue and green all over in.my hair and worried that my mom might be a little upset. I shrugged it off and went on with the day seeing a few other students that had him some of the other hours. I chuckled to myself seeing them. But anyways, turns out that me and Kat had two of the rest of the classes together. The last hour we didnt have together ,which stinks, but we'll live.

    Walking home I felt a chill run down my back, well it was fall. I looked behind me just to make sure that no one was following. Boy was I wrong about 20 feet away was a group of boys laughing and talking. They stopped when they saw me, ome whispered something to them, then suddenly they all started running after me. I gasped running as fast as I could. But they were faster and soon enough I was trapped by a wall of an alley with them all surrounding me making crude jokes and laughing. One stepped up closing all personal space I had left and reached for my face. Panicking I shoved my knee up as fast as I could and left him on the ground, moaning in pain. With that the others shoved me to the ground, yelling at me all the things they were going to do.

   Suddenly I heard a shriek, at first I thought it was my own until I opened my eyes to find them all running as a guy shoved them away from me. I looked up at him scared but it quickly faded when I saw him. He was tall, really tall, with a lean build. His hair was black and shagged to the left and be had shocking blue eyes. I realized he was grinning at me because be knew I was staring at him. I quickly looked down and felt my face get hot. He laughed and knelt down to help me up. "Thank you..." I said quietly. He replied,"your welcome." I thought for a second.. His voice is amazing its deep but has a light tone to it.

   "Would you like me to walk you home?" He asked interrupting my thoughts. "oh..umm sure." I stuttered. GRRRR why cant I think straight he's just another guy. "By the way whats your name?" he asked. "Dawn, what about you?" I replied looking up at him. "im izak" he said smiling.