Behind Enemy Lines

Chapter 1

Scarlett POV

Allow me to introduce myself. The name's Scarlett Oakley Smythe. Yes, Smythe. As in my older brother is one of the co-captains of the Dalton Academy Warblers.

Dalton Academy is known for being an all boys school filled with seemingly charming boys in nice navy blue and sharp red lined blazers with the nice matching navy blue ties with neat red piping.

But besides that, they are also known for being super smart geniuses with high GPA's and squeaky clean records.

You might know my older brother,  Sebastian. Well he, as I said before, is enrolled their as a student and is in the position of a co-captain of the Warblers,  an acapella singing show choir group. And the reason my brother's enrolled at Dalton in the first place is because you could say my parents are forceful academic overachievers.

They push me and my brother to be the best, no matter what subject it is. Now I know that might make you assume that that means I am a smarty pants with great academic ability.

But you assumed wrong, I have dyslexia. Which shouldn't matter because it shouldn't change the way people think about me,  but unfortunately for my parents it does.

Now I know some people might think that makes it easier for me because I get special treatment, but that is in no way true. My parents refuse to tell anyone outside our family about me being dyslexic because they consider it to be an embarrassment. That's why we keep it secret, besides my aid who tutors kids with dyslexia.

But since my parents are very mindset on keeping this so called secret about my identity, they made my aid sign a contract that she will not speak of helping and teaching me ever otherwise she will be charged with a heavy fine.

It makes me really frustrated when my parents make sure to not mention my learning disability and take extreme measures to make sure no one finds out. It's like a slap face, it's basically coming across as "even though we are your parents, we are embarrassed of you and don't want to let anyone know the real you".

Luckily my brother is always on my side,  although he is too afraid to stand up for me to my parents. Sebastian is the only one in my life who takes time to actually listen to me and understand me.

That's probably because I have never had that many friends since elementary school because I have been homeschooled since seventh grade because that's when we found out why I had so much trouble in school and had dyslexia.

Also,  we moved when I was seventh grade we moved here from Missouri so I don't think I will ever see any of my childhood friends again. Especially since I don't remember a lot about them.

But,  after much debate,  I talked my parents into letting me go to a public high school. At first they were concerned that it would be too hard for me to keep up and that someone at school or a teacher at school might find out about my secret, but I have been improving so much due to my parents hardcore homeschool methods.

Alright,  enough about my parents.

Anyway, tomorrow is my first day at William McKinley High School as a sophomore and I'm actually very excited. I can finally be a normal teenager and hopefully have friends.

That's why I was preparing for tomorrow morning. I picked out a simple outfit to wear tomorrow which was the first day of the second semester so it was already halfway through the school year.

I chose some dark wash jeans with grey socks that went above my brown angel boots. For a top,  I chose a loose white tank top with a light gray cardigan. Nothing too fancy,  but not too casual where it looks like I didn't try at all you know.