Just My Luck

Chapter 1

Hey, my name is Toby. I'm a tenth grader at Oak Valley High. I'm not one of those popular 'to good for anyone' guys who think they can get any slutty bimbo who'll get in their pants and then dump them the next day.

Any who, I'm 5'7 and uh..... I have clumpy brown hair and bright sea green eyes.

There is this one girl at school I swear I am in love with. She is beautiful and her name is Emma Brath. Her eyes shine an icy blue and her curly red hair is a little bit past her shoulders. I've known her for about.. um let's say 6 1/2 minutes.

I'm the new kid here at OVH and my first period class is History with Mr.Dillman. Boring as fuck but I can stand him because all I've done in class so far is stare at Emma.

Ding ding!! There goes the bell. I gather up my stuff and go up to Emma.

Okay don't be weird. I thought to my self. I smooth down my lumpy hair, let out a deep breath and walk over to her.

"Hey!" I exclaim and stick my hand out like a retard. "I'm Toby, I'm new around here. What's your name?" As soon as the words left my mouth I knew she thought I was an idiot.

She stared at me like I had lobsters sticking out of my ears and scrunched up her nose. "Uh.. Hi? I'm Emma." She chewed her gum a little too loudly and then looked up. "I had a fish named Toby."

"Oh co-"

"He died." She spat out and walked away. I stood there with my arm still out and watched her leave.

Mr.Dillman cleared his throat and glared at me. I quickly put my arm down and mumbled a sorry and hurried out the door to second period math with Mrs.Graw.

When I got through the door of room 381 the bell rang and an old-ish looking lady smiled and scurried towards me and put her bony hands on both my shoulders and shoved me to front of the class.

She had her greying black hair in a tight bun on top of her head. She had a small nose and big eyes that looked bigger with her glasses on. She smelt like ginger and cheese. She reminded me of a mouse.

"Good morning every one!" she squeaked out. "This is..." She looked at me.

"Toby Hanter." I grunted.

"Toby!!" She said enthusiasticly. She looked at the rest of the class and they slumped back in their seats and stared at me. Mrs.Graw smoothed out her floral spotted dress and showed me to my new seat.

Since every one sat in pairs, I sit next to a guy named Josh Duhnam. He has black hair, grey eyes and a warm smile. He doesn't look to weird... Ugh I do not want to sit next to some popular kid for 4 months.

I plop my stuff down on my desk and slump into my seat. Josh looks at me and points to my hair. I look at him puzzled while I take out my phone, turn on the camera and look at my reflection.

My eyes are wide and I cringe at the screen. Josh chuckles and whispers, "Dude you've got some major cow lick goin on there!!" I laugh quietly and shake my head.

"Oh really? I didn't know that!" I slam up both my hands and put them to my face. "Thank you kind sir!!" He stifled a laugh and fixed my hair. I flash him a smile and a thumbs up and look at the white board.

I think I'm gonna like this kid!