Fitting In

Chapter One : Meeting Her!

Anna was always at the top end of her class, she was what some people would call her kind, a Nerd. She was always being "slagged" about knowing her spelling and tables off by heart. She also liked reading, it was her favourite hobby!

When she was six, she tried to make a few friends by starting to play soccer. It didn't go too well. She got walloped in the face with football while trying to defend her goals. She didn't go back.

Anna wasn't a very sociable person. Rather then making real friends she preferred the characters in the books that she read. She brought a book everywhere, always trying to grasp a moment to read a few pages.

At school Anna didn't really have many friends, actually she didn't have any friends at all. Everyone stayed away from her except Jason and his gang, her bullies.

Ever since she could remember she had been bullied not just by Jason but by most of the children in her class. Ripping pages out of her favourite books and calling her harsh names.

Also one day Josh a boy in her class who happened to be in Jason's group, was walking past Anna whilst she was reading and decided to take her book. This made her furious!

Chasing after him the poor girl tripped over the curb and landed on nose. She ran inside to the nurse which pasted some of her homemade anti-inflammatory cream on it. It stung like mad.

It swelled and swelled, until it nearly covered her whole face and of course this didn't make the bullying any better. The whole class took advantage of her not being able to see very well. By pushing her into lockers and doors when she walked past.

She didn't go to school for weeks afterwards. She wanted to let the swelling go down and couldn't face what the bullies might say to her next.

She had enough! She was determined to get the bullies off her back, so she told her Mother.

Following on a couple of weeks, late a night about twelve o'clock. Anna couldn't sleep she was up all night thinking about how she was going to tell all her friends and classmates in school the next morning.

Well, when I say friend I really mean the teacher, Mr. Lobby. He would probably fall on the floor and start crying because Anna was the only student that ever listened to him, the rest where just time wasters.

"Anna!"screamed her mother from downstairs.

After not hearing her alarm, she leaped out of her bed and ran downstairs. Meeting her mother and father debating about who's credit card the electricity bill was going to be charged on. Her Mother was winning!

Grabbing the milk from the fridge she sat down at had her breakfast. She ate the same thing every morning, a bowl of lumpy porridge that was always over cooked, a milky cup of tea and a slice of half burned toast with chocolate spread!

After jamming the food down her throat and burning the roof of her mouth a good few times for the tea, she glanced up at the clock that her grandmother had giving her parents for their fiftieth wedding anniversary, she ran upstairs into the bathroom.

Running into the bathroom wasn't such a great idea because her younger brother Daniel, have previously had had a shower and left the tiled floor wet.

"CRASH!"

Her feet when from under her, leaving only thin air to support her weight. Flat onto her bottom she fell and whacked her head against the toilet bowl. Printing a big red streak along her face.

After what felt like about an hour the shower finally got warm enough for her to get in. Took a short shower and jumped out. After pulling out about half of the hair on the top of her head she got the knots out, spilt it in the middle and tied two platted poiny-tails each side of her head. Put on her glasses and smiled. She was met with a mouth full of metal wire, yes she had braces too.

Well yes she had glasses, braces and a weird hairstyle your typical NERD, but anyway.

"Beep Beep!"

"The bus Oh sugar!" she thought to herself.

Nearly "crippling" herself again form the wet floor, she ran into her bedroom and grabbed her schoolbag that was full of books weighing a ton.

Well it's wasn't really grabbing, it was more like hauling the bag on to her back because she wasn't exactly the fittest or strongest person alive. OK fine! She was the scrawniest person you'd every see. It was as if the skeleton from her science room was after coming to life and was impersonating a young school girl.

She some how managed to get herself down the stairs, out the door and to the bus without heeling over from the weight of the schoolbag.

She hopped on the bus and was met with a man that had the most depressing face she had ever seen, the bus driver. He was a crazy old man that looked like he was going to drop dead any second.

Sitting in her usual seat, by herself right at the front of the bus. She pulled out her spelling and tables book from her bag, just to look over the tables from the night before. The class teacher Mr. Lobby held a weekly contest on spelling and tables. The winner one a chocolate bar. Anna had been the champion for the last nine weeks on a row and she wanted to get her tenth week.

The door closed and the yellow bus slowly built up momentum and sped down the quiet street of where Anna's estate was. Rattling and speeding around the corner!

Anna loved school very much, it was her favourite place apart from being trapped inside a book where everything didn't matter and you could do what you wanted!