What is Love?

Chapter 1

Monday...
       "Audrey! Do you have the world history homework?" said my friend Sammy. "Um yeah! It was just half a page...almost nothing."
        Sammy and I were walking to our first class which was world history. I'm a freshman, but little did I know that this would be the year that my life went crazy!
         "Hey JJ! Do you have a sharpie? I kind of need to rewrite my name on my binder." JJ was my best friend since preschool. Her real name is Jaelane, but we got the habit of just calling her JJ. She gets me and I get her back. She also has my back for almost anything. Right now she has my back for a sharpie.
          "Yeah! Here you go," she said before tossing me her black sharpie. Class started and after 10 minutes, there was a knock on the door.
          While Coach Williams went to get the door, Sammy, JJ, and I were talking. Of course the typical topic of any girl crew would be boys, but we were actually talking about how JJ tripped yesterday at church into a hole.
        "Alright! We have a new student! His name is Matthew Espinosa and I hope he will be treated fairly in this school system. Actually, I used to move a lot. I once was a new kid and knew how it was to see new faces and a new atmosphere. So treat him nice!"
         "He was talking? I swear I fell asleep during his speech," said JJ. I almost wanted to slap her, in a playful way, for that comment.
          Matthew got assigned a seat that's in front of me but on the next row. He was really attractive but I knew he was just like the others. All the pretty girls were already gawking at him. As for me...well I want to not see him. His big head was in the way of the board. Coach has this thing where he shows a video but the board is on the right side so Matthew's head was right in front of The Nile River.
         "Sammy! Can you tell the new kid if he can move his head?" Sammy tapped on his shoulder, since she is right behind him, and said, "Can you please move your head since my friend here can't see?" "Sure," he said, clearly confused.
        Since then I guess he found interest in Sammy. She is the prettiest girl in our group. The second prettiest would be JJ. She even has the body. Sammy just has a really pretty face. She's also thick.
         After 1st period, I walked to my guy best friend Josh, yes we used to like each other but it didn't work out when we tried so we stayed as we were.
     "Hey twerking peanut! New kid is in my first period and his name is Matthew Espinosa," I said. "Matthew Espinosa? As in...Matthew from South Fulton?" "I think so. Why?" "Audrey! I know him! Please tell me you didn't talk to him or even made eye contact with him!" "The only type of 'contact' I made was to ask Sammy if she could ask him to move his big head."
        After that, Josh just nodded his head and left. That was probably the most frustrating conversation I've been in to be honest. How does he know him, and why would he want me to not have contact with him? Whatever it is, I didn't care. It was January and I was ready to get the school year over with.
          You know how they always say that the second times a charm? Or is it the third? I don't know, but I had Matthew in my second period too. However, second period was just 30 minutes so I wouldn't necessarily say it's a "class". Same as last time, Matthew was in the next row in a seat in front.
         "Greetings and salutations!" My teacher, Mrs.Dones, said the same phrase every morning and we were expected to repeat it after her. She saw that everyone repeated it except Matthew. "You must be new. I am Mrs.Dones and this is my class where every morning you must repeat 'greetings and salutations' after me. What is your name?" "Matt," he said.
        "Matt you say? Well, I have a Matthew in the computer. Is that what you mean?" "Yeah." "I would prefer you  to say 'yes mam' Mr.Matthews." "Yes mam," said Matthew. Wow! First day and Mrs.Dones is giving him the heavy metal.
          Our second period was the same for everyone in the entire high school. It was when you talked about a world problem and trying to think of a solution. Everyday it was something new, so it was always interesting when you think about it.
          That day Mrs.Dones picked world population. "World population always decreases as well as it increases. What may be a reason for decrease?" Believe it or not, I give my opinion wether people want to hear it or not. "It may be that the government is killing old people with the prescribed medicine they receive, or they may just be killing people who they think don't matter just to have space for the 7 billion people already here."
           "That's a good answer Audrey. It may even be correct since there have been a lot of reports of medications making the people weaker." The class went silent and started to look at me. Of course my face turned hot but my skin doesn't turn red to show it like other people.
           However, it wasn't the class's glare that bothered me the most. It's the stare that Matthew gave as if he agreed with me. I still couldn't understand what made Matthew a bad person as Josh made it seem. Was he in a gang? Was he a murderer? What was it? I didn't understand out that day but I did get a phone call from my bed saying it was nap time after school.