New Schools

4

I jump in the car and start to freak out, I fiddle with my fingers as the car starts moving. "Are you okay?" my mum asks me. "Yeah, I'm fine, just a little nervous." She nods in an understanding manner and keeps her eyes on the road. I sigh as we arrive to the front of the school. 

"Want me to walk you in?" mum asks. "I think I got it, thank you." I smile and she waves, "have a good first day." She drives off and I make my way to the first room in the school. Above the door, it's labelled 'office' so I'm assuming I'm supposed to go in here. I walk inside and receive dirty looks from younger students seated. I ignore them and walk to the desk.

"Hey, how may I help?" the lady asks. "Uhm, I'm new here and I haven't got my timetable yet," I simply answer. "Oh, right. What was you name?" she looks at me, then to her computer screen. "Hailey, Hailey Smith," I stutter. I was embarrassed of my last name, it just didn't fit. "Ah yes, I just printed out your timetable, I'll go get it," she smiles and disappears behind a wall.

Not long after she came back with a piece of paper, "thank you." I walk out of the office after she says bye, I have no idea where I am going. I stare at the first class's room number, the ink must have bled too much because it looks like two blobs. I pull the sheet closer to my face and someone clashes into me, causing me to hit my face with my hands. "Fuck!' I quietly yell, I open my eyes and see a guy that was on the plane I was on yesterday. "I'm so sorry, wait, you're the girl that Aaron sat next to on the plane right?"he smiles. "Yeah?" I give him a weird look. "He said he's looking forward to meeting you again," he looks at me. "Tell him that I am too then," I say and continue walking. "Yo Aaron!" I hear that guy yell, I'm pretty sure his name was Cameron. "Aye Cameron!' I hear a familiar voice yell back, oh no. I speed walk and stand by some lockers, I look at my timetable and at the top of the sheet, next to my name, it says I have locker 103. I look at the locker numbers I was by and saw they were higher than my locker number. I look in the direction my locker would be and see Aaron talking with Cameron. 

I walk over in that area, covering my face with my hair and try to find where my locker is. I look at the locker number Aaron was standing next to, 201, I looked at the one two lockers away from him, 203. I casually walk over to it, twist it open and put spare books inside. I kept the books I needed for the first period as well as my stationary in my boring white bag. I hear Cameron and Aaron talking, I sure hope they haven't noticed me. I close my locker and lock it, I look up and look back at my timetable. "Need help?" I look up and see a face of a male. "Uh yes please," I slightly laugh, I hand him my timetable. "My name's Max by the way," he smiles at me then looks back at my timetable. "You have English first, room 00," he hands my timetable back. "Thank you," I hold the sheet of paper in my hand. "Are you single?" Max asks. "Excuse me?" I start to feel uncomfortable. "Are you in a relationship or are you single?" he laughs. "I didn't come here to get a boyfriend," I roll my eyes. 

 "Max leave her alone," Aaron walks over to us. I look down, "dude I was just asking a question," he laughs. "Well from what I saw she doesn't seem interested," he looks at me and I look at him. "Whatever," he puts his hands up in defense and backs away. He turns to walk off and I begin to walk also. "Hey wait," Aaron calls out to me. I turn and a girl walks over to him, he was probably calling to her. I continue walking and look at each room number.

I eventually find my class and wait outside, my phone starts buzzing. I go to check what its was but then the siren went, I quickly checked the notification and it says 'missed call from Aaron.C', weird. I put my phone away and walk into the class, I show the teacher my timetable and she nods. "You can sit next to Cameron, he's probably going to be late but he sits at the back corner," she replies, pointing to two empty tables. "Thank you," I say and walk to my seat. 

"Sorry I'm late," Cameron yells as he walks over to me. "Coincidence?" he laughs. I shrug my shoulders, "I guess." I pull out my book and a light blue pen. "Can I borrow a piece of paper and a pen or pencil?" Cameron pleads. I roll my eyes and hand what he wants to him. "Thanks babe," he starts writing what was on the board.

Did he just call me 'babe'?

I ignore it and continue writing, definitions and stuff. "That assignment is due tomorrow, don't forget!" our teacher yells to us as we exit the classroom. "What assignment?" I ask Cameron. "Aaron's doing mine, ask him," he winks and walks off. The thought of Aaron gives me butterflies. 

 "What do you have now?" a body comes up to me. "Oh, I think it's art, but I don't know where," I answer Aaron. I give him my timetable and he smiles "that's what my best friend has now." I groan and say "if you mean Cameron, I will literally die." He laughs "nah, her name is Madeline." A girl?  "Oh okay, well I better find my class before I'm late," I say and walk off. How can I be jealous of a girl that I haven't even seen, what if she's unattractive or something? Yeah, hopefully...

I find my class a few minutes later and walk in, I get so many dirty looks, as well as little whispers. "Are you Hailey Smith?" the male teacher asks. I nod. "Nice to meet you, you can choose where to sit, there's no seating plan." I walk over to a spare table, away from most of the class. The teacher tells us what to do and I start doing it. I loved art, I wasn't the best at it though. We could listen to music in this class, which I loved. 

Sadly, the class ended, and then it was lunch. I walked outside to the cafeteria, it was downstairs, near really wide windows that reached from the floor to the ceiling. The lighting was nice, and this school was surprisingly clean. I sat at a small table by myself, I went on my phone, while occasionally sipping my up and go I brought at the cafe. "Can you move?" a girl in my art class interrupts me. "I never knew cafeteria seats were assigned to people," I sarcastically reply, not moving. "You're right they aren't but people like me and my friends, are supposed to have a seat, we are priority, unlike you," she states.

I roll my eyes and stand up. "Whatever, bitch bye," I smile and she gasps. I pick up my up and go, then walk off. I see Aaron, he sees me and starts walking towards me. "I see you've met Madeline," he nods his way over to the girl I called a bitch. "Your best friend?" I raise an eyebrow. "Yeah, she's really nice," he smiles at me. I laugh. "What?" he questions. "She just told me to move because people like 'her' are priority and need to sit unlike people like me," I watch his face scrunch up. "She wouldn't do that," he gives me a weird look. "Well she did, that's why I don't have anywhere to sit," I look around. "I'll go talk to her, find Cameron and sit with him until I come," he walks away towards Madeline's table. 

I scan the room and see Cameron laughing with another boy, Max? I walk over to them and sit next to Cameron, across from Max. "Hey beautiful," Max smiles. "Don't call me that," I glare at him. "Someone in a bad mood?" Cameron gives me a confused look. "Or on their period?" Max laughs. "I'm not on my period," I look at him. "Then what's up?" Cameron asks. "That stupid Madeline, Aaron reckons she's so nice, but she's not," I look at Cameron. He slowly nods, "don't listen to anything she says, she's a bitch." I laugh, "yeah, I kinda called her one as I walked off," he laughs and gives me a high 5. 

"Are you coming to the back to school party?"Cameron asks. "Yeah you should come," Aaron says, sitting next to Max. "When is it?" I ask. "This Friday," Aaron states, " I can take you if you want?" Aaron smiles at me. "Yeah sure, I'll be there," I smile at them. "Cool, can't wait."

~sorry for not posting, it takes so much longer to write on a laptop rather than a phone, hope you enjoy!