Teachers and Students

Chapter 1: The Presence of School

It is the first day of high school. Like junior high wasn't bad enough, I was going to walk into a dangerous place. High school is different than junior high. For one, friends split up because of relationships, jobs, sports, etc. Another reason, there were bad people there. People who smoked, had "parties" every weekend, and even got into fights and get suspended.

I was not wanting to get out of bed this morning just because of what it was going to be like. I had my best friend in the world with me so I knew I was going to be fine. I just had to get through one day and make a friend. After that, make friends with the whole freshman class after a week. That part was going to be easy because I was already friends with half the freshman class.

After breakfast, I got on the bus. When I got on, I saw something that stood out to me. Sitting fives rows from the front, was a girl with no one by her. I proceeded to her and asked to sit down. She said yes so I sat down. Once I sat down, we sat in silence for a minute. Then she asked me how I was doing and if it was my first day. I didn't know how to respond because I was so scared. But I pretended she was a guy, as strange as it sounds, and was able to talk to her.

By the time we got to the school, we showed each other's schedule and saw we had 3 classes together. When we went to first period together, we sat next to each other. She was smart in Science and I wasn't. I figured she might be able to help. It was a good class but I focused on her more. I think I may have my first real girlfriend soon, I thought to myself. But I didn't want to tell her because I wanted to know more about her.

We met up at lunch time and it was great. We both got some pizza and a Mountain Dew. We then went to our table and sat down. We started talking about how our day was going to go. I was glad I was finally able to talk to a girl. In the past if I ever tried to talk to one, I would get so nervous and call her a wrong name or say something offensive. I was just hoping I wouldn't screw this up.