Hurting Fun

Chapter 1: The New Beginning

Karen's POV

I got off the bus and went into the quad. The quad is a big rectangle in the middle of the school where kids eat lunch and get stuff from their lockers. I was disappointed by not seeing Mark in orientation. I got with my friends that I met at orientation and sat down at our lockers.

"Hey. Have you seen that cute boy that is napping on that bench?" Mary said. Mary pointed at a 7th grader lying on a bench near them. "Hey, Karen. I dare you to walk up to him and say hi.

"What? No!" Karen protested.

"I'll give you chocolate."

Omg. You don't know how obsessed I am with chocolate.

"Fine, Mary."

Karen walked over to the boy and looked at him. The boy slept with his right hand under his head and his left arm covering his eyes. The boy woke up and saw me staring at him. I blushed and stepped back. The boy sat up and smiled.

"Hey, Karen," the boy said, "Long time no see."

I blinked. "You know me?"

"Well, of course I do. Well maybe because of the way I look. I got eye contacts. I can wear glasses if you want me to." The boy pulled out a pair of glasses that looked oddly familiar to me.

It then hit me. "Mark?"

"Looks like you found out."

I blushed even harder. "Be right back." I walked over to her friends and saw the jealousy in their faces.

Mary pouted. "You know him?"

"I know him from 6th grade. He used to do mini-pranks on me."

"Wow, you get a lot of attention from him."

Later at lunch...
I got lunch then went to the quad to find a place to sit. When all the tables were full, I was going to sit on the ground until I heard a voice to my left.

"Hey, Karen!" I turned around and saw that it was Mark calling me. "Wanna sit here?"

Mark patted the seat next to him at a table. I blushed and went to sit next to him. I saw my friends, Mary, Caitlyn, and Jessica. They walked passed me angrily.

"Hey, Mark," I said. "Can my friends sit here?"

Mark shrugged. "Sure."

I yelled at my friends that they could come sit at Mark's table. My friends got to the table very quickly.

"Guys, Mark. Mark, meet my friends, Mary, Caitlyn, and Jessica."

Mark nodded. "Wassup." My friends nearly squealed when Mark has spoken. I rolled my eyes at them. After lunch was two more periods of class. After my last two periods. I went to the gym to try out for basketball. When practice was over, I saw Mark waiting for me at the bus waiting area.

"Hey. Wanna sit with me?"

"Sure," I replied.

Mark and I sat in the back of the bus. I was playing on my phone until I saw that Mark was typing something on his phone.

"What are you doing?" I asked.

"It's just an app called Wattpad. I use it to write or really, type books and I can read other books that other people made too."

"That's cool."

The bus came to the bus stop nearest to our houses. We get off and say goodbye to each other.

I walked in the house saying, "I'm home!"

"Hi, Karen," my mom replied. "How was your first day of school?"

"It was great mom."

"Did you find Mark?" My mom said teasingly.

I groaned. Ever since I told my mom that I liked Mark, she has been making fun of me. "Yes. I found him mom. He looks much different. He wears eye contacts now."

"Really?"

"Yeah."

Then, I heard a roaring sound of a vehicle.

My mom nodded. "It's the new people. They are moving into the next door house. Hey, there is a boy with a Era Academy uniform on coming out of the moving truck."

I looked outside the window and saw a familiar boy walking towards the house. I ran out and caught up with the boy.

I called out, "Mark!"

The boy turned around and his eyes widened.

"Karen?"

"You're moving here?"

"Yeah because we have enough money to leave our apartment and get a house."

Mark is living next door to me. This is going to be interesting.

A/N: I hope you enjoyed this chapter. This is my first time making a book. I'll try to continue the updates. -MP