The Life Of Korbyn Reinhart

Chapter Two

~just an update, cupcake ;) hope you liked the first chapter. Here is chapter two! Enjoy (: ~

Chapter 2

I woke up at 7:00 this morning to get ready for school. Mom and Charlie were already at work, and Alex and Brady had been taken to daycare so I was all alone. I stared at my ceiling for a good 5 minutes before I decided to get out of bed. I tucked my feet into my slippers and walked over to my vanity. I sat down and took my hair out of a pony tail and brushed it. Today, I decided that I wanted to give myself a mini makeover. I wanted to be noticed. With that in mind, I pulled out my curling iron, a clear elastic and some bobby pins. I let my curling iron heat up and I walked into my bathroom. I took off my dorky glasses and popped in my contacts. "Looking different already" I said to myself and I examined what I saw in the mirror.

Today, I decided to wear a thin line of eyeliner, a light brown eyeshadow in my crease, and some mascara. I strutted over to my closet and dug way into the back of my closet to the box of clothes my aunt Tracy gave me. It was full of things like scarves, and coloured jeans, short shorts, some printed leggings, peplum tops, crewneck sweaters, some high tops, and some sanuks. After trying on the entire box, I finally picked an outfit. I chose a white lace peplum top, some pink skinny jeans, and some grey sanuks. I liked this new look. Staring at myself as I walked backwards over to my vanity, I tripped on my chair.

"Stop starring at yourself, you clumsy fool" I said to myself. I sat down on the recently tripped on chair and picked up my curling iron. 15 minutes later, my hair was curled. I gathered to front pieces of my hair and tied it into a half up. Then I twisted my bangs and secured it with a bobby pin. To top it off, I placed a baby pink bow on top of the elastic that I had found at the bottom of the box from aunt Tracy.

I grabbed my white polka dotted pink backpack and headed out the door to the bus. I could see people through the bus windows starring at me. I tried. Y hardest not to smile, because I had a gut feeling that today, I would be noticed by Jake Sterling. And another little feeling I had, was maybe I'd be noticed as a 'cool girl' by CATS and I could become friends with them and they wouldn't pick on me any more. I had a feeling that today would be a good day. As I stepped onto the bus, I heard whistles coming from the back and some people even whispered to their friends 'Daaaaaamn!' I smiled to myself a little and sat in one of the bus seats. I liked riding the bus. It gave me time to myself to just think about anything, and everything. Sometimes even fantasize. But today, all I could think about was last night. I hope mom was ok. I wonder what the whole fight was about.

Charlie was a good guy, but I sometimes wondered about him. I never really learned about his past or anything. Charlie and I weren't very close. He once told me he didn't want me to feel like he was 'intruding' on my life. And in all honesty, I'm glad he feels that way. Because I would hate it if he ever tried to replace my dad. I had respect for Charlie. He didn't treat me like a step child he didn't care about. He treated me like a real family member. Which is why it scares me that something like that would've happened last night. What if he tried to hurt mom? Suddenly, I got a huge knot in my stomach and felt sick. All along Charlie was such a good guy. He could've hurt my mom! Oh my god. She better be ok. But what if she isn't? What am I gonna do?

I almost missed my bus stop worrying about everything. But with my new look, that means new attitude. Pretend that your ok, and everything will be ok. 'Be happy' I thought to myself. 'You get to see Jake today' a little smile slipped again and I entered the school doors. Immediately, I thought all eyes would be in me. But I thought wrong. No one even turned their head. No one had noticed at all. I continued to walk down the hallway to my locker. Can you guess who spotted me? Fricken CATS. Of course!

"Lookie over here everyone! Korbyn the book nerd wants to be one of us. She's definitely trying too hard." Caroline said as she turned and laughed with Anna, Tiffany, and Stacy. That's when the heads turned. I swear, the whole school was watching. Caroline, Anna, Tiffany, and Stacy started yelling things at me like wannabe, ugly, unpopular, nerd, stupid, book girl, daughter of a dead man, geek. Tears started to pour down my face as Caroline had the whole hallway chanting 'wannabe, wannabe, wannabe'. She grabbed my backpack and dumped everything out onto the floor and laughed her wicked laugh. I dropped to my knees with my face in my hands.