Chapter 1, Weird Feelings

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Well, today's the day. Today's the day where I have to give that stupid English presentation in front of my dumb ass class. If you can't already tell, I'm nervous. But it can't be that bad.. right? Of course not.

"Scarlet! Get up! Time for school!" My mom shouts through the house causing an echo, awaking me from my comfortable sleeping position.

Just then, my alarm blares, causing me to jolt awake and slam it off. God I hate that stupid thing. I got out of my VERY comfy white aesthetic bed, and slowly made my way toward my small closet, and picked out a really comfy outfit. It's a black V-neck tank top, with a white sweater, and I just decided to put on my blue ripped jeans, just cause I thought it looked cool. 

I braided a part of my hair on one side, and pulled it to the other side of my head, where I secured it with a few bobby pins, which surprisingly stayed. I grabbed my phone and decided to check if any of my friends had texted me, which I surprisingly did.

Bailey~Hey Scarlet, wanna hang out later? Please!!

Me~No, I have a bunch of homework and studying for finals to do, sorry :(

Bailey~Awe, that sucks, well I'll see you at school in a bit, Bye

So, I'm obviously not going to be studding for any finals, and I highly doubt that I will have any homework, but I just don't want to go to Bailey's, or even be anywhere near her. I mean, Bailey is a good friend and all, but she is really clingy. And it she gets really annoying after like 5 minutes of being by her. 

After 10 minutes went by I heard my mom calling my name. 

"Scarlet, come on! We need to go before we're late!"

"Fine!" I yelled from my room, which echoed through my house.

Reluctantly, I went down the stairs and found my mom smiling at me, with Starbucks in her hand. She really does know me.

"I got this for you, I think you'll need it when you were up all night studying" My mom smiled.

Ha. 'Studying'. Wow, she really thinks I study. Well I guess she hasn't been looking at my grades then. 

 "Yeah, thanks mom, I owe you one" I laughed. 

"Well we better be on our way, we don't want you to get another tardy do we?"

"I guess not" 

I really didn't want to go to school. High School was not going to be the forgiving years that's for sure. But whatever, at the end of the day, you just have to face it. I put on my black laced sandals, and we were ready to go.

I followed mom to the pure white car in the driveway. Every time I step out of the house, I'm blinded by that thing. I get into the passenger side, and mom gets into the drivers side. She backs up, and we are off. 

I have no clue why she wants to drive me to school. I could literally walk myself. Then again, she probably knows I would ditch.. Again. 

When we were halfway there, I just stared out of my window, gazing at everything that went by. Until I had sudden chills down my spine. I didn't know what happened, but all I knew is that I didn't feel safe anymore. It was like someone was watching me. Intently. 

I don't know where they were, or even if someone was even watching me. But all I knew is that I really wanted to get out of that car, and run. And then we arrived to the school. I got out of the car, waved to mom, and watched her drive away. Another Monday. 

"Omg! Scarlet! Hey!" My friend, Hannah squealed, pulling me into a hug, catching me off guard.

"Oh, hey, um, what's up?" I asked. 

So I'm obviously not a social butterfly. Not. even. close.

"Nothing much. Are you excited for the English presentation? I am! I can't wait for 1st period!"

Wow. I never knew someone could be this excited about school, but I guess so.

"Yeah, totally." I lied. I just wanted her to leave me alone so I can do my own thing. 

"Well nice talking to you! I will see you 1st period! Bye!" 

And then she left. She ran to another one of my friends, Kylie.  Now Kylie is one of my friends that I would tell all of my secrets to. She was kinda like me, socially wise. She does her own thing most of the time, which I respect. 

I heard the loud, obnoxious bell ring, and the doors to the High School opened, and everybody starting pouring in. 

I practically ran to my locker, putting my backpack in it, and taking my English stuff out. Fastly, I walked all the way to English, getting there with 6 minutes to spare. I threw my stuff on my desk, and sat down, covering my head, and about to cry. I know it sounds dumb, but I just can't deal with this class. And now was not the time I wanted to present this huge project in front of all the popular people in my class.

I pulled my head up to look at the time when one of the popular girls walked by me. She just gave me some sort of glare, and walked to her desk in the front of the room.

"Welcome class, so we are not going to waste any time, and we're going straight into the presentations!"

Please don't be first. Please don't be first. Pleas-

"Scarlet. Looks like your done. How about you go first"

"U-um.. O-okay" I stutter.

Shit. Shit. Shit. Shit.

Of course I'm first. Why wouldn't I be? As I walk up to the front of the classroom, I notice Hannah giving me a reassuring glance. And the glance of the popular girl, Cassie. 

She was the reason that I began to stutter, and mess up a lot. My teacher was judging me on how well I was speaking, and how good my actual presentation overall was. 

I saw her start to write some notes down, which made my eyes sting.

Don't cry. Don't cry.

Cassie was already laughing at me, which caused everyone else to laugh. I felt my face heat up. My eyes stung even worse.

A tear found a way out of my eye, and everyone started laughing hysterically.

"You are so dumb! Why are you crying bitc-"

"I can't do this. I-I just can't" I stumbled.

  "Scarle-" My teacher began.  

I didn't care at that point. I just ran for it. Ran from the embarrassment. Ran from my problems. Definitely not the first time. I ran straight out of that room, and made a beeline straight to the bathroom. But when I got there, I didn't even cry. Just wondered. 

Wondered why Hannah didn't even say anything. Wondered why my life is such an embarrassment. But my wondering didn't last long though. My counselor came into the bathroom, and saw me rocking back and fourth with tear stained eyes.

"Come on. You are going home. Lets go" She said, sternly. 

"O-okay."

She then dragged me toward the office, where my mom was. She then signed me out, and we went home.  When we got back into the car, I told her the whole thing. I'm pretty sure she didn't even care, because she was just nodding to everything I was saying, which was super annoying. When we finally got back home, I just went up to my room, and watched YouTube videos until it was time to go to sleep.

I silently fell asleep with regrets of going to school tomorrow.



So this is my new book! Hope you guys decide to read it! Love you guys! ~Sammi <3 




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