Love the Other Half

New Girl

** Before we get into the story, this is my first story where I've worked hard to make it as best as possible. I'm not the best writer in the whole world, so if I make a mistake, like misspelling, please let me know. The first few chapters will be before the world ends. I'm starting in junior year through senior year of high school with these two, but we will get into that world. Please remember feedback is appreciated.**

Junior year
(February 1999)

**Jasmine's POV**
Today's my first day here in Virginia. It's a small town, which is nice. I came from California, so it was a major difference in weather, and many other things, and I love it. I love how the air makes me shiver when I step outside. I never had that in Cali. When my parents told me we were moving, I was angry and at the same time, happy. I didn't want to leave my life behind, but than again, I didn't really have much of a life there. The only thing I had there was my family. I didn't really have any friends I would go shopping with, or go to the movies with. Now I'm here and I'm going to make the best of it as much as a I can. As I'm sitting here on my porch I here my mom yell for me telling me dinner is done. I get up and walk into our house and my mouth start watering.
"Mom what did you make? It smells amazing!" I say to her.
"Thank you sweetheart. I made us some lasagna. I hope it tastes as good as it smells." She says smiling at me.
I look at her laughing. I hear dad coming down the stairs and he sits down next at the table. Mom starts making out plates.
"Mom would you like me to make some drinks?" I ask her
"Yeah sweetheart, but please no ice for me." She says to me
I make the drinks and put them on the table.
"Are you and your mom going to the school tomorrow? To make sure all the paperwork is there and get your schedule?" He asks me
"Yeah. I hate school, but for some reason I have a good feeling about this school." I say with confidence.
"That's good baby. I hope you do well here as well and trust me. Your dad and I hated school as well." Mom says looking at dad and I.

          We finish dinner and I tell my parents I love them and that I'm going to go take a shower and head to bed. I get upstairs and see tomorrow I need to start unpacking. "If there is one thing I hate, it's definitely unpacking." I say to myself rolling my eyes.
I grab a t-shirt and a pair of underwear and I head towards the shower. I take off my clothes and turn the shower on, I like my shower to be a little hot. I take my hair down and take my ring and bracelet off and step into the relaxing hot shower. As I'm taking a shower, my mind keeps wondering about the new school. Will I make new friends? Will I make better grades? Will I be more confident? My only answer is I hope. I do have a good feeling about this place, but sometimes I can't help but wonder. I step out of the shower and dry off. I get dressed and I literally just flop onto my bed. I don't even brush my hair or teeth. I'm just tired and ready to sleep my first night in this house.

          I wake up to my mom telling me to get up.
"I called the school and they said we have an appointment at 11:00 AM. So I would start getting ready if I was you." She says
I sit up and basically mumble to her.
"I would like to leave at 10:30 if we can." She tell me.
Mom closes the door and I get up and go use the bathroom. I finish and look in the mirror and make the funny face.
"Oh man. I should have brushed my hair last night." I say kind of laughing and then I smell my breath.
"Oh my gosh" I say laughing loudly this time.
I brush my hair and brush my teeth and think of what to with my hair. I decided to straighten it. I love my blonde hair. I always have and I've always loved my green eyes. I usually never wear make-up so, I just try to dress as nice as possible. I wear a white dress with flats. It's around 10:20 when I go downstairs.
"Sweetheart, you want to eat something before we go?" She asks me.
"No I'm ok mom. Thanks though." I notice dad isn't downstairs so I yell "I LOVE YOU, DAD!" and then I hear "LOVE YOU TOO!"
  Mom and I start heading out the door, when I feel that cold wind. Most people will complain like my mom, but I love it. I start smiling and laughing when she starts cursing at the weather.
Mom starts the car and starts heading for the school. We finally reach the school and it's not big, but not small either. It's perfect size. We get out and start walking towards the door. As we were walking towards the school and black pick-up pulls up into a numbered lot and I can tell he's in a rush, just from how quickly he turns in. I see the door open and it's a blonde, skinny guy. As he shuts his door, he drops some books and paper comes out. By this point we are almost next to him and a piece of one of his papers flies towards me and I grab it.
"Mom go ahead and go in, I'm going to help him." I tell her already walking towards him.
"Ok. Hurry please." She says not sure if she should
I get next to him and bend down and start helping him. I can tell he looks up, but I keep grabbing papers that fell. Once we have them all I give them to him. We finally lock eyes and I smile. He has such beautiful eyes.
"Thank you." He says to me kind of shyly.
"No problem. Not need to thank me." I say shy as well.
"No really thank you." I look back up. "These papers are for chemistry. I probably would have just gotten my ass chewed out if it wasn't for you." He says laughing.
"Well I'm glad that won't happen now." I say looking at him.
"You new?" He asks.
"Yeah. I'm here to see if my stuff come through and my schedule and stuff." I tell him.
"Dwight." He says holding out his hand.
"Jasmine." I say shaking his hand.
"Nice to meet you, Jasmine." He says
"Nice to meet you too." I say smiling. "Do you need to be getting to class." I say. Remembering he came in the lot kind of fast.
"Oh hell! I forgot. Yeah. Need help finding the office?" He asks me.
"Yeah." I say kind of slow.
"Come on. I'll show you. We have to go to the same place." He says.
We start walking up to the door and we walk in and the office is at the very end of the hall. We both walk in.
"Hi. My name is Jasmine I'm here about the transfer." I tell the desk lady.
"Hi. Just go through that door and take a left, it's the door second to last." She says.
"Thank you." I turn around and tell Dwight thank you and wave at him.

          I walk in and see my mom and the principal laughing. The principal gets up and welcomes me and says she's glad I'm here.
"Well everything came through. We have your schedule. Since it's Friday, would you like to start on Monday?" She asks me
"Yeah. That's perfect." I tell her.
"Well welcome and we can't wait to have you here. I think you'll do well here." She tells me with a big smile.
"Thank you. I can't wait." I tell her with a smile.
Mom and I start walking out and I notice Dwight's pick-up and smile to myself. I hope I run into Dwight again. I think I would like to get to know him better.
Mom and I arrive home and I eat some cereal and start going upstairs to unpack. I love my room. Enough space for everything, it's just perfect. 5 hours later I finally have everything done. All my clothes put up, everything is where is belongs.

          Saturday morning and me and mom go out to get school stuff and stuff for the house. I guess you could say I'm more of a momma girl. I love my dad, but he seems to never be there. He's always working or sleeping. I love them both, but mom has been there for me through a lot. We finally head home listening to some loud music along the way. We get home and it's starts thundering, and it actually vibrates the group. We get inside and it starts pouring down. The rain never stopped through the night. Sunday we just did a lot of work in the house. Unpacking, painting, cleaning. We finally finished around 8:00 PM. I ate dinner, took a shower and went to bed.

Monday, February 22, 1999

I wake up at 7:30 AM and start getting dressed. School starts at 8:30 AM. I get out of the bed, go brush my teeth and hair and I decide to curl my hair and wear a silver mid length dress with 1in heels. I tell mom and dad I love them and get in the car and start driving to school. I was so happy when I got my license. Such a relief to not have them take me everywhere. I pull up into my number spot which is 51. I get out and as I'm walking I notice a certain black pick-up. I smile to myself. I open the doors and notice heads pop up to see who it was. Some had a smile, some had a disapproving face and others simply didn't care. I start walking towards my locker and I open it and put my notebooks in and just as I'm about to shut it.
"Hi new girl." said someone I recognized.
"Well hello to you Dwight. Forgot my name already?" I say with a smile.
"Nope, but until I know more about you, you're new girl." He says with a shy smile.
"Well ok then. I can handle that. Want to help me find room 225?" I ask him since I have no idea where the rooms are.
"Ew. You got Mrs. Lola. I feel bad for you." He says
"What's wrong with Mrs. Lola?" I ask him confused.
"You'll find out. Here we are. Good luck." He says patting my back.
I walk in and notice a few other student sitting there. I walk up to her and tell her I'm new.
"I know you are. Just take a seat and I get your work out." She says irritated.
Great this is how I want to start my day five days a week... now I know what Dwight was talking about.

**Please leave your opinions so far. Dwight will start being in more chapters. I just wanted everyone to get to know Jasmine and a little bit about her parents. Like I've stated above, this is my first story where I've actually written in paper how I want it to go and all that stuff. So I know that the high school chapters will only be so many. We might be in the apocalypse before or right at chapter 10. So please vote and comment. xoxo