Senior year

Chapter 1: How it all began

"Let's go Marie. We're gonna be late" my mother called I didn't answer "Marie. I know you heard me hurry up" I'm still in my pajamas, I take a quick look at the clock. It's 8:30am. "Mom my class doesn't start for another twenty minutes." I yelled back "you've got five minutes" " ugh fine" I groaned back. I put on my blue jeans and a purple t-shirt, slid on my flip flops and pulled my hair into a high ponytail.

"Okay, I'm coming mom" she didn't respond then I heard the car horn blow a few times. I grabbed a banana and my backpack on the way out.

I went and got in the car and my mom looked at me for a minute without saying anything. Finally I asked "what?" "Nothing" she smiled. "Try to make friends. You haven't met anyone except for delana" that's true. I really haven't tried to make friends.

"I can't mom. No one likes me." I say

"Just be nice and talk to people that's all you have to do." I roll my eyes "okay I'll try". She puts the car into reverse and leaves our driveway. We get to the school and it's bigger than I thought. The building was made up of bricks, and the lawn is nicely mowed. "Are you nervous?" She asked "no. Well kinda." It's my first day of senior year at Laurell Valley Highschool.

I've changed schools after my junior year because my mom found a job. We had to move two states away from my friends and my old school. "Do I have to go? Couldn't you just homeschool me?" She laughed a little "no, now go on and have fun!" "I'll try" I hopped out of the car with my backpack in hand. A lady handed me a schedule as I walked through the door.

I looked down at the color coded paper in my hand. My first class was Spanish. Maybe I'll talk to someone in here. I looked around and took an empty seat near the back. To my left was the popular girls, sitting there putting on loads of makeup and fixing their hair. One of them pointed at me and said "look at her. She must not believe in makeup" they all laughed. I ignored them and looked away.

Everyone else filed in and took their seats and this one guy came up and sat in the chair beside me. He had brown curly hair and hazel eyes, I also noticed a tattoo on his upper arm. He looked over and noticed me staring at his tattoo "it's an anchor" "what?" I said flashing my eyes back to his. "My tattoo" his accent is really cute, the most adorable English accent I've heard. "Oh okay. I'm Marie." "I'm Harry. Nice to meet you Marie." "You too"

The teacher comes into class and does some ice breaker thing. I try not to focus on the hazel eyed boy sitting next to me. After the bell rang Harry walked up to me "hey, Marie. You want to hangout after school with me and some friends?" I'm shaking inside "sure." "Great. Meet me at the park around the corner." I nod.

My next class is geometry. I sit down at the back of the classroom again. "Hello" a soft voice says from behind me. I turn to find a olive skinned boy, with dark hair and dark brown eyes. "I'm Zayn" he says. His accent is almost as attractive as Harry's. "I'm Marie." "Well Marie welcome to LVH." "Thanks" I say and turn around.

After class it's time for lunch. I get in line behind a red haired girl, I tap her on her shoulder and introduce myself. "Hi I'm Marie, I'm new here" she turns around and she has piercings in her lip, eyebrow and nose. "Hey, nice to meet ya. I'm Lindsay." A blonde guy comes up to her and plants a kiss on her cheek she turns to me and says "hey Marie. This is Niall. Niall this is Marie" "hey. Nice to meet you Marie." He says. "You too" His eyes are a bright blue color and I'm guessing him and Lindsay are dating.

I sit down at a table with Lindsay and Niall. Harry and Zayn walk over and sit beside Niall. "Hi again" Harry says to me "hey" "these are the guys going with us to the park" he says. Lindsay clears her throat loudly "oh and girl" he chuckles. His laugh

is really cute, like his accent

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After school I meet up with Harry as I promised. He took me by surprise when I arrived because he hugged me. Niall came over and hugged me as well. Zayn whispered to me "he talked about you the whole walk up here" I tried not to sound excited "really?" "Yeah. Non stop about your blue eyes and blonde hair." I blushed and it was noticeable "hey, you're turnin red honey" Lindsay said "oh."

I turn away and try to hide my face. We all sit around a old picnic table and talk for about two hours. Lindsay and Niall got up to leave, they both hugged me and said they'd see me tomorrow. I returned the hugs and then Zayn stood up "I best be leaving too, I'll see you two tomorrow." Me and Harry both hugged Zayn.

Then it's just me and Harry, it seems awkward at first then Harry speaks up "so tell me something about yourself" I smile "well what do you want to know?" "Anything." Here we go, I take a deep breath. "Well I was born in Florida, on May 21st." "My birthday is May 22nd!" He says "awesome. Your turn" I say and nudge him a little with my elbow "okay well I'm an only child." "Me too." We have a lot more in common than I thought we would. As the minutes pass away we exchanged laughs and flirting a little bit too.

My phone rings it's my mom "hello?" "Marie, are you about ready to come home?" "Yeah pick me up at the park across from the school" "okay see you in ten". I get my stuff together and start walking toward the road. "Marie?" I turn to see Harry standing right behind me. He's about a head taller than me so he don't get too close. "Yes?" "Will you go out with me sometime?" " I just met you." "Yeah hours ago. You know me pretty well in my defense." "Okay. Pick me up at this address at 3 Saturday?" "Perfect." My mom pulls around the corner so I hug Harry and he opens the door for me. "Mom this is Harry." "Hi, nice to meet you Harry" "you too ma'am." "I'll see you tomorrow" "okay see ya Harry."

"What was that about?" "What? Harry?" "Yeah. I think he likes you" "oh mom don't be silly. But he did ask me out on Saturday" "oh my word. You've made a friend a potential boyfriend." "Mom we haven't gone out yet." "I know. So tell me about your other friends." I explain to her about Lindsay, Niall and Zayn.

We got home and mom has supper in the fridge waiting on me. I eat the leftover lasagna without even warming it, it tastes just like how my grandma used to make it before she passed away. I'm tired from the first day of school, now I'm nervous about my date on Saturday. Today is Thursday so that means two days. I finished up all my homework and I go it bed.

The next morning I have no problem getting up, this means I'm one day closer to my date with Harry and I get to see him again.

I decide to straighten my hair and add a little lip gloss. I wear my jean shorts that come up above my knee quite a bit and my favorite Florida state tee. I slip on my black sandals and grab my backpack. Mom let me drive her car to school since I don't have one of my own yet. I go into Spanish class and take the same seat as yesterday, so does Harry. He gives me a smile and he winks at me too. I smile back, then I try to focus on the class.

By the time lunch got around I was nervous about talking to Harry. I don't know why, I guess I'm afraid I might develop feelings for him.