Power Within Me

Ava Truth Daemon

*FYI that is Ava when she is a baby or toddler

"Woohoo! We're BACK, baby!" A sophomore yells as the other students around him shouts in agreement. 

A girl with long black hair exits out of the 4th school bus, headphones in both ears. She looks up at the school and smiles. 

'Academy Power High School.' 

She takes a deep breath in and exhale it out again. 

The smell of varied flowers mix together fills her nostrils with a sour smell but the smile still remains on her face as she straps back on one of the hanging straps of her backpack. 

'I'm finally back in New Jersey again.' 

She follows the other juniors and seniors back inside the school as she strides confidently inside. 

The girl's mouth widens in shock once she is inside.

'W-Wow. This school is much bigger than I thought it would be.'

She bites her bottom lip.

'I hope I'll be able to find my classes without getting lost too much.' 

She looks at the paper in her hands. 

Application of APHS

Dear parents/guardians of Ava Truth Daemon,                                                                                                     Congratulations! Ava has successfully entered into Academy Power High School. Starting at September 5th 2017, she'll be able to attend at APHS during her junior and senior year. This means she'll be starting this school year as a junior and finish off as a senior. As a student of APHS, we, the teachers and staffs, are expecting great things from Ava. Students who slack off and fool around will immediately be given a detention. APHS don't tolerate with foolish and outrageous behaviors from students. If given 35 detentions or more, the student will get suspended from the school. The strict rules from our school does not, however, prevent any fun events from happening. There would be fun events like parties, our own Olympic games, dance parties and more. We hope Ava will be able to fit in during this busy year as a junior and continue to succeed even more. 

From,                                                                                                                                                                                           Mr. Slaymin 

Ava sighs at the paper. 

'Do they really expect me to fit in that easily after so many years?' 

She put her other hand in her back pocket fishing out her small note.

LOCKER COMBINATION

23-48-39; Locker 578

"T-Twenty eight...ni-forty eight...thirty si-nine..." She muttered the number out loud to herself as she squints her eyes at the small note. 

'Uh... I need to improve my handwriting this year. I can't even read my four's without mistaking it as a nine....' 

She sighs.

'Okay now I need to find locker 578, wherever the hell that is.'

She begins to walk up the stairs as she searches for her locker. 

Five minutes later

'Where the fudge is my locker?' She thought angrily as she walks towards a fountain. 

'I've passed this fountain about 7 times now.' 

She internally facepalms herself. 

'I can't believe I'm already lost...' 

She closes her eyes and sighs trying to calm the anger inside of her that is about to burst. 

'Deep breaths...Deep breaths...'

She breathes in and out slowly taking in large gulps of air as she opens her eyes. 

'I need to think this situation rationally. There must be something that can help me...' 

Ava looks around in search of finding a solution to her problem. 

She sees a couple of girls assembling closely at the lockers near the stairs. 

'I know. I'll just ask one of those girls to help me...' 

Ava takes in a her last deep breath before walking towards them. When she is about 5 feet away from them, the girls suddenly squeal excitedly. 

"Oh my gosh. And then Eric helped me pick up my books and hand it to me. THE Eric Wood helped me and touched MY hands. I even get to feel his hands for a second and OMG. His hands are like soooo soft...like I seriously would not mind if my hands are connected to his forever..." The girl in the middle chatter. 

Ava halts in her track when she hears the name "Eric". 

'Huh? They know Eric? I didn't know he was that popular considering he was awkward talking to me..But I guess he did have the reason after what had happened...'

A blush appears on her face. 

'I hope he's been doing well, though...' 

Ava smiles for a minute. 

'I haven't seen Nicholas either. I hope I have classes with them...' 

She then turns around to get bump by a guy.