A New Beginning

Chapter 4: First Day

Melissa's POV:

You know what the worst way to be woken up in the morning is?

Your alarm.

Your alarm goes off and scares the shit out of you. This is what happen on my first day of school. I'm sleeping peacefully on this sunny May day and suddenly my alarm feels the need to scare half my life out of me.

Plus I may or may not have fallen out of bed.

I groan and get up off the floor. My ribs and bruised body protesting, my head however has improved drastically over the last month of being here. I grab my crutches and clothes before making my way to the bathroom. I wrap my cast with a plastic bag and tie an elastic at the top to keep it from getting wet and than hop into the shower. Once I'm done in there I hop out and brush my teeth.
It's a lot hotter here than it was in Toronto so I put on some shorts and a band tee shirt that was George's daughters.

I put my blonde hair in a fishtail braid to the side. I look at myself in the mirror. My face is still bruised. Most of it is turning to that ugly yellowish green colour, same with my black eye. I sigh and exit the bathroom. No sense in covering it up. I'm not trying to impress anyone.

I go down the stairs on my butt, and hear Aria giggling behind me.

"Are you laughing at me?" I ask in mock seriousness and she laughs more. I grab her and tickle her sides. She giggles and screams. Trying to squirm away from me. I laugh and set her down as she gives me a pouty face.

"BREAKFAST!" Yells Anthony and she squeals before running down the rest of the stairs.

I get to the bottom of the stairs and go to the kitchen to grab a banana to eat.

"Do you want anything else?"

"No Anthony, I'm good." I say, slightly annoyed that he's treating me like I'm 5 years old.
We eat breakfast in silence. After about ten minutes were loading our stuff and Aria into the car. Anne comes out and kisses her on the head.

"Be good at school sweetheart."

"I will mommy. I promise!" Beams Aria and I smile at them.

"Melissa. I got you something for your first day of school." Says Anne as she pulls out a black iPhone 4S.

I gasp and take the phone from her. She has it in a purple otter box.

"Anne! Thank you so much! This was so unnecessary though." I say as I look at the phone, my phone.

"Well you didn't have a phone and we wanted to make sure we could contact you and vise-versa." She says happily. I thank her again and hop into the car, still staring at the phone.

"Bye Aria! Be good at school!" Yells Anthony and my head snaps up and I see the little girl walking towards the school.
I lean my head out the window.

"BYE ARIA! HAVE A GOOD DAY AT SCHOOL GIRLIE!" I shout and she turns to smile at me, giving me a small wave before running to catchup with her friends.

I pull my head back in the window. Anthony reaches over and grabs my phone. I glare at him.

"What are you doing?" I glare at him and he smirks.

"I'm your first contact." He smiles cheekily and I scowled him and look at the name

"Anthony Preston the sexiest man alive ;)"

I glare at my phone trying to figure out how to change it but eventually give up as we pull into the school.

"Nervous?" Asks Anthony and I see everyone looking at his car. "Let me guess. Your Mr. Popular. All the guys wanna be you, all the girls want to be yours?" I say with a smirk, my eyes cold as I stare at him and he looks at me surprised.