Worthless

Chapter 1: Worthless

Worthless chapter 1

16 years later

I walked through the hallways of applegreen High school, occasionally swerving to avoid nameless freshman running to their classes. I sighed as I remembered my first day. I was over thirty minutes late. Mrs. Becker was wearing a barf green dress that ended just above her ankles. Her black hair framed her chubby face and her thick glasses sat on the end of her nose. A scowl seemed to be ingrained on her thin lips. "belial markos" she had said without looking up from her book "you're over a half an hour late." I had opened my mouth to explain but she cut me off, "Take a Seat. Detention." she snapped while scrippling on a slip like she had only a minute left to live and held it up in the air. I'd sighed and took the slip and sat next to a thin boy with messy blonde hair. He seemed to be the least intimidating. I had tried to ignore the giggles aimed at me and put my head down into my book. The boy next to me tapped me on the shoulder. I looked up and he had a huge grin on his face. "I'm Eric" he'd said "Don't mind mrs. Becker, she hates everyone." "Belial Markos" I said and smiled. He held up his own detention slip. " See you later markos"

"What's with the grin markos?" I heard someone says and I came back to reality to see Eric standing in front of me with an apple in one hand and his math book in the other. I giggled at the sight of the apple. Eric was always eating something, yet he still stayed skinny. Ever since that first day when Eric had been nice to me he had become my best friend. He had also become my only friend. I am one of the tallest girls in our grade and have frizzy red hair and glasses. Barely a supermodel. I realized that I was just staring, lost in my thoughts. "nothing, just remembering our first day here." I said finally nodding towards the freshmen. He laughed and said "detention buddies." "listen belial-" he stopped mid-sentence when he noticed me cringe. His smile faded"sorry bel, I forgot" he said careful not to use my full name. Eric knew how much I loathed my first name ever since I found out the meaning last year during an assignment."Belial, What a beautiful name!" Mrs. Caldron ,the language teacher, had chirped in her high cheerfull voice "What does it mean?" "Worthless" I had muttered so quietly that no one really heard me. "I'm sorry dear, what was that?" she'd said with a confused look on her face "My name means worthless" I'd replied with a trace of anger, part toward the woman that named me such a horrid thing and part to mrs caldron for making me learn that my once unique name was given to me because my own mother thought I was Worthless.

And that was just what I felt, Worthless.