EQUINOX [ MADELAIN PETSCH ]

Chapter One

I woke up in my nice, warm, and cozy bed. I turn over and grab my phone to check the the time, 6:35. I sigh and throw the blankets over, off of me and sit up. I hear my mom knock on my bedroom room door "Adrian, you awake? You don't wanna be late for your first day." I hear her say "Yeah mom, I'm awake." I say back to her, standing up and walking over to my wall, flipping on my lights.

I walk over to my closet and step back, looking at my clothes "What to wear, what to wear." I say. After standing there for a good few minutes, I finally decided on wearing a plain white t-shirt with a red plaid button up shirt, but leaving it unbuttoned, and a pair and skinny jeans that's ripped at the knees.

I walk into the bathroom and brush my hair, wetting it just enough to tame all the hairs that are sticking out. I then brush my teeth and then spray on some cologne, walking out the bathroom and downstairs to the kitchen. I see my mom making pancakes. I wasn't really in the mood for pancakes, so I just grabbed a piece of bacon. "I gotta get going mom" I tell her, kissing the side of her head, "Alright, please be good Adrian. I love you." she tells me. I smile and shake my head "I love you too" I tell her as I walk out the door, eating my piece of bacon.

I get in my car and drive down the road to the school. It's my first day at Saint Johns, and to tell you the truth, it's my first day back to any school since I was in eighth grade, I'm a senior in high school now. No, my mom didn't pull me out of school to home school me, I got expelled and eventually dropped out. I was in a bad place at the time, hanging out with the wrong group of friends, and thinking that I was the shit when I really wasn't.

I pull up at the school a few moments later and get out. I grab my book bag from my backseat and put one strap on, letting the rest of the book bag hang. I walk in and look around at all the people who are at there lockers, talking about god knows what. I look at a slip of paper that has my locker number and combination on it. I walk down the hall looking at the locker number and eventually fine mine.

I walk over to it and unlock it, pulling it open. I put my book bag in the locker and pull out a few textbooks I know I'll need for my first two classes. I shut my locker and began walking to my first class, which was, sadly, math. I was never good at math and probably never would be good at it.

I walked in and decided to take a seat in the middle of the class. I didn't wanna sit in the back cause we all know teachers are obviously gonna call on you if they know you decided to sit in the back to get out of answering anything. Hopefully this wasn't s mistake.

I look over as the rest of the class pours in as the bell rings. I see a group of guys come in with each other talking and laughing. I'm guessing it was some of the football players because they all had on varsity jackets, and I guess the red head was the star player since everyone gathered around him once they all sat down.

"Bro, is you wouldn't have thrown the ball when you did, we would've lost." I hear one of the guy tell the red head. I see him shrug and smile "Yeah, what can I say? I'm what makes this team a team." I hear him say. I scoff lightly and shake my head as the teacher walks in.

As class goes on I find myself doodling on my paper instead of taking notes, not the smartest idea, I know. "Adrian" I hear the teacher say, I look up and say "Yes ma'am?". "Come up here and do this problem please." I sigh and stand up as the class turns and looks at me. I walk up to the front and hear whispers like, "That's the new guy, he's kinda cute" and "I bet Abigail will be all over that once she see's him." I shake my head slightly. I don't even know who Abigail is and by what I just heard, I don't think I wanna know who she is.

I get the board and take the cap off a black expo marker. I look at the problem, probably the easiest math problem I've ever seen. I show my work on the board, because we all know how teachers are when you don't show you're work. I finished the problem and put the cap on the marker and sat it down as the teacher looked at my work.

She nodded "Very good." she says as I walk back to my seat and sit down. The bell rings, I stand up and grab my books and walks out the class, I hear someone come up behind, "Hey" they say, I turn around and see the red headed guy who I was just in class with,"My name is Ashton, I'm the quarterback for the football team." he tells me, I nodded and said "I'm Adrian, the new guy as people in math class addressed me." He chuckles a little bit and said "Yeah, I heard. I was gonna ask if you wanted to sit with us and a couple cheerleaders during lunch." I nodded "Yeah, sure." I say while walking off.

To be honest, you would think the star quarterback would be a total douchebag but he didn't seem like it. But, this could just be apart of some evil little plan the popular kids make whenever there's a new kid.