"You ready yet?" my mom calls down from upstairs.
"Jesus I just woke up give me a minute, will you?" I call back, pulling open an overly stuffed drawer to get clothes. "This uniform shit is ridiculous!"
"Watch your language! And it's not that bad, just hurry up and get ready," she replies as I roll my eyes in silence.
I yank on the plaid skirt and collared shirt required as part of my new school's uniform. Over the summer it was decided that I'd be transferring to a private school and today was the first day of school. Looking in the mirror I adjusted my high black socks and chuckled to myself. Maybe I can use this bullshit uniform to my advantage, I've always wanted to see if I could pull off the sexy school girl. The clock said 7:30 so hurriedly I made my way to the bathroom to brush my teeth and put on some makeup. I did my typical look, some dark brown eyeshadow on the edge and black cat eye eyeliner. After grooming my eyebrows and brushing my recently dyed dark auburn hair, I grabbed my black pleather backpack and headed upstairs.
"Ready," I said breezily as I headed towards the door, "Let's get this over with".
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We pulled up to the school only 10 minutes early and there were people everywhere!
"Damn these people like being early," I muttered to myself.
"Have a great first day!" My mom exclaimed a bit too enthusiastically as I slowly got out of the car.
"Mhmm love you," was all I said before walking off in the direction of the crowd.
People bumped into me without acknowledgment while others have me the stare-down. I heard a group of girls mumble something about, "who does she think she is wearing that" and "could be a porn star" followed by amused giggles. I didn't respond, figuring it wasn't worth the effort. I made my way to the office to acquire a schedule before the bell rang but was distracted by a blonde boy in the office arguing over something. Straining to hear I caught only a phrase, "it's only the first day and you're already in trouble? Don't get off to yet another bad start..."
So we've got a troublemaker here? Thank god. I was worried this was going to be terribly boring.
After getting my schedule I wandered around in search of my 1st block room. I found it just before the final bell and took a seat near the window only a couple rows from the back. There's some laughter emanating from the back corner and I resist the urge to turn. The teacher closes the door and takes a look at a clipboard.
"Holly Thames?" His voice pulls my attention away from the window.
"Yeah?" I answer, as casually as possible.
"Well stand up, dear, introduce yourself to the class!"
Oh god not this. Smoothly I rise from the chair and stride as confidently as I can to the front of the room.
"Hey, I'm Holly," i divert my attention to the back corner and see a couple guys who look a bit cute. I readjust my posture slightly and look directly at them, "I'm obviously new and I haven't yet decided whether I'm digging this uniform or not".
I get a couple chuckles but the guys in the back nudge each other and smile at me. That went alright I suppose. The teacher pats me on the shoulder and I return to my desk. Class drags on for about another hour and I half focus on the introductory lesson for Ancient History. When the bell rings I make my way into the hall and head towards my Spanish class. Just as I'm about to take a seat I see the boy from the office walk in and slouch into the seat behind mine. I act nonchalant but he's fairly attractive and I feel his eyes on me so I smirk at him as I take my seat.
"Hola clase! Me llamo Miestra Plaster. Bienvenido a la Clase de Español Dos!"
A few mumbled hola's are all she gets in return aside from the overly enthusiastic girl up front who attempts to give her a greeting in Spanish, but fails miserably.
"I see we have a student new to this class? Holly Thames?" She pronounces Thames with a "th" sound and I sigh, "it's pronounced like 'tames' but yeah, hi". The cute boy chuckles a bit from behind me and I smile.
"My apologies, we're happy to have you! Welcome," she shoots me an endearing smile before turning back to the board.
At lunch I start to get a bit of anxiety. I haven't really made new friends so I'm not sure where I should be sitting! I find an empty table in a corner and slump down. After what seems like only a minute or so I'm joined by the cute guys from History.
"You may not be digging the uniform, but I definitely am," one of them smirks as he sits down across from me. His most noticeable feature is the wild hair on too of his head, dyed a sort of purple/white color.
"Hi, I'm Michael," he smiles genuinely and offers me a hand to shake.
"Hi um I'm Holly," I laugh a little, "and I'm glad you're enjoying my uniform?" The sentence turns into a question because I have no idea what to say in response.
"I'm Ashton, and this is Calum," a sweet looking guy with a bandana in his curly hair gestures to himself and his friend before continuing, "So, were you in a public school before this?" I nod and the boys look at each other and laugh, "Ooh a public school girl," Michael jokes in between laughs, wiggling around his eyebrows.
"Shut up!" I laughingly smack him on the arm. "I'm a very good girl," I mock innocently and bat my eyelashes. The boys' faces flush a little. "Shit," Calum drags out. Michael picks up the slack and laughs before saying, "oh yeah I'm sure you are". All Ashton has to say is, "never make that face again or I don't know if I'll be able to control myself". Giggling, I just roll my eyes at him. I think I've made friends.
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ayyy read this please and thanks. If no one reads it I won't continue writing it so yeah hopefully people read it. It's really short but I'm trying to kinda pace myself/the story. I've got this story actually planned out so I'm pretty excited omg
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