~Mirrored~

Chapter 1

I walk into the same school I have for the past 14 years of my life. It's the same old thing every day. I walk in the commons everyday and wait for my friends Dan, Kate, and Zoe. I don't have a very large friend group but we make do. I sit and wait for what feels like years every day and once they show up we usually only talk for a bit and then we head off our own separate ways to our class.
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I hear my alarm go off and a whacked it to turn it off. I don't want to get up today. Everything around me just seems to be falling apart around me. I have a nice family and everything, but they don't understand how it feels to question everything about yourself. I get up and look through my dresser to find clothes and I am discouraged once I notice I hadn't even done my laundry either. I roll my eyes and grab a black t-shirt with skinny jeans and a black leather jacket that I didn't really like but my group made me wear it. They claimed it was because I needed to match them for some reason. I brush my black hair and sigh in the mirror. It's not exactly how I wanted to look today but I don't really care anyway. I brush my teeth and put on my glasses after cleaning them. I walk out of the bathroom and head down stairs to where my parents are and grab a granola bar. I look around for my bag with all my school work. Where the hell could it be? I just had it last night! I decide to run back upstairs to my room and see it leaning against my bed. I grab it and run back down the stairs. I yell to my parents goodbye but they didn't answer, as usual. I never really had a great relationship with my parents. They never really were around very much. They either were always out drinking or were on business trips. I walk out the door to my car and throw my bag in. I have a white Jeep that my parents bought me for my 16th. I'm very thankful for that. It's one of the only things they did for me while they were actually home. I sit in the driver's seat and head off to the school. I make it to the school and I get out of my car. I grab my bag and shut the door, then head to the doors of misery. I walk in and see my group is already in the commons and I sit down with them. "So I was like bro, this chick is honestly so fucking hot like goddamn" I hear Dan say. "Well, she's not that attractive. I mean, I've seen better" Zoë says to Dan. "Hey guys?" I say weakly trying to get them to stop talking about whatever girl Dan has seen now. "Oh, hey Mark, what's happening?" Dan says. "Uh, I don't know, life? I guess?" I say slightly annoyed. "Oh, hey Mark! I didn't even really notice you were here" Kate says excitedly as if she hadn't seen me in months. "Hey Kate, hey um, who were you guys talking about?" I ask curiously but honestly, I couldn't really care less if this girl even was in our school or if she had buck teeth. I didn't really like hearing about how Dan found another girl to try to do it with. "Oh! We were just talking about this chick I saw when I was out with Zoë" Dan exclaimed. "Oh, that's.. cool" I say trying not to roll my eyes. "Oh come on, don't be a buzzkill. I know you're not actually interested. Could you at least TRY to be excited" Dan says annoyed. I scoffed at that comment and looked over at Kate. I've been dating her for a while now. I was kind of pressured into being with her since she has been in the group longer than I have. Dan really wanted us to be like a "power couple" or some crap like that. I didn't entirely care about that. I saw Kate look at me and she brushed her brown hair out of her face. She looked over at Dan who was still saying nonsense about that random girl he saw. I saw a boy walk in and he had his head down trying to avoid the world. I stared at him probably for too long. Long enough for Zoë to pick up on it anyway. "Mark, what the hell are you looking at?" Zoë asked eagerly. I looked at her quickly. "Um, I just saw some kid who looked like he was avoiding everyone else" I say trying to pretend I wasn't that interested in the person. I blink a few times then look down. The bell rings and we go our separate ways while I still think about that kid.