The new girl

Chapter 1-first day

"CLARKE WAKE UP FOR THE LOVE OF GOD YOU'RE ALREADY LATE".

I quickly bolt up and look at the clock....shittttttt.

It's my first day and I'm already screwing up, I never wanted to move anyway, what's the point? It's not going to change anything. My dad is still dead, school still sucks and who likes a new girl? I'm tempted to just lay back down and stay in bed all day, but I have been doing that for months, I know I need to at least try to get through the next few weeks, maybe it is finally time to move on?

I quickly rush downstairs after a quick shower and getting dressed and quickly grab some toast off of the table, grab my bag and rush out of door, "BYE MOM, HAVE A GOOD DAY".

After practically sprinting to school I finally make it and am standing in front of the giant front door and realise I have no idea where I am going, "here goes nothing" I whisper to myself and burst open the double doors only to be met by a long winding corridor with at least a hundred different doors. I must've been walking around this stupid fucking school for at least ten minutes and there is literally no one about, I know I have English first but it is literally impossible to find the damn classroom. I really can't be arsed anymore so instead I just open the closest door and walk in, but I immediately regret it as I feel everyone's eyes on me. 

I glance to the teacher, "can you tell me where room 32 is?" he smirks, wow.

"I'm guessing you're the new girl, Clarke Griffin?"

"Yup".

"You're in here, I'm professor Jaha, why are you so late Miss Griffin?" I already hate his damn guts.

"Sorry I slept through my alarm and couldn't find the room".

"Take a seat Clarke but I'd advise you not to be late to my class again, I do not like slackers, next time it will be a detention".

Anger boils up in me but instead I roll my eyes and sit in the only empty space, next to a tanned girl, with long dark hair. I wasn't in the mood to listen so instead I open my notebook and sketch, whatever he was saying it sounded boring.

"Miss Griffin?" I glance up to see everyone's eyes on me, "why are you not paying attention?"

"I was sir, your class is very interesting", I try to smile as innocently as possible in hopes that he'll just leave me alone.

"Really? Then maybe you would like to talk to the class on what I was speaking about?"

Wow this guys really is a dick, "words obviously", everyone snickers but that just angers him more. 

"Start paying attention Miss Griffin, we wouldn't want to have to send such a lovely student back to whatever school you were just kicked out of".

Is he fricken serious? I wanted to slap that stupid grin straight off of his stupid face. I can feel tears threatening to rise at just how wrong he is, without saying a word I shoot him a death glare, grab my bag and walk out, slamming the door behind me. I rush to the toilets and lock myself in a cubicle, and collapse to the floor, finally allowing my tears to silently flow. Who the hell does he think he is? He doesn't know me?

After crying for at least half an hour, I wipe my tears and wash my face, walking back out with an emotionless facade firmly in place. I decided to try and find my classroom before the halls become busy, maybe that way I won't be late to another class. Of course though, I had no luck, soon the halls were bustling with people and I was ready to give up.

"Hey it's Clarke right?" I turn to see the girl I sat next to in English, "yeah".

"I'm Raven, do you need help finding your classroom? I know how confusing this place can be."

"That would be amazing, I'm in room 5 for maths I think."

"Follow me", she says with a smile and I quickly trail after her, "ignore Jaha he's pretty much a dick to everyone".

"I thought he seemed to be like that".

"He always has been but he's great at English, just try not to let him get to ya".

"Thanks Raven", wow this girl is really nice, maybe it won't be so bad here after all.

"No problem, it's that classroom there, I guess I'll see you around Griffin", she smiles and turns around, heading in the opposite direction so I head into the classroom.

"Hi, I'm new, Clarke Griffin", I say walking up to the teacher, "nice to meet you Clarke, I'm miss Indra, your seat is right over there".

I nod and take the seat she pointed to, keeping my head down until the class begins, I'm quite good at maths so this shouldn't be too bad. People started coming in and the class was quickly over, I was sat next to a girl called Octavia, we didn't talk much but she seems really alright.

Eventually it got to lunch and because I didn't really know anyone, I just found a quiet corner, put my earphones in and sketched in my notebook a bit, after a while I looked up and saw a girl across the courtyard watching me. She was mostly dressed in the dark colours with thick eyeliner and surrounded by a group of friends, all looking happy and laughing. Once she saw that I noticed she looked away quickly, so I decided to ignore it, concentrating back on my notebook. 

The rest of the day went by quite quickly and I could finally go home. I quickly went to the kitchen, grabbed some food and headed to my room, collapsing straight onto my bed.

What a fucking day.