Scared To Be Lonely

Chapter 9: Home-School Merge

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Lunch was one of the times at the Home that many took as a chance to finally get a break from things; either sitting with the friends they had made, or sitting alone to read a book they had gotten, or just to enjoy the outdoors. But ever since the merge happened, forcing the kids to have to share their school (which was only being used because of the size of it) with the kids who had come from a rich boarding school on the other side of the city.

The merge was temporary while the boarding school had to remodel after getting a gas leak, which made them have to split the rich kids off to the two other biggest schools in Havana. One of which was just another boarding school, but the second one, was the school that the Home basically ran. 

This meant that one of the worst ideas any adult could of had, happened. And that was mixing rich snotty kids, with the orphan street rats.

The headmaster of the Home just saw it as a chance to get more money, since he was practically being paid to make the kids from uptown have a pleasant stay there, and that meant that the kids who were actually from the Home, their lives became even harder.

Just think of every school stereotypes mixed into one crowded Home-Boarding School, with the kids filling the place splitting off into two complete different groups. There were obviously the jocks, the popular bitches, the nerds, and the outcasts. It just seemed that in this school, everything got amped up.

Some kids got kicked out of their room to give more space for the rich kids, making some bedrooms (that weren't even big) have 3 to 6 kids in them.

Even getting over the fact that the system in the school got even worse, the rich kids got away with stuff that the kids from the Home never could have in a million of years. And after a week of just being there, it was figured out really quickly, and the Prep students even found that it was a fun game when they got the "orphans" into trouble. 

But most the kids who had been at the Home, didn't do well when someone upstaged them or stepped all over them. They had grown up on the streets and in any other school, they would be known as the "bad boy" or "bad girl" of the school, except it was more than just one or two people.

This meant that there was basically an ongoing war between all the kids, of which ranged from the age of 5 to 17. None sheltered for any reason.

And Nicolette Mendes had learned that her first night after coming back from America. But with her, it seemed different. The Prep students, who had already made it "their school", immediately saw her as a new target. But, where the kids of the Home usually protected their own, they didn't think of Nick as their own anymore. Because, to anyone that had been there before she left, saw her as someone who ditched them at the first sign of something better. And the only person she's ever been able to count on there, Marcos, had apparently been taken back by his father a year before.