November

Chapter 2: Same Old, Same Old

As I walk through the gates of school, I see my best friend, Raquelle. She seems to be sitting down on a silver seat, waiting for me. "Hey Raquelle", I yell at the top of my lungs and shake my arm to get her attention. She turns to see me and runs like a mad person up to me screaming my name "Gianna! Gianna! Gianna!" She yells with excitement. Once she reaches me, she begins to jump up and down holding my hands. " It's the last day of school" she says and begins to pant from exhaustion. "I know, I know, I know," I say. "No more homework" we say at the same time and do our AMAZING bestie hand shake that we made last week. A fist bump followed by a foot trick, then a chest bump continued by a pinkie promise concluded with a bestie hug. It was so cool! Once we finished we began walking around the school playground telling each other what we're doing during summer vacation.

"During the road trip to Queensland, we might visit farms and check out the awesome animals. I might even get to pat and groom them. OMG, Imagine if I got to ride a horse!" Raquelle squeals with excitement. Raquelle always liked animals and the nature. She was always out doors and there was no animal or flower that she didn't know about. She always researched them, then tried to find them out in nature and photograph them. Raquelle is truly one of a kind. "That would be awesome," I say. "Guess what I am doing this Summer vacation?" "What?!" She says. "I'm travelling to Europe for 1 whole month." I begin to squeal with excitement. "Don't forget to hit up any hotties!" She says with a wink. I roll my eyes at her. "I'm not planning to look at boys, I'm going to look at the world! Famous landmarks, beaches. OMG even amazing des- Suddenly I'm interrupted by Lila. The biggest bully of the school. She thinks she is so amazing because her dad is the principal. As for her mum, she owns a famous designer woman's clothes shop, known as 'Good vibes' Lila models in the outfits for the commercials and everyone thinks she looks so pretty and all the guys are after her. Of course she is only secretly in to one guy though 'Nick' (Don't ask me where I got that info from). He is as rich as her and has golden hair and bright blue eyes. I guess it's understandable that she likes him. Unfortunately for Lila though he sees her as a friend. I mean they have known each other since preschool and their parents are like family friends. Come to think of it I think Lila has bullied me almost my whole high school life because she was so mad that he didn't like her that way, so she took it out on me.

"Hi loser!" She says as she marches up to me in her new designer heels and handbag. Her best friends Monica and Blair right behind her have crossed arms and look at me dead in the eyes. It was the same old greeting I got every day. "Whatcha thinking of doing in the Summer vacation? Clean your room 24/7 cause it stinks of dog s***" she says. They all laugh their fake, girly laugh. "Actually I'm going to Europe for the month to explore other places than your ass" I say, bumping shoulders as I walk past and flick my hair to show some attitude. Raquelle follows, giving her a dirty look. It was about time I showed her some attitude. Before Lila can catch up the school bell goes and we head off to role call class so we wouldn't be late. "Saved by the bell", I say to Raquelle and we part ways. 😜