new school, new friends

part one

my name is avery. i'm constantly moving high schools, moving to different houses, and i guess my life is pretty... well. messy. i'm 17 years old and i live in new jersey. i have been at this school called "ridge highschool" for maybe two months now. i only have very few friends, but i am considered popular in my school.

i was walking down the hallway, and decided to talk to my best friend isabella.
"hey avery!! did you hear about the two new twins?" she asked me.
"two new twins? who?" i didnt even bother to say hello back, i was so interested to learn who these "twins" were.
"yeah. their names are ethan and... gr-grayson? they're really cute."
"well where are they?" i started to panic, any cute boys sounded fantastic seeing as there's NO cute boys in this school.
she told me that they were in the auditorium, i didn't ask how she knew, but at that point i didn't care. i started walking to the auditorium and my shoes squeaked the whole way there.

it didn't help that when i arrived, i had no clue what these boys looked like. sure, they're new, i might be able to spot them easily. but there was a bunch of kids surrounding kids in a circle, which immediately caught my eye. i started walking over, hoping that there was a fight (i love drama in my school sometimes)

"yeah, i did. did you see me and ethan do the flip?"
i figured that those were the new twins. they were super cute, just like isabella said. one of them looked at me, which made my heart immediately stopped, but my eyes locked with his and we both stared at each other.

"hi, i'm grayson. your name?" he shook my hand, grabbing it from my side and then letting it go quickly.
"hi.. i'm avery? are you new?" i was shaking, not because he was cute, but because he was extremely intimidating. everyone was staring at us but the other half of the group was listening to his brother talk.
"yeah haha. we came here yesterday." he smirked at me and then turned back to his brother. i stood there in complete shock. my mind was in a million different places.

"ISABELLA. YOU WILL NOT BELIEVE WHAT JUST HAPPENED." i yelled directly in her face, panicking.
"what? are you okay?" she turned pale and turned immediately to me.
"I JUST TALKED TO GRAYSON. THE NEW KID. HE CAME UP TO ME! AND HE SHOOK MY HAND!" i shouted at her, at this point everyone was heading to their classes but i was freaking out too much to even care.
"you're kidding right?! you're so lucky! HE SHOOK YOUR HAND? he didn't even wanna look at me for two seconds!"

later on that day, after 7th hour, i went to my locker and started putting my things in my bag. i felt a tap on my shoulder, i turned and said, "hey is-" and paused. it was grayson.
"hey! it was nice meeting you. do you have snapchat?" grayson asked me.
we locked eyes again, but i snapped out of it and gave him my snapchat and smiled. he walked away and next thing i know, i heard my snapchat notification go off that he added me. i felt like i was going to pass out, there was no way he was talking to me. i shoved everything in my bag and jogged to my bus, realizing i was about to miss it.