The Bad Boy's Gang

Chapter One - Meet Ariana Rose Rivera

Chapter 1 - Meet Ariana Rose Rivera

Don’t you just love life’s clichés. Your mother pops you out like a sucker; they feed and nurture you till you get shipped to day-care, pre-school, then the most dreaded time of anyone’s life, High school. Sometimes I wonder why people reproduce, when we ourselves know how much life can suck. My parents decided that once I was old enough for preschool, they’d go back to focusing on their law firm, travelling world-wide to battle the toughest cases known to man. So ever since I was 3, I had been looked after by Maria, our then nanny and now maid.

My parents call me once a month if I'm lucky. They return home for the year’s festivities then they are off again. Sometimes I wonder why my parents had me. It’s like, why bother to have someone at home, waiting for you every single day when you could just be travelling with each other without anything tying them down. But yet, they wanted a child they were graced with one, and only think about her when they think it's necessary.

You would think that I'm just complaining about nothing, my parents are rich, we live in a big house, my parents bought me my car, I have every possible thing I could crave for but sometimes that’s just not enough to make you happy, half of these are just unnecessary wants.

My name is Ariana Rose Rivera; I'm 17 years old, living in sunny West Coast California. I go to Berkeley West High and I'm a senior. I'm your average shy girl, I have long brown wavy hair, green eyes, full pink lips and my body if I say so myself, is quite rocking. I only have a small circle of friends, but I wouldn’t change it for the world. I am quite the nerd; I get straight A’s with the occasional B’s. I don’t skip school, I hate taking sick days and I'm definitely not one to mix with anything bad.

Anything bad would be our plastics led by Cleo, our jocks led by an idiot named Harley and California’s own bad boys led by the notorious gang leader, Maddox Rayne Carter.  Maddox is one that you do not want to cross.

No matter how serious the situation is, the best option is to look away and keep walking. Maddox is the leader of Cali’s most feared gang, the American Rippers. They are the most watched by police, but till this day they haven’t been arrested. Why? Because Maddox has all his gang related activities done when its dark, or in a super secretive place. How do I know this? I'm in high school, nothing can be kept a secret. 

Like I said, Maddox isn’t one to cross. But unfortunately for me, an extremely long cafeteria line, and hungry hormonal teenagers, our paths met.

Lunch

The bell finally sounded for lunch, as all of the student body made a beeline for the cafeteria. Some stopped to shove their hardly used textbooks in the tiny locker space given for our large text books. Me, I hardly used my locker, I'm a nerd, it’s essential for me to keep my textbooks in my book bag. You never know when they might come in handy! I promise!

Constantly tripping over my feet, I finally made my way into the cafeteria, spotting my friends sitting at a nearby table I sauntered over to them. Squeals of excitement were coming from their mouths, as they each spoke frantically.

“Oh my god Ariana! You missed it!” my bestfriend Piper squealed, making me cringe.

“Missed what?” I questioned as I sat down, placing my book bag in front of me.

“None other than Maddox hottie McHot pants Carter, telling Cloe to shove her plastic face up her ass!” Piper said, laughing booming out of her. Letting out a giggle of my own, I shook my head and stood up.

“You girls seriously need to stop spreading gossip” walking off, I made my way into the lunch line.

Grabbing a tray, I slowly moved with the already formed lunch line, waiting to get my hands on whatever non exciting food they've provided for us today.