Always Come Back To You

The Real Story Behind This Mask

(A/N: Rosalynn is from Britain, but I do want to preface this book by saying, I'm not from the UK and have never been. I have, and will continue to research the culture in the UK. If anything is incorrect, please comment.)

*BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!*

My alarm rings, waking me from my beauty sleep. I groan and tap and swipe my phone until the noise stops.

I don't even know why my dad is making me go to school today. It's a friday, and it's halfway through the school year.  I also have to take my 3 little siblings to school with me. Ughhh

I sit up and rub my eyes, walking to the bathroom that is hooked onto my bedroom. I pull my toothbrush out of my bag of bathroom stuff. I brush my teeth and look at my reflection.

I look like shit, and it's my first day at a new school, just lovely.

Once I finish brushing my teeth, I move on to brushing my long, dark hair.

After that I go to my closet and pick out some black leggings, and a light grey sweater. I change and put on black vans, slip ons.

I put on a little concealer and mascara, then grab my phone and bookbag.

I grab the keys to my moms old car, which is gonna be mine and the twins while were in seconda- I mean high school. That's odd to say.

I go down the stairs and see the twins and Dillon waiting at the door.

"Ready?" I ask, and they all nod.

"Yeah," my brother, Farrell says.

They follow me out to the car and my sister, Flynn jumps in the passenger seat before anyone else can and my brothers get in the back.

I zoom off and my sister tells me how to get to the school. Its about a 10 minute drive to the school.

We get out and I immediately run up to the office and get my schedule. Of course, with my luck the first class I have is calculus. I hate math. I also hate that I'm good at math.

I sigh and find my locker. I put in the combination and put books and a couple notebooks in it.

We got here early so I take the time to pop in my earbuds and find my classes. It wasn't hard to find them so I wait outside the door for a couple minutes.

Today my goal is to just get by without getting into a fight with anyone.

I enter my homeroom class and find a seat in the back. People slowly start filling the room taking there seats. A couple people shot me glances, but I went mostly unnoticed until,

"Okay class, before I take attendance I would like to introduce a new student, Rosalynn McCarthy." I sigh, "Rosalynn, can you please stand up and tell us your age and a fun fact about yourself."

I stand up and suck in a breath.

"I'm Rosa, I'm 17 and uh- I'm from Britain." I release the breath, my eyes meeting with a guy,

That's the same guy I saw at the park, I put my head down and sit down. I hate speaking in front of people.

She does attendance and makes the announcement for the winter ball. I leave the room, with my head down once she is finished and I bump into someone.

"Sorry," I mutter and I hear people laugh.

I've always hated school and the people in it. I've never really had any friends, besides Luke, who was also my first and only boyfriend.