boogeyman ( h.s. au )

one

when people look at me in school, they think i am a poor girl. all because i don't have a father. all my friends have "happy families", like they call them. i have a happy family as well, but it's only me and my mother. we are alone for about eighteen years, in other words, my age. 

she always said it was because of money that he left, but i can't believe her. why would he go right by the time i was going to be born. it's so stupid, what he did to us. but i was never affected by that, i didn't even know him. my mother always says i have my dad's eyes, blue like the sea. i hate my eyes, to be honest, but it's what i have and i need to pretend to like the fact i have my father's eyes. 

evey single day of my life this year as been going to school, coming home, study and go to bed. i don't eat a lot when it comes to meals. i just like to have a snack now and then. it's a thing my body is used to. this day is not different from all others. it's a regular monday, and i'm walking towards my school. it's a white and beige building, and it has so many students. i don't know how they control our classes and be sure that every class as a room and teacher every day. 

i think school is one of the most incredible places i have ever been. i'm not a geek, even though that's what most people think about me, but i love school. my mother doesn't like my friends, and that's the only place where i can be with them, without my mother judging them all the time, and saying i shouldn't be with them. they are cool girls and i really like them, but yeah they can be pretty awkward sometimes.

when i was about to cross the road, i saw a black figure looking at me, sitting next to a tree. it was obviously a male person, i don't know why, maybe because of his short hair i just thought immediately about it. yeah, but it could also be a girl, there is a girl in my class that has her hair short, and it kind of cool, i guess.

when he saw me staring at him, he quickly got up and putted his sunglasses on, biting his bottom lip. i felt a bit unconfortable but ignored his stares. i looked both ways, when i got to the edge of the road, and crossed through the crosswalk, adjusting the bag i was carring on my back. the man was now gone, and i continued to walk on my way to the school.

ten minutes later, i was walking through the huge gates that separated the outside world from the private school i attend since i am ten years old. we need to wear uniforms, and they are really confortable, so i don't really care that there are more hundreds of people with the same clothe as me. it's nice, because no one can make fun of how i am dressed.

it would be so pathetic, if they did. but they do pick on me because of my looks. it's a regular thing now, and i'm used to it. the only people that don't make fun of me are gabriella, anna and meredith. they are the girls my mother doesn't approve to be with me, but i don't listen. they are cool and smart, like me, i guess.

i see anna walking towards the big building where we are going to have physical education and quickly rush my steps. " hey, anna! " i say, watching her as she turns around and, for my surprise, she smiles and waves. her steps are now slow, and she is waiting for me by the door. i smile back to her and put a lock of my hair behind my hear. as i got next to her, she approaches her face to mine and greets me with a kiss in the cheek, that i return with sympathy.

'' hello tacia. '' she says and we came in the white balneary, walking past a group of girls that were getting ready, with no tops and only in their panties. it was so akward to change next to the other girls. i always feel like they are judging me while i get undressed. even though i don't care what people think about my body, because i think it's a normal one, it's always spiteful to hear those things.

i placed my bag on a locker that was free and grabbed my clothes for E.P. moving to a wc room, where i could change in peace. there were some girls in the same balneary as me and anna, and anna knew them, so i left her with them. they can talk about the keeping up with the kardashians show all they want. i have more interests than to see the kardashian family making stupid figures of themselves.