Freshman Year

Chapter 2

Oh, I almost forgot, hi. I am Vanessa Brooklis, but my friends have just shortened it to V. My family has a different nick-name for me though. When I was about five years old, my little sister, Ashlynn, was born. When she started talking, naturally, we tried to get her to say my name. for the most part she got it, except that instead of Vanessa, she would call me Nessa. From then on, my entire family has just called me that. Anyway, I am currently fifteen years old and in a little over a month, I will be turning sixteen. I am a sophomore in high school, which is really fun because for the most part you know everything about the school, you can find your way around easily, you can make fun of and laugh at the freshman since you were one and know how much they are freaking out, and you can still get away with being late the first few days since teachers think you still don't know your way around completely. Anyway, I have a semi-slender figure. I am about an average height, maybe a little taller. I have long, brown hair that ends just above my elbow. I have hazel eyes that appear a different color everyday. I am pale, but have little to no blemishes on my skin. Also, I love to tell jokes and make people laugh. I have a fun personality and I don't think that it is physically possible for me to be rude to a single soul.

As I run through my daily routine I keep thinking back to my dream I was having before my mother woke me up. Me and Peter Wolfe, together! I have had a crush on Peter Wolfe since we were in the 6th grade. Now of course, this would never happen in a million years because I don't talk to him. He doesn't even know my name. We are in the same History and English class. I don't talk much though and I try to avoid being called on as much as possible, because I really don't like attention.

When I finally snap back to reality my bus is about three minutes away and I need to head out to get on. I grab my lunch that my mom had made the night before and give her a quick kiss goodbye. I head out the door and down the driveway to the bus stop. When I get to the bus stop I pause before dropping my heavy load on the ground.

When I turn to my left, I can see my friend Jennie heading down the road. Then I turn to my left and I see the bus pulling up to the stop that is two before mine. I wave Jennie over in signal that the bus is almost here and she picks up her pace a bit. She gets to the stop about a half a second before the bus does.

When we get on the bus I sit in my usual seat, about three back on the 2-seater side. Then I turn to Jennie, "so how was your weekend?" I ask her. She takes a minute to situate her bags and turns around to answer.

"oh it was as boring as ever." she said sarcastically, "but I had this really weird dream I was being chased by a mob after watching this offal movie yesterday." she laughed.

"huh, that is weird." I say.

"yea, I think it was because of the movie but I'm not one hundred percent sure." she laughed, "you have any weird dreams?" she chuckled.

"not weird per-say, but definitely a great one." then I lean in close and lower my tone, "I had a dream that me and Peter Wolfe were together! Like together, together!" I laughed. Then I leaned back in my seat and watch Jennie laughing for a minute.

"you know, you really should just go up to him and say hi one day, he is really nice and I bet he would like you if he got to know you." she said.

"yea right. I would never just go up to him just out of the blue and start talking to him. It would be way to humiliating when he ignores me!" I said.

Jennie chuckles and then responds, "you know, you don't give yourself enough credit. He would want to talk to you. He would be intrigued by you." Then we both burst out laughing and everyone on the bus looks our way, so I burry my head under my hood, trying to escape the stares. When they have all faded away, I come out of hiding.

"yea, right" I giggle, "and then Liam Payne will show up and propose."

Jennie shakes her head. "well in that case, I want to be the maid of honor" she laughs. As soon as she catches her breath the bus comes to a jerking stop and the glass doors open.

"ugh, time to go to school." I say, mimicking the motions of gagging. We both laugh and walk to our first class together.

When we walk into the building, we are like popsicles melting by a stove. It was freezing cold outside and once we walked into the building, it was like summer had arrived early, and we weren't complaining.

When we walk into our classroom it wreaks of a dead animal. Then we turn to look back at the lab table and see we are doing dissections today. I look away immediately in hopes of keeping down my breakfast. When everyone is here, the teacher begins her rant.

"okay boys and girls, today we are going to be dissecting a frog. I am going to assign you a lab partner and let you get to work." she said. Then she started ranting off names of pairs and I half-listened, only waiting to hear my name called right after Jennie's. yes! We're a pair.