Saving Sanity

Chapter 11

I walked up to the nearest teacher, at least I hope it's teacher. "Hi ma'am?" I said politely. The woman was short, she looked in her thirties with light brown mid length hair. She had piercing blue eyes and a big smile that made me cringe. "Yes?" She said.
"I'm new at this school at I was wondering where I'm supposed to go." I said. "What grade?" She asked.

"Eighth"

"Well, you go through the breezeway doors like any other." She told me.
"Yeah.. Well. The thing is, I've never been to a school before" I said.

"Oh well, you must have been home schooled."

"Nope. Thank you though." I said before walking away. I left a confused look on her face that, I have to admit, was kind of funny. I walked towards a door with a sign above it that read it big red letters:

BREEZE WAY

I entered and saw went into a hallway everyone was entering. There was a sign in blue paint that said:

Eighth grade way

I went down the long hallway being shoved and pushed through other kids.
Some people gave me dirty looks. Others just stared and whispered. I seem to be the only one in the entire hallway, grade maybe school maybe, that had colored hair.

I pulled out my schedule and tried my hardest to find my homeroom. I found it eventually and entered the classroom. Luckily the teacher wasn't in the classroom yet so I sat in a desk that was in the very far back corner of the room.

The teacher came in a few minutes later. He introduced himself and said some things about him and his family as if he actually thinks we care about his personal life. My hen he started talking about how much 'fun' we are going to have this year if we don't get on the list of 'people he doesn't like but HAS to deal with'.

The whole period went on about him at him getting to know us. I rolled my eyes, is school really like this? He gave us all a locker combination and a locker number. He took us to the locker which were all outside the classroom. We all put our bags and book bags into the locker since we really didn't need anything. I went to the rest on my classes. They were all boring. Why did I want to come here?!

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After school was over I went to the park and just walked around for a while.
I say on a park bench when a guy came up to me, he looked like he was in his forties or fifties. "Excuse we young lady, I lost my dog. Will you help me drive around town to find him?" He asked. Because I'm so naive and inexperienced with the cruelty of the world I said yes. He smiled like a pedophile. Then a girl came up to him. She looked my age, probably younger. She had big brown eyes lots of mascara and some eyeshadow. She was dressed fully in black and she had black hair with turquoise blue ends. She had a piercing in her lip, nose and eyebrow.
She obviously was goth. "Look, old man you try to lure me to your car and I kick you in the balls but you can't get it through your thick damn skull to stay they hell away from other girls!" She said. She had a Latino accent.

"What's going on?" I say.

She looked at me. It actually made me nervous. "This sick guy is trying to lure you into his car so he can rape you." She said casually and fast before returning her attention back to him. "I will chop your balls off and shove it down your fucking throat if I see you near any girls ever again!" She yelled.
He looked scared and tried walking away but tripped and face planted the ground. I have to admit I felt a little bad for him. "You okay?" She nodded her heads towards me. "Yeah" I said.

"Thanks" I said. "Ahh it's no problem.." She waved it off. "Aye you go to Oakland middle school?" She asked. "Yes.." I said. "Cool, I go there too." She said. I nodded at the awkward conversation we were barely having. After a few moment of silence I spoke. "We'll see you at school" I said "yeah" and we walked opposite directions.
I actually haven't thought at all about Julianne all day. That's a start for me. No more Julianne..

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I got home and saw Matt playing some game on his phone, he seemed really into it. "Hey Matt" I said. "Oh hi Riley how was your day?" He said not taking his eyes off the phone. He obviously wasn't paying attention. "Oh school was boring. People were staring and whispering at me all day. Oh and I almost got raped at the park, until a goth girl came and threatened to chop his balls off if he didn't leave me alone." I said casually. Still not taking his eyes off the phone "Yeah that's great Riles.." He said as he lost his game and restarted. I rolled my eyes and went upstairs, to my room. I fell asleep right away.

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The next day I had to go to school again. Me and Matt had another round of 'let's see if you can drag me out of bed without being kicked in the face'.
I got ready and left, people were still staring at me.

Today we start our special classes.
1 special classes: P.E., Health, P.E. Lab, Health Lab.

2 special classes: Art, Character Ed, Math Lab.

I had P.E. and Art.
In P.E. They gave us a gym uniform, blue baggy shirts with knee length yellow shorts. We changed and started out unit on Football. The boys and girls were separate. The girls lined up against the bleachers and the gym teacher chose random captains. The first one went up. She had dark brown hair, perfectly plucked eyebrows and enough makeup for a clown to reject. She chose a lot of short skinny girls, her friends probably. She turned around and flipped her hair. She walked towards her corner where her team will have to practice. She turned around and glared at me before sashaying away. I think I already made an enemy I've never talked to before.

The next captain went up, she looked familiar. Then I mentally smacked myself. Derr it's the girl from the park.
"Uhh.. You" she pointed towards a tall, slightly chubby, blonde girl. "You" she pointed to another girl. She chose 2 more girls then looked at me. "Red head" she pointed to me. The girls behind me started whispering and snickering. I walked to my new 'team'.
We walked towards a corner and the gym teacher said we had to introduce ourselves.

"Aye, red head" the goth girl tapped on my shoulder. "What"

"What's your name?" She asked.

"Riley" I said back.

"I'm Nadia" she held her hand out. I looked at it, remembering the first time I met Julianne. I shook it. She smiled a little. This was new since she always seem to be frowning or just having a plain neutral face.

I hope I can forget about Julianne and focus on school.

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A/N: So I made this chapter extra long for you! I hope you liked it! Comment, vote and keep reading!
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