Secrets

2

•D O M I N I C•

I woke up late. That's great for my first day at a new school. I rush around the house trying to get out of the house as fast as possible. It's not like I enjoy spending 8 hours of hell at school, but I need to go. I need to have some sort of future for myself, even if all I get is my high school diploma.

I run to my car, grabbing my keys off the counter in the process. I rush to my new school. I accidentally take a wrong turn and make myself even more late.

I get to school about an hour late. I walk into my classroom, slamming the door open in the process. I gave myself just a little too much attention when I did that.

Hi!" I say to the teacher with a huge smile on my face that may or may not be fake. "Sorry I'm late, my mum didn't tell me I was starting school today."

"Oh you must be Mr. Harrison." The teacher says to me with an awkward grin. "You can sit in the back, in the empty chair there." He points to the only open desk in the class. I smile knowing I won't have to talk to anyone, I hate talking to new people

"Thank you." I say walking casually to the back of the class.

I didn't listen to anything the teacher said. I think it was something about a war but I couldn't be sure. As class finally comes to an end I let out a sigh of relief as I shove my things in my bag.

Out of the corner of my eye, I see a girl walking my direction. Please be going to talk with some friends behind me or something. "Hi! I'm Felicity." She says to me with a huge smile on her face. I smile awkwardly at her and then go to walk out of the classroom. "Well you could at least say hi back." She has a little pout on her features and I hold back a laugh, my face not changing from bored to anything else.

"Hi." I deadpan. She looks a little sad that I didn't say anything else. "Dominic." I hold out my hand and her eyes immediately light up.

"Oh I love that name!" This girl has too much happiness. I think it's weird when people are too happy, like they're trying to hide something.

"Ok I'm just going say this straight up so you don't get your hopes up. I don't do relationships." I say, my face still straight and probably looking even more bored now.

"I don't want to date you, silly. I want to be friends!" Does she not know that relationships can be platonic too?

"I mean any kind of relationship. Platonic or romantic. It's just not my vibe." I say as her frown grows.

"Oh.... can I try to change your mind?" What the hell is up with her? Take the damn hint and leave me alone.

"Go for it, but trust me I don't even know what friends are anymore. Nothing can change that." I say and walk past her. I head to my next class trying to forget about the girl, Felicity I think.

I get to my locker and try to open it several times before it finally clicks and opens a crack. I pull it open and dumb my books in there. I don't bother grabbing anything for my next class and start walking to room 10C. I think it's English. I walk in the class and sit in the back corner. No one was sitting anywhere near the back so I just layed my head down knowing no one would bother talking to me. As people start filing in, the seats fill up leaving me no longer alone. Damn.

The teacher drones on and on about the Great Gatsby. As if I care about what some rich wanna-be did with his life. I didn't bother learning names of anyone and started dozing off. I didn't realize what I was thinking about until a certain name popped into my head Felicity. Why am I thinking about her? She annoyed me. But she also intrigued me. Maybe that's why I'm thinking about her. There's something different about her and I know it has to do with how oddly happy she is.

I want to figure it out, but I also want to completely ignore everyone in this school. My last school, back in England, I was popular and I hated the attention. None of my friends were real and no one knew how I really felt. I'm changing that in California. I'm changing it by talking to no one unless absolutely necessary.

I go through the day not paying attention in any of my classes, not the best decision since I just started here but oh well. But as I get to my last period I notice a certain person with dirty blonde hair to her mid back and a smile plastered to her face. I go to sit down, not even bothering to take my backpack off, and she sees me. She smiles wider at me, didn't know that was possible, and walks over to me. Shit.

"Hey Dominic!" She pulls out the chair in the desk next to me and plops down. "We have physics together too!"

"This is physics?" I look at her with a confused look on my face. "There's no way in hell I'm smart enough for this, I'm gonna go switch after school." I lied. I'm great at science actually.

"That's okay! I can tutor you if you need it!" How is she so willing to help a stranger? It makes no sense to me.

"You aren't worried I'm going to kidnap you and then murder you?" Her smile falters for a moment and I see actual fear in her eyes, but not fear of me. Weird. She doesn't waste a second and her smile comes back onto her face, as if it was never there.

"No.. should I be?" She says with a laugh. The teacher starts talking and she stays planted in the seat next to me the whole class. She's taking notes while I sit there and lay my head down. Not really caring if the teacher gets mad. As soon as the bell rings I get up and leave the classroom. Not giving Felicity the chance to talk to me.