The Time of My Life [Completed]

Chapter 17: The Time I Started High School

Thursday, August 31, 2017

8:17 am

I spent the last 72 hours doing nothing but eating, sleeping, crying, and watching daytime television.

I admit, I was extremely depressed. I still am. But today, I finally start high school. It's feels like this summer got dragged on forever.

I think school will be a good way to get my mind off of things. What things? Oh... I don't know. Maybe being taken away from my friends right before starting high school, something we all dreamed about doing together since we were 5 years old. Or finding out I was adopted. Then finding out my biological parents are dead and I have 14 brothers I never knew about. How about the fact that I still don't know why I was put up for adoption in the first place! They can handle having 14 boys, but not one little girl?! Oh! And my sort of boyfriend is no longer my sort of boyfriend. Maybe not even my friend anymore. And to tie it all up in a big, fat bow...... my brother is dead.

But I'm not supposed to be thinking of that right stuff now. The way I see it, school's only value to me right now is to be a distraction. A distraction from my crazy ass, slightly fucked up reality.

I hopped (literally) off the bus. Why do they make buses so high off the ground? I'm 5'3". There are plenty of kids here shorter than me. If I'm practically falling out of the bus, I wonder how they're doing.

I look down at the paper a got in the mail the other day with a map of the school. It says to go to home room to get my schedule.

I moved myself into a nook in the side of the hallway, out of everybody's way, then took out my map of the school. Room 137. I realized I was standing right across from room 135 and didn't even need the map.

Walking into the classroom, it was already nearly full, even though class doesn't start for nearly 10 minutes.

I walked over to the teacher. "Hi, I'm Jessica Keene. I was told you have my class schedule?"

She handed me my schedule and a few other papers and told me to take any empty seat.

I walked all the way to the back and sit at the corner desk, next to a nerdy looking boy with large, black framed glasses. He was taller, at least a few inches taller than me. And had curly brown hair that fell over his eyes. I wondered in the back of my mind what the point of his glasses were if his hair was going to block his vision anyway.

"Hi, I'm Jessie."

He peeked over at me from behind his hair. "No."

No? I'm not Jessie? Than my entire life has been a lie. "What do you mean, no?"

"You can't talk to me."

"Why not?" This kid is weird.

"You still have a chance. You're new right?" I nodded. "Than you still have a chance to be popular."

"I can talk to whoever I want to talk to."

"Fine, your loss. I'm Sam." He rushed out.

The bell rang, and the teacher told us all to sit down and be quiet until it's time to leave.

"So, what do you do in home room?" I asked Sam. We were sitting in the back row with a lot of kids blocking us, so I think it's safe to talk.

"Nothing, really. It's school policy that we have homeroom at least 25 times during the year. We have it the first two weeks, the first week of second semester, and then another 10 times scattered throughout the year." He glanced down at the papers that were still in my hands. "What classes are you taking?"

"Umm... I don't know." I hadn't even looked at it myself yet. This school is on the block schedule, so I have 4 classes 1st semester, and a different 4 second semester. When you have lunch depends on what your 3rd class is.

Semester 1
World History Honors
Animal Science
Earth and Environmental Science Honors
Marketing

Semester 2
Vocal Music Beginning
Theatre Arts Beginning
Math 2 Honors
English 1 Honors

"We're in the same science and English classes!" Sam said happily. I think he's starting to warm up to me. "So we'll have lunch together this semester. Do you want to sit together?" He asked shyly.

"I already told my brothers I would sit with them, but you're welcome to sit with us." He nodded. "Cool, I'll meet you at the science lab?" I smiled at Sam and walked off since the bell had just rang.