Braided

First Day of Highschool

Dear Diary,

I started today to think things would actually be different today I got out of bed and did my hair but not the way I used to wear it. My mom used to put it in one long braid but since I chopped it this summer the most I can do is straighten it till it comes to my shoulder makes it look longer.

I started writing this maybe to tell my story but honestly, I'm just like every other girl in high school or at least I want to be and I am trying to really hard to be. Maybe this whole Moving school thing would help is what I thought but he was in my homeroom. Sitting there in a varsity football jersey. I thought I had moved on.
I mean summer was so long ago I attended a summer camp for the first time ever this summer. It was for students going into grades 9 and 10.  So mostly it was people my own age but he was a counselor. He was about 18 years old and I was starstruck the moment I met him. The buses rolled up into camp being from the city I wasn't used to all the trees. They were so tall they almost reached the heavens yet something about them had a clear meaning, feeling almost like they were watching me. At that moment I didn't understand why but sadly I would learn later I definitely let my ground down though once I saw that vast lake I always loved the water and there wasn't much of it. Even though it was kind on the darker side and kind of icky it was like a dream come true. I would get to just float in the water and look at the stars which I would get to see for the first time.
The next thing I noticed was how quaint the whole place was. The wood cabins looked like something out of a postcard or one of those books where someone isolates themselves in the woods when we got to the main cabin. The main camp leader broke us up into groups. I ended up in the "Beaver Clan" and we were assigned cabins boys were on the right and girls on the left then the counselors had their own space. Each clan had two counselors, one for the boys and one for the girls. I remember picking my bunk, obviously the top because I had this fear of the bed collapsing on top of me and the bed where I picked had a crack in the ceiling where you could see the sky. I didn't think at the time about how much it was going to suck when it rained.
The girl who put her stuff on the bottom bunks name was Sophie at the time I wouldn't imagine that this short little blonde girl would be my best friend we would do everything together lag behind during the hikes go swimming in the middle of the night jumping off the cliffs into the dark cold water we brushed the seaweed out of each others hair and she would put it into a braid for me.
But on the first day, it was a little bit of small talk and then we had to have a clan meeting and that's where I first saw him I don't really want to put his name down because it hurts too much even to this day but the moment I met him I was at the first cabin meeting. He was tall muscular perfectly tan with scruffy black hair the whole time he was speaking he was looking right at me there were a bunch of pretty girls there and he noticed me now I kind of wished he didn't he makes me want to puke I wasn't expecting him to go to this school or for there to be mixed grade homerooms I will just keep to myself for now. Maybe he won't notice I'm here.