there's no other way- Damon Albarn

girls and boys

my hands are trembling as I'm about to enter my new school I cant explain the amount of fear that's going through me right now. I look at my dad trying not to tear up, he tells me I'm going to be fine but I don't feel like that. I stare out the window at the old fashioned school my heart races more and more as I see the school kids swarming through the gates and the older kids smoking cigarettes behind a bike shed I'm lost in thought when "Rachel" my dad calls. "yeah I know I've got to go one day".

I jump out the car and say goodbye to my dad. the more I want towards the school the more my legs tremble. as I walk through the gates some trashy girls with fake orange skin are talking shit about me already, I sigh and ignore them.

I walk through the front doors into the reception, I struggled to open the door as I kept pushing it the wrong way, how can I already be embarrassing myself?!

I ask the receptionist to ask for my timetable and I head to my first lesson, I walk through the classroom door into English some of the kids are staring at me but some aren't too bothered I walk up to the teacher and ask where I sit.

I take a seat next to a boy with light brown hair that hangs perfectly over his aqua eyes, I stare at him without even realising, I didn't even realise that he was speaking.

"hi I'm Damon" he says to me, I just stare at him for about another 5 seconds until I realise he was talking to me, "oh uh hey.. I'm Rachel" he just smiles at me amused.