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{1. Social Casualty}

Chapter One

-Kallie-

The annoying school bell rings, starting the worst part of the day for me: lunch. I slump through the dark halls, and wander into the cafeteria. Immediately the disgusting smell of greasy lunch food  engulf me. I sure missed this, didn't I?

Over the giant mass of high school students, from football jocks to band geeks, I see that there is, in fact, nowhere for me to sit. Just like last year, the year before that, and every year before. This is what always happens at the start of every year; I find somewhere new to sit that will make my whole year dreadful.

I walk down the wide aisles to see row after row of guys throwing spitballs at each other's faces, snobby girls laughing their heads off on their expensive phones, and even some make-out scenes along the way. I don't care what it is, but it all makes me feel incredibly lonely. I've never really had a real friend here.

At the end of that treacherous journey across the big and smelly room, I see an open seat over by my spot from last year. My 'friends' sit there. Alex, Savannah, and Autumn. There they are, as usual, talking and laughing with nobody else like they are the only people on the whole planet.

Should I go over there? I ask myself.

Well, there's nowhere else.

I try not to draw any attention as I walk over to their table and tap Alex, the closest person to the end. She didn't turn around.

What am I? A ghost?

I tap her again, annoyed, but this time harder. Still, she kept on laughing with Savannah or whoever. At this point, I didn't care. Savannah eventually looked over Alex's shoulder, and laughed when she saw me standing there. She pointed at me, probably not even remembering who I was, even though I sat with them all last year.

Alex turned around, her expression annoyed. I didn't even say anything. She rolled her eyes.

"What the hell do you want, Kellie?!" She exclaims, emphasizing my 'name'. Autumn looks me in the eyes and laughs.

"It's...Kallie," I say with fear. I know she wasn't that scary, but her tone right now made me want to change my mind.

"Do you think I give a shit?!" She yells, making me flinch. She was never like this. Usually she doesn't even talk to me, and now she is swearing at me? I wonder what happened over the summer.

"I guess not. Can I s-sit here?" I ask, scolding myself for stuttering. No wonder they didn't like me; I'm so weak. I don't even like myself. She lets out a deep sigh, rolls her eyes again, and turns back around. Her long black hair hits me in the face, probably on purpose.

I take that as a yes.

I weakly sit down at the end of the lunch table, my eyes stinging with tears. She isn't going to make me cry, at least not in the middle of this place. She isn't worth it.

I open my ripped brown paper lunch bag and take out the only thing inside it: an apple. I start to eat it, looking straight at a white brick wall. All around me there are pretty girls with boys all around them, and then there is me. Just me, the average Kallie Solace, with nobody.

Now I am a senior in high school, and still have never had a boyfriend before. Boys barely even look at me, let alone talk to me. That is probably because I have no friends, no phone, and no popularity at all. But the only thing that keeps me out of this insanity is my singing. It is basically the only thing keeping me alive at this point. I sing a song under my breath to take me to another world. I hope.

I end up singing my favorite song, Robbers by The 1975. This song makes it feel like everything is okay, and nothing is wrong. But in reality it is just the opposite.

I'll give you one more time,

We'll give you one more fight,

Said one more line

Be a riot, cause I know you

I get up to throw my apple core away, until I slip on something that was spilled on the filthy cafeteria floors. I crash to the ground, landing in...what is this? It is pink, and smells disgusting. My nose crinkles in disgust, and I realize what it is.

Strawberry milk.

It feels like the whole cafeteria erupts in laughter just seconds after. This time the tears come for real. A flood of emotions. I start to cry like a baby, still sitting in the puddle of the horrible-smelling liquid. I stand up with my vision blurry, my new back to school clothes soaked in milk, and ruined. I run out of the room as fast as I can, but it's like I'm running in slow motion.

What an amazing start to the school year.

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This is just an intro chapter, so the rest of them will be a lot longer.

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-shannon-