Arabella

Chapter 1

It was the beginning of my freshman year. I've seen movies that show kids being shoved in lockers, getting books knocked out of their hands, etc. I feel like that's not really what happens.

What I've learned about high school my first couple weeks was there are so many different types of people. Like that kid in the hall that runs with his arms behind his back, or the girl who draws anime in math class. There's even those people who don't like you because you're quite or not really outgoing.

So what are you suppose to be when you go to high school? That outgoing girl who everyone loves. The quiet girl who eventually gets popular because she befriends the prettiest girl in school.

I've been in the school before to order my brother Carters JROTC pictures, but I never get to actually walk around. I've never had a reason. I haven't done sports for the high school like most 8th graders that I went to school with last year. In fact I've never really been like the people I go to school with.

Basically everyone I go to school with moves like crazy. It's hard to keep a friend for more than a couple months. 6 if you're lucky. Anyway this isn't some book about a teenager who is an outcast for half of her freshman year then becomes this girl who fits into the crowd that smokes, drinks, goes to parties, etc. It's just a book about a girl. Not some lable like a book.

Before school started I wasn't really up to much. I had a "boyfriend" at the time and I felt like I was on top of the world. There was just a simple thing that was keeping me away from having that perfect life. I just don't know what it was that I was missing. I felt like nothing could bring me down.

So I guess I need to start somewhere in the story, but I don't know whether to start at the end of 8th grade or at the beginnin of summer. Maybe what I write from here will determine when it starts. I'm not meaning this to be something that my friends see. I would never want them to see this. There are specific people in this story that stay for a while. Most of them come and go, so don't worry you won't have to keep up with a lot of characters.

Who knows, maybe one day this will be published as an actual book. I would love to write a book, but I don't think this is the one. Maybe some other story plot will come along. Until then you've just read the first chapter of my life.