ETHEREAL

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7 am my alarm clock rings. I'm so tired. The airport really wore me out. I do not want to get up. We have to be at school by 8:00 am, which is annoying because at my old school, I could go in at whatever time I wanted. My brother is mad because I have to drive everyday now. Which, trust me, I'm
going to be more mad when I have to be waiting for him to finish soccer practice. We're a soccer family. My brother and I both play soccer. My brother is a lot more devoted to soccer than I am though. Because I do soccer and dance. He focuses strictly on soccer. I stay in bed until 7:20 am and then finally decided to get up and get ready. I put on dark mom jeans and a brown cropped tight long sleeve. I also wear my brown dunk lows and my jewelry. I always wear my my little gold hoops, my gold virgin mary necklace, my gold virgin mary ring, my good luck gold ring, and my cartier gold bracelet. I put my hair in a tight low bun, grab my brown bag, and head out the door.

While pulling up to the school I just know they don't have a dance team. My mom keeps telling me to try out for cheer but I don't know. It's sucks because I have to make up my mind by the end of day today, tryouts start today. I walk inside the building with Fer at exactly 7:55 am. We were supposed to be here at 7:45 oops.

"Hello, welcome to Cedar Key Middle-Senior High School! I'm your principal Mr. Smith, Fernando, this is Cameron he will be showing you around. And Mariana this is Isaac, he will be showing you around" the principal says.

Isaac is very tall, 6,0 at least. He has black wavy hair and a light, very light tan. He's built too, I can tell he's an athlete. Maybe football? He's cute.

"Hi, I'm Isaac" he reaches for my hand.

"Im Mariana. You can call me Mari though" I say while shaking his hand. I stare into his eyes, they're light brown. He's really handsome. I get nervous, for a second time.

"Awesome. Let me see your schedule" He says while I hand him my schedule. "Okay you almost have the same classes as me. AP Chem, College Algebra, AP US Government, and P.E. Only classes I don't have with you is Art and Drama."

"Wow lucky me, I'll be able to see you everyday" I say. My nervousness is going away and flirty Mari is kicking in.

Isaac blushes and leads me to first period. AP Psych. He introduces me too the professor and two of his friends.

Isaacs POV

"Guys this is Mariana, also known as Mari" I tell my two friends Amalie and David.

"Hi! Im Amalie" Amalie says as she hugs Mariana.

Amalie is a 5'6 blonde haired, blue eyed girl. Mariana is shorter and more curvy. Both very beautiful. Amalie is like a sister to me, I have known her since we were 5. She does cheer and I do football.

"So where are you from Mariana?" Dee says. Dee as in David, he's my wide receiver and best friend. He's around 5'8 black curly hair and light skinned.

"New York City" Mariana says as Tera walks towards us. Tera is my ex-girlfriend. She's brunette with dark eyes and is also on the cheer team. She visited New York over the summer. Already she's annoying me.

"The bronx. I'm assuming?... I'm tera" she says as she reaches her hand out to Mariana.

"Upper east side, Manhattan. Actually. Mariana" Mariana answers and shakes her hand.

"Oh I thought.." Tera begins.

"..that since im brown I must've lived in the non wealthy part of New York?" Mariana says. Mariana responds annoyed as hell.

In this town every white person gets away with saying whatever they want just because how conservative this town is. And a comment like the one Tera just said is why i broke up with her. She said Indians had weird accents, i am half Indian.

"Okay class. Everyone take a seat" the teacher begins to talk... I can see Mariana is not pleased with Tera.. at all.

Mariana's POV

Okay, Tera, a total bitch. I didn't like her comment not one bit. Call me a New Yorker for being pressed about that little comment but I don't care.

I sat second row and Mr. Isaac sat right in front of me. Amalie sat next to me, and David next to Isaac. Tera sat next to David. As class finished, I see Tera asking Isaac if they can talk. And I definitely feel the tension. She may be his girlfriend or ex. Call me a scorpio but I definitely feel like I can always read people fast. As I was about to ask Amalie where this AP Chem class is, when Isaac pops up behind me.

"Wow already tired of me? You're going the wrong way silly" he says as he leads me upstairs.

"Tired of Tara yes, tired of you? Never" I say.

"It's Tera" he says.

"Ah.. I don't care..... Tara Tera Terd, she was rude"

He laughs. "I don't think she meant it like that"

"Hm I think that's exactly what she meant. It's okay though I'll keep my distance from her" I say.

"Yeah she can be kind of... too much." He says.

"She's your ex? Right?" I say.

"Whoa, did you do research on me already?" He says.

"No" I laugh. "It's just pretty easy to guess, you play football, she does cheer, and you guys got together because it was easy. I'm also guessing you're a straight A student too" I say.

"Okay, you definitely did research... or you're a witch because what?" he says.

"Hmmm no it's just the scorpio in me." I say.

"Or maybe you're just into me" he says.

I smile, "so are you gonna be my lab partner or what?"

"Of course" he smirks and sits next to me.

After an hour of listening to the syllabus, we meet up with Amalie and walk to our next class.

"Oh by the way I was wanting to try out for cheer? Do you guys know where the tryouts are?" I say.

"Of course I do. I'm captain!" Amalie says. "They're in the gym after school I'll walk you! Omg I can already tell we're gonna be besties" she says with a big smile.

"Great now i'm gonna have a hard time picking my cheerleader for the season" Isaac says.

"Oh Em can have you! I have my eyes on someone else" Amalie says as she glances at D from across the hallway.

"I'm sorry, the football players pick a cheerleader? For what?" I say.

"Basically just a cheerleader to walk them out in the pep rally. That's literally it" she says. "Last year Tera got mad at me for two weeks because Isaac picked me.... It's not my fault his dad and my mom wanted a picture of us together!" she says.

"That's funny" I laugh.

"Okay well i'm running late. See you at tryouts bestie.. as your captain I can tell you, you're already on the team!" she says as she winks and leaves.

"Just to let you know she doesn't actually decide" Isaac says.

"Are you saying I'm not good enough to make the team Isaac? Cause trust me... i'm good enough for anything" I say.

"A woman with confidence... I like it" he says as we enter AP Government.

When I walk in my eyes meet with a really cute guy. Actually... it's the same guy I saw at the coffee shop.