Untouched Territory

Chapter 1- Temporary

Caitlyn's POV

The smell of rain and wet carpet spread all through the trailer, I still hadn't patched up that ceiling so now it smells like a rainforest in here.

"Grandma I'm sorry" i say laying a bucket under the broken ceiling "After work I'll come and fix it"

"Oh don't you mind it sweetheart, just have a good first day okay, make friends!" My grandma smiles so wide I think her dentures are going to fall out.

I start my scooter, the only think they didn't reposes, and head to the cold hell they call high school.

I stop in front of the school looking at it, everyone seems to be dressed up in designer clothes in complete contrast to my oversized sweatpants and sweatshirt. I pull my helmet off revealing my tangles greasy brown hair. I run my hands through it and take the keys out of the ignition.

I shove my helmet into my locker and grab the textbook they had sent home a week ago. They didn't actually send it to my house, I had them send it to the post office since the mail usually gets stolen in the trailer park.

I hear laughing from behind me and turn around to notice a group of girls in front of a locker across the hall. One sneaks a glance at me and then turns back to laugh. I've dealt with this enough to not care, I'm not going to have to deal with that once I make it to the NFL, like dad.

My dad played for the Tennessee Titan in the 80's and 90's but quit when my grandmother got sick. We had enough money to live a normal life and once my grandmother got better I though my dad would go back to playing. The following year a cancerous tumor grew in my dads leg. They had to amputate it which pretty much killed his NFL career but it was too late. The cancer had spread and within six months he was gone. With the hospital bills racking up it was hard to keep up, my dad wrote a will but all the money was frozen until I'm twenty-one. The repo people came and took everything.

I shoved my earphones into my ears and walked to my first class which was AP English. I'm working really hard in school and that once I do well in football colleges will have no choice but to offer me a scholarship.

The teacher starts role call and I zone out. After a couple of seconds I notice the teacher stalking towards me "hand them over" he sighs. I unplug my headphones and lay them in his hand. "Now, you are the new student. Caitlyn Cormier?"

"Yes" I mutter

"Your dad was Allan Cormier?" He adds

"Yes"

The class breaks out in whispers and I lay my head on my desk, wishing I could sink into it. I look up and everyone has turned back to the teacher who has gone back to the front of the class. I sigh in relief and start pulling the threads of my sweatshirt.

"She's Allan Cormier's kid?" People whisper as I pass through the hallways. I shove my headphones back in and stuff my books in my locker.

"Hi" a red headed girl smiles at me

"Uhm hi" I say slowly closing my locker.

"I'm Jenna, you're Caitlyn right"

I nod

"Well it's lunchtime would you want to sit with my friends and i?" She asks. I nod and follow her into the cafeteria, they sit at a table closest to the door. I take a seat next to Jenna as she introduces me to her friends, I mean friend "Caitlyn this is Reagan"

"Hi" I mutter

"Hi" she smiles and eats her food.

I'm hungry as well but I don't have neon money to buy school lunch and the amount of food at home is too low for me to take it for lunch. I take a pack of gum out from my backpack and stick one in my mouth, this should get me until work.