Chapter 1
Walking down the every lasting hallways of my high school, I started questioning myself like I did every time I had free time.
Why? I asked myself. Why do I try so hard? Why do I continue to do... this? School is so much, like.... Work. Ugh.
"Rayne," I said, acknowledging one of my best friend's presences. His full name was Rainsford Damon Ashford, but I just called him Rayne for short. We've been best friends since we were five, and I trusted him with my life. He was 6' 1" and had luxuriously dark hair, matched with hazel eyes that had green rimmed around his pupil, and a sassy attitude.
"Hey sweetie," He said pleasantly, linking his arm with mine. "Where's our main peeps?"
"Probably at Alicia's locker." Alicia, along with Shanna, and Kingsley were our best friends. We've also known them since we were 5 years old. Alicia was of the average 5' 5" height, with deep caramel eyes, long chocolate colored hair with hints of highlights in it, and a fair complexion. Shanna was a little taller at the not-so-average height of 5'6", with midnight black hair, mocha brown skin, and deep green eyes. Kingsley was much the same, considering they were twins. Except Kingsley had shorter hair and he was 6' 1".
Nodding his head, Rayne and I walked towards Alicia's locker, which was on the other side of the school. As we walked, I gazed around, while I went back to my questions. Why do I have to go to college? Why am I then expected to get a job, have kids, etc.? Or get some high paying job? Why is this something that is expected of us? Suddenly, I felt someone lightly smack me in the face. I looked up, irritated at being taken from my thoughts, and someone touching my face.
"Rave?" Rayne asked amusedly, smirking at me while using the childhood nickname he'd given me for "Raven". "Huh?" I asked, confused. What did he want that was so important he had to smack me in the face?
"Thinking about your usual 'why's', I see," Alicia said, surprising me. Holy crap, did we seriously walk all the way to her locker without me noticing? Wow was I air headed. I felt myself blush slightly.
"Yeah," Rayne joked, playfully punching my arm," she's been zoning this entire time. I swear, you'd think she was a Sherlock!" I smirked. I knew that sometimes my 'why's', as my friends like to call them, would catch me and take me into such a deep thinking box, that I was able to just zone out anytime, anywhere. I was surprised that people were still willing to deal with me, considering that I did it very often. I sighed to myself. I was surrounded by very considerate people.
"RAAAAAAAAAAAVE!" Someone screamed from down the hall, scaring the actual sh*t out of me. I looked down the hall, past the dirty looks of the teachers, to see that Kingsley and Shanna were walking our way. I grinned. They were my most two favorite people in the world, minus Alicia and Rayne.
"KIIIIINNGGSLEYYYY!" I screamed back, ignoring the dirty looks I now received from the teachers. Instead of reprimanding us, they just closed their doors, rolling their eyes. Yeah. We kind of did this every day. We were crazy. I grinned up at him, ignoring everyone else for a minute as I hugged him. He and Shanna had been in Jamaica for the past two weeks, so I hadn't seen them in a while. Pulling back, I then tackled Shanna, almost making us fall to the ground, as I screeched and pulled her in for a bear hug. She grunted.
"Can't-breathe-losing-all-possiblities-of-air-supply-lawd-help-"She gasped, trying to get away from me. I smirked, and let go of her.
"Girl are you trying to kill me?!" She said haughtily, fixing her shirt. Shanna wasn't much of a touchy person, she'd much rather have a handshake or a nod, rather than a hug any day.
"Oh stop being dramatic it's not like you didn't get enough hugs over the last two weeks anyway. So. How was your trip? Did you guys have fun? Did you get a tan? Did you see your family? Were the ones from Britain there? Were people annoying? Did you get tired of it? HOW WAS IT!" I shot the questions at her, not allowing her any chance to answer any of them. She raised her eyebrow at me.
