Within in the next two chapter I promise things will get juicy :)
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Chapter 2
I walked through the halls towards my next class trying to forget the look Aiden had given me and after a while I found that I had stopped thinking about him altogether. In each of my classes I sat the farthest back in the classroom and watched the clock as each second ticked by slowly. Sadly, my attempts to remain conspicuous were futile during lunch when, as I walked into the cafeteria, I was engulfed by the popular crowed. Immediately I was bombarded with questions about where I had come from, why I moved to Louisiana, and if I had plans to stay. I saw Aiden standing a few feet away staring at me and I returned the glare as I continued to answer everyone's questions without telling them too much about my parents or my past. When things died down I attempted to go sit at an empty table only to find that the same group of people had followed me to the spot I had hoped to be a haven. I sighed to myself realizing that this year was not going to be any different than the last.
For my last period I had a free and so I decided to leave early rather than sit at a cafeteria table with my new "friends". I figured it's better to be bored at Sally's house than to be surrounded by these obviously fake people. Walking towards my car, I saw Aiden giving money to some guy in a hooded sweatshirt and get a small white baggie in return. God some people are so stupid, why would he do drugs if he has his entire college career riding on a football scholarship? Wait, this is not something I should be concerned with, I thought to myself, what he does with his life is none of my business. Yet, no matter how many times I said this to myself, I couldn't be fully convinced. Why did I care about this guy? I mean he's just another conceded jock that doesn't appreciate what he has. I've seen this happen plenty of times before; yet, for reasons I refused to acknowledge, it bothered me nonetheless.
When I got home, I saw Sally's car parked in the drive- way. I went inside and called her name to see where she was and found her sitting in the living room watching Legally Blonde. I sometimes forget how young Sally is, she is ten years older than me, but for an aunt that's pretty young. She looked at me with a surprised expression, "You're home early, I thought that school ended at 2:40." I told her that I had a free last period and had seen no reason to stay at school. Once she heard this news she looked at me with an expression that seemed to be, oddly enough, concern. "Don't worry honey I'm sure you will make friends tomorrow. No- one makes friends on the first day of school anyway. Come watch the movie with me?" she asked. I considered her offer for a second and realized that it wouldn't hurt to spend at least little time together. As we watched the movie I thought back to what Sally had said and laughed at the irony of the situation. The reason I had not stayed in school was definitely not my lack of ability to make friends. Back in my old school in NYC, I had regrettably been the most popular girl in the school. Everyone always wanted to be my friend and I constantly wondered if what they liked was my social status or me, I hated that feeling of uncertainty. For some reason unknown to me, my looks had always attracted unwanted attention from people. I had never found myself to be particularly pretty; I had waist length wavy dirty blonde hair, light blue eyes, and barely visible freckles that covered my nose and cheeks. "So, how was work?" I asked trying to be nice to Aunt Sally. We hadn't seen each other in so long that I had forgotten what Sally does for a living, but I thought it would be rude to ask her so I tried to find out without directly asking. "It went well, I booked two other parties and finished the last minute details for my latest client." I suddenly remembered how she had once thrown me a surprise party when I was eight, I couldn't remember it exactly, but I was pretty sure that she did a good job planning it. After about an hour of meaningless chatter I thought it was time to go upstairs and do homework, so I excused myself and went up to my room.
The first thing I did when I got to my room was activate my school e- mail account and was surprised to find that I already had an e- mail waiting for me. I checked who it was from and saw Aiden's name written next to the e- mail number that each student is assigned. I clicked on the envelope and the e-mail opened up. "Let's cut to the chase. Since I have football practice every day from three to seven and I go out with the guys on Fridays and Tuesday I can only meet on Wednesday. Meet me at the school parking lot tomorrow at 7:10, if you're not there in ten minutes I'm leaving, I have other things to do- Aiden". I had to reread the message a couple of times before I realized he wasn't kidding. Could this guy be any more arrogant?! He didn't even bother asking me if I was busy tomorrow night, for all he knows I could have plans that I can't cancel. No way was I showing up, if he wants to be an ass then I don't have to do him any favors. He can go ahead and leave tomorrow morning, he's the one who is going to fail physics not me.
I angrily quit my e-mail and got started on an English essay that I had due the next week. It took me a total of two sentences to realize I was too annoyed to actually get anything worthwhile done. I put the essay aside realizing that my work would be better if I did it later when I was calmer and moved on to calculus. The worksheet was relatively easy, but I still didn't fully understand it, then again I never really full understood math. Once I was done with calculus, I moved on to science, the one subject that I had always liked in school. The good thing about science is that it never changes; it can never let you down. Sadly, in real life things change from one day to the next and you can either adapt, or fall behind. I usually went towards adapting when changes occurred to me, but when it came to living in this town I would rather not. I am going to live out my time in purgatory until my sentence is up, but the moment my sentence is over I will leave forever.
I woke up early the next morning and ran a few laps around the block to wake up and get into shape. I hadn't run since I arrived and was quickly out of breath so I pushed myself for an extra half hour and went inside to take a shower and get ready for school. When I went into the kitchen to grab my breakfast, if you could call a measly granola bar breakfast, I was surprised to see that Sally was already awake. "Morning sunshine!" she said in her overly chirpy voice. "Morning Aunt Sally, I have a musical club meeting after school so I might be a little late, bye." I could have stayed and talked to Sally longer, but it's pointless for either her or me to get attached when it's obvious I won't be staying long. Saying that to myself I pulled out of the drive way and drove towards the school. Let day two begin.
