I knew that Monday wouldn’t be easy but I really wasn’t prepared for just how terrible it would be. Walking into roll call that morning I could hear everyone whispering awful things about me and I could feel their eyes filled with hatred, staring into me like laser beams. My usual seat was taken by my ‘ex-friend’ Tess, who had no doubt sat there to deliberately piss me off and she was doing a fine job of it. She was all over her on again/off again boyfriend Declan, vying for attention, who looked uninterested in her pointless fussing and gossiping, . He gave me a tinly little hint of a smile which made me feel a tiny bit better, but then Tess saw and glared at me before fussing over him and acting as her usual dumb self, idiotic self.
Nearly all the seats in the class were taken; the only one left was next to a girl whom I assumed was new as I had never seen her before. She had long, wavy brown hair, and I could tell even when she was sitting slumped in her chair that she was on the taller side of things. She kept her head down as I pulled out the seat next to her and sat down, untangling my headphones and putting my iPod onto shuffle- just by chance, more than this came on, my favourite song of the moment – everything about you, came on. The mysterious girl beside me remained quiet throughout the usual boring morning announcements about footy practice and people who were yet to pay camp fees. Yuck, camp. We had to go on yet another one soon and I was already dreading the week in the bush with people I hated. I couldn’t stand the silence anymore so I started to strike up a conversation with her. “Hey, I haven’t seen you around here before, are you new?” I asked, it seemed like a good ice breaker and wouldn’t lead to questions about why I was upset.
“Yeah, this is my first day.” She said in an English accent which surprised me and caused me to ask all about their move here. We chatted for a little bit until we realised the bell was about to ring. Oh no- maths first with Claudia and crew, what joy- I really just wanted to stay here and talk with this new girl I had just met. I stood up way too quickly and ripped my headphones out of my iPod, blasting everything about You throughout the whole room, eyes rolling from every direction- the entire grade was well aware with my intense obsession with One Direction and pretty much everyone hated it. “YOU LIKE ONE DIRECTION?” she said excitedly, wide eyed.
“ummm yeah! I love them so much!” I said reciprocating her excitement.
“Oh my gosh I can’t wait for their new song to come out” She said loudly before the bell to signal the beginning of period one drowned her out. I laughed at her excitement as I felt the same way- finally, someone to share my love of those five boys with. We started to walk out of the classroom and off to our period one classes (great, maths- oh the joy) when I realised that I hadn’t caught the new girls name. I stood on tipitoes, looking through the crowd to try and find her but I had no luck, there was only one thing for it- “ONE DIRECTION!” I yelled- if anything would get her attention it was sure to be this. Sure enough, I heard a British accent yell “OMG WHAT WHERE?!” Laughing, I sort her out from the crowd, all of which was pointing and whispering at me.
“I realised that I didn’t catch your name,” I said.
“Oh, Megan” she told me. “Yours?” She was tall; with long, wavy, brown hair and a huge smile- she was very pretty.
“Im Kate, and im quite happy that you don’t already know that, “I muttered referring to the rumours that it seemed the entire school knew about.
She quizzically raised one eyebrow but didn’t question anything which I was grateful for.one thing I didn’t need today was yet another person making false judgements about me. I walked with her to maths as she wasn’t familiar with the layout of the school yet – we took the long way so that we could be a tiny little bit late to maths and talk about One Direction the entire way. When we got to our classrooms (which happened to be next door to each other) Megan turned to me and asked “Hey Kate, I know that I don’t really know you at all but you seem pretty nice, and don’t know anyone here yet so would it be okay if we sat together at lunch and recess?”
“Sure thing,” I said smiling, relieved to have someone to sit with, I had been dreading having to sit alone with judging eyes staring at me, something I hadn’t done in years.
