Charlie's POV

It was 7:30 on a Friday morning. The alarm clock had just waken me up. The first thing i did was check my phone, as always. Two new texts from Clair. I got out of my large bed and changed into my dark jeans, a plain white v neck shirt and my white vans. Brushed my medium dirty blonde hair and went downstairs to eat breakfast with my dad. As I sited in the balcon i decided to check my texts.

Claire:

Good morning sunshine! Text me when u're up.

Claire:

Why are you taking so long o text meeeee? C'monnnnn.

Charlie:

Jesus, whats up with you?

As I waited for her to reply, i served myself with captain crunch and milk, when i was about to eat my phone buzzed. It was Claire.

Claire:

Sorry, i couldn't sleep this night, im so happy, you won't believe it but i've got a letter from Columbia and guess what. IM IN, YEAH BABY.

Charlie:

OMFG R U SERIOUS? THIS IS AMAZING CLARYYY IM SO HAPPY FOR YOU!

Claire:

Yessss, i've already told my mom, and she almost had a heart attack! :p Look, i gotta go to school now, ttyl k?

Charlie:

Okay, have a nice day 3

As I ate my cereal, I couldn't stop smiling, I was so happy for Claire, but at the same time I was kind off jealous because she knew what she wanted to do with her life and she was actually accepted into a great college. Im 17 years old, school's almost over and I still, don't know what I wanna do. Every time I think of my career and that type of things, my head looks like it's going to explode. The thought of having to do the same thing for the rest of my life completely repulses me. How can people go to work everyday and not get tired of it? I know I may look like a bum, but I don't really want to do anything with my life, well, except photograph but i feel that if i go to college and deal with it every single day, i'm gonna get tired of it and photographing is one of the few thing that relax me. How am i suppose to make life decisions is I can't barely choose what song to use as a ringtone.

"Good morning sweety" Said my dad as he turned to me. He was making eggs for himself, as he did every morning.

"Good moring." I said in a flat tone of voice. I didn't really talked to my dad, I actually didn't really liked him. I would always give him straight answers and never make physical contact with him, the sad thing is, he never really bothered to ask me what was wrong or why wouldn't I talk to him.

"You want some apple juice?" He said while opening the fridge.

"Im allergic to apples." I said sick to my stomach of him.

"What? Since when?" He said closing the door and sitting across from me on the balcon.

"Since I was born." I said barely opening my mouth.

"Oh, sorry, guess I forgot." He said as read through his emails in his blackberry.

"So, when is mom coming home?" I asked

There was a long pause, i could only here myself crunching the pieces of cereal inside my mouth, he was too busy deleting emails to answer me.

"Your mom?" He said after a while. "I think she's coming tonight."

I got up, placed my bowl in the sink and went to the living room, got my keys from table next to the door and headed to the driveway, where my military green Jeep was parked, I got in and headed to school. I turned on the radio and synced my iphone with the car, choose a nice A day to remember song and sang it happly. As i got to school I parked were i usually parked, next to the handicapt spot, and went to my locker to get my science books. As I was putting my password, Brick camed and hugged me from the back.

"Hey babe." He said kissing my check.

"Hey" I said still trying to open the locker.

"You need a hand there?" He asked.

"Um, no, I mean, yeah. I always forget my password." I said feeling really stupid.

"Here, let me help you." He said as he wrote the numbers in my padlock.

"Thanks." I said getting my books.

"So, did you heard about Marisa's party this Saturday?" He ask while we walked towards room 205.

"Which party? That one everyone's been talking about for the whole week or is there another popular Marisa at school who's giving a party this weekend." I said giving him a sarcastic smirk and holding my books up to my chest.

"What do you mean? Well, either way, there's going to be a party as Marisa's house, and well, i was wondering if you wanted to go." He said kind off confused.

"Yeah, sure, you'll pick me up?"

"I wished i could, but i already told the guys I would give them a ride and well, there's no more space in the car." He said.

Before I could say any thing, a girl was pushed out of the room in front of us, she was using baggy pants and a Sleeping With Sirens shirt, black and dirty converse. She had short dark messy hair and was using grey beanie.

"Hey, watch were you're going, dyke, you almost bumped into my chick." Brick said angryly to the girl.

"No, it's ok." I said trying not to get any trouble.

The girl walked passed us with her head down, and walking fast, it's weird, that i don't remember seeing here around school.

"Oh, it's, it's ok, i'll just go alone." I said continued, a little disappointed.

"Kay baby, you're the best, I have to go now, bye." Brick said leaving me and rushing to a group of jocks and cheerleaders.

I got inside room 205 and went straight to my seat, placed my books in front of me and waited for my teacher and class mates. Meanwhile I was checking on Tumblr trough my phone, I have to admit that the Tumblr app sucks, but, hey, at least it's something. After a few minutes the room was full and the teacher came in, he wrote something on the bored and began to hand back last week's tests, when he got to my table, he handed me the paper sheet that had my name on it, it also had a D+ and a note, saying that i had to study more. Who the fuck had time to study when your life is complete shit?

At lunch I got my tray and went to the popular kids table, Stella, the blonde, dumb and huge breasted cheerleader was sitting next to Brick, smiling and laughing loudly trying to get as much attention as possible, I took a breath and sat in front of them. Ate my cheese sticks first and then my sandwich, turkey breat with lettuce, my favorite. Turkey breast was the only type of meat i could eat, all other types made me want to trow up, so I usually ate turkey breast for lunch everyday, it was not a complete meal, but at least it had some vitamins.

"Are you sure you're gonna eat all of those cheese sticks? I mean, there must be 300 calories on those things." Ronnie, the brunette cheerleader asked me.

"Yeah, i mean, i would hate you to get fat and not be able to sit with us again." Said Stacie another hot cheerleader.

"Oh my god Stace." Karina, the nicer, but still mean cheerleader said. "Don't worry Charlie, you'd be able to sit with us even if you were... fat."

I rolled my eyes and finished drinking my Sprite. "I shouldn't be sitting here, I shouldn't be listening to this, what it i have a relapse? What if I get week and start forcing myself to vomit again." I thought, being around all of those girls made me feel really insecure, they were all so pretty and thin. I would never be that perfect. Yet I actually like sitting wit them, as they talked about make up, boys and shopping I couldn't help but stare at they're boobs. So perfect, so... so... What was thinking? Why am i looking at other girls, boobs? God, Charlie, whats wrong with you?

At the end of the day I was at the parking lot, waiting for Brick and his friends, when I got a text from him.

Brick:

Baby, i'm not gonna go home now, i have to stay for practice. The coach is making everyone stay for a health checkup. But i'd love if you could give me a ride latter. Im gonna be done here at 5.

"What? At five? If i went home, by the time I got to my house, i'd have to came back, I was going to have to stay in school for two hours? What would i be doing?" I thought, but then i remembered I had my book with me and also my laptop. So it I got bored, i could at least do some APs...

Charlie:

Sure thing, I'll be here waiting at the parking lot as 5. xx

He didn't even mind texting back and thanking me. Dick. I stayed in the car reading for about 30 minutes, when i finally got sort of bored of it, I grabbed my laptop from the back seat were my bag was and started going trough what i had done so far for my AP. Barely a paragraph, i had written half of a paragraph, god, I suck at this shit. I threw my laptop a the back seat and got out of the car, decided I would walk around school, get to know it, i was going to leave this place in one month and still didn't knew every room, i figured that since it was kind of late, there would not be many teachers around, and I was right, I went to the second floor and walked through the corridors, there was a room with some flashes inside, i thought i could might as well give it a little look. As I cracked open the door and peeked my head though it to look around I saw four teenagers with cameras. As I stood there watching they turned to me.

"Can we help you?" Said an asian girl with an ugly geometric sweater.

"Uh, I was just looking around. What is this, exactly?" I asked entering the room.

"This is the photography class." Said the girl from earlier today, who Brick screamed at.

"I didn't knew the school had photography classes." I said amazed by the idea of staying after school everyday and meeting up with people who like the same things as I did.

"Yeah, well, popular kids don't usually know about the shops school offers, unless they have something to do with sports." Said the boyish girl, with rage on her voice, trying to ajust the lense on the Nikon.

"Here, let me help you" I said going over to the table where she was sitting and adjusting the lense for her. "Well, i'm not popular, and, well, i don't really like spots, so... Could I join in with you guys?"

"You, wanna join in our club?" The short and thin indian boy asked me as if I was saying something crazy.

"Fuck yeah I do, I love photographing and, you know, i'd be nice to join." I said smiling for the first time that day.

The four teens looked at each other, they seemed pretty confused. I really didn't understand why, just because my boyfriend was on the football team and I usually hanged around with the dumb popular crowd, didn't mean I was popular, at least, I didn't feel popular.

"Uh, sure, you can join in, right guys?" The dykeish girl said said.

"Fine with me." Said the asian girl.

"Me too." The indian boy agreed.

"Yeah, same here," Another boy who was sitting in the back yelled.

"Yay, so I guess i'm in. By the way, my name is Char-"

"We know, Charlie Hudsen. Im Megan, thats Alice, this guy here is Adarsh and that dude over there is Peter."

"Adarsh means ideal, in Hindi."Adarsh said with his cute indian accent and with a silly smile on his face.

"Cool." I said laughing.

"We meet up every day after school, from 3:30 to 5:00" Alice said pretty serious.

I checked my watch and it was almost 5:10, I said goodbye to everyone and rushed back to the car hoping that Brick didn't been waited for too much time. When I got there, I saw Brick and Stella chatting and laughing. He wasn't covered in sweat neither in his uniform, same for her. I thought it was very weird, but they might just had showered after practice.

"Hey baby." He said while I was approving.

"Hey, uh, hi Stella."

She gave me a fake smile and continued staring at Brick.

"So, i offered Stella a ride, hope you don't mind." Brick said looking at me with those huge eyes.

"No, no problem" I lied, actually, there was a problem, I knew Stella hated me, and i didn't really liked the idea of giving her a ride, but whatever, I couldn't say no to Brick.

We got in the car and Brick sat in the back seat with Stella, they were giggling for the whole ride home, as I turned on the radio Brick asked me to turn it off, because Stella hated the "screams" in the song. I did as he asked and continued driving, furiously, when we stopped at Stella's house, Brick got out with her, I gave him a confused look and he told me they were just going to do a project together, I didn't really bought it, but i let it go. I was too tired to argue, but at the same time I felt so happy for getting in the photography club I just wanted to go home and tell Claire.