Decisions
It was autumn, and it was the first day of school this year; the last year of Highschool I'll ever have. It was sad to think, but it often struck me that I was becoming older and older, not knowing what I'll really do in my life when I graduate from Highschool, maybe I'd go to university, not really sure, but hey, I still have a long way to go, I'm not that old yet. By the way, my names Tamayo and in Japan it means precious generation. Well, anyways, where was I? Oh, yes the story, I totally forgot about that, enjoy it, yeah? I think it'll be interesting, but I'm not sure, haha, I talk a lot, okay enjoy…
Autumn…first day of school…last year of Highschool…
I had woken up with a headache and everything was ringing. I pulled myself together and jumped out of bed. The floor under me creaked each step I took and outside, I could see the trees swaying from side to side…looked like it was going to be windy today. I got dressed into my school uniform, putting my jumper on for warmth and then brushing my teeth and fixing my hair neatly…
After, I went downstairs where my mum was in the kitchen, cooking one of her crazy dishes. I don't know why she does this, but at least it keeps her busy from thinking about my father who had walked away from the family to be with another woman. I'd never forgive my father for what he did to me and my mum. My mum suddenly looked up from her cooking and smiled at me.
"Good morning Tamayo, first day of school, have fun and come home safely," mum said in a cheerful tone.
"Morning mum, yes, I'll come home safely. Bye," I replied back.
I walked up to the table, grabbing a pear from the bowls and then grabbed my bag and headed outside to walk to school. I wasn't excited to go to school and it was sad that it would be my last year of Highschool, but, the saddest thing was, that I never got to tell my "crush" that I liked him…his name was Rey and he was one of the popular's, but it wasn't like he noticed me, he already had a girlfriend…Marie.
Marcie was one of those people teacher's loved; most of the student population loved, but was hated by "us" the people at the bottom of the pyramid. The pyramid was a big thing in my school (I didn't really care; it was total nonsense to me) and it classified people in each of the three levels of the pyramid. Here's how it goes…at the top of the pyramid was practically the King and Queen of the school, which in my view and all the others view would be Rey and Marcie. In the middle of the pyramid would be by the Kings and Queens followers a.k.a friends and at the bottom would be the people who didn't care about what they were "classified" as, which would be me. This is how the pyramid works…lame, I know.
The walk wasn't very long to school, at least a ten minute walk there. On the way there, I accidently hit a guy on a bike. Okay, it was an accident, it's not like I did it on purpose…it wasn't my fault he was practically "bike speeding" while I was stretching. Anyways, I had to help him…I wasn't that mean.
"Oh, I'm sorry. Are you okay?" I asked, helping the guy up.
"Ouch, yeah. I'm fine, you should really watch out where you're stretching," he replied back.
He stood up, brushing dirt of his clothes and the picking up his bike from the floor. It was then, that I realised he went to the same school as me; Trinity Highschool, but I had never seen him before.
"My names Jay by the way," he said, holding out his hands, smiling.
"My names Tamayo," I replied back, shaking his hand…smiling too.
"Haha, cool. Nice to meet you," he said.
"Yeah, nice to meet you too. Hey, do you go to Trinity Highschool?" I asked.
He looked down at his uniform, and looked back up with a dumbfounded expression.
"Looks like it," he said, smirking.
"Oh, really, because I've never seen you before. What year are you in?"
"Yeah, I'm in Year 12; I'm a new student, so that probably explains why you've never seen me before," he said, smiling again.
"Oh, okay then. So today's your first day, I guess,"
"Haha, yup, it is. Want to walk with me to school?" he asked.
"Yeah, sure…why not," I replied back.
We started walking again and this time, he wasn't riding on his bike, he just moved it alongside him. Before we knew it, we were at school. Everyone looked happy and excited for a fresh, new year of Highschool. I told Jay where to put his bike and we headed for our "new" lockers, which we had to look for. It wasn't very hard looking for my locker, seeing as my last name started with an 'A' but Jay had some difficulty, seeing as his last name started with a 'P,' so we both searched for it together. We found it in no time. Jay had put his things in his locker and was looking around the school.
"Anyways, where you off to now?" I asked Jay.
"Um, I'm supposed to go to the Student Office to fill out a couple of papers, but I don't know where it is," he replied back.
"Oh, okay. Want me to take you there?" I asked.
"Sure, if you don't mind,"
"Haha, I don't mind. Got nothing else better to do anyways," I said.
We walked to the Student Office together and he seemed to like the school, because he was smiling. I, on the other hand was looking for my best friend, Anne, but it looked like she wasn't at school yet.
"Um, so what school did you used to go to?" I asked, bringing up a topic to talk about.
"Um, St. Joseph's, the one near the big shopping centre," he answered, smiling again.
"Oh, yeah. I know that school, my friend goes there,"
"Oh, really. I might know her, what's her name?"
"Um, it's Maria," I said.
"Oh, I know her. She's actually the reason why I moved." He said.
