My name is Paul Levesque, I just moved to Greenwich after my dad got transferred here with work and am starting at my new school today, thank god it's the beginning of the year. I hope people will like me, or that I can at least have one person to talk to. I missed my best friend so far, but like my mom had told me as we drove out of town, it was only three hours away. I finally walked into the hall after dressing for school, in a simple pair of blue jeans and a black t-shirt of my favorite band Metalica, that was at least a good thing about this new school, no uniforms.
"Paul honey breakfast." My mom called from down the stairs. I walked down and entered the kitchen to the smell of pancakes. As I sat down at the table she put a plate in front of me and sat down across from me with her own plate. I looked down at the food and realized she had made my favorite, pancakes.
"Thanks mom." I said picking up my fork to start eating.
"No problem dear, first day at a new school and everything, I wanted to start the day off right."
"Well it's great anyways."
"So are you ready for school today?"
"Yeah, I guess it will be nice to get a fresh start, no uniforms at least. I just wish Chris was going to school here too."
"Well you guys can maybe stay weekends every couple of weeks or so after we get settled."
"Thanks." I said smiling at her.
I finished and stood up, she stood as well and took both plates to the sink. I grabbed my things from near the front door and hollored out a goodbye. As soon as I was in the car I took a deep breath and started for my new high school. At least I wouldn't have to worry about dealing with Dwayne and his lackeys any longer, they used to like to tease me a bit. While I was nicely built I was never big on confrontation so I suppose I was an easy target to them or something. Maybe there would even be a girl I could meet and have a relationship with.
Afterall I was a junior and had only had one girlfriend in my life. I shook my head of my thoughts as I pulled into the school lot and parked near a bright red convertible. I glanced over at the car, not only did it look brand new, it appeared to be of the current year as well. Of course, it also made my car look even older if that was possible. My dad had given me his old car after I had gotten my licence since he had just gotten a new company car, it was a 2001 chevy.
I climbed out after I shut the car off and walked toward the building, which was a lot bigger than my old school, and nicer as well. As I walked I did a little people watching trying to figure out the types of people that I was now going to school with. As I was walking I heard a loud honk and jumped out of the way as a pick up truck sped by and heard a "watch it loser" from the driver. I sighed again thinking it was going to be the same as always as I finally made it into the building.
I walked into the front office to get my schedule and check in, since I needed to get a locker and a combination and everything. I walked to the front deask and cleared my throat since the secretary hadn't looked up as I entered.
"Can I help you dear?" Asked the older lady, she looked to be about my mom's age.
"Yeah, my name is Paul Levesque, this is my first day and…"
"Oh right, new kid, I have everything you need right here." She said handing me a stack of papers. "Just sign the top two, and then the rest are yours to keep."
I quickly signed my name on both, handing them back to her. She then handed me another piece of paper that turned out to be my schedule, as well as a lock. "The code can be whatever you please, do you know how to set that up?" She asked kindly.
"Um…not really. My old school just had them attached to the locker and they all had codes already."
"Basically you just have to enter the combination you want to use, and it will be reset. Just have a seat there and I am going to have one of our student aids show you around, she should be here in a minute."
I thanked her and took my seat wondering who this girl was going to be. I had never had a tour of a school before like this, but then again the last high school I was at had given us all one during orientation. After another few moments, which felt like close to an hour, a pretty girl walked in with long brown hair, slightly curled, and she had the most beautiful eyes I had ever seen in my life. How could anyone be so beautiful? I thought to myself as she walked over to the secretary.
"Hi Joanie, sorry I'm late. I wanted to drop my things off in class before I came in. You know this is my last day for this, and I am only doing it because that new guy is out sick or something."
"Well we appreciate it dear," I heard her say. I guess she was one of those types of women who liked to call everyone by a pet name or something.I looked back up and noticed the girl looking over at me finally, she smiled for a moment before walking over and sticking her hand out for me to shake, which I did a moment later.
"Hi, my name is Stephanie. I actually dropped office aid last year but whats his face is out so they asked me, they said we had a new guy coming in, must be you right…"
I shook her hand, thinking about how much she talked, which usually annoyed me about girls, but on her it was cute. I realized she was waiting for me to introduce myself. "My name is Paul." I kept it short, hoping she was going to talk some more, she had a nice voice.
"Well Paul, let me see your schedule, I can show you around the whole school but I can show you the different ways to get to your classes as well."
I handed it to her and watched as she looked it over, with her eyebrows slightly furrowed in concentration. She finally glanced up and smiled again, "Looks like we have a few classes together. First, fourth, and last periods."
"Well it will be nice to at least sort of know someone I guess." I said nicely.
She smiled again, well come on." She said turning to walk out of the room. I followed behind her thinking about how lucky I was to meet someone so pretty and nice. I didn't think it was actually possible for a pretty girl like her to be so nice, not to guys like me anyway.
"So where did you move from?" She asked glancing over at me.
"Nashua,"
"Oh, I went there once with my dad. So down that hall right there is the music call, basically just choire and band geeks are ever down there, but there is a bathroom as well." She said pointing to the left of us. I glanced in the direction, I probably wouldn't ever go down that way anyway.
"If you keep going in this direction you will find mostly lockers, which is where we are headed to get to yours, no backpacks in classes."
"Really?" I asked finding that really strange.
"Yeah, I guess they assume it will be a distraction or something dumb like that." She laughed. I realized how much I liked her laugh, and then that I was quickly gaining a crush on this girl. "Here we are." She said as we arrived at what was my assigned locker. "Mine is further down, we'll pass it on the way to the main hall."
"Main hall?"
"Yeah this is basically just lockers and then the teachers lounges." She replied. "So did you set your code?"
"Yeah, I said placing the lock on the door before pulling my backpack off and opening it to get a few things before heading on." She watched me put my bag in the locker and close and lock it before continuing.
"So down this way we have art class, that door there." She said pointing to it.
"I suck at drawing."
"Yeah, me too she said laughing a little. It made me feel good that I was able to get that reaction from her.
"This is my locker," She said pointing to one that I made a mental note to remember the number of, 101. "So this is what is considered the main hall, if you go down this hall to the left, there are some bathrooms and the cafeteria. We have an outdoor eating area as well, which you can get to by going through the cafeteria."
"Good to know for nice days like today."
"Yeah, unless it is super hot, or super cold I usually eat out there." She smiled. "If you keep going straight you will find some more classes, mostly AP stuff, which I am not part of."
"Me either," I said stupidly not realizing she still held my schedule, which she held up a moment later.
"I know," She said smiling again, I felt so dumb though saying that, I blushed a little looking away.
"Anyway, if we go down the right here, which we are, we have more classrooms and another bathroom. Most of the classrooms are actually down this way. There is also an exit out this way, which is the best one to use because it is faster to get to the student lot."
"Thanks, that is good to know."
"Yeah, so lets get to class, and then after I can point you in the direction of your next class since we have different ones." She said handing me back my schedule.
I followed her to classroom 204 which was English. I was happy they had set it up half an hour before school started so that I didn't have to walk in with an entire room staring at me. I noticed that instead of individual desks, the room had tables made for two. I noticed a few students in there already, a couple looking at me, which made me blush a little bit again. I turned back to look at Stephanie, who was waving at a girl across the room.
"That's Kelly, not friends with her myself, but she is nice enough. The teacher, Mrs. Flagstone is nice enough, not too strict on seating or anything so feel free to sit wherever."
"Thanks for the tour and everything Stephanie." I said smiling at her, and wondering if I would be able to sit next to her, or if she was going to sit by the blonde in the back corner. "Um…should I have a book for this class or…"
"Oh they give the books out on the first day as we get through the day."
"Okay, thanks again." I said walking to the desk in the center of the room. I sat down on the right side and looked back to see Stephanie still standing in the doorway now talking to another girl. A moment later a few more students entered the room and chose seats, none sitting next to me even though I had made sure my things were only on my side of the table. I noticed a group of guys walk in last, jock looking guys and rolled my eyes, of course I would be stuck in class with them.
I glanced over again and saw a taller, tanned, guy with dark hair in a buzz cut talking to Stephanie. She smiled at him for a moment before waving and turning to walk away. He placed his hand on her shoulder and sent her a smile. Of course she would probably sit next to him, he was probably her boyfriend now that I thought about it, how dumb was I to think I could ever have anything with a girl like her, she was beautiful and clearly popular.
"Come on sit with me in the back gorgeous." He said smiling at her again.
"Sorry Randy I have other plans." She said walking away and making him drop his hand from her arm.
"You know that you want to,"
"I don't think so," She said walking away and toward me. She was probably going to pass up my table though and sit with the blonde in the back. To my surprise, however, she placed her binder down and smiled at me. "Do you mind if I sit here?"
"Of course not," I said scooting my things over a little more."
"Don't worry," She said noticing this. "I have plently of room." She sat down next to me and pulled her binder a little closer to her.
I glanced down at her binder and saw a bunch of pictures on it, of her and what was probably all of her friends, and from the one in the center, her parents. "I hate having a boring binder." She said. I hadn't realized she had caught me looking at it.
"Sorry," I said looking away."
"I don't care," She laughed softly. "Just pictures, that is what they are for right?"
"I guess," I said looking over at her.
"Its mostly me and my friends, the one in the middle is me and my parents."
"You have really nice pictures." I said looking back down at them.
"Really Steph, you want to sit with this loser instead of me?" I heard from in front of us.
Stephanie rolled her eyes at me and glanced up at him. "First of all, he isn't a loser, he is new, and I am showing him around today so buzz off."
Randy rolled his eyes at her before going to sit next to Kelly, much to her delight. "Sorry about him, he is such a jerk sometimes."
"Its okay, I am kinda used to it."
"Really?" She asked.
"Yeah there was a group of guys at my old school, on the football team, that would do that all the time."
"Oh, sorry." She said sweetly.
"Its not a big deal," I said.
Just then the teacher walked in and called for quiet and we both focued our attention to the front of the room. When I woke up this morning I had assumed my first day of school was going to be the usual, just in a bigger and new school with a bunch of people I didn't know, the only upside being no uniforms, and instead it was great so far…
And all because of one girl…Stephanie.
