School.

What else?

Teachers.

Homework.

Gangs.

Nerds.

Torture.

Should I be excited or repulsed?

Repulsed, I think as I walk through the front entrance. I should have skipped today, like all my friends. However, I didn't want to get kicked out, like I'd come close to last year. Make a decent (in my words) first impression, and head downhill from there. Leave hope for the teachers.

I glance down at my new schedule.

U.S. History.

English 11

Choir

Spanish 3

Lunch

Chemistry

Pre-Cal

Study Hall.

"Max?!" Screamed a voice, " On the first day of school? Like no way!" And a hand grabbed my wrist to swing me around- THUMP.

I looked down at however I had just slammed to the floor. Astonished eyes peered up at me. Nice. It was the perky red- head Lisa. Today was just getting better and better. Her surprised expression turned sour and pouty, just a shadow of the bitch inside of her.

"Do you like, want another year at this school to be living hell?" Her icy whisper reached my ears. "Too late. This competition is like, getting boring between us, Max. Try to win some this year, will you?" Then she got up, brushed her short designer skirt off, and stalked away.

And now my day sunk down again. The bell rang then and I stomped to my first class- I looked at my schedule- history. Great. I always hated history. I mean, I know about the learning from mistakes thing, but what's the point of sitting around in a class memorizing dates? I kept my head down, too angry to look at anything but the floor. Betraying emotion was not something I liked to do.

Walking in slightly after the bell rang, I strutted over to my seat, reminding the kids in my school I was still no one to be messed with.

The teacher glanced down at me. "Excuse me Miss Maximu-"

"MAX"

"- would you care to explain your tardiness?"

"Well, I was hoping I would miss the beginning of your lecture, sir."

" Miss Ride, good thing your in such a wonderful mood, because I'm sure you'll appreciate the detention your getting." He smirked at me. So I returned my own.

"Should I leave now and see the principal or something? Anything to get away from this class."

"Why not? You can explain why you are getting detentions for the rest of this week."

"Yes, because you have nothing better to do in life than mock children to inflate your ego." And I walked out of the door, leaving the teacher agape and blubbering at me.

I was still chuckling at his expression when the principal called me into his room. It was the classis office, clean tidy, a few bookshelves here and there, and a filing cabinet. And in front of two huge windows and a painting of the school's founder sat a wooden desk. Oh, and one of those gold plaques stating Sam Fleckling; Principal. He motioned to an empty chair, finished the writing on the papers on his desk, looked up at he and scowled.

Sitting down I grinned at him. "Hey Sam! How's it going?"

"Max, I thought we decided to stop these little visits. I mean…" The rest of his speech blurred as I looked around the room, trying to find something interesting and original; the opposite of his speech. The rest of the time in his office blurred by, and the bell ringing gave some hope for the rest of the day, as it had interrupted his favorite part of this speech, the one about consequences.

Hurrying to my next class so I wouldn't hear the rest of the speech, surprisingly, nothing eventful happened. I was quite pleased that my day was turning out so dull and full of nothing, It was good for a change. I should have realized things like that don't last.

Walking into my last class of the day, a hand reached out and tried to shove me back. Of course instead of falling, I swung around and hit the person in front of me, who happened to be tall, blonde, ripped, athletic looking guy. Ari, captain of the football team, and the boyfriend of (you guessed it) Lisa. His blue eyes twinkled with dislike. But as he reached back to shove me again, another hand reached out and grabbed his. I looked up to see my savior.

And then I saw him.

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