RAVEN'S POV
It was the first day back at school. Yay me. Another dreadful year of AWFUL. I looked up at the giant gates standing in front of me, and rolled my eyes. At least I'm not the new kid like was last year. I began to walk in until I heard laughter from kids behind me.
I looked over my shoulder and saw a new girl lying on the sidewalk with papers and books scattered all around her. I have to say I had never seen anyone like her. She had the longest, brightest orange hair I had ever seen and, let me just say the most eye-popping clothes I had ever seen. She looked up at me and smiled, a goofy but encouraging kind of smile. I gave a small smile, turned around and began to head towards my locker.
The hallways were crowded as always. Nothing too special. Just the popular kids in one area and the rest spread all around. I almost made it until I got bumped into very hard that it sent me falling.
"Hey yo creep, why don't you watch where you're going?" said the person.
"Um actually you bumped into me. Jerk" I said. I winced as soon as I said that because I knew I shouldn't have said anything because that boy has been my bully for my entire year.
"What did you just say to me?" he said.
"Nothing I'm just going to keep walking" I said.
Before I could take a step I felt something pull my short hair back and my head getting slammed into the locker. I cringed, but it wasn't that bad. I waited for the punch to come (because there is ALWAYS a punch), until I heard a voice shouting behind me.
"STOP! STOP NOW!".
My bully and I both looked the way the shouting was coming from and I was shocked to see the new girl I saw earlier running through the crowd and over to us.
"Stop. Wow you guys have a lot of people in your school" she said.
We both looked so strangely at her but instead I was smiling.
"Oh sorry. I was trying to find my room until I saw you guys. To me it looked so sad the way you treat her. It's actually disgusting. And by the way I have a question for you. ARE YOU DUMB OR SOMETHING?" she said to him.
He just stared at her speechless.
"If you have nothing to say can you go? I really don't have all day".
He finally replied after some time.
"You're just the new girl nobody cares about. New kids don't last long here. And you better watch your back, cause that's what I'm going to break first" he said then cracked his fingers and walked away.
"Gee people are scary. Are you ok?" she asked.
"Yea. Thanks for that. No one has ever done that for me before" I replied.
"Well then I guess I am nice" she laughed. "Oh and by the way my name is Fla—Miranda. But some people call me Mira".
"Um mine is Rachel, but some people call me Rae".
"Can I call you that?".
"Umm sorry but were not there yet".
We both laughed. Especially her.
