Chapter 1: Crystal

It's only the end of April and I'm getting impatient for summer to come already. There was only May left to go through. I can only wait to see what will happen during summer. Probably going to stay home all week again. After moving to Rivercreek during freshman year, second semester, I barely had anytime to make friends. Everyone knew each other from middle school or met during first semester. I sat in the back of the homeroom, listening to the usual bustle. "What are you doing this summer?" and "What grade did you get on the test?" were the usual topics of school.

"Forget them," I told myself. "You have to concentrate for the Chemistry test coming up anyway."

I started to take out my notes when someone kicked my bookbag. I looked up and saw a guy tumble down on to the floor.

"Ahaha. You idiot," A girl laughed. "Look at what you did to that girl's bookbag."

"My bad, my bad," He grinned sheepishly, getting up. He pointed accusingly to his other guy friend. "But it's your fault for pushing me."

"Hey you don't mess with me, I won't mess with you." He joked back. I leaned over and picked up my bookbag. The guy walked back to his seat without saying anything to me. He continued to joke around with his friends, ignoring the fact that he had knocked over someone's elses bookbag.

"Pathetic," I murmured to myself. "Everyone in this school cares about themselves. They see no fit as to say sorry. No manners I tell you."

The bell rang and all the kids scrambled for the door. I slung my bookbag over my shoulder and walked out the door, a couple of guys pushing past me. They ran down the hall and opened a classroom door. They whooped and yelled into the classroom then ran away before the teacher could call the security on them. This place is what I moved to. I kept in mind that back in my old high school was the same situation as well. There's no use in feeling sorry for myself. I had to finish high school then go on to college, then become a vet. That was and always have been have been the plan.

I arrived at my normal lunch table with my friends Jasmine, Victor, and Tina. Jasmine was being loud and rambunctious again, going on and on about the date she had with her girlfriend. Victor was making crude jokes like usual. Tina Stood in line with us, quiet like usual.

"And so we made out in the changing room at Macy's," Jasmine boasted. "That was when I lost my virginity."

"Make sure you wash your hands after," Victor nudged me. "Bet you she was foaming while all that happened."

I smiled and shrugged. I could care less about what disease Jasmine contracted and what Victor joked about. I wasn't planning on doing any of that until after marriage if I could get a boyfriend. My most probable situation I would end up in would be to be a cat lady with my sister. We had planned to be forever alone buddies, she was the dog lady and I was the cat lady. I didn't mind being alone. I have been alone for practically most of my life. Don't get me wrong, I had friends, but we were distant. Jasmine pushed me forward and I jolted out of my imagination bubble. I started moving forward in the lunch line. Picking out my usual items, I slowly walked up to the cashier. Victor kept shuddering and pretending to wipe Jasmine's invisible germs on my clothes. I only looked at him and smiled. We sat down at our usual seats, me, Victor, and Tina on one side and Jasmine on the other.

"What are you guys going to do this summer?" Jasmine asked, excitedly.

"I don't know. Stay home and play video games?" Victor shrugged.

"I'm probably going to stay home the entire time too," I said, poking at my mash potatoes.

"You guys need to get out more." Jasmine slammed the table.

"I would if I could, but it's always up to my parents," I poked my fork of mash potatoes at her. She swatted it away scoffing.

"Well I need to find Crystal a guy, that's for sure," she laughed. She motioned behind her where a couple was sitting. "I don't get how ugly Gena gets a boyfriend but you don't."

I shrugged. I had dark brown medium length hair and brown eyes with glasses and braces. There wasn't much to me to describe as pretty. "Personality over looks I guess. Or maybe she's beautiful in his eyes. I'm not very pretty either."

"You are," Jasmine said firmly. "You also have a great personality."

"Yeah, well… No boyfriend for me until college," I say, nonchalant. " Parents. And plus remember what happened?"

"Yeah, when I find this guy, he's going to suffer." Jasmine growled.

"And get her disease," Victor laughed.

"What disease?" Jasmine looked at him, confused.

"Oh its nothing." Victor looked at me. I looked at him and shook my head.

"I'm probably going to be a cat lady when I grow up anyway." I said.

"That suits you," Victor laughed and started singing "All by Myself"

"Anyway," I continued ignoring him. "I watched this one cooking show where they were making a corn cake-"

"You were watching porn?" Victor exclaimed. "Ew that's nasty."

I looked at him irritated. "No. I didn't."

Jasmine laughed, "Maybe she gets off on it because she has no one."

I sighed and pushed away my food, disgusted. Just a normal day of lunch, being poked fun of for being single and my words were "misheard". The bell rung and we dumped our trays. Victor walked with me upstairs and to my class since his class was also the same way. He kept going on and on about old jokes about Jasmine's foaming disease. It only started because he misheard what Jasmine said. He wouldn't leave it alone. I forced out a laugh and said bye to him when I reached my class. The rest of the day passed by. Chemistry was slow like usual and French went by quickly. The final bell rung and I put on my earphones while walking down the hall to meet my friend, Steven, or often called the moron for the lack of understanding for other's feelings and pokemon. I walked down the stairs with him as we talked about his nerdiness in the card game Yu-Gi Oh and his match in tennis. I reached my bus and wished him luck on his next match. He said bye and strode across the parking lot to his dad's car. I went up onto the bus and sat at my usual seat. The bus started to move and I looked out the window, watching the people who were walking home, pass by. I fell into a deep thought. I thought back to lunch and grew irritated again at what Victor said. Then, seeing the couples that walked on by, I began to wonder about having a boyfriend.

I never had one in person, just an online relationship. It didn't really last long so I didn't care much about it. I never knew him in person or personally talked to him through the phone. We kept it strictly in game. He was nice when we first met. I honestly felt happy at the time. Shortly after we started dating, he had changed. He started becoming more and more rude to me. He called me degrading names and kept pushing me around. He became a narcissistic freak. He had affected me not only in the game but in my life as well. I started giving life a new perspective and attitude. I didn't care about consequences or what others thought. I didn't give ten craps about other's feelings. To me, everyone was the same, people who only cared for themselves. He eventually dumped me for a membership girl. I still think this way. I hated him. He made me feel like someone special then he stripped it all from me. After that, I became more self-conscious and cautious about love.

The bus stopped at my stop and I walked home. The house was quiet as I walked up to my room and started to take out my homework. The rest of the day went by as a blur. I went to pick up my brother from school and my sister came home from middle school. My parents came home from work and started to do house chores and cook. Dinner came and gone. I sat in bed looking through my phone, reading manga. My mom came into my room and told me to go to sleep and then she closed my lights. I charged my phone and turned around in my bed. Another normal day of this boring 15 year old's life. I thought to myself before falling asleep.