Ally's POV
Hi, I'm Ally Dawson. I'm 16 years old and I've just moved from New York to Miami with my dad. My mom passed away when I was 7 from cancer. I had to attend therapy until I turned 15. It was hard for my dad and I to move on. And eventually we did though we still miss her. My dad owns a huge chain of music stores around the country called Sonic Boom. We are pretty wealthy because of the business. We moved to Miami for two reasons. One, there were too much sad memories of my mom there and two, because my dad wanted to open Sonic Boom here in Miami.
Today I start my first day of school at Marino High. I'm really, really nervous. I've never been a new girl before and to make things worse, it's almost the middle of the year. Hopefully, I meet new friends. I wasn't the most social girl at school. 'The rich nerd' was always my title. At first I hated it and sometimes I never wanted to go to school because of the bullying. While I was going through all that, I never had anyone to talk to about it. I couldn't talk to my dad because he was always busy with work and I didn't have a best friend to have girl's night and for me bawl over my miserable life to. And most of all, I didn't have a mom. Anyway, this year will be different. I will make friends and will be socially active and not a low life wallflower.
As I get out of bed, I look at myself and sighed. I am short about 5" 4, long wavy hazel hair with ombre highlights. I am thin but not too thin. I have brown eyes and perfect rows of white teeth. I just got my braces removed after five long years with them.
I walked over to my connected bathroom. After a quick hot shower, I walked to my closet thinking of what I would wear today. I opened my closet and began my search. After 10 minutes of searching, I finally came to a decision. I grabbed purple sun dress with an elbow length thin cardigan and my brown wedges to go with it. Once I put them on. I did my makeup. I don't really wear makeup, but today is an exception. So I kept it light and natural. I quickly grabbed my blue denim school bag and went downstairs.
Once I was downstairs, I looked at my watch and saw that I only had 15 minutes before school started. I ran into the kitchen and quickly grabbed a granola bar and headed outside to my grey 2013 Ford focus. As I drive to school I think of all the bad things that could happen. I could trip and fall over and everyone would start laughing and start calling me names again or even worse, I would get bullied again. No! I need to be positive. Take all the negative thoughts out. After the 10 minute drive, I hopped out of the car and walked towards the main entrance of the school. The school was huge. It had a statue of the school mascot (a manatee), and it had a massive court yard in front.
I turned away and headed through the doors. When I entered, the halls were empty. I guess everyone's probably in class already. I walked up to the main office and in there sat a lady with her hair tied up in a tight bun. She wore a black lacy blouse with a long pink skirt. She looked up at me, with a bored expression and said,
"How may I help you?" I cleared my throat before saying,
"I'm Ally Dawson. I'm new here." I tried sounding peppy and happy but I was too nervous to do so. She then started typing something into the computer, then handed me some papers and said,
"Here's your schedule, school ID and locker number and combination. Welcome to Marino High. Have a nice day." She said everything in monotone so I assumed that she's rehearsed it. I gave her a smile before walking off to find my locker.
I strolled down the hall looking for my locker. Ah! 134. There it is. I quickly enter my locker combo and placed all my books in and grabbed the books for my first class. Which was English with Mr Carter. I shut my locker and headed to my English classroom.