This is my first story, so go easy on it. I'm actually from Argentina and we talk Spanish here, but I wanted to write the story in English. If you find any spelling mistake, grammar, or whatever, please let me know : )
As everything was new, I was hoping I could get a new heart too, a better one. I had a new family, new language, new country, even new name! After moving to London, I had to change my name into Ally Heller -too many 'L' was the first thing I thought, but whatever... The beauty of London, which I later learned to appreciate, didn't surprise me, I was too busy focusing in not thinking in my past.
My new house, located in a neighborhood that seems to be full of rich people and thirty minutes away from London, is a dream come true, such as my new family, the Hellers. Susan Heller, my new 'mum', was a normal housewife, but Jackson Heller, my new 'dad', worked in the Embassy on England. Then I also had a new baby sister, Elizabeth, who was only 9 months and it's a living beauty.
You may not understand a thing of what I'm saying, this whole thing of new parents, new life, new everything. Well, we'll talk about that later, I'm too tired today to explain my past.
I've moved from Argentina around 1 month ago, trying to survive and start a new life. Somehow people, adults, because they were the only ones who seemed to notice I was alive, were expecting me to believe I could have a normal life from now on. I was able to go on, but I just couldn't forget my past, my brain doesn't allow it.
School wasn't helping me to be normal. Normal boys and girls of my age have many friends at school -or at least that's what I've been told... But here, in this school full of rich, ignorant girls and boys, I didn't feel comfortable at all. Many boys had talked to me, tried to ask me to have lunch with them, but luckily for me, I didn't have to go to the music classes after lunch of to the gym classes, because Jackson had arranged something so my afternoon would be free. What he did, I don't really know, I didn't ask either, I'm just glad he did whatever he did.
I don't know how to classify myself; I'm not a princess, but I'm not ugly either... It seems like boys find it interesting when they found out I was from South America. Girls in the other hand weren't welcoming at all. After my first week there, I was glad they were just ignoring me; maybe the boys would get tire of me and follow their example... I wanted to be left alone, it was clear in my head that if with 17 years old I wasn't normal, I wasn't ever going to be, so I just gave up, I wanted to be a loner again.
The girl who sat next to me ignored me as usual when I sat next to her on Monday. I didn't mind. She didn't look at me, she was drawing. I had the feeling she didn't like the people from here too, I hadn't seen her talking to anyone of our class. Many girls looked at me as if they were looking something disgusting, I could tell they didn't like me, maybe because the boys paid me more attention to me than to them, but this girl had never looked at me that way. I don't know if I liked her, obviously not if she hadn't said a world to me in a whole week, but as least I knew she didn't dislike me.
In front of us, blondie and her too friends were talking loudly about shopping as I opened my book; Twilight. I love it.
They turned to me.
"I love that movie, Robert Pattinson is so cute" the blond one said "Oh, hi, Ally."
I looked at her and smiled, letting her know I've heard her, and then looked back at my book.
"So..." she said and I looked at her again, cursing the professor who hadn't arrived yet "I've heard you are from South America. Which country are you from exactly?"
"I'm not allowed to say, sorry" I said. Confusing, I know, why shouldn't I be allow to say it? We'll talk later about that...
The three of them looked at me confused.
"Ok..." she said "I don't think we have introduced ourselves" she said and looked at her friends smiling "I'm Julie"
"I'm Kate" the girl with blue eyes and brown straight hair said.
"And I'm Sophie" the one with curly hair said.
"You can be our friend if you want" Kate said smiling way too much.
The girl next to me laughed.
"What are you laughing at, weirdo?" Sophie said.
"Leave the poor girl alone" she said, still smiling teasingly "She's not the type of the who's friend with you"
"Oh, yeah? And why do you think that?" Julie said, trying to keep a disinterested expression on her face.
"Cause she's got a brain, Julie darling" she said and laughed again. I tried not to laugh too... I wasn't a mean person, but I've seen and heard these girls talking, and they were really ignorant, always thinking just in shopping and talking about how rich they were, how pretty they looked and how much they like certain boy.
"Listen to me, just because your brother is in McFLY, it doesn't mean you are cool"
I laughed and the 4 of them looked at me.
"Your brother is Michael Fox?" I asked before they could ask me why I was laughing. Marty Mcfly, well, Michael Fox, is so cool, and I am a huge fan of 'Back To The Future', those movies are in my list of favorite movies.
"No, he is in McFLY" Kate said laughing, as if I has said something funny.
"Oh, sorry, I didn't know there was a band called McFLY" I said.
They looked at me with their eyes big opened, amazed, and then Kate's faced showed great horror.
"You don't know McFLY!?" she almost shouted. Some of our classmates turned to see and I immediately felt uncomfortable again.
"Where are you from, Venus?" Sophie said.
"You don't know them? No kidding?" the one next to me asked, a little smile approaching from her lips.
"Yes, it's not such a big deal, it's only a band" I said.
"It's not just a band, it's McFLY!" Kate said.
"Ok, whatever..." I said, avoiding everyone's look.
Luckily for me, the professor arrived in that same moment and the three not-so-adorable rich girls turned around.
"Oh, and by the way" my partner said and smiled "I'm Jazzie Poynter"
