I can honestly say that my life sucks. My mom got a job promotion, so now we have to move. Which means that I have to go to a new school and I wasn't looking forward to it. I had to make new friends and leave my old friends behind.
Apparently, I was being a 'big baby' about this. I was supposed to be happy for her and support her. But she didn't have to support me? What if I turned out to be a geek at the new school I was going to? What if everyone was popular there and I was the only one that wasn't? I'd probably have to sit at an empty table by myself in the back, where no one would even notice me. Why was I thinking like this?
Maybe it wouldn't be so bad after all. Maybe I would make new friends, be popular and have good grades all at once. Don't jinx yourself, I thought. It happens to me all the time, and honestly, I was sick of it.
I was currently spraying on my favorite perfume when my Mom pulled up at the school and started bitching at me.
"Can you stop spraying that shit?" My Mom asked. "Seriously, if you think that stuff is going to get you guys, its not."
I sighed as I put my perfume back in my black purse.
"You'll be so lucky if you get a guy," She said as I got out of the car. "You look like a piece of ugly shit."
That hurt. "Bye, Mom."
"Bye." She said. "Oh, I won't be able to bring you home after school today. I'm going to be at the club with a couple of my friends."
I sighed. "Again? You wen't last night. They aren't sick of you yet?"
Since my mom never wore a seatbelt, it was easy for her to reach over to slap me across the face. I didn't feel it at first, but two seconds later I felt a sharp pain just above my right eye down to my chin. Hut like hell. It has always been like this with my mother: she can talk trash about me, but I can't do it to her.
"Maybe next time you will learn to keep your mouth shut." That was the last thing she had said to me before she drove off.
I was alone. But that wasn't the first time, so I was used to it. The first thing where I had to go to was the office to get my new schedual and the map of the school so I knew what way I was going. It was the first time that I walked up the steps to Degrassi High.
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It took me awhile to find the office since the hallways were crowded with a bunch of people. I looked on my schedual to see what class I had to go to next. I put my hand in my pocket to get out my cell phone so that I could see what time it is. It was empty. Shit. I must have forgot it in my mom's car. I must have spaced out after she slapped me.
There was a girl with bangs on the side of me, so I put my hand on her arm. She turned around and looked at me. "Sorry, but do you know what time it is?"
"Ten-thirty," She smiled.
I haven't realized how pretty she was. "Thanks."
"Are you new here? I haven't seen you before." The girl asked.
"Yeah," I said. "My mom got a job promotion, so we had to move. This was the closest school to our new house..."
"Oh." She said. "Well, welcome to Degrassi."
My eye twitched. "Thanks."
The girl held out her hand. "I'm, Manny Santos."
"Alex Nunez," I shook her hand.
Manny smiled. "Do you need help finding your class? It looks like you have... Science. I'm going to the same class, actually. You can follow me, if you'd like."
"I'd like that," I smiled.
Maybe today wouldn't be so bad after all.
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Manny had offered me to sit in the empty seat next to her. I thanked her again and again. She didn't know how much this all meant to me. I ate the apple that I had put on my tray to eat. The school day went by too fast, I didn't believe that it was lunch already! Well, like they say, time flies!
"Alex," Manny said. "Have you met Emma, yet?"
I shook my head as I sat down. "Hi, Emma."
Emma smiled. "Hi, Alex."
There was a silence for awhile until Emma broke it. "Have you heard from Paige, lately?"
Manny shook her head. "I thought she was supposed to be sitting with us..."
"Yeah," Emma moved her food around with her fork. "She said that she has to make-up a Science test. You know, the one she failed that day when she got high."
"Oh." Manny looked at the ground. "I wish I could get her to stop smoking..."
"Everyone does," Emma sighed. "Maybe if she stopped she would do better in school. Do you even know why she started smoking?"
"I don't know." Manny shrugged.
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When school was over, I was walking outside the front door when I heard yelling. I turned my head to the right and saw a blonde haired girl trying to grab her purse from four guys. They were throwing it to each other, while the girl was trying to jump up and grab it. She was too short to reach it.
"Haha!" One of the guys with short hair laughed. "You actually think we're going to give you back your purse with your money still in it?"
"I don't care!" The blonde snapped. "Just give me, my fucking cigarettes!"
Paige? I thought.
"Why?" He asked. "So, you can get high again tonight?"
"Obviously," She rolled her eyes. "Just give them to me!"
He just laughed. "Why would I give them to you and not keep them for myself?"
I stared while I walked up to him. I was his height, so atleast I wouldn't make myself look like an idiot looking up at the guy trying to defend the blonde. "Give her the fucking purse back with the cigarettes."
"Oooh," He looked at his guy friends as if he was cool. "Your scary. What if I don't give it back?"
I shoved him backwards. The back of his head hit hard on the school's brick wall. "I'll beat you until you can't move anymore."
"Yeah." He laughed. "These new people are so stupid; they don't know who they mess with until we slap them across the face a couple of times."
I shoved him hard against the wall again. "Are you so weak that you have to pick on girls?"
That's when they all started bursting out laughing. "That's what the last kid said before he wasn't breathing anymore."
"Oh." I rolled my eyes. "I've heard that line before."
The guy glared at me. Then he put his hands on my shoulders. He pulled me closer so that I was an inch away from his face. When he talked, I could smell the alcohal on his breath. Did he ever hear of breathmints?
"Listen. If you ever mess up anything I plan, I'll kill you and your family in their sleep. I'll rob your house at the same time."
Before I could say anything, he shoved me back so that I bumped into the blonde. When she fell backwards, her feet got caught around my ankles which made me fall on top of her. The two of us watched him as he emptied out her purse and threw it against the wall. I stared at the look on his face when he opened her cigarettes and threw them all over the ground. We didn't move until we were sure that he couldn't see us anymore.
"Thanks, hon." The blonde said as she took my hand to help her up. "I'm Paige Michalchuk, by the way. You know that was brave of you, for what you did."
I shrugged while I picked up some of her cigarettes. "It's nothing, I'm Alex Nunez."
"I owe you." She started picking up her cigarettes. "Hey, I was going to go into the woods today behind my house with a couple of friends and get high. Would you want to come? I'll have my friend give you free weed, since you helped me."
I tried to think if I was doing anything tonight. "Sure, I'll come. Ugh! Wait, I can't..."
"Why not?" Paige asked. "You've smoked before, right?"
"I do all the time," I wasn't lying. "Its just that I don't have a ride."
"I can have my friend bring you." Paige smiled. "Let's go."
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As soon as I sat in the backseat with Paige she handed me one of her cigarettes. "Those are yours. You paid for them with your own money."
Paige shook her head. "Hon, they really weren't that expensive. Besides, you deserve one for helping me get my purse back."
I took the cigarette from her and held it steady in between my teeth. Paige took the lighter and lit the end. As soon as I breathed in a whole bunch of smoke, the person who was driving suddenly slammed on the breaks making all of us go forward. I choked from the smoke that was shoved down my throat.
"What the hell!" Paige said. "Why did you slam on the breaks like that?"
"Emma."
Paige and I both looked out the front mirror. Emma was standing infront of the car with her arms crossed, staring at me and Paige. I rolled my eyes. Did she somehow know that we were going to get high?
"Just keep going, Hazel." Paige told her.
"And run her over?" She asked. "I'm waiting for her to move out of the way."
"Alex!" Paige was looking around for something. "Where's that cigarette?"
I looked at the ground of where my feet were. "I found it!"
Paige sighed. "I always hate when Emma does this! Whenever your doing something wrong, there she is."
"Just ignore her," I looked her in the eyes.
It was then I realized what pretty colored eyes she had. That blue/green color made me want to melt. I wished I had eyes that color. I lost train of thought when Emma was banging on the back window on Paige's side. Sighing, I watched as she put it down so Emma could talk to us.
"Paige." Emma sighed. "Are you seriously getting high again tonight?"
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What did you think? Review? This is my first Degrassi fanfic, I also know about the grammar mistakes/spelling, etc.
