"Sara, come one time for school." Sav, my brother said, closing the door behind him.
I sat up in my bed and stretched. Today was my first day at Degrassi. Well, to tell you a bit about myself, I'm in the 10th grade, I just recently got back from a three year punishment trip to India to live with my aunt and uncle, and I'm Sav's twin sister. I got up out of bed and through on a pair of blue-jean shorts and my Degrassi t-shirt. Our parents are a bit more strict on what our sister Alli wears, but since Sav and I are the oldest we can wear practically whatever we want. I slowly staggered downstairs into the kitchen for breakfast.
"Good morning Sara." My mom said, walking past us with a basket full of clothes.
"Morning mom." I said pouring myself a bowl of cereal. I sat down at the table and started to eat fighting to stay conscious. Sav and Alli were arguing again as usual about how Alli has to wear a ridiculously long skirt to school. Once I was done I rinsed my bowl and finished getting ready for school. We walked to school in silence, well I did at least. Can't say the same for Alli and Sav. I walked into the main office and waited for to lady at the desk to notice I was there.
"Can I help you?" She finally asked.
"Um, yeah I came here to get my schedule." I said watching my tone.
"What's you name?"
"Sara Bhandari."
"Spell your last name please." She said looking through the papers on her desk.
"B-h-a-n-d-a-r-i" I'm not sure why she needed me to spell it just the name itself should have helped her find it.
"Here you go hunny."
"Thank you" I took my schedule and left the office.
I walked around the school until I found my homeroom. I walked over to the teacher and handed him my pass. I sat down and waited for him to take attendance before I put my headphones on. I started humming Like you by Bow wow and Ciara. (Hey once you've grown up in the same house as Alli Bhandari the music starts to grow on you.) I felt someone tap in my shoulder, so I turned around and paused my CD.
"Your in my seat." A not so tall red-head said looking down at me.
"I don't see your name anywhere on here." I said taking my headphones off.
"Come on Holly J., lets sit somewhere else." The girl behind her said.
"No, listen I don't think you know who I am, I'm Holly J. Sinclair, so unless you want you life to be miserable I suggest you move."
"Oh, well in the case I'll move in ten minutes when the bell rings, oh and my life is already miserable." I spat back at her.
"Oh really." Holly J. said placing her hands on her waist. "Yeah, I'm gonna have to see your ugly face everyday for the rest of the year aren't I." I said as the bell rang. I grabbed my bag and left the room.
I walked down the hall to my next class, science. I sat in the desk farthest away from the teacher. Two other boys came in and sat in the two desks behind me. One was black with short hair and the other had sort of a poofy afro and was white. They muttered something then one of them moved up to the desk next to mine.
"Hey pretty lady, I'm Derek Heig, and whats your name.?" He asked scooting his desk closer to him.
"Not interested." I said not even looking at him.
"Well what do ya we get to know each other a little better." He said placing his hand on my knee.
"If you wanna keep that hand you might wanna take it off of my leg now." I said slamming my book that I was reading close.
"Hey hey now, no need to get aggressive." He said sliding his hand up. I grabbed his wrist got out of my chair. I walked over to him and locked his arm around him and pushed up.
"I told you to take your hands off of me, now if you don't want to listen I can easily break your arm for you, your choice." I said putting more pressure on his arm. I let him go and he looked back at me moving his should around in a circle.
"Jeez, what the hell is wrong with you, you freak, come on Danny." Derek said walking to the other side of the room.
Danny got up and started to walk away, but stopped by my desk.
"Sorry, about him." Danny said, handing me my book that fell on the floor.
"Thanks." I said sitting back down.
He nodded, and went over to his friend. The bell rang and woke me up. I got my books together and started walking toward the door, but got tripped.
"Oops sorry." Derek said, kicking my book out from under my hand.
I stood up and was getting read to punch him in the face, when someone grabbed my arm.
"Sara calm down." Sav said letting go of my arm. I glared at Derek then bent down pick the rest of my stuff up.
Johnny DiMarco and his friend Bruce something came over.
"You might want to learn to control your little pet there, or she might get herself into some real trouble." Bruce said, looking down at me.
"Funny, I was about to tell Johnny that his guerrilla got out of it's cage again, but I guess he found it." I said standing up.
"Fuck you." Bruce said.
"When and where." I said walking away.
I walked off to my next class. I was in the special ed class for math and reading, I have dyscalculia and slight dyslexia. I'm doing 5th grade math and reading at an 8th grade level. All I had to do was simple multiplication and that was starting to give me a headache. I took a break from my problems and put my head down. I got back to work on my problems and barely managed to finish them before I had to go. I ran to the other side of the school for social studies and just barely made it there on time. I looked over and saw Holly J., hoping she didn't see me I walked over to the seat nearest to the windows.
"If I'm not mistaken I saw you in the special ed class last period didn't I." Holly J. said walking over to me.
"Yep you sure did." I said sitting down. I really didn't want to talk to her right now because I still had a headache.
"Wow, so what are you to dumb to understand." Holly J. started to say.
"Shut the fuck up will, I have dyscalculia O.K, now just leave me alone I have a migraine." I said pitting my head down.
She continued to bitch me out but I wasn't listening, I was trying to get some sleep. I finally fell asleep when Mr. Johnson started talking. I was woken up by the bell hurried out of the room. I ran to the other side of the school to the gym for P.E. I still had a bit of a headache, but I could run. After we ran our three laps around the gym, we had to climb the rope. This was the only class I had with Sav who was talking to a few of his friends.
"Bhandari." Mr. Khane our teacher called.
"Which one." Sav called back.
"Sara." Mr. Khane called.
Great rope climbing with a headache not a real good combo. I started to climb almost slipped. I told you climbing a rope with a headache isn't the best idea, but I managed to climb to the top and slid back down. I sat out the rest of class though. We went and got re-dressed and waited for the bell to ring. Lunch was next, thank god. That was the only time when I didn't have to be around people. I went into the bathroom first before I went to the cafeteria. I stood at the sink and splashed water on my face to wake myself up.
"That was really brave of you earlier." A girl behind me said.
I look back and saw that it was the girl that was with Holly J. earlier.
"How?" I asked.
"Standing up to Holly J. and Bruce like that." She said fixing her hair.
"They're not so tuff." I said putting my hair up.
"If you say so, I'm Anya by the way." She introduced herself "Sara." I said smiling.
I left the bathroom shortly after her. I walked over to my locker and got my lunch and ate in the Zen Garden. (Only place in that school thats quiet.) My last two classes flew by as did the ride home.
"So how was you first Sara?" My mom asked.
"O.K I guess, I'm gonna need to start taking medicine to school I got another migraine." I said looking out the window.
When we got home there was another family sitting in our living room talking to dad.
"Ahhh, here they are." Dad said when we walked in the door. "Arie this is my son Savtog, and my daughters Alliah and Sara." Dad introduced us.
"Sara there's someone I want you to meet," Dad said waving someone over to us, "Sara this is Arie's son Elie, Elie this is my daughter Sara."
"So this is my sons future bride." Arie said.
I looked back at my Dad. I was suppose to get married to him, barely know him.
"Umm, Dad I have to go do my homework." I said heading toward the stairs.
I went up to my room turned on Savior by Rise Against and started doing my homework. I only went downstairs when it was time for dinner. I ate in silence, I really wasn't a big fan if this whole arranged marriage thing. After dinner they left to go back home and I went back up to my room and went worked on my homework some more.
"Hey sis." Sav said walking in.
"Hey whats up?" I asked.
"Something's been bugging you, what is it?"
"Nothing."
"Bull shit, Sara remember your trying to lie to your twin brother, I can tell when something's bothering you." Sav said sitting on my bed.
"Right, well it's this whole arranged marriage thing it's got me a little freaked out, I mean they want me to marry Elie but I hardly even know him." I said. "Listen I know it's weird, but just try to get to know him he seems like a cool guy, ask him out or something, then maybe you won't be so freaked out by the whole marriage thing." Sav said getting up.
"Alright, thanks Sav." I said finishing the last of my homework.
After I finished I turned off my lights and lied down. I thought about what Sav said and he's right, I'll call him tomorrow and ask him, I mean whats the worst that could happen, we fight then we break up. Right.