Clarke woke early in the morning due to an annoying group chat that kept making her phone buzz. She groaned a little as she realized that she had to go to school for the first time since the last year and so far the day wasn't up to her expectations. She sat up, stretching and slightly scowling, and grabbed her phone to check the time. It was 30 minutes before her alarm was supposed to go off so she flipped it off with the swipe of a finger and decided to check the texts she had built up in her notifications center.
From RAVEN: Get up losers, it's the first day of hell!
From BELLAMY: You sound super excited, Reyes.
From RAVEN: I'm totally stoked, we're finally seniors! We finally get to rule the school.
From BELLAMY: We're not all seniors. I'm in college, remember?
From OCTAVIA: Yeah, yeah. We get it, you're older than us.
From JASPER: I can't believe you guys woke me up, I was planning on 'accidentally' sleeping through the entire day.
From MONTY: That wasn't going to happen even if you tried. I will not go through the first day of senior year without my bestie.
From RAVEN: You sound like a girl. OMG JASPER, you're my BFFFFF! I can't go through the day without my best bitch! Omgee bestie!
From MONTY: Shut up Raven.
Clarke laughed at her friends' conversation then dropped her phone onto the bed. She let out a quick breath of air and then continued to get up. She walked slowly to the bathroom, wanting to do anything but get ready. She looked at her image in the mirror, realizing that she had forgotten to shower the night before. She sighed and then started the running water. After stripping her pajamas entirely from her body and placing them in the hamper, Clarke looked at her body in the mirror. She hadn't exercised in a while and her once gorgeous shape was beginning to lose its figure.
After taking her shower, putting some decent clothes on, grabbing her keys, and texting her friends a bit, she walked out of her tiny apartment building and started her car. She figured since it was still early in the morning, she had time to go grab a coffee. She would probably need it anyway because the first day usually consisted of "school bonding activities" that drained most of her energy for the classes after. When she arrived, she neatly parked her car in one of the open spaces and hopped out, grabbing her phone and wallet.
The line wasn't too bad but it was still long enough that she had about a minute of wait time before she could order. She used this time to play a game on her phone. Suddenly, there was a hand placed on her shoulder and a person leaning from behind her to see what she was doing.
"Hey, I love that game. You're actually doing pretty good considering that the method you're using is completely wrong." The girl staring at the screen took a step forward so she could look directly into Clarke's large, blue eyes.
"Excuse me?" Clarke replied in half surprise and half anger at the girl.
"Yeah, you shouldn't move that there unless you want the next couple of moves to be completely cursed." The girl laughed as she explained what Clarke was doing completely wrong.
"Uh, thanks?"
"You should add me on there, we could totally battle!" She blurted out. "I could even show you some cool techniques that might make the game easier on you."
"I really don't think that's necessary…" Clarke advanced to the counter, hoping the girl would get the gist and leave her alone.
"Oh… okay." The girl backed off, heading towards one of the single tables. She looked kind of sad but Clarke just shrugged it off. After ordering her usual small coffee, she attempted to quickly pay and exit the building but she was stopped, once again, by the mystery girl.
"Hey, I'm sorry if I came across as rude or all-knowing… I just don't know how to introduce myself to anyone." The girl's expression changed to something Clarke couldn't quite identify.
"You see, I just moved here over the summer, not knowing anyone, and I'm not exactly the best at making friends… as you can probably already tell." She sighed.
Clarke felt bad for the girl so she decided to respond, "Why would you say that?" Clarke felt the girl's eyes searching her for any sign of sarcasm. Her response seemed to have caught the girl off-guard because it was a solid ten seconds before she said anything.
"With the way you were acting earlier, it just seemed that you didn't like me."
"Didn't," Clarke questioned with humor in her voice, "what's with the past-tense?" The girl just kind of stood there in shock, apparently she wasn't expecting Clarke to actually make conversation with her.
"Yeah… I thought I completely overwhelmed you or annoyed you or something."
"Well at first I was a bit annoyed," the girl looked down at her feet, "but then I got coffee in my hands so everything's better now." Clarke smile and the girl laughed awkwardly. After about five seconds, Clarke got a text that made a little ding.
"SHIT! I'm late. So sorry, I really have to go. I'm meeting with some of my friends and I was supposed to be there like two minutes ago. See ya' around!" Clarke rushed out of the building, jumping into her car, and driving off in a hurry.
"So how was your morning, Clarke?" Monty asked.
"You know, the usual grumpy me until I drank my coffee." Raven rolled her eyes and Clarke gave her a glare.
"I'm just excited that school starts in less than 15 minutes!" Octavia announced rather randomly but nobody could blame her, it was pretty exciting. Currently, they were all seated on the sidewalk right outside the school, waiting for the doors to open. They always did that on the first day of school, meet outside and catch up while they wait. This year was different, though. First of all, Bellamy wasn't with them this time because he was off to college, and second of all, they all had spent the summer together so there really wasn't any catching up to do.
The bell rang to announce that school was officially in session, and the group got up off of the sidewalk to enter the building. As soon as they walked in, they noticed a bunch of familiar faces from past years but also some new ones. They found the lockers that each of them had been assigned and stuffed all of their items inside the tall, skinny boxes.
Clarke knew that they had to meet at the gymnasium for those "school bonding activities", as mentioned earlier. As she walked through the door, she was handed a number and she had to meet up with the rest of the people who got matched with the same number. It was supposed to get them to "mingle outside of their circles". All they really had to do was share a little bit about themselves and that was about it before they could go find their friends. Nobody actually talked to anyone within their number groups after the activity unless they were luckily placed with an already existing friend.
Clarke was given the number 23 so she wandered around until she found a bunch of others with the same. After everyone found their groups, the principal told them to sit in a circle and talk to each other. Clarke looked around the circle to see if she recognized anyone. At first, it seemed she was alone but then she saw someone waving to her from across the circle. The coffee shop mystery girl.