Just to let you know it's the beginning of the school year and Dakota, Alfred, and Matthew are in 10th grade.

My brothers Alfred (Al) and Matthew (Matt) and I walk down to the bus stop two block away from our house to go to school (obviously). I'm clutching my journal to my chest with my wheat colored hair covering the right side of my face, Al's eating a hamburger, and Matt's eating one of the maple cinnamon rolls I made as we walk down. I pull the hood of my dark green hoodie up to cover my face as we walk down. Al's friends Matthias and Gilbert were already there along with one of my friend Lilli and her brother Vash. I give a small smile to Lilli and Vash. I then silently pull my pen out of my messenger bag and start doodling in my journal. You see I'm a shy girl who doesn't like to be noticed. And I have several 5 subject notebooks that are my journals but the one I'm drawing in is my newest one that's not filled with book ideas, drawing, recipes, video game scores, personal research (I love science especially Zoology and Genetics), fashion designs, and my diary entries. Thing is everyone (besides my brothers, Lilli, and the people that don't notice me) think I only have one journal cause they all have the same cover. Camouflage. Not that stupid girl pink camouflage, the real black, brown, and dark green camouflage. I look up to see the bus coming down the road and close my journal and put my pen in my bag. By this time everyone from this area of the neighborhood is here. When I get on the bus I follow Lilli and Vash to sit with them like usual. Lilli asks me about the outfit I'm working on right now and I answer in my naturally quiet voice that it's almost finished. Vash then asks me if I'm going to help with the costumes for the play this year. I nod and turn to the page with some of the design ideas I already made in my journal for the play this year, Footloose. As this happens I feel like I'm being watched so I look up to meet the red eyes of my brother's albino friend 'the awesome' Gilbert. I blush bright red in embarrassment and look back down to my journal and tug my hood down further to hide my face. Lilli nudges me and gives me a questioning look. I shake my head signaling I don't what to talk about it. When we get to school I wave to Lilli and head to my locker to switch books and stuff. I really like my schedule this year. This is it:

Homeroom

Science

Latin

Math

P.E. /study hall (every other day)

Lunch

Fashion design/food and culture (fd 1st semester f&c 2nd semester)

English

Social studies

Study hall (go to the library every time)

And that's my schedule. Oh and I have homeroom with my brother's and Al's friends... and boyfriend Arthur. Yes my brother is gay so what. In homeroom I just observe the room and everyone. Al is holding Arthur's hand, Gilbert is talking to Francis, and Antonio, and Matthias is annoying Lukas. Basically... it's a normal day so far. I look back to Gilbert to find him staring at me our eyes meet and I blush bright red and turn and start flipping through pages in my journal flustered. Reader, your probably wondering why I get flustered went I make eye contact with Gilbert... Well I like him. But it's not like he will ever like me back... I'm too shy and can't even talk to people with out messing up and running away. And he's 'the awesome' Gilbert. And I'm just not awesome enough...

After homeroom I head to science with my Swedish friend Lira. Lira is a quite girl but she can be very over dramatic. "Ok class, you and a partner are going to be working on a lab today and its due tomorrow," the teacher says. Kids start to look around for who they will pair up with. "And I will picking the partners at random." Que the groans of disappointment. "First Lira... and... Matthias." Lira sit stock straight. Lira likes Matthias but won't admit it. "Alfred and Arthur... Antonio and Francis... Feliciano and Ludwig... Heracles and Sadik... Tino and Berwald... and finally Gilbert and Dakota." "What!" I say high pitched but quiet voice.

A/n: so here is my new story. So Dakota is very shy and has very low self-esteem. Any questions and I'll answer them.