In before we get into the story, take the perspective of a freshmen student in High school. This is my first story so I'm not experienced with writing, and I just thought I might do this for fun, especially to the people who can actually relate to these experiences. Of course, all these names are made up although still 'commonly' used in reality and these experiences are related to mines although some of it is not exactly my own experiences, but my thoughts of what was made up.


I woke up to the morning of the bright rays that penetrated through the curtains. I could hear the birds singing, quite honestly the birds singing in the morning annoyed me, except for when I took a walk in nature. My body was cold like usual during the morning, I wish I had a robe that I could just wear around the house until I dressed up warmly. I walk to the bathroom down the hallway, shivering. Looking in the mirror I see my reflection, my hair is actually pretty nice, not messy, but not bad too. I brush my teeth and wash my face with warm water.

"Ben!" Dad says while knocking on the door.

"What time do you have school? I'll take you to school, but hurry up okay, I've got to fix the kitchen sink." My dad's a mechanic, he's quite the awesome father, a kind and caring one too, although he never really tells me he loves me, but that's kinda what all dads do right?

"I'll be done in ten minutes dad!" I dab my face with the white soft towel, it feels like I could just sleep on it. I dressed up in a short and t-shirt, grabbed my backpack and went downstairs. It wasn't the best backpack, it was the same backpack I had used as a seventh grader in middle school, it was sort of small and had some dirt on it from all the times I've put it down on the floor. My family and I have low income, my two parents don't make that much money, therefore everything at school was free or reduced cost, even then though, I was thankful for all of what my parent's have done. I typically don't eat breakfast in the morning, if I ever do, its really just toast with peanut butter, maybe sometimes jelly.

"Alright dad, I'm ready".

We arrived at around seven-thirty, today was the only day when Freshmen's would tour the whole high school, and wow, it was a pretty large high school from the outside.

"Right this way! To the forum!" one of the adults said. When I arrived at the forum, I saw a group of students, the same grade as me, socializing with each other, like as if they were reuniting after a long farewell after eighth-grade. I never really had people that I would consider my true friends, and even if I did have any, none of them came up to talk to me, few of them just waved at me but then continued to talk to their own friends, I guess I didn't want to go their group and talk with them, I was never the type of socializing guy too. I pulled out my mini-tablet that I got from Christmas and just started to browse online for the whole duration of this time.

"Okay everyone! Please follow us staff and head to the Spec gym!". When we arrived at the entrance of the Spec Gym, we were greeted by excited teachers whom stuck their hands out and welcomed us with joyful faces. If I had a mirror, I'd say I looked pretty much like I wanted to get out of here already, it was embarrassing for me, and I laughed a little in the inside. We grabbed our name tags, took our seats and listened to the presentation that was lead by the sophomores, juniors, and seniors.

"Welcome to East High school!" The whole discussion was an hour long, pretty boring, although they talked about the importance of leadership and taking opportunities, although the students may of not been paying attention, I know I wasn't, and it was hot and sweaty in the gym because it was in the summer and everyone's hygiene just mixed together in the air to combine and make a putrid smell.

"And that marks it for today! Please follow the staff who have the corresponding number on your name tag! They will escort you and you will tour the place, stick with them at all times."

They escorted us around the whole building of which, there are four floors, a greenhouse at the top of the roof, a large field for both football and soccer, a large parking lot, a beautiful garden with benches and in my opinion the best, a hill with a pink blossom tree at the top, a view of the whole town and the glimmering lake from a far distance with luscious green growing forests of tree. The cafeteria was large, although it seemed just like middle school's size to me but a bit larger.

"Alright, please look at your schedules and head to your first period class, if you get lost, ask for directions from any of the staffs or adults in the building."

I didn't get lost on the first day, but rather I wasn't paying attention, and my first class was in the Spec gym, exactly where the meeting took place, I had to rush back because I was on the second floor. When I arrived, I looked at the expressions everyone made, everyone looked pretty glum out from the summer heat and most of the people were on their phones and a few people were actually socializing with each other, I sat on the bleachers along with everyone else.

"Hello class! I am , and I am your Physical education teacher! Today we aren't going to be doing anything but introducing ourselves because the summer heat is excruciating and I don't want you guys or myself to be sweating hot so were just gonna play scavenger hunting for things that meet the criteria of whats on the paper."

It was an odd experience for me, considering that I had no friends in this class and I felt a bit nervous, but I knew that being nervous wouldn't do me any good.

"Hey, you."

I looked behind my back with a confused expression.

"Yeah you, are you Ben?"

"Yeah, I'm ben." I replied quietly.

He walked down the bleachers and got up close and had an expression that made me suspicious.

"What sports do you play?" he said with an assertive voice.

"Volleyball" I replied quietly with my body inching away from him.

"Cool, can you sign my paper?"

Oddly enough, I never asked him for his name, other than it seemed he really wanted my attention.

"Thanks, I'll sign your paper too, I'm the leader of a hockey team."

I proceeded my whole day thinking about that new person that introduced himself to me, he never mentioned what his name was, but I was quite the observant person, and I eventually figured out his name was Aaron from his friends calling his name often.

He's been on my whole mind the whole time I arrived from school, his eyes were beautiful, as weird as it is to say that as a male myself. They were a blue color and his hair was blonde.

I set foot on my bed and fall asleep soundly to the thoughts and music of instruments.