Back to High School

One

Chloe POV

"Chloe!" I hear my name being shouted through the halls as I am packing my locker for my first two lessons of the day. Not two minutes later does a small, blonde perky girl come crashing through the halls coming straight towards me. I sigh and after putting everything I need into my bag, I close my locker and acknowledge the blonde standing next to me, all but jumping in place.

"What's up Liz?" I say to my friend. She and Nate are my best friends. Liz tells me absolutely everything and Nate is just the funniest person in the world.

"Three ... New ... Kids ... Today" she says in between large gasps of air. I think she was on the other side of the school when she found out and had to tell me.

"Have you told Rae yet?" I ask her. Rae is a friend of mine, sort of. We will sometimes eat lunch together and stuff but she isn't into the same stuff that me, Liz and Nate like but Liz being the kind person she is found Rae as a new kid and took her in. Now two years later I still don't really know why but I just have a bad feeling about her. Although she has given me no sign of her being dramatically evil I just can't shake the thought of something being off with her.

"No," Liz says to me after she has caught her breath. "And I think I am going to let her figure it out for herself. If I do it will be in the school paper by next hour and I don't think the new kids would like that. I mean they could be really nice and not care and everything but I just don't think they would want the whole school to know and I think they should have a say in stuff like this." Liz says to me. The girl is just so nice, I think that is why we are friends. That and also the fact that it is hard not to love Liz, she is like the happiest person on the plannet.

"Yeah." I say. We start walking towards homeroom together. Me and Liz have Theater, French and Math together so we see each other a lot.

"So, are you planning on getting a boyfriend this year?" Liz asks me as we sit down in our seats.

"W-Where here did that come from?" I asked her. Truth is I have never had a boyfriend because my Aunt wouldn't allow me to have one, ever.

When my mum died three years ago in a car crash my Aunt blamed my dad. Dad became really depressed and became kind of lazy. He was still really nice to me though which I appreciated while I was grieving with him. But when dad and I would make plans somewhere I would go to Aunt Laurens instead, when I was younger I didn't really understand what was going on. Then one day I came home and my dad wasn't home. Aunt Lauren said he had taken the easy way out because he was a coward. That was two years ago. I haven't heard from him but I'm not an idiot. I don't think he did run away I am sure he killed himself from the grief of losing his wife and being stuck with a child that he didn't want. But Aunt Lauren didn't tell me. Whenever I brought up my dad she would say he was a stupid man and pretend that she couldn't hear me when I questioned her further.

"Chloe!" Hearing Liz shout my name brought me back from my thoughts.

"S-s-sorry. Guess I was just daydreaming again." I mumble

She looks at me questioningly and I was sure she was going to say something when the final bell went and the teacher walked in.

"Okay everyone quiet down. We have got some announcements to make. First of all for any of you who don't already know, we have some new students joining us this year one of which will be in our homeroom. I want you all to make him feel welcome which I am sure you will."

I looked up at Liz who was sitting in front of me and she rose her eye brows and gave me a look. I just let out an exasperated sigh and shook my head before turning my attention back to the teacher. Just as he was about to start talking again a man, no a boy came in.

He was 6'4 and had a large torso. His hair was an inky black colour and he had glowing green eyes. His clothing choice made him look like he was chubby, with his baggy sweatshirt and tracksuit bottoms but I could tell that it was just a cover up by looking at his face which was nowhere close to looking the slightest bit fat. Overall he looked quite threatening, despite his efforts to make him look less so but I couldn't dwell on that for long because he was looking right at me!

"Oh you must be Derek. Well welcome to the class, if you would please take a seat at the back over there we can continue talking about the new year." The teacher said. I stiffened slightly as the new guy looked my way and started to approach me I got a little anxious but realized he had been told to sit here so I took my bag off of the chair next to me so he could sit down.

"Hi, my names Chloe." I said sounding just the way I looked, like a 10 year old. I had boring straight strawberry blond hair that I put red streaks into to make myself look older. My eyes were a boring blue colour and were too big for my face and my chest was none existent. I was just about 5'2 and was one of the smallest in my class. I was mainly picked on by the popular girls in school because of each of these factors about myself.

"Derek." The boy grunted without looking away from the teacher.