A/N: Sorry I took so long to update, I've been having a lot of test lately! (I hate school sometimes…)
Song for this chapter: "Unwanted" by Avril Lavigne
The next day was Tuesday, so I had school. I got up at 7:30 a.m. for breakfast, and we ate in silence again like the night before. Cousin Ann was wearing dark jeans that were starting to wear out with a dark purple t-shirt that said: 'I'm a grape' with a picture of a grape on it. I was wearing black pants with a white blouse.
We rode the bus to school and the style was the basic style of Tulsa; some like greasers and some like Socs. I sat by myself and everybody was talking and I tried to read but couldn't. Suddenly, I felt papers flying onto my seat. I picked one up and it read 'LOSER!' in messy writing. Great, I thought. I'm the new girl and I'm already being picked on! I went back to reading for a bit but suddenly was pushed against the side of the bus. I turned my head to look at some guys talking loudly and being rowdy.
"What was that for?" I asked them, but that bus was so loud I could hardly hear myself think. Seeing that they couldn't hear me, I raised my voice. "WHAT WAS THAT FOR?" I nearly shouted. The boys turned around and saw me.
"Nothin'," one of them said as he chuckled.
"Yeah, we're just welcoming the new girl," the other said. They turned back to their business and I turned back to my book, trying to ignore them. The rage was building inside of me, but I could control it. I read the rest of the bus ride there.
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When I got to school, I visited the office and got my class schedule. I had Science first, in room 207. When I found it after staring at various numbers on doors, I saw a small class of students sitting at counters and a Science teacher sitting in his desk at the front of the class.
"Well, hello there. You must be Sherry Valance, the new girl," the teacher greeted as he turned to me and smiled. I nodded.
"Yes, sir," I responded.
"You may sit there, next to Ann," he told me as he pointed to Ann. My jaw nearly dropped. Ann was in my Science class? This was gonna be torture. I walked over to my new seat and set my backpack down anyway.
"You're in my class?" she asked.
"Apparently," I told her as I shrugged.
"Please open your textbooks to page 70," the teacher instructed. It suddenly came to me that I needed to know his name. I don't know how I thought of that when he asked us to turn to a page in our textbooks, but I don't care.
"What's the teacher's name?" I suddenly asked Ann as the teacher was reading.
"Mr. Anderson," she replied dryly. I shrugged as we went back to reading and wrote notes for the rest of class.
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The rest of the day was pretty average for the new girl. Eating lunch by myself, sucking at P.E. class, etc. Ann ignored me and so did everyone else. Things were so different here, with it going on like this. Usually I was one of the people avoiding the new girl and being cool and stuff, but here it was the opposite. It felt really weird.
I sat by myself on the bus again on the ride home. I tried to read again, but couldn't. I wished everybody would just shut up for at least one minute. I'm different that way, I guess.
I thought about Socs and greasers a lot that day and if I was like a greaser being a 'loser' and stuff. Everybody avoided me like I was infected with some sort of deadly disease or something that was contagious. Maybe they didn't want to be 'losers' like I seemed to be. I didn't know how Ann felt about all of this. It bugged me not to know.
Aunt Jane greeted us happily when we got off the bus. She ran out the door when their dog started barking.
"Hello! How was your day today?" she asked as she hugged us each individually.
"Good," Ann answered as she walked inside.
"Fine," I commented as I started to walk as well, but Aunt Jane stopped me.
"Are you sure?" she asked me, suddenly serious.
"Yes, I'm sure!" I told her, frustrated and a little scared. She let go of my arm and I ran inside and up the stairs to my room to start working on my homework, which was Science, English, and Math. I had to take some Science notes on something I didn't even know about, read eight long chapters for English since they were in the middle of reading a book, and do LOTS of Math problems. Yup, being the new girl is real great.
I was in the middle of Science when it was time for dinner. We had corn and pork and that stuff. I ate as fast as I could so I could get back to homework, but Uncle Tim kept on barking at me to slow down. I slowed down a bit, but I had to finish my homework. I started again after dinner, at about 6:00 p.m. and continued homework till about 9:00 p.m. I plopped onto my bed and got to sleep after that. It had been a long first day.
A/N: I know it's a short chapter, but I only wanted one chapter for the first day!
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