Chapter 1: New year, new beginnings
Let's start off at the beginning of 10th grade:
As I'm walking up to Willow High I notice all the students in their own groups. I see the cheerleaders laughing and practicing new cheers.
I see the football team, baseball team and basketball team all around each other pushing and shoving.
And as I see these different groups I wonder what group I will soon belong in. I get closer to the door and a boy that looks rather skinny (must be a boy of the band or chess club) approaches me.
"Um, excuse me but… I haven't seen you here last year and you seem like a nice girl and I wanted to know if you'd like to join chess team?" he said in a small voice. I say,
"Well, it's only the first day of school and I want to check around and see if there is anymore activities I'd prefer before joining a club." He looked at me with disappointed puppy dog eyes.
"Well, ok then. But if you ever do want to join the team anytime during the year, you're very welcome to" and he walks away. Wow, so far, this is NOT how I wanted my first day to go.
I've already made someone upset and I haven't even had a whole conversation. Well I better get to the main office. I open up the oak doors of Willow High and smell the sweet smell of…bleach and mop water.
I see a two-way hall. Both sided with rows of doors. I wonder which door is the main office. People continue walking around me like I'm not even there (nothing new). One girl wearing a cheerleaders uniform bumped into me.
"Ugh, watch where you're going. I have to keep this uniform from folding ALL day until the game.!" I look at her, she's looking me dead in the eye. "Umm… sorry I'm new here, so I don't really know where I'm going." She rolls her eyes then,
"Clearly you are lost, standing in the middle of the hall. Hoping a door will magically appear from the sky saying 'The Main Office'." "That'd be a lot better than having to search the doors for the main office." I heard her chuckle, yep… it's true.
Cheerleaders do have the same laugh. She extended her arm towards me. "Hey, my name's Brittany." I look at her, then her hand to make sure this isn't a trick.
After a couple seconds of deciding to introduce myself or running into the nearest class, I extend my hand to hers and we shake. "Hi, I'm Maddie." She had a smile on her face, though I wasn't really sure why.
"You know, you look so much like the kind of girl who would be a cheerleader. And you seem snotty," I had to fake laugh at that. "Have you ever thought of joining the team?"
I look at her, and examine her uniform. I never did really think about me in one of those outfits cheering and jumping around at football games. I finally say," When are the tryouts?" She smiled a teeth-showing smile (perfect teeth if I may add).
"This Thursday after school in the gym. 3:15-5:00. Hope ya' make it!" And with that, she was gone. I look down to the left where she was going, she opened a door that was labled:
The Main Office. I guess the main office does fall from the sky.
