First Impressions

As we walk towards the curly haired boy, the black haired girl and Noelle, Reed started crying. At first I did not know what to do, and then I realized I should just what I did when Reed was crying after Mrs. Ryan nearly killed her. I was completely at peace at the time knowing I was all worried for nothing during the six days she was gone. I gave hear a hug and said, "Its all right, everything is going to be all right."

Clearly that was the right thing to do because after I said this Reed started telling me about the latest misfortune in her life. How she was just about to go back to being a Billings girl and room with Noelle but know she can not. How Billings was like a second home to her and now it's gone and she does not know what she will do without it. Also, she told me she was not over the near death experience she had experience not more than a month before.

It took a long time for Reed to get all her feelings out. I did not realize that while Reed was talking, we had moved to a bench and were sitting very close together.

I guess Reed noticed that too because the next thing she said, "Enough about my stupid life. You just need to meet Ivy and Josh."

"Sure.", I said and we moved towards the curly haired boy and black haired girl, once more.

When we got to the two people Reed said, "Ivy, Josh, this is Sawyer, he a friend I made at St. Barths."

In response, Ivy said sweetly, "Hi, it must be interesting moving to a different school in the middle of the year."

At the same time, Josh said curtly, "I got to go. Later Ivy, Reed." Josh pushed me slightly as he was leaving. They feeling was nothing nice.

As Josh walked away I told Ivy, "Yeah it is but thankfully I know a few people here. Where are you from?"

"Boston.", Ivy answered. "You?"

"Livingston, New Jersey."

"Really that has the best Nicole Miller shop ever!"

"I know, my sister Jen went their all the time."

"Really? Is you sister here as well?"

"No", I replied sadly. That got me thinking of the time before St. Barths, when I was very forlorn and quieter then I am usually.

Then Ivy's phone rang. She answered, listened to whoever was speaking for a little bit, and then she exclaimed, "So what, Julian? Figure that problem out yourself. I'm in a middle of meeting someone. Call me back at some better time."

After she closed her phone away, Ivy exclaimed, "Gosh, my roommate here always wants me to solve her stupid computer problems. It gets so damn stressful after a while. Well I guess I should help her. Not that I wouldn't rather get to know you more but it would be hard to live with a roommate who hated you, so I have to go."

After Ivy, left Reed and I decided to go our separate ways. Me too the newspaper meeting, which surprisingly enough was on move in day at Easton. Reed to go find two of her other friends, Astrid and Trey.

Suddenly, I had no idea what I should do. I had no idea where computer lad 2 was. Luckily, that was the second Noelle decided to stop yelling at her dad and said bitterly, "I guess your right dad, I just can not believe you did this without telling me."

As she closed her phone Noelle looks at me and yelled, "What?"

Instead of doing what I usually did when faced with a cruel look from Noelle, which was stammer, "Sorry." and look away, I asked her, "Do you know where computer lab 2 is? I need to go to the newspaper meeting there."

"Oh.", Noelle said softly. "I'll show you the way." Was this the same girl I saw two seconds ago? In less than no time at all Noelle became from mean to unusually pleasant.

As we were walking, Noelle said, "You knkkow the Josh guy from before."

"Yeah.", I answered.

"Well he's Reed's ex-boyfriend, who, even though they are already broken up, he still has some feelings for her. So he might act a little jealous towards people Reed hangs out with that he does not like.", Noelle stated bluntly.

"Why would he straightforward dislike me when I only knew him for less than a minute?" I asked.

I realized the answer before Noelle said, "He thinks you are Reed's new boyfriend. Not just a new friend she made. Don't worry though, Josh hates me too. I guess I deserve his hatred but you surely do not."

My first real conversation with Noelle was not as scary as I thought it would be if I ever got the guts to talk to her. It is nice knowing that I probably just had a bad first impression when I met her, all those years ago. Not that I do not have a reason to be scared of her, Noelle is very powerful and can be very heartless to people sometimes.

"Thanks.", I said. "For telling me that." That was probably the most kind thing Noelle had ever said to me.

Noelle smiled at me and said, "Your most definitely welcome." Then Noelle sighed and said, " I so mad at my dad right now. He really is going to pay and so is yours. Billings is like my life and I am never going to be happy again unless they rebuilt it."

"What so wrong with the other dorms?", I asked. That was the question I was waiting to ask forever. Ever since Noelle and Ariana's freshman year, at Easton, Billings house was all the two of them could talk about. I did really get what was so special about it. Weren't Noelle and the other girls privileged enough.

"Well, that is something people like you are going to understand.", Noelle said as we made our way up to the computer lab. "Well here it is, two doors to the left, have fun, if you can. I never really like the people who work at The Chronicle, to peculiar in a very bad way, well except for the editor-in-chief, Constance, of course. You should talk to her, she is another good friend of Reed's."