Claire Beauregard's POV

I hated socializing. Period.

Everyone at school ignored me, and there was nothing I could do about it, and I hated getting too much attention. I mean, what is there to like about me? My stupid hair that's always in my face, ok, my tall and thin figure's ok, I guess, but my eyes are the ugliest chocolate brown and my hair's as brown as an old tree trunk, but maybe darker. Like a Hershey's bar, almost. Not pretty one bit. My lips are always dry and I can't buy lip balm because I wouldn't be caught dead in the makeup section at the mall.

My cell phone buzzed. It was Cari texting me.

Hey, meet me at the mall. There's some people I want you to meet!

-C

Whoopee. People. When will she understand that I'm not a people-person? When?

At the mall…

I sauntered through the mall until I saw Cari with a group of kids our age. One had brow hair like me (but lighter), but shorter since he was a boy, and the biggest green eyes I've ever seen. One of his eyebrows, above the left eye, to be exact, had what looked like a tiny scar going though it near the edge of the brow. He was wearing a purple jacket atop orange pants and red sneakers. Another was exactly my height (exactly) with big blue eyes, and dark blue hair and tanned brown skin, wearing a aqua long-sleeved shirt underneath a short-sleeved turquoise open button-down shirt with purple-pink and yellow stripes, one each. So two stripes on the short-sleeved shirt. The girls were very different. One was sporty-looking with the other looking like a teen queen.

I walked up to Cari and pulled her aside.

"Who are these people, Cari? When will you get I'm not a people person? Never?"

"Sorry, but dang it, Claire, you need to meet new people.

I tugged at my brown bangs (it was a bad nervous habit) and pulled on my black long-sleeved shirt and black flared jeans that were torn at the knees. They were designed that way. Last but not least…black sneakers with grey streaks on the sides.

"This is Cathy, Chris, Danny, and Sam." Cari said, pointing to each person in the group.

I shrugged as my 'fair hello'.

Suddenly my watch beeped. And so did the groups'. Strange…maybe it was true…Yes. I have found them.