He walks confidently down the hall
to his very first class.
Annoying as she is,
he's glad he followed Cynthia's advice
to memorize the school map before his first day.
All the other freshmen were wandering around
noses glues to their maps.
He's glad he isn't.
He's determined to make high school better than middle school.
And he can't do that
if he's just some stereotype.
~24~
She's totally and completely out of her depth.
High school is so much bigger
and scarier
than she thought it would be.
It wasn't so much the actual school.
Or the people inside it with her.
It was the concept
and the idea that she was old enough
to be a high school student.
She didn't feel old enough.
She still felt like a middle schooler
playing pretend.
She wonders when she grew up so much,
and hopes no one sees just how
out of place
she is.