She was surrounded. Kids flooding around her in every direction. The fear inside her thickened. Summer wasn't used to a school this big. She missed her old school back in the States. She missed her friends. She hated her mom for sending her there. All she wanted to do was lie in her bedroom and never come out.
The bell rang. She knew she was late. She didn't care. Her book bag dragged noisily against the school corridors. She was all alone in the halls, it felt like a ghost town. She didn't know anybody. All she knew was her classroom number. She looked around desperately trying to find it.
Summer finally reached her first class. She made it in just as the morning announcements were being shown to the class. Every head turned as she walked into the room. She just stood there in the doorway. All the girls in the room looked her up and down, measuring how threatening she could be to their social status, then turned their heads away. The boys looked for a bit longer. They couldn't take their eyes off her.
"Summer Anthers?" A voice asked from the opposite side of the room. Summer turned her head and saw a tall man with light blonde hair, leaning casually against his desk with a clipboard in his hand.
"Y-yes?" She responded. He eyed her in an angry, yet calm manner. Summer didn't know whether to be afraid or just to act cool like it was no big deal.
"You're late Ms. Anthers, please take your seat." Summer nodded and walked over to an empty seat in the back of the classroom. Eyes turned as she walked down the row of computers. She knew why they were staring, but she wished they wouldn't. She probably shouldn't have worn such a revealing outfit to her first day of school, but she was rebelling against her mom because she hated the fact that they weren't back home.
Summer took her seat in front of an empty computer and looked at her screen. She brushed a strand of her stick straight black hair out of her face so she could see the computer screen better. It was at that moment she realized her computer wasn't on. Summer looked around her work area to find out how to turn it on. When she found the button, she pressed it, but it refused to work for her. She desperately punched the button over and over, but nothing happened.
"Do you need help?" The girl next to her asked? Summer just nodded in agreement. "These things are kinda tricky. See, you have to hold the power button down for about 5 seconds until it turns on, like this." The girl leaned over and turned on the computer. "It's not that hard. I'm Hazel by the way."
"Hi," She responded, "I'm summer." The girls just looked at each other and smiled.