Hello everyone…well, here is CHAPTER 3! I hope you like it, I worked like…for 15 minutes on it!

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3julia

Chapter 3 "Today is the day."

Today was the day, my first day at Ridgeport Junior High.

I walked into the building to see everyone rushing around, going to their lockers to get their books.

I had worn my new outfit, which was a jean skirt with a bright blue shirt, which had a daisy on the front. On my feet were my new tennis shoes, which were small, little white converses, since my feet were very small in size.

I drifted off to the office, and then walked up to a tall desk.

"Excuse me?" I said, trying to get the attention of the lady behind the desk, who was typing on a computer.

She looked up at me, "What?" She said, very bluntly, looking displeased that I had disturbed her.

"I need my schedule, I'm new." I said, adjusting my binder in my left hand.

"Name?" She asked, looking through a lot of files, probably of all the kids in the school.

"Morgan Manning." I answered to her.

"Well here you are Miss Manning. We all hope you have a wonderful first day here." She said, giving me my schedule, and then smiling the most fake smile I had ever seen.

I walked out of the office, and then looked at the sheet of paper. It said I had locker 4147.

I drifted through the halls, trying to find my locker. Eventually, I found it, next to a water fountain in the 300 hall.

I opened the locker to find that it had been used, and there was no doubt about that.

Someone's old lunch was in a paper bag, squished into the corner. It was very dusty, and I discovered that behind the lunch was somebody's old retainer. EW! GROSS!

I pinched the paper bag at the top and threw it in the nearest trash can. After that I washed my hands, because I'm like, the biggest health freak ever.

I mean, who wants to NOT wash their hands after touching a smelly old lunch that had been in their locker.

I had also gotten some books from the office, and piled them into my new "locker".

Zack turned the corner of Ridgeport Junior High, to his locker, 4146. Once he did though, he saw something he didn't expect to see.

It was Morgan, piling her things into the locker right next to his own.

He couldn't believe how beautiful she looked today, and he got butterflies in his stomach as he walked closer to his locker.

Oh my gosh…it's Zack! I can't believe this…I have to tell him that I listened to his song…

His locker is right next to mine, I can't believe it.

"Hey Zack." I said, turning to the right to face his locker.

"Hey." He said, turning to face me with a smile, and then looking through his locker.

"Well, I just wanted to let you know that I listened to your song and-"He cut me off in the middle of my sentence.

"You think I'm pathetic right?" He asked, closing his locker door, which shut with a bang.

"No. I thought it was sweet, so I just wanted to say thanks." I said, trying not to get too mushy.

"Well," I continued, "I have to get to class, I'll see you later." I walked down the hall, not hearing what he had said.

Zack stood, breathless by her actually LIKING the song, and then he got an idea of his own.

I got through the first part of the day, barely.

First, I have the WORST English teach EVER. She doesn't like me, I can already tell by how she talked to me and the way she glared at me in a class discussion.

Second, I kept getting lost all day. I didn't realize this school was so huge, and I kept stumbling into the wrong rooms, which were right next to the right room that I was supposed to be in.

I swear, those 7th graders in the rooms thought I was on drugs. Plus, I walked in a 9th grade room, and…ok…I won't tell about that.

I saw Zack a lot today. Turns out, he was in my Science class this morning.

Well, now it's lunch. Usually, this is my favorite part of the day, but right now, it's so totally not.

I have nobody to sit by. I know NOBODY except Zack, Cody, and this weird girl who wanted my number who was in my Choir this morning.

I got some pizza that looked pretty edible and a water and then found a table to sit at.

I started to eat, looking around the cafeteria at all of the little clicks people were in. There was the popular group, jocks, skaters, goths, punks, and then the nerds. Of course, I was a loner.

A girl with strawberry blonde hair came up to my table and the dropped her tray onto it at the seat across from me.

"You're new, huh?" She said, sympathetically.

"Yah, my name's Morgan." I said back, as she took a seat in the chair across from me.

"I'm Kristin." She said, smiling a wide, white smile.

I think I just made a friend…wow. Maybe this day isn't so bad after all.