Ivy stands outside of her old, blue truck pacing back and forth. There isn't much that can make her more nervous than being around new people, save dancing in front of people of course. She shakily picks up her cell phone to check the time. "8:30" she quietly reads.
'God, I've got 15 minutes until my first class and I don't even know where I'm going' she thinks to herself.
This only upsets her further so she tries calming herself down by making up a plan of what to do as soon as she gets inside.
'Okay, I will just walk right inside and simply ask someone in the hallway directions to my class. Homeroom with Mr. Thompson, I think. Okay, you can do this Ivy. You've got this.'
She takes a deep breath and grabs her bag. She opens the door and walks as quickly as possible down the hallway where she immediately feels people staring at her.
'I knew this was going to happen! Okay, just try to find someone that looks like a teacher and ask them for help. Maybe they'll be friendly…'
She stops when she sees a tall woman with short blonde hair wearing a tracksuit and standing in the middle of the hall surrounded by a few cheerleaders.
She decides that she looks nice enough and asks for help, "Um, excuse me? Ma'am?"
The lady immediately turns around and looks down at her, "Well, hello dough boy." She answers coolly.
'Dough boy? Pillsbury dough boy. My hat? Or am I looking especially pudgy today? I knew I shouldn't have had that extra piece of toast!'
Ivy grimaces at her comment but continues, "Would you mind telling me where Mr. Thompson's class is, please?"
At this the lady replies, "You mean Mr. Thomason?"
'Ugh. Great job Ivy, go and say the wrong name. You should have looked at the schedule before running your big mouth!'
Ivy thinks as the woman continues, "Sure thing, Courtney Love. Just go out those double doors at the end of the hallway there, take the hallway on your second left and he will be the last classroom on your left."
The cheerleaders giggle obnoxiously at her comment. Ivy's eyes start to fill with tears so she quickly mutters a thank you and speeds off down the hallway. She could faintly hear the cheerleaders still giggling in the background and begin to feel people staring at her.
'What are they looking at? They know. They know who I am and they know all about me. I knew this would happen.'
Walking as fast as she can, she takes the woman's directions but she doesn't go all the way to her class. Instead she heads for a bathroom. She spots one not far from her so she speeds up in hopes of making it there without any more stares until she feels herself run into something.
She looks up from her place on the tile floor and sees a boy that looks about her age. He has dark blonde hair, but that's all she notices before she quickly gathers her books and runs to the bathroom muttering an apology.
She runs into the first stall, throws her things on the ground, sits on the toilet lid and begins crying. She wants more than anything at this point to run out to her truck and just go home but she knows this was all her fault.
'Why'd you have to go and screw things up again, Ivy? This is just what happened at your old school in Cleveland and now it's happening here. It's all your fault'
She all of a sudden starts feeling sick again and barely gets the toilet lid up before she vomits up her breakfast.
'Boy are you pitiful, sitting here on the bathroom floor crying like a baby and puking your guts out. Quit feeling so sorry for yourself, Ivy. You brought this on yourself anyways, going in there and thinking that you could actually be accepted like that and just screwing it up like you always do.'
All Ivy can do is think of what a failure she is and she just sits there on the floor, shaking and crying.
~GLEE~~GLEE~~GLEE~~GLEE~~GLEE~~GLEE~~GLEE~~GLEE~~GLEE~~GLEE~~GLEE~~GLEE~~GLEE~~GLEE~
Ivy jolts awake to the sound of water running and girls talking. Immediately she notices the pain in her back and neck.
'Where am I? Why am I sleeping on the floor?'
Then she remembers the incident in the hallway earlier and crying herself to sleep on the bathroom floor.
'School. I missed my class!'
She quickly scrambles to find her phone. The time reads 3:30.
Ivy widens her eyes, 'Oh my God! I missed all of my classes! How did I sleep here for that long?'
She is about to stand up and leave when she hears the voices again. She looks out the crack in the stall and sees two girls standing at the sinks. One has brown hair and is wearing a newsboy cap, the other has long, dark hair and is wearing a black dress. She thinks they look familiar, but stands up to get a better view. Doing so she drops her phone that she didn't realize was still in her lap and startles the girls. Just as they turn around she notices them as two of the girls in the hallway that had been staring at her earlier.
'Great, of all the people, you had to draw attention to yourself to someone that's going to know you.'
She widens her eyes as they see her peeking from through the crack in the stall and knows that there's no turning back. She grabs her things quickly and opens the door in hopes of making a quick and discreet exit. That isn't the case.
"Hey, you were the new girl in the hallway earlier!" the Asian girl says.
Ivy's eyes widen and she just nods her head, offering them a quick smile and hurries to the door.
"Wait! You don't have to go! We were just talking about our assignments in Glee club. Have you heard of it?" The brunette asks happily.
Ivy just turns and quietly looks at the girls.
The pretty brunette girl speaks up again, "I'm Marley and this is Tina."
As soon as Ivy hears the name her eyes widen but she shakes it off quickly.
Ivy looks at the both of them stepping a little bit further into the bathroom and quietly says, "Ivy."
They both look at each other and the Asian girl, Tina says "Oh, that's a pretty name!"
She forces a small smile and mutters, "Thank you." The two girls seem to be satisfied with the conversation so Ivy quickly nods her head and runs out of the bathroom leaving Tina and Marley confused.