I stepped out of my new car. It was old and white; I had no idea what it was, however many times my brother had tried to force it into my brain. I wasn't big on cars. I looked across the car park, looking for the familiar faces of my friends.
It was a new school year, yet I didn't feel the excitement I should with a new start. I was at the same school, with the same friends, and the same problems.
As my eyes continued to sweep over the car park, a particular group caught my eye. There were five of them, three girls and two guys. I couldn't help but stare; they were like a perfect picture. One girl, with long, golden hair was leaning against a shiny red car, a gorgeous guy with short brown hair and huge muscles leaning over her, whispering in her ear while she giggled. The other guy had bronze tousled hair and was holding hands with a girl with long, chocolate brown hair. They were smiling, staring at each other. The last girl seemed to be doing similar to me, surveying the car park. It was something that could not go unnoticed, they were all unbelievably beautiful.
'Must be the new kids then, huh?' A voice sounded from behind me, and an arm slipped around my waist. I turned to see Brandon standing next to me, looking over at the beautiful students.
'Guess so,' I said, sliding away from his grip and pulling my gaze away. 'How're you? I haven't seen you in an absolute age!' I turned to him. Brandon had been my best friend since 4th grade. We were now 16, and he had decided that he was in love with me. Unfortunately for him, I didn't feel the same.
'So you haven't decided to declare you're love for me then?' He chuckled as he noticed I had pulled away from him, as if responding to my thoughts. I was surprised at how lightly he had taken my original rejection.
'C'mon Brandon, it's been summer break, I haven't changed, and neither have you.' This wasn't true, he had; he had gone from looking like a young 15-year-old, to an old looking 17-year-old. I couldn't deny the lean muscles appearing through his shirt, and the matured facial features. His hair had gone from gelled up into short spikes to longer and smoothly, swished across his head. Okay, so if he wasn't my best friend, I would admit he was rather good-looking. Another voice interrupted my thoughts.
'Beth!' I heard my name being shouted from across the car park. I looked up to see my best friend, Lucy, crossing the lot to me. I had seen her only yesterday, as we could not have made it through the whole summer without each other. I was closer to her than Brandon, but only just. As she walked towards me, I envied her long brown hair hanging from a scruffy pony.
Last year I had made the stupid mistake of chopping my hair from waist length to shoulder. Now Beth and I could not look more different, she had long brown hair that was always dead straight, and I had short choppy blonde hair. I smiled as she approached me.
'Long time no see!' She chuckled, barging Brandon out of the way so she could link her arm through mine as we headed for the school building, with Brandon slowly following behind. We went to our homeroom, finding the rest of our friends already gathered and chatting. We were greeted by smiles and hugs, some from people we weren't friends with. Everyone seemed to be happy to be back at school.
Slowly everyone filtered in, ready for registration, and just as I looked up at the door, three of the five beauties entered. The girl with long, brown hair, the boy she had been with and the girl who had been on her own. As they took their seats, Miss Pritchard came in.
'Good morning, everyone!' She was so cheerful, but only got a grunt in response.
'Well thanks for the cheerful start guys...' She was young, and sometimes seemed to act like one of the pupils; it was annoying.
'Okay, well we have three new students with us this morning, I won't be so embarrassing and make you stand and introduce yourselves, but if you can just, uh, give us a wave, Bella Swan?' The girl with long brown hair waved her arm shyly, glancing up and looking round the class. She quickly looked back at her desk, and then linked her hand through the arm of the boy next to her. 'Edward Cullen?' The bronze haired boy waved as well. 'And finally, Ruby Hale?' The other girl raised her hand, a smile stretching across her face. She looked around the class, being the only one to say a word.
'Hey, that's me.' She said, giggling to herself. Her eyes caught with mine and I smiled back at her. She seemed much friendlier than her friends.
The lesson continued, as a new topic was introduced, but the bell soon rang and everyone was out of the room quickly.
I caught up with other friends throughout the morning, hearing about vacations and holidays, and catching glimpses of Bella, Edward and Ruby.
Soon it was time for lunch, and I could tell, as my stomach grumbled. I headed to the canteen, Izzy yapping in my ear about an amazing summer fling, that I couldn't care less about. I saw Lucy at our normal table and headed to grab some food. I took my tray over to the table, but found I was one of the only girls eating. I sighed and raised my eyebrows at Lucy sitting next to me.
'Don't even go there,' she started, 'I'm not hungry, and I'm not eating.' It wound me up that none of my friends ate food at school; they all had 'figures to keep'. I sighed again, dramatically and started jamming a slice of pizza in my mouth. Brandon scoffed to one side of me, as he watched me.
'Okay, that's one way of putting me, off,' he said, 'really sexy.' His voice was dripping with sarcasm. I smiled with a mouthful of cheese and tomato. Chimes seemed to sound behind me, so I turned to look, fully expecting someone to be standing with some sort of musical instrument. I was surprised to see Ruby Hale laughing.
'You don't mind if I sit with you guys do you?' Her voice sounded like music. I quickly gulped down my food, feeling like a fool.
'Course not!' Brandon answered patting the table as she motioned to sit opposite him. His face lit up like a small child at Christmas. I smiled inwardly, hoping he would switch his love interest to Ruby.
'Well, uh, I'm Brandon,' my best friend said, and continued to introduce everyone sitting round the table, finishing with Izzy, sitting the other side of Lucy.
'So where are all your friends?' Izzy tactlessly asked what we were all thinking. We may have been thinking it, but we weren't all so rude to ask it.
'Oh, they're over there,' she said, raising her eyes to a table the other side of the room. Sure enough the rest of them were sitting there, all apparently glaring over to us. 'They just keep to themselves, it winds me up, I mean it's not like we can't make friends because we're new.' She seemed to be having a dig at them, even though there was no way they could hear her, the canteen was buzzing.
'That's cool,' Lucy said, 'I mean it's not like we bite or anything!' She chuckled. Ruby smiled, like it was a personal joke, and I could see that the two girls on the table she had abandoned were giggling too. Had they heard that?