I actually am in 9th grade, though, and my friend really likes it, but I want some adult opinions!. I think it's an okay start, but probably won't ever be anything serious!. Okay, rambling over!.
Chapter 1 - First Day
I felt the blush tattooing itself to my face as I walked down the hall to my English class!.
'What is going on,' I thought, 'I never blush! Ugh! And now everyone's gawking at the pink all over my face!'
Of course this only made it worse!. I hate my parents, because they put me through the torture of a new school almost every year!. The longest I've ever stayed at one school was two years, and that was third and fourth grade!. Since then, we've usually stayed in one place for about a year, then we split!. I'm not sure why we move so much, but I can't stand it!.
Every year, it's always the same!. I get the "Hey, where are you from!?" and the "Where did you go last year!?", which is always different!. Then, to add to the "deja vu", the teachers almost always ask for me to stand up and say my name and something about myself!. I wish everyone would let me fade into the wall like I wanted to so badly now!.
"Oh, crap," I grumbled to myself!. I stopped a girl walking past me and asked, "Excuse me, do you know where the English 1 room is!?" She seemed nice enough, and had a giant smile on her face!.
"Perdon, no hablar Engles!."
'Great!. A foreigner!. How do you say thanks anyways in Spanish!? God I wish I would've taken Spanish like Mom said!.'
"Th---Ummm!.!.!.!.Gracias!."
"Ha!. I was only kidding!. My name's Ariel!. You're Lyllith, right!?"
"Uhh!.!.!.yea!. How'd you know that!?" This girl I'd never met actually knew my name!. It was so odd that in such a big school, it had already gotten around that not only was there a new freshman, but her name was Lyllith, too!.
"My brother is an office worker!. It's his elective, mostly 'cause he's a slacker!." She giggled for a second, then regained her stature!. "He told me about you because I'm a freshman too!." She flashed me a genuine grin, and said, "He's a junior!."
"Oh!. Well then you might know where the English 1 room is!. I'm having trouble finding anything around here!. This school is huge!." I had this random gut feeling, you know, the ones that hit you out of nowhere, really strongly, that Ariel and I would be great friends!.
So Ariel walked me to English, and moseyed on to first class!. I watched her walk down the bright hallway of Briones High, suddenly realizing that she must be oblivious to her surroundings!. This secret had to have been obvious enough!. I would've recognized it like it was written on my forehead!.
I wish someone would notice my strange way of "living", so they could tell everyone and I could be put into my exile already!. The real reason we move so often, is everyone always finds out about my secret!. After one of them knows, they'll all know in a short time!. I hate it, because I can't really have a social life, the way I am!. And I've never met one single person who could accept me for what I was, the way I was!. I couldn't really expect it, in any case!.
Chapter 2 - My First Lunch of My New "Life"
I saw Ariel again at lunch, sitting with some other ninth grade girls!. I sat on my own, at a little table in the far corner of the cafeteria, by myself!. Quite a few of them, students and teachers alike, would take a few quick glances to make sure I wouldn't catch them staring, which I did!. I didn't make that knowledge public, though, because it's really embarrassing to get caught staring at someone!. Of course, eating lunch by yourself in a corner, while everyone stares is pretty embarrassing, too!. Maybe this secret wasn't so much of a secret, after all!.
That's all I have so far, but I'm still working on it!. Be brutal!.Www@QuestionHome@Com