𝕮𝖗𝖚𝖊𝖑 𝕾𝖚𝖒𝖒𝖊𝖗

Eli, Demitri, and Robbie

"Aella, Miguel is here" my mom yelled, I smoothed my skirt, grabbed my bag, and walked out of the room. Today was my first day at West Valley High School, I was a little nervous but it wasn't too bad 

"Hey Miguel," I said cheerfully walking out the door

"Are you excited for school?" he asked and I shrugged wrinkling my nose 

"Not really but at least I'll have someone to sit with at lunch" I laughed and he gave me a small smile, he was nervous, I could tell. We got in the car and I started driving, I turned on Deja Vu by Olivia Rodrigo, it's currently one of my favorite songs 

"Don't be nervous Miguel" I told him "you'll make more friends"

"Yeah but those guys from the Mini-Mart are probably going to our school and they are going to make my life hell"

"Don't worry about them, I'm sure they won't do anything while at school, they would get into trouble what's the worst that can happen at school? I mean there will be teachers all around"

"I guess you are right" he sighed looking around thoughtfully  

"Yes thank you, Miguel" I playfully elbowed him in the ribs. We drove in silence for the rest of the time, I was nervous because girls can be really cruel and I would like to avoid lots of drama. Miguel and I stopped in front of the doors to the school, took deep breaths, and walked in. 

There was no one there "where is everyone?" Miguel asked we looked around in panic. Did we come on a wrong day?  

"Hold on" I pulled out my phone and checked the schedule, it was the first day of school but it started earlier 

"Oh my god," I said in alarm "we're twenty minutes late on our first day, god we are so screwed" 

Miguel started running "I'll see you after class, run" I nodded and took off running to math how could I be late, this is a bad way to start off the year what would my teacher think of me? I found my class and quietly walked in hoping that by some miracle the teacher wouldn't notice 

"Miss Stone how nice of you to join us," the teacher at the front said "please take a seat next to Eli" was I supposed to know who that is I mean didn't she know that it was y first day 

"Umm who?" I asked "I'm new this year" I fidgeted with my hands a bit, now I was nervous because all the attention was on me

The teacher took off his glasses "oh that's right well Eli is right here" he pointed to a desk in the middle row, I quickly threw my stuff down and took a seat. I looked up at Eli and gave him a small smile causing him to turn away, was I that hideous?

We were doing something in math that I didn't understand at all and I zone out most of the time. I have two more periods before lunch which went smoothly I had biology with Miguel right before lunch which was good, we could find a place to sit together 

"Did you meet anyone?" Miguel asked hopefully 

"Uh no, not really what about you" 

"Nope," he said popping the P

I went back to my book, we were reading about fetal pigs because we were going to dissect one or something. The bell rang and I packed up my things while Miguel waited for me. 

We walked down to the cafeteria and got lunch which consisted of a hamburger, pudding, banana, and chocolate milk. "Alright time to find a group to sit with," I told him and we both looked around dreadingly 

"uh split up" he murmured "and then we can wave if we find a place to sit I nodded and went left he went right, I had looked for less than a minute before Miguel waved me over. I walked over and Miguel was seated next to two other boys. One of them looked up at me when I approached and I realized it was Eli, he looked away from me again, did I have a huge ass pimple or something