What If We Had It All

Chapter 3 Today Is The Day My Life Finally Begins

As I graced the halls of Albuquerque High, the sense of belonging I so yearned for finally kicked in, like I'm here, I'm actually here, this isn't Ohio anymore, this is California, my new life. I strutted down the hallways with my hands in my jacket and my head down. No one really noticed that I was the new kid. I guess that's because they were so used to large crowds. If this was back in Ohio I would have been the talk of the town. "Who's the new kid? I wonder why she's here? Did something happen at her old school." The theories would just keep piling up, but here, everything just felt different and sometimes normal is boring and different is good. After searching through rows of lockers I finally found mine. It was located on the top row right next to the History classroom. " Hi I'm Isabelle nice to meet you," someone whispered, "I'm Catherine, nice to see you too," I replied. "Welcome to Albuquerque High, I'm your official tour guide and new best friend, Principal Louis assigned me. Let me show you what us tigers are up too, that's our team name by the way if you were wondering, nevermind, we should get on with the tour. Shall we?!" Isabelle responded quite enthusiastically, she clearly was filled with school spirit. After a ten minute tour I would say I felt like I learned a lot about the school especially, that there's a really cool theater department that I just can't wait to try out, like their Auditorium is bigger than the entire school back in Ohio, everything is just bigger and better in California I guess. I also felt like after this tour I can say I've definitely found a friend in Izzie, well Isabelle, aside from doing the tour she did talk quite a bit about herself and I didn't mind at all. I got to know a lot about my new friend and this new found friendship that was blooming, we did so well that we went to English together and I sat next to her, yet honestly nothing could have prepared me for what was gonna happen next. As mine and Izzie's conversation grew, so did the classroom and there it was, this tall, handsome being walking through the door, wait a second, that's Owen, the guy from the coffee shop, what a surprise, we talked so much that Sunday afternoon that he failed to mention he went to school here, there must be a pretty good explanation for it I guess. "Get out of my seat you bastard, or I'll kill you with my bare hand," he shouted while proceeding to throw the guy's bag on the floor. As the entire class's attention fell on him, I said to myself  that certainly must be a mistake, that's definitely not the sweet and kind guy from last night. Then mic drop happened, it really happened, " Hey darling you're the best for saving me a seat next to you," someone said, that's when I found out it's Owen's girlfriend, Veronica. "Isn't he just the cutest?" She said, while the cheer team dawned in 'awws'. I couldn't believe that he would flirt with me and have a girlfriend. I guess I couldn't have the cake and eat it too. Anyways, after English I did what any kind person would do I went up and talked to him "Hey Owen, how are you," I said, "Ummm.......who are you?" he responded before walking away with Veronica in hand. Appalled by his reaction and confused by his tactics I walked off ashamed and disappointed not by what he had done, but in myself thinking I actually had a shot with him.