Chapter 1
Thea's POV:
It was the first day of 10th grade. I wore an outfit that I liked. A cute summer dress colored light green with daisies on it. My hair was up in a half-up half-down style, and I had a cute bow holding it all together. I wasn't expecting much from today, but oh boy was I wrong.
I got into my first class of the day, History, and the teacher introduced herself. I was already starting to like her. She had a very chill vibe to her and I was getting excited for the rest of the year already.
I look around the room while she's talking and telling us about herself. I see many people I've known since elementary school and beyond, but one particular boy stands out to me. His name is Aven.
I had a 'kinda' crush on him last year. The only reason I stopped myself from having a full-on crush on him was because he was dating one of my friends.
Every girl knows that you CANNOT want the boy your friend wants. That would be breaking a major rule in girl code. Because of this, I forced myself to stop liking him.
Since then, they have broken up, she moved to another school, and we don't really talk anymore. I see this as an opportunity to take Aven as mine this year.
The only problem with that plan though, is that I have bad social anxiety and have been diagnosed with selective mutism since the 4th grade.
Basically what that means is that I'm VERY quiet. I rarely talk to people that I don't know. I usually don't even talk to people I do know. And it's not even that I don't want to talk to people, it's that I physically can't. Sometimes when I want/try to talk, it feels like a demon from the underworld is closing its grimy hands around my neck and yelling at me, saying that I can't talk. It's made life very hard, as you could imagine.
Usually, I'm able to write or type what I want to say, but when I'm having a panic attack, it's literally impossible to communicate at all. I hate it so much.
The teacher announces that we're going to get into partners to do a first-day-of-school activity. This worries me. I don't have any friends in this class yet, and I'm not the type to ask people to be my partner.
