Prologue
*4 years ago*
I guess that was my first week. High school is so boring so far. I'm glad about that, though after years of bullying, I feel like I deserve a break. I wander into the city's center with my head lost in thoughts about my previous years. I just need to walk for a bit, having the privacy I lack at home.
I go around the corner and I spot this group of teens just gathered at the edge of the city garden. I try to pass quickly until.. "Mary? Mary-Jane! Girl, I thought that was you. It's been years!" A girl comes running up to me. Her hair is bleached blonde and cut just below her shoulders. I freeze into place shocked because I'm rarely remembered, and worse I do not who this girl is.
"I'm sorry do I know you?" I ask feeling guilty "It's me Bailey! From camp when we were 9." She stands right in front me now her blue eyes excited. I am still scanning this girl to find something familiar her style is also little slutty. And then I see it, a scar just on the rigth side of her chin."Oh, right! The girl with the scar, I'm sorry I didn't know sooner you were one of my 2 friends there." I get flustered, she was the first friend I ever made, and I almost let her disappear from my mind. "It's fine to be honest, you're lucky I recognised you, you were the only person I couldn't stay in contact with. You had no Habbo or Hotmail!" She breaks out in laughter, and I join her, very relieved.
We reminisce more about our camp days and laugh loudly about it all as if it were yesterday. As we catch our breath, she utters. "Come, let me introduce you to my friends!" She grabs me by the arm and yanks me towards the big group of teens I had nearly forgotten was there. The group was even bigger than it was at first glance. She guides me down a small hill to enter the gardens completely, and gathered all over this little corner were about 25 to 30 more people. She guides me further, and to my luck, we go to the 2 people sitting just outside this big group. "Guys this is one of my old friends her name is Mary-Jane but we always called her Mary" I barely know what to do I suck at these moments, first impressions are important, my mom and grandma made sure I knew that, but I never seem to do it right. "Hi I am Chloë, Bailey's current best friend It's nice to meet you." I manage to utter the word hi as I look at this girl with very dirty blond hair, it's thick and runs down her back. She has a sort of tomboy still but still with a lot of girly colors. "Do you smoke?" Chloe points a joint at me. "Oh no thank you. I'm good" I did not see that coming, how did I end up here?
"Hey, I am Trevor, I go to school with Bailey."
And then I see him, a bright blond boy with the prettiest blue eyes. His hair is kind of long and hangs down just a little messily beside his face. When he gets up, he's about half a head taller than I am. If I wasn't lost already, I am now faced with a cute guy who's exactly my type. "Nice to meet you." I smile before I look away, I try to look around the huge group I'm now in, making it seem like I'm not too shy to look this boy in the eyes. And while looking around, I notice very quickly that in the mass group of teens are also people who look like full-blown adults. "You gonna come sit with us for a bit and chat?" Bailey her words pull me into reality, I nod enthusiastically and join this weird group I somehow became a part of.
An hour passes, and I need to head home. "Guys, it was fun meeting you! But I've got to go home, I've never been late before." I grab my stuff and get up to leave. "Let me walk with you for a little while." Bailey offers, I nod, and we head back up the little hill. When we're up and out of sight of Trevor and Chloe, Bailey grabs my shoulder and turns me towards her. "I liked seeing you today, and I hope we can hang out some more. I think you'll fit great with our little gang. But if that's the case, you can never date Trevor. He is my real best friend, despite what Chloe thinks. I just don't want things to ever get awkward between us all, and I think a group full of exes hanging out is weird."
Maybe she noticed me getting flustered by Trevor or something.. either way, she is right, I think. "I understand Bai don't worry. And I would love to hang out more, this time I do have a social I'll look you up on Facebook okay."
Later that night, I'm tossing and turning just a little. Trevor is really cute, it is going to be hard to just be friends with him..
