Chapter 1
" I feel a new begining coming towards me and i’m running towards it with open arm.“-Pintrest
-Kindly put your music here-🎶
Ava P.o.v
My life was a chain reaction of bad things ; We’ve all had our ups and downs but all I could really see was a mess. At the age of 5 my mum died of cancer and then I guess it was hard for my father to cope without her. My auntie told me that he suddenly became depressed and would sometimes go out to get drunk and it just wasn’t safe for me to be around him anymore so I saw him less and less, until one night we found out that he had an accident.
He was dead.
He had been drunk driving.
At the time I was very young so I don’t remember my parents much and all I have to remember them by is the pictures. I live with my Auntie, Marissa she’s been with me for as long as I can remember and I guess that’s where my up times was with. She made me the happiest person alive and till this day that I’m 17 a grown teenager with practically no life but she still loves me nevertheless. I never really liked school not because of the subjects but because of the people. I was bullied most of my life since I had no parents ; they assumed that they left me, that they never wanted me which made me feel useless. When I tell them that they’re dead they laugh and they tell me that it was all lies and I wonder sometimes if we are all humans on the same planet.
Today I’m starting a new school, same routine I’m guessing. Come in meet everyone, get bullied , hide in the toilets and accelerating in my work. I guess work was the main thing that kept me busy, I was good at it and nothing else apart from playing a few instruments.
“Ava you better start coming down here or you’ll miss your bus on your first day.”
“Yes Auntie I’m nearly done, just a few minutes”
I brushed my hair and braiding it before heading down into the kitchen - it smelled amazing. “Hummm Marissa what you’re making it smells absolutely famaluz” I kissed her cheeks and sat down .
" Your favourite pancake with strawberries and please stop making these random words up.”
“Famaluz?”
“Yes Famaluz, it’s ridiculous darling”
“Oh Auntie you’re so fussy it’s just a word I made up but I have to say these pancakes are the best” I sliced into my pancakes and ate them nodding my head appreciating the flavour and letting everything sink in.
“Okay Auntie I got to start going or I’m going to be really late like you said”
“Yeah of you go and be good darling” she came and gave me a hug, I could tell she was nervous for me, she knew so much about my past experiences and I knew she wanted me to make good friends.
“Aren’t I always good” I smiled and blew her a kiss and walked out of the house.
When I arrived at the bus stop i waited for a bit before my bus arrived. I went inside, paid the driver and took my seat at the very back of the bus.
Twenty minute later a girl wearing the same uniform came in and I’m not going to lie she was beautiful and I could tell every guy in the bus wanted to get her attention. She looked at me and came and sat beside me, I was obviously nervous and anxious. “Hey, I’m Claire I’ve not seen you around here before are you new?”
She was obviously talking to me , I mean I was the only one apart from her at the back. “Yeah I’m new to this area and the school”
“Same I’m new to the school but I guess I know this area like the back of my hand.”
she gestured her hands at the place smiling at me but I couldn’t help but laugh at her hand gestures and then I stopped. I handn’t introduced myself , I probably looked like an idiot. I looked at her to realize she was looking at me confused.
“One minute you were laughing and now you’re serious,relax you’re in good company.” She tapped me on my shoulder to re-assure me.
I smiled she was very nice but she didn’t know me well, I was always anxious and nervous.
“I know I know it’s just I forgot to introduce myself and I just felt so stupid and –
“Whow wait a minute girl you’re rambling already, no big deal you can tell me your name now.”
I could feel my heart racing rapidly and my face becoming hotter but I knew I just had to do it.“My name is Ava, Ava Bolson rose”
“Wow a pretty name for a pretty girl is there something else I don’t know?”
I was shocked did she just call me pretty, no one had ever done that apart from my family, the ones I had. “I’m not pretty” I murmured quietly so she wouldn’t here but I was wrong.
“Did you just say that you weren’t pretty, hold up everyone in this bus can you please tell this girl that she is pretty; very pretty” everyone was looking at us now- I couldn’t be even more embarrassed now.
“You’re beautiful.”
“You’re pretty.”
“You’re very pretty young girl.”
Some where nodding to claire’s comment on me and other People were telling me things I thought would never be addressed at me. My confidence was just boosted up from that point. I was very glad to have met Claire even though she was the opposite if me.
Later we soon arrived at king high it was big and swimming with a lot of people doing their own things. I was back to the nervous me until I felt Claire intertwine our arms together. “We gotta stick together girl , you’re the only one I know and I’m the only one you know.”
I nodded at that at least for the very first time I had someone I could laugh with, talk to and just enjoy my time with.
Lunch was just over and me and I went to my maths class, the only lesson me and Claire didn’t have together. Our teacher was Mr Adams a middle age man around his thirties. I took my place in the middle as much as I wanted to go at the back but I had to make sure I could pay attention and see the board too. Like always maths was one of my most easier subject, I just didn’t get what people didn’t understand about maths but one thing I did get was that everyone was different and i needed to accept that. I was answering the questions and mainly getting them right and I could tell the teacher was surprised by me and maybe some people hated me for that reason.
“Very well Ava, why are you in this class? shouldn’t you be in top set maths?” Mr Adams asked taking off his glasses and sitting down on his laptop. I shrugged I didn’t know anything.
“Yeah Ava you should go join the nerd group.”
“Yeah you’re such a teacher pet.”
two of the girls said and the class started laughing . I was hurt by that , why did people always thought that their opinions mattered if it was just mean.
“Hey she just doesn’t want to end up working in mcdonalds with you when she’s older, you got a problem with that?” The class went to an echo of “ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh”
I turned to see a guy smiling at me, I was glad for his help but I couldn’t help but wish I was the one to tell her that so that she wouldn’t do it again like the other girls did in my other school.
I met with Claire at the end of the day and it seemed like gossip travelled fast in this school. She knew about it already and she was not happy either, she was in top class maths already.
" If I was there I would have taught that B***h a little lesson.”
“Hey it’s okay this guy shut her mouth for me and I guess she wasn’t really happy about that”
Her eyes shone at the mention of a ′guy′ ” Which guy?, was he good looking?, do you like him?”
Wait what I never said any of those things.
“No I just started today, I don’t really know him or his name.”
Our conversation was suddenly interrupted by a loud bunch of student.
“Yo mate what you did in class wasn’t cool, that’s my girl you’re messing with.”
“Nah man what she said wasn’t cool, I had to say something”
“You should have let the girl defend herself, do you like the girl already or something?”
“No man she’s new and everything I was just helping her out”
I saw the guy who backed me up in maths and another guy, they seemed to be arguing about something and I couldn’t help but wonder if it was about me, as I heard a little of the words they were saying.
I looked back at Claire who was busy on her phone and seemed to have missed the act .
“Hey that’s the guy over there in the red jumper” I nudged her to look at him. I could see her frowning and then she let out a laugh. ” You mean-
She laughed again.
He helped
She laughed again I really didn’t know what was funny.
You”
“Yeah he’s the one , you asked me to tell you who it was.”
“That is Sanchez Rodriquez, my brother the most annoying guy in the whole universe.” She laughed again before scrunching her face.
Now I get why she was laughing, in movies the siblings were always against each other even though deep down they loved each other.
“Oh ok that’s actually a good name though, I love it”
she raised her eyebrows at me.
" Don’t let him hear you say that but If you ever end up falling for him and he does too, just remember I approve.”
“But I don’t even like him-
“shhhhh” she raised a finger to her lips to silence me up. Very well then, I won’t jinx it.
“Hey you ready to go sis?”
I heard a deep voice behind me and I knew it could be only one person, Sanchez Rodriquez. I turned around and hit my head on his chest. Damn it .
“Sorry”
I hid my face and walked to the other side.
“Wait, you’re the girl in my maths class right?”
he pulled me to the side and looked at me. I felt little shivers travel up my spine.
“Why you looking at my bestfriend like that?”
I’m her bestfriend?
“Yeah are you her best friend sis?”
Her brother said back to her looking at me then towards her. I may have accidentally said my mind out loud.
“Yeah aren’t I?” she looked at him with her arms folded together before looking at me
