One
I wake up to the sound of my alarm blaring and it startles me to where I shoot up into a sitting position on my bed. I was having a nightmare, I don’t remember what the nightmare was about, I just remember the feeling that I was getting from my nightmare. I remember feeling as if I wasn’t breathing and that something was digging into my shoulder, and the feeling of sorrow and defeat.
I shake my head to get the feeling to go away. I swing my legs over the edge of my bed and sit there for a bit. I look out my window that I am facing and see the trees from the mountains that are surrounding our house.
I moved here a couple days ago and today is my first day at my new school. I am used to having to move from place to place and from school to school. So being the new girl, isn’t so new. But it is still annoying having to go through the whole introductions.
My mom is in jail currently because of having alcohol and cocaine in her system when she had beat me with one of my dads old belts on my back repeatedly and so my back is covered in cuts and bruises. I also have some bruises on my stomach, arms, and legs. Once the buckle on the belt broke off she switched to kicking and punching me.
My dad died seven years ago in a car crash and I only have one picture of him and it is when he has me on his shoulders while we were at Disneyland.
I am living with my uncle and cousin; my cousin is about my age and she threw a fit when I moved in because for some reason she hates me and I have no idea why. My uncle is my dads' brother and he is really patient with me.
I stand up and grab my toiletries and go into the bathroom that I have to share with Tiffany. I notice that I get here first, so I go in and close the door and lock it so that she won’t come right in while I am in the middle of my shower. I take my shower as quickly as I can so that I don’t have to hear Tiffany's shit.
I take the shower in ten minutes and that is including shaving as well, so I like to think that I did pretty well. I wrap a towel around me and tuck the corner inside so that it will stay up. I grab my bag and open the door and find some guy there in front of the door.
I move past him and go into my bedroom just as I see Tiffany go over to the guy and kiss him on the lips and know that this is another one of her boyfriends. Yes, she has several boyfriends, but they all go to different schools so that they don’t know about each other. But just look on Facebook and you will be able to see that she is in several relationships.
I close my door and lock it so that the guy can’t come in, because yes, I have had one come in here two nights ago.
I go over to my closet with all of my new clothes, because Uncle Jason bought me the new clothes the first day I got here because I didn’t have any winter clothes and I also only had a few different pieces of clothes and an old pair of shoes that were falling apart.
I grab a black tank top and then a green and black flannel shirt but left the flannel unbuttoned, blue boot cut jeans, purple converse, and my black leather jacket. I grab my backpack and put in my new laptop that Jason bought me into my backpack. I grab my wallet and put it in my right back pocket and then my phone and put that in my left back pocket and grab my keys and go downstairs, grab something to eat, put some coffee into a travel mug, and go out to my beat-up old jeep.
I put my backpack in the passenger seat and put my key into the ignition and start her up. I get to the school and park in a spot in the parking lot near the front. I get out and grab my backpack and go inside to the administrative office.
I open the door and go in. I see five other people in here and they are all guys. I ignore them and go up to the counter.
“How may I help you?” the office lady asks.
“I’m new here, I need my schedule.” I say in a flat tone.
“Okay.” She says and then looks through her computer and then looks back up to me. “Desdemona Sky?” She asks.
I nod my head and she clicks on her computer a couple more times and hands me a piece of paper with my schedule on it as well as my locker and combo. Another piece of paper with a map of the school on it.
It is five separate buildings of the school and there is about six thousand kids going to this school, because it is one of the best schools in the city. The school is called Starlight K-12, because the buildings are in a star shape and there is an outdoor seating area for lunch in the middle of all of the building, a quad area. One of the buildings are for the high schoolers, and a building for the middle schoolers, a building for the elementary schoolers, a building that has the cafeteria and library in it, and a building for the gym.
I nod my head in thanks and then turn around and leave. I don’t even bother going to my locker because there is nothing for me to put in it. I look my schedule over.
1st period: AP English
2nd period: Chemistry
3rd period: AP History
4th period: Latin
Lunch
5th period: Gym
6th period: AP Calculous
7th period: Art
I look over where the classes are and I start heading to my first class. I sit in the far back corner and wait for class to start.
I wait for about ten minutes before I see the five guys that I saw in the office earlier come into the classroom. The bell rings as the teacher comes in and as the guys take the seats that are left around me. I ignore them and just wait for class to start.
“Good morning, folks.” Mr. Edmans says.
“We have a new student today; her name is Desdemona Sky and I hope you all welcome her and make her feel safe here at the school and city.” He claps his hands when he is done talking and gets right to what we are doing for the day.
“We are going to be going over a bunch of different books this semester to learn the different types of writing styles. I have here a packet of all the books that we will be going over.” He says and then he starts handing out the packets to the front of the rows to be passed back.
When I get my packet, I look it over and notice that I have actually read most of these already, but it doesn’t hurt to go through them again to get a refresher. I also notice that on the packet it says that we are to go into groups and work together and we also have to write essays at the end of each book on about the style of the writing and about how the book impacted us and what it was about the book that had an impact.
I write on the packet as for which ones I have already read and which ones I need to read and I am going to start with the ones that I haven't read because at least that way I can save what I have read for later in the semester for an easy essay.
When I am done going over the packet I take out a folder in my backpack and I put the packet in. I put the folder back into my backpack just as the bell rings. It didn’t even feel like an hour.
I get up at the same time as the five guy and I look them over as we all head out into the hallway. They were all tall, well taller than me anyways. But they have different heights.
They are all muscular in some way, but there is one boy that is hiding it under a baggy shirt and he is the scrawniest one of them all. He has black floppy hair, chocolate brown eyes, that are behind black framed glasses, he looks to be about 6'2". He is also wearing a faded Red Hot Chili Peppers band t-shirt that is baggy on him, blue jeans, and black converse. I am 5’9” so I am pretty tall for a girl but I am still shorter than most guys.
The next guy is the twin of the scrawniest guy here and his black hair reaches his chin but pushed behind his ears and he has five little silver hoop earrings in his right ear and four in his left. He also has chocolate brown eyes. A straight small rounded tipped nose and a square jaw. He is the same height as his twin and he is wearing all black.
The next guy is native looking with black glossy hair the goes down to his lower back and he has dark tanned skin like all Native Americans. He has dark eyes that look almost black. He is wearing a dark blue t-shirt, black jeans, and black combat boots. He is about 6’3”.
The next guy has brown curly hair and dark blue eyes, a small rounded tipped nose that is cute, and a bow shaped mouth with the bottom lip a little fuller than the top lip. He is wearing a black t-shirt, blue jeans, and black converse. He is also the second biggest guy here he looks to be about 6’4”.
The last guy is the biggest one and he is also a bit scary looking with his eyes in a scowl, he has dark eyes that also looks black as well as the native looking guy.
"What's your next class?" The guy with the silver loop earrings asks, in a deep chocolaty voice.
“Chemistry.”
“That’s mine, Luke’s, and Axel’s next class.”
“Who’s Axel.”
The one that looks the meanest of them and also looked scary of them all raises his hand. “I’m Axel Wright, and excuse Jace, we are trying to teach him manners but he is still not learning.”
“So, Axel,” I point to the big guy and then to the scrawniest one, “Luke.” I point next to his twin, “and Jace.” I point to the remaining of the two, “What are your names?”
“Adam Hunter.” The second most muscled one says.
“Cayden Blackbird.” Says the native guy.
“Okay.” I say as I nod my head at the same time, “and you guys obviously know my name.” I say and then I look over to whatever caught the corner of my eye and it is Tiffany.
She comes over to me, “You parked in my spot.” She says.
I scrunch my eyebrows together, “What?” I ask confused.
“Out in the parking lot, your stupid jeep is in my spot.”
“Oh, see I didn’t see your name there,” I made a sound with my mouth that was like ‘sorry to be you’. “but, it doesn’t matter, since I have to live with you, so as long as you continue to be a bitch and a slut, I will keep taking your spot, which makes it,” I pointed to myself, “my spot now.” I say with a mock shocked look on my face.
“Dad should have never taken you in. You are just like your mother.”
I flinch at that because it is the worse thing she could have said to me, because I am far from how my mother was, I was everything like my father.
I shrug and then continue walking to class, I finish out the rest of my morning classes without anymore incidents with Tiffany. I only had my first two classes with some of the guys so far.
