Chapter 5: First Day of Private School
The beeping of my alarm kept ringing and ringing, causing me to reach for it only making it fall to the ground seconds later. It was my first day at the private school and I had no idea of how thinks worked over there. But I'm sure it is way different from the normal boring high school I went to. I fixed my sheets, then made my way into the bathroom. I brushed my teeth and hair, added a little powder to my pale face and grabbed my hair and put on a black beanie. I changed into a long sleeve and light blue jeans, finishing my look off with some combat boots and a pair of earrings.
"Decent enough right?" I asked myself. I grabbed my bag and phone closing my room door behind me. I had to wake up pretty early to take me little brother to school; my mother and father where at work like always.
"David are you done getting ready?" I opened the restroom door as he stood there brushing his teeth trying to speak at the same time. He still wasn’t ready; still wearing his pajamas and bed hair.
"Let’s go or you'll be late" Throwing a blanket at him to make him realize he was going to make me late. He just laughed as he ran into his room, a couple minutes later he was ready to go.
"No breakfast?"
"No I'm not hungry" He replied putting on his backpack, we headed out making our way through the morning traffic. It was a chilly, foggy morning not the usual weather,but it felt nice. We passed a couple houses and lights, through some alleys and up hills until we arrived at my brothers elementary .
"Alright, be good! And wait for me here after school alright"
"Okay okay! You should leave already you're going to be late!" He said as he pointed to his watch it was about to be eight. I patted his head as I began to run the other direction. There was a lot of traffic, mostly kids in nice elegant cars I guess making their way to the same destination as me. I've never been in this part of town and I never knew it was here. Every house had palm trees and fountains, exotic flowers and artistic looking stones. And every person looked the same with the same smile and the same clothes and the same car.
I arrived to the top of the hill where the school was located; I tried to get my air back as I looked at my surroundings. This school was huge, bigger than my neighborhood. There was grass everywhere and cherry blossom trees, so peaceful and prestige. The final bell rang to get to first period, and I still had to go get my schedule from the office. But, first I had to find where the office was, each building looked the same except for the letter they had on each. The last bell rang causing the hallway, streets and walkways to become vacant.
"Late on my first day, not good" I whispered making my way up some stairs trying to find someone to ask them where the office was, but there was no one sight.
"Miss, what are you doing? You have to be in class!" A Lady came up to me; she had dark black hair that was put up in a bun and glasses that hid her hazel eyes.
"Umm ..uh.. I'm kind of lost" I said as she looked at me then looked around.
"You must be Veronica Morgan. Am I right?" How did she know my name? And who was she?
"Yeah, that’s me!" I smiled.
"Follow me" The lady said as I followed her into an indoor hallway, every classroom was full with kids that I have never seen in my life. It was very quiet as well; the only sound that was heard was the sound of the ladies heels.
We made our way into some corridors, then she stopped to talk to a lady at the front desk.
"Thank you. And please call my sons first period and tell them I need to see him" She told the secretary as she nodded and dialed the phone.
"Come on in Miss Morgan" She grabbed the handle of a door, wait what did it say? ‘Principal’? Am I in trouble already? I asked myself as I just smiled and walked inside the office. The room was really decorated with leather chairs and diplomas on the walls.
"Please have a seat" She did not smile. I sat on the leather seat in front of her desk. She looked inside the cabinets pulling out a folder with my name on it.
“So Miss Morgan, I heard what you did to get you in this school. Most of the students here pay to get in but you got someone else to pay for your education. I sure don’t approve of that, but because Glimmer's parents are very close friends of mine, I'll let it slide, but believe me the courses her are not easy. For your capability, you might need tutoring,so we decided to give you some of the basic classes that other juniors have.I will be checking on your grades and attendance each day to see if you do belong here. It is not that I don’t like you it’s just… every student has paid to attend. Believe me, this school isn’t for everyone." I was speechless; I had no words to describe how she made me feel; pathetic, ungrateful, and worthless. She opened the folder that had my name on it and took out my schedule. She signed it then gave it to me.
"This is your schedule for this semester, you can review them and if anything is wrong you can go talk to your counselor who is Mrs. Johnson.Alright, welcome to OakStone Private High School Valerie" She shook my left hand as she made her way to the door giving me a sign that it was time for me to leave. I don’t know how I felt about her, but I’ll give her a break. It’s just the first day.
Alright first period, Pre-Calculus with Adams room 914. I read my schedule out loud not noticing that everyone else in the office was listening. I took a breath as I got out of the office into a walkway which had lockers, my old school didn’t have lockers. I opened the door to go outside,I looked around and found myself in the Science Department.
"This school is too big for me" I was tired, I didn’t want to walk anymore; I walked too much in the morning and now to find my classroom. I headed toward a picnic table as I place my bag and sat down playing with my hair.
"I hate it here" I whispered to myself.
"It’s just your first day love" Someone said as I turned to look up, it was Zayn. He was smoking a cigarette leaning next to the tree that was four steps away from the picnic table I sat at. I didn’t know what to say, his hazel eyes looked into my soul searching for I don’t know what,but his presence was intimidating.
"Shouldn't you be in class?" I asked as he just laughed.
"Shouldn't you?" he said as he made his way toward me. He came closer to me as I can smell the smoke from his breath. He held the cigarette with his right hand enclosed between his index and middle finger.
"I asked you first" I said as I coughed a little to give him a clue to light off his cigarette.
"You know. You're pretty weird. And why are you coughing like that?" he laughed again as the cigarette touched his lips, inhaling it and blowing it out.I guess he didn’t get the clue.
"Let me see your schedule" He snatched the paper from my hands as he read it, throwing his cigarette on the grass and stepping on it. He was pretty rude, but good looking as well. Something about him made me want to just keep talking with him.
"It’s that way"Zayn said pointing to the building across the field of grass.
"Come on" He led the way through the field as I followed behind him, he was pretty tall which was pretty attractive, his dark hair shined under the sun.
"Is the principal rude to everyone or am I just special?" I asked as he smiled not turning to look at me.
"She's a bitch isn’t she" he said as he fixed his leather jacket as we got to the mathematic department. I'm serious these building looked exactly the same. Man, I don’t know how people make their way through here.
"Yeah, she is. Pretty rude"I replied as Zayn stopped in front of me. We just stood therefor what seemed a long time.
"You know I'm not this nice to the new kids" He said as he gave me a smirk. He came toward me slowly putting his hand on my back. Our chests touched slightly as I looked up to see him looking right down at me. His heart beat was normal compared to mine making Zayn let out a small laugh. But, this shouldn't be happening. This shouldn't be happening at all I can feel my face turn red in embarrassment.
I quickly escaped his grasp and grabbed my bag, making my way inside the Mathematics Department. My mind was going nuts.
“Bye beautiful. I’ll see you after school” Zayn said as he turned away from my direction and walked towards the opposite side of the school.
I walked into class late, actually very late. However the teacher didn’t mind since I told her I was in the office. I got a few stares but they weren’t bad, they were actually welcoming. Once the bell rang, I tried to make my way towards my next class: English 3, Room 600, Mr. Harris.
“Hey cutie! How’s your first day going?” Harry shouted as I turned around to face him.
“Hey Harry, it’s um okay I guess” I smiled back at him as he walked along with me to our next class.
The rest of the day consisted of nothing out of the blue. I didn’t see Zayn the rest of the day, and I was pretty happy for that. Glimmer was still in the hospital recovering so I can’t say I saw her today at school. I was quite proud of myself because I managed to find the rest of my classes all on my own.
I made my way out of the school and began walking towards my little brother’s school.
“Hey there beautiful” Zayn said as his Camaro stopped next to me.
“Oh, umm hi” that was all I could manage to say as I kept walking.
“C’mon get inside, I’ll take you home baby”
“Yeah no thanks, maybe next time” at that moment I began to get angry. Who does he think he is?!
“Alright fine walk home” he growled back. From the looks of it, I pissed him off. I was quiet contempt with what I told him. After out encounter, he drove off and I continued to make my way to David’s school.