Outsider

Chapter 1

*Alarm goes off*
7 AM
"ALEX, ARE YOU AWAKE?" Mum shouts from downstairs
"Yes mum!" I mumble back
I slowly pull myself out of bed, still half asleep. I unlock my phone to see no messages, well I guess Rachael is still asleep. If you didn't know, Rachael is my bestfriend, well, my only friend..

1 hour later

I'm waiting at the bus stop for my travel to hell. Aka, school. The worst part is that Charlotte takes the same bus at me. Me and Charlotte don't really get along. She's bullied me since I moved to northgate. Unfortunately, a few minutes later, my bus arrives. I take a seat at the front and listen to music through my headphones until I arrive at school.

I decide to wait for Rachael at the front gate as I think she is running late.
"ALEX" I hear in the distance. I turn to my left to see Rachael running towards me. "Hey Rach! You're late.."
"Yeah I know, I woke up late and missed the bus. Mum had to drop me off" she says while trying to catch her breath.
"Well we better get to form, otherwhys miss Colman will literally kill us" I giggle
"True" Rachael giggles back

About 5 mins later

We finally make it into class, as we walked through the door, everyone turns to look at us. I put my head down, without making any eye contact with anyone and made my way to my seat at the back of the class. I mistakenly walk past Charlottes desk where she decided to poke her foot into the isle where I was walking and tripped me up. I fell to the ground and dropped my planner. I heard Charlotte and her friends laughing at me as I tried to stuff all the remains of the pages that fell, back into my planner. I try to pick up my pages as fast as I can so I can run to my seat. As I get up from the ground, I feel a tap on my shoulder. I look to my left to see that Blake picked up one of my pages, he hands it to me with the most cutest smile. I hesitantly took back the sheet trying to avoid eye contact. With an almost inaudible thank you.

20 minutes later

The bell rings for first lesson. I make my way to biology, whilst Rachael went off to English. As always, I avoided everyone's stares and carried on walking. I arrive at biology and took my seat at the back of the class next to Blake. "Hey" Blake says. I reply with a small smile. If you didn't know, Blake is Charlotte's boyfriend. And Charlotte is one of the most popular people in school. I've had a crush on Blake since I moved to Northgate, which is about a year ago. But I know I have no chance with him.

I decided to get my notes out of my planner as we have a biology test today. But I mistakenly pulled out a piece for my art aswell. Which caught Blakes attention. "Wow, did you draw this Alex?" He says while he slides my work across the desk towards him to take a closer look. "How do you draw so realistically?"
I quietly reply with "I guess I've always liked to draw". "You are so talented" he replied, while passing my drawing back to me. I smiled and replied with "thanks".

An hour later

I hope I did well on this test. I think to myself as I make my way out of the classroom. As I'm walking down the hall I hear someone shouting my name. I turn around and to my surprise I see Blake chasing after me with my Biology book in his hands. "Alex, you left this in the classroom" he says, trying to catch his breath. I look down in embarrassment and mentally slapping myself. I take the book from his hands and reply with a quiet "thanks". Charlotte comes up to Blake, linking their hands together. "Hey Blake, walk me to next lesson?" Charlotte doesn't let him reply before she decides to drag Blake down the hall.

Lunch

I'm sitting on the field with Rachael eating my lunch and telling her about Blake when I see Charlotte walking in my direction. I try to ignore the fact that she's coming towards me and just carry on eating my lunch. "Oh hey Alex. Enjoying lunch I see?" She says, with a sarcastic grin on her face. I just continue to ignore the fact that she's there and I carry on eating my food. Charlotte then decides to kick my lunch, causing it to spill all over me. And at the worst time, Blake comes over. "What happened here?" He said in confusion. "Oh, I was just coming over to talk to Alex about a project and she spilt her food over herself. She's very clumsy" she states. "Anyway, let's go eat lunch babe" Charlotte then walks off with Blake to go eat lunch. "I don't understand why she is such a bitch to you, anyway we better get you cleaned up" Rachael says as we made our way back into school and into the girls bathroom.

The end of the school day

I made my way out of history and to my locker to get my art book. As I'm standing at my locker, Blake comes over and taps me on the shoulder. "Hey, Alex, Urm my friend, Jake is throwing a party this weekend at his place, would you like to come?" He says with his cute ass smile. "Urm, yeah sure" I hesitated.
"I'll text you the details, could I get your number?" He questioned
"Yeah sure" I pulled my phone out of my back pocket and passed it to him. He quickly typed in his contact and passed it back to me. "I hope you can make it!" He says before walking out of school.

To be honest, I'm not that great with meeting new people. But it's Blake, and he's so hot. But of course that has nothing to do with it. Okay, maybe it does...