Camping Trip Gone Wrong

Chapter One|Worst Day of my Life

Today is the first day at my new school. My parents just split up and my mom, of course, had to drag me to Phoenix. I've never liked the warm weather that much, so going to Phoenix was not my mom's best choice for me.

I finished unpacking from the move and I was planning on wearing just normal casual clothes to school. I picked light blue jeans, a T-shirt that said 'why can't it always be cold?' and my favorite pei sweatshirt that I got when I was 12.

I went downstairs and got breakfast. The bus would come at 7:45am and it was 7:30am. I decided to text my friend back home.

"Hey Claire! I'm really going to miss you on the first day of school, aka today."

A few seconds later, I get a message in reply.

"I know. I'm gonna miss you too. I'm excited though because it's our first year of high school!!!"

"Don't remind me. I am at a new school, going into the worst year of my life and you want me to be excited?!? Oh yeah and my parents just got divorced."

"Oh. Sorry. Didn't mean to make you upset."

"It's ok. I didn't mean to snap at you. I'm just really nervous. I'm not the best at making friends..."

"You'll be great. I promise. You made lots of good friends here."

"Yeah but I grew up with you guys. I didn't grow up with these new people and who knows maybe they hate new kids......"

"Don't talk like that. You'll be fine. I have to go. My school starts in 30 mins."

"Ok. Talk to you after. Bye."

With that, I shoved my phone in my pocket and headed out to meet the bus.

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The bus pulls up to the school and I see that I will have a very big class. There are about 100 kids just standing outside of the school and who knows how many are inside.

I see a girl who seems to be about 14 or 15 and she looks like she should be in a strip club. She is wearing a crop top that could be her bra and shorts that could be her underwear. 'Why do people dress like this here?' I think I made a mistake on choosing casual clothes to wear.

I thought this would be a normal school but I guess I was wrong. I got to the office and they gave me a schedule of all my classes and apparently I had math first class. I walked there trying to keep in the shadows as much as possible. That plan back fired when this boy shows up beside me.

"Hey, aren't you the new kid? I think you're in my class. You have math right?"

That's exactly what I had. Yay!! (Note sarcasm)

He walked with me the whole way to class and I was wondering if this would be the first friend I would have. Then strip club girl came up and kissed him right on the lips right in front of me. It was disgusting. I walked away and heard him run up to me.

"What do you want," I said very sourly.

"Jease. New girls got some bite."

"It's Melinda. And thanks."

"No problem. So is there a reason your here or did you just want to go to a new school?"

"There's a reason but I'm not gonna tell you cause it's personal. How old are you?"

"I'm 13. What about you?"

"14. How come your only 13?"

"Because my birthday is in December."

"Oh." And that was the end of our conversation. We sat down in class and the teacher came in. She called me up to the front of the class and she told me to introduce myself.

I said my name is Melinda and I am 14 years old.

After I was done, I sat down and she began class. I never figured out her name but I would some day.

I think I'm going to like my new school.