alone

Chapter 1: The Start

Geometry class dragged on. I had been sitting in this horribly boring class for about 15 minutes. It sucked, period. The teacher droned on about finding the area of a circle, while I scanned the room as I would normally do: To my left is a girl named Kelly- she had horribly dry -dyed- blonde hair and for clothes let's just say that there was not much in that category. In front of me sat my best friend Morgan -a beautiful girl with short brown hair and today she wore some jeans with rips at the knee, a simply southern with some jesus quote on it, and a pair of yellowed converse. It was obvious that she wouldn't care what you said about her or her clothes of choice. Behind me sat a beauty: His name is Dylan and he is the most gorgeous and caring person I know. He is always very kind and generous to me and we are super close. Dyl (that's what I call him) has shaggy blonde hair, is kind of skinny but in a hot way, and is way better than I am at clash royale; sadly. Those were really the only people I talk to in that class. I looked up at the board to hear the teacher lather on the subject of area in the most agonizing way possible."... to find the area.... Pie times the radius.... This will be on the test"

A note fell into my lap from behind me. I quickly scanned the note that read, "Hey can you come over after school...we have a major clash battle ahead of us?" I flipped the post-it over and wrote back, "Of course :)" Dyl and I had been friends for a while now: We first met in one of our other classes when our seats got switched putting us into a group consisting of me and a couple other guys. We just recently started hanging out after school. I really enjoy just sitting in his bedroom with playing fortnite or clash royale; It's a major 'stress reliever'.

I heard a sniffle coming from Kelly's direction. It's flu season so everyone is kind-of sick. I looked at her and mouthed, "You good". She nodded her head in response, while bringing a tissue to her nose. I really hope she isn't sick; this bug is a nasty one. "Anything you want to share ladies" the teacher asked us. "Uhh, no sir...sorry 'bout that" I quickly replied. I heard a quiet giggle from behind me. I turned around and flashed a dirty look at Dyl who just smirked in return. I could watch him smirk all day. Kelly weazed slightly, her fist right under her nose; she must be really sick. I looked back at Dyl who looked concerned and then over to Kelly. "Are you sure that you are ok... you sound bad Kelly" I whispered. "I'm fine" she replied, sounding agitated. She coughed again.

"Kelly are you feeling okay?" the teacher questioned.

"I guess" she replied.

"I want to send you to the infirmary... just in case" said my now worried geometry teacher. He quickly walked over to his desk, stumbling on backpacks as he weaved through desks. "god" he would mutter quietly as he tripped over each one. He pulled out a yellow slip, scribbled something on it, and gave it to Kelly. " Now I want you to walk down to the clinic, just have them see if you have a temperature and if not just come back. I hope you feel better." the teacher instructed slowly and carefully. Kelly gathered up her belongings and stumbled out the door; her footsteps echoing down the ramp.

The teacher continued to ramble on until the sound of the school bell shrieking dismissed us. I grabbed my bag off the floor and looked over at Dylan who was standing next to me." you ready to go?'' I asked. "Of course" he replied, no one could deny the mischievous grin on his face. We walked out of the classroom to join the rush of teenagers leaving. "I hope Kelly is okay" I said; "Yeah me too..." someone ran and jumped onto Dyl. I recognized him immediately with his brown hair and an all too familiar hollister shirt. Kaiden is the playboy of Spring Park High School. He has been with, or at least tried to get with about every girl in our grade. It all started in junior high when he lost his baby weight, developed a jawline and grew a few inches. Unfortunately even I had a small fling with him. We have been neighbors for forever and he invited me over. We may or may not have kissed- FYI he is horrible at it- and then I left and never did anything with him since. "Yo whatcha been up to" Kaiden said with a certain swagger than just irritated me. "Nothin' much" Dylan replied. Kaiden looked over at me and I flashed him a very dirty look. He playfully punched me in the shoulder and said, "Hey Em you really should smile more. Your RBF doesn't suit you well." "mhm thanks kaiden" I said sarcastically. Kaiden pretended to be hurt by flinging his hand over his heart, smirked at me, winked, and ran off to go harass some of his other friends.

"Hey don't take him to seriously. He is just trying to get under your skin" Dylan said, trying to comfort me. I rested my head on my shoulder as we walked and in the most dramatic voice I could conjure said, "I know, but I just feel like I really need to listen to him, he is the king of highschool. We all should bowww down to him." Dyl laughed really hard. He has the cutest laugh I just can't handle it. Regaining a steady composure, I looked up at him, "hey we should go to the infirmary and go check on Kelly." He nodded in agreement and we made our way to the clinic. We sauntered over to the door of the clinic and Dyl knocked firmly on the door. No one answered so he opened the door. All of the lights were off and it smelled distinctly of puke. "Where is nurse Angela and Kelly?" I wondered out loud. "I don't know Em" Dyl replied anxiously as we stepped inside into the clinic to check it out, seeing that it was perfectly empty; as if no one had been in it for weeks .I guess it's nothing to worry about.

Dyl and I made our way into the bus loop. It's literally like a love fest in there. Kids everywhere with their tongues down their "loved ones" or "soulmates" throat. Somehow people see this as romantic. We met eyes and started laughing and almost instantly about three couples came up for air and to give us nasty looks. We weaved our way through the remaining couples and started walking down to his bus.

We approached this big hunk of yellow metal that is supposedly safe to bring us home. Dylan went in front of me down the aisle, leading me to the third seat from the front. He let me into the seat first (I like sitting by the window) and then sat down next to me. He pulled out his phone and loaded clash royale; I did the same thing. Similar minds do similar things I guess. "Guess what I leveled up?" Dyl mockingly questioned me. "Hmmm what" I said sarcastically. "I got a level 4 prince, suck it" I flashed my eyes at him and replied simply with " Well my level 2 prince is still going to kick your butt in this 1v1". Then simultaneously the bus's pulled out of the bus loop and made their way to all of their unique destinations.