Understanding her

First day at year six

Keanna Divine was nearing the end of primary school. She blearily opened her eyes and sat up before turning off the annoying alarm beeping at her. She rolled out of bed onto the yellow carpet and stood up. She brushed some of her short, brown-with-natural-blond-highlights hair out of her freckled face and walked to the bathroom to splash some water on her face. That always woke her up. When she'd done that, Kellie walked back to her room, brandishing the tub of fish food, and sprinkled some in.

"Heya Danny! Hello Flash! Breakfast time, dearies!" She murmured to her fish in a half-singsong voice. "I'd best go have my breakfast too - or else my Mum will shout for me" she laughed at that last part before getting changed into her yellow-checked school uniform and descending the stairs. "Descending's quite a good word, isn't it? Read it in one of the library books, worked it out from context." she explained all of that to her Mum whilst eating her cereal

"My little reader, arent'cha Keki? Though not so little any more!" her Mum replied -  and she was right, Kellie had grown a lot over the past summer.

"Come off it, Mum! I'm the second shortest girl in the year, I'm still quite little." Kellie said with a chuckle and an eye-roll. After breakfast, tooth-brushing and hair-brushing, Kellie pulled on her cardigan, backpack and shoes "See ya at Three-thirty, Mum!" and with that, she was out of the door. When walking down the road, her path intersected with her best friend's "Tessa! Girl, I haven't seen you since my birthday party, what have you been up to?"

"Spain, among other countries. You were right, it is beautiful there! I was planning to meet you there, though, but you were nowhere to be seen." Tessa replied, and you could notice that both of the girls had a tan, but it showed more on Tessa. Kellie didn't exactly have the colouring to tan. She freckled, instead and she did that very well.

"Oh yeah, apparently the flight schedules got messed up and I was rejigged to go home a day early." Kellie recalled "Wish I could have seen you there, though!" and the friends chatted until they reached the school. Once they had  reached their primary school, they went into the new-to-them year six classroom and met their new teacher, Mrs. Salton. "What do you think of her, Tess? She seems nice enough." Kellie asked her friend

"Yeah, she seems cool" Tessa replied "Look at the seating plan, you're next to Samuel!" Samuel was this boy, about an inch shorter than Kellie. He seemed as bit weird but, hey, Kellie didn't mind that. What she minded is that Samuel wasn't exactly... aware of personal space. Strangely enough, he only seemed to act like that around Keanna. Why, if she didn't know better she'd say that Samuel had a crush on her! But that can't happen, right? After all, he's going out with Amy. She said so! She'd texted Kellie about it.

"aw, do I have to be? He's nice enough but he's a bit, ya know, obsessed? With me? Even though he's going out with Amy?" Keki explained to her bestie "You're lucky, you're sitting next to Daniella!" Kellie pointed out Tessa's position on the seating plan, right next to Dreamboat-Dani - the tall, dark and beautiful nerd that Kellie... slightly had a thing for. Except that slightly means definitely.

"Oooooh, you so like her! Keki and Dani, sitting in a-" Tessa was cut off by Kellie clamping her hand to Tess's mouth in an attempt to stop her going on about Dani. 

"I'll say this in both the sassiest and the kindest way I can think of right now: shuddup, girl!" Kellie said, going redder than scarlet school cardigan she was wearing before unclamping her hand and wandering off to her seat, to be met with the almost-unmistakably lovestruck gaze of Samuel. Kellie asked him what he was staring at.

"Uhm- nothing- I mean- Amy! I'm staring at Amy, my girlfriend. She told you, right?" Samuel quickly replied, looking flustered.

"Oh yeah, she did! Well, good on you - Amy's a good girl." At least, she's a good friend - if a bit weird. But, hey, it's the good weird. The kind that Kellie likes. She sat down at her seat to unpack her water-bottle and pencil case.