Edited by sadiaslayzpizzas
Winter
I'm in a dark forest and I'm running. From what? Well, I don't know, all I know is whatever it is it scares me. I turn my head to see what it is but nothing is there, so I continue running. When I turn my head again I can almost see it but then everything goes black.
I shoot up in bed sweat covering my body. I've been having the same dream ever since I was let out of foster care about 3 months ago and I don't know why. I look over at the clock on my bedside table and see that its 5:30. I don't have to be awake for school for another hour and a half but I know I'm not going back to sleep anytime soon. I never do, ever since my parents died everything got worse. Especially my depression and anxiety. I'm mute and I have been ever since I was fourteen, my parents weren't there to help me and I never had a home for more than a year. Then I was sent to the Foster house because something always went wrong. I still can't get over that night and the years that followed. You'd think it would get easier, I mean, I'm away from him and all the others like him in the foster house. I'm 18 now, I should grow up, right? Well, I can't and don't think I will ever get over what happened to me. The worst part is the only person who knows everything is god knows where. My brother Pete went to a different foster home than me. We would keep in touch as best as we could, but after I told him everything I thought he would be like everyone else and say I just wanted attention. But he didn't and yet I still shut him out, I'm a terrible sister. He was a year older than me but we were in the same grade because he got held back a grade.
Today, I'm starting at a new school at Desert Point high because my old one brought back memories of my old foster families and I couldn't take it. It’s a fresh start full of people who don't know me or what happened to me and my parents. Maybe I can get through my last year of high school without being noticed. I know that's wishful thinking. Nobody can get through anything without being noticed, the teachers will make sure of that by introducing you to the class.
My phone makes a buzzing sound alerting me that I have to get ready for school. So I get out of bed and take a shower before getting dressed in a pair of blue skinny jeans and a black hoodie along with a black tattoo choker with a little rose hanging from it and my mom and dad’s wedding rings hanging off of a necklace, which I wear every day, and leave. You’re probably wondering how I can afford to pay bills or what job I got that doesn't need me to talk to people besides coworkers, and that my friend is the great job known as being a librarian helper. Pretty much I help out the local library and stock books and stuff on the weekend, and during the week I'm a cook at IHOP.
"Hey watch out" I hear a little kid yell and I look up to see a park with a bunch of kids in it. Two kids were playing with a ball and had hit the kid who called out, the others said sorry and went on with their game and that was it. They’re probably only seven, I wish I could go back to being a little kid when life was so much simpler. I realize I probably look weird just standing there watching kids play at the park so I continue walking and make it to school in about ten minutes. It's a twenty-minute walk to school and it seemed like a nice day so I decided to walk.
Walking into the school doors I'm surrounded by teenagers and teachers. I just keep my head down and try to find my locker without getting lost. The bell rings and everyone but me and a few others rush off to class. 206, 207, 208 here it is, locker 208, finally. Now I just need to find the combination, I pull out a paper that has my class schedule and locker combination on it. The school sent it to me the day before I started, thankfully. I quickly put in the combination and open my locker to see a neatly stacked pile of books. Great, I can't wait to carry those around, note the sarcasm, I'll probably drop them a lot being the clumsy person I am. I grab the books I'll need for my first few classes and start my journey of finding my first class without getting lost. Ha, yeah right.
You know you never really realize how big a school is until you get lost. I look down at my map of the school one more time and end up bumping into someone and falling on my butt. “I’m so sorry, are you ok?" a girl with brown hair with blue tips asks while offering a hand to help me up. I nod my head and take her hand and stand up. "I'm Alice what's your name?" she asks 'I'm Winter' I sign and but then frown thinking maybe she won't know sign language not many people do. "Oh, you know sign language, that's so cool. I learned it last year cause I got bored over summer and I always wanted to know how," Alice says causing me to smile.
'Really? Not many people know it ' I sign and she nods. "Are you new here?" she asks. I nod signing 'yeah can you help me find room 20 Math, please? ’I sign slower than normal because I don't know how well she can read it, and I don't want to confuse her. "I'm heading there too, so you can follow me," she says and smiles at me and then I finally make it to the first period where the teacher makes me introduce myself which, as you probably guessed, didn't work out too well. She wound up telling everyone that I'm mute and can only use sign language, thanks, teacher.
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"Hey, do want to come and sit with me and my friends at lunch?" Alice asks. It turns out that we have every class together in the morning, but in the afternoon we have different classes. She showed me the other classes so hopefully, I won't get lost. ‘You don't have to, it’s fine' I sign. She’s probably only being nice because she feels bad. “I know, but I want to," she says with a smile. I nod an ok and we head to the lunchroom and get in line for lunch. I just grab a fruit cup and then wait for Alice to get her lunch, once she does she leads me to a table with 3 other girls. "Hey guys this is Winter, she's new here and I offered her a seat," she says and the girls all look up at me and smile. The first girl had blonde curly hair and brown eyes, the second one had light brown hair with blonde highlights and green eyes, and the very last one had dirty blonde hair with glasses. "Hey Winter. I'm Samantha, but just call me Sammie," the one with curly blonde hair said. I wave at her not wanting to be rude. "I'm Kylie," the brown-haired one says and waves at me I send her a smile and decide to sign ' hey everyone ' to them but they just give me a confused face and look at Alice. "Oh yeah, I forgot she's mute. Do you remember when you guys were laughing at me for taking that sign language class? Well, guys, I made a friend because of it." she says and everyone laughs.
"Hey sis, who's the hottie?" a brown-haired guy asks walking up to us. "Don't be a pig Jake, this is Winter," Alice says slapping Jake’s shoulder. "Well then, hello there Winter," he says and winks, this time earning a slap from Kylie. "Stop flirting when you have a girlfriend," she says and he smiles at her. "Ok ok. I'm only teasing, you know I would never do that to you," he says and leans over to kiss her. "Mhm, that's right," she says and everyone laughs again. "Hey, Jake, what's taking so long? I thought you were gonna see who the new girl is, Dean needs to talk to us," a guy with black/brown hair walks up and Jake looks up from Kylie "Oh sorry man, tell him I'll be right there," he says and then the guy looks at me. "Oh hi, I'm Max," he says putting his hand. I tap Alice's shoulder, silently asking her to introduce me "This is Winter, she doesn't talk and I don't think you know sign language," she says and I thank her. "Ok, well, we got to go. Bye girls," Jake says grabbing Max's arm and walking off to, I guess, Dean since he was asking for them. We finish eating and I get to know them, I gave them my phone number so we could talk better. And yeah, my plan to not get noticed may not have worked and my anxiety may have been going crazy but hey, I made 5 friends. It was worth it, right? Right?
The bell rings and we all go to our 4th-period classes, thankfully I remembered where mine was. "Ok class, we have a new student," Mr. Grandthom, the Art teacher, says once the class starts. I stand there awkwardly, not knowing what to do, I wave. "This is Winter, please treat her nicely, ok guys?" he says. "Now find a place to sit," he says quieter, as he's just talking to me now. "Hey Winter, over here!" I look towards where the voice is coming from and see Jake, Max, and some other guy. I assume he's Dean, but I don't really know. He has black hair with green eyes. I go to sit at their table as I don't know anyone else so why not. It's not like they're complete strangers that I only know the names of no not all. "Hey Winter this is Dean," Jake says pointing at the guy with black hair I smile and wave and return the smile. "Ok, so today we are gonna be working with partners the person across from you is your partner we will be making paper sculptures of whatever you want as long as it's appropriate you have 3 weeks to do this" Mr. Grandthom says and everyone starts talking to their partner. "Well new girl looks like your my partner," a deep voice says causing me to look up and see Dean smirking at me. ' I guess so ' I sign without thinking about it "um what was that" he asks with a confused face. Jake looks up at us and laughs "oh yeah dude she's mute so she talks in sign language cool right" he says and smiles at me. "Oh cool then do you want to exchange phone numbers to make this project thing easier," he asks and I smile and give him my phone while he gives me his. I type my phone number in and hand him back the phone but when I do his hand brushes over mine and shocks run through my arm. What was that?
He looks at me with a look of shock on his face and I guess he felt it too but why. "Hey so um what do want to build," he asks and I start typing on my phone ' I don't know what about you ' he smiles when his phone goes off and reads it "well we could make a Wolf," he says and smile. ' I love wolves ' he reads it and smiles "yeah they are pretty cool they're like my favorite animals I love them so much you would probably think I was one," he says with a laugh the bell rings and everyone leaves but me and Dean "so do you want to work on this over the weekend," he asks and I nod ' is 4:30 fine ' I text and he smiles with a nod. "So I'll see you tomorrow at 4:30 deal," he says holding out his hand to shake on it. I nod and grab his hand to shake it but when I do the shock runs through my entire body. After that, we go to our classes
The rest of the classes go by fast I wind up having Dean in them all and some in the morning so we sit together and I would say it was a good day. I lay down in my bed happy to be home and away from people. Thank god for its Friday right it's my only day off so I do my homework and then passes out.
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