Young Adult / Grace. chapter 1.

Chapter One.
‘Honey get up.’
‘No.’
‘you don’t want to be late for your first day here do you?’
‘Yes.’
‘Sweet heart, you have to get up, and you have to go to school, and you know your mum wont be very happy if you don’t, please just do it for her..’
‘But dad, I can’t see why I could have just stayed with mum in our old town.’
‘Grace now you know your mum can’t look after you anymore, she’s too sick.’
‘So? I can look after myself! And its the middle of the school year, everyone already knows everyone else, and besides it’s not like mum ever looked after me before!’
‘She tried, you know that, now look it wont be that bad, the kids are nice here! You’ll fit right in.’
‘But-‘
‘No buts, get up and get ready, your leaving in an hour.’
Great I get to start my first day in this new school, my mum has just shipped me off to live with my dad because she’s “sick” aka, she wants to spend some ‘quality time’ with the new boyfriend, but doesn’t have the heart to tell dad, and neither do I, you see my parents got divorced three years ago, and my dad moved to Victoria while my mum stayed in Queensland, and for that whole time, I had been living with my mum, cause I didn’t wanna move schools, let alone states, but now, my mum has convinced my dad that she’s sick, and cannot look after me anymore, which is partially true, she is sick of me driving off every boyfriend she gets because it was her interest in young men that spilt my parents up in the first place, so can you blame me if I don’t like the idea of her dating guy young enough for me to date? So now I’m here living with my dad in Victoria, where I have no friends and no life.
I was walking with the year 10 co-coordinator as she showed me to my first class, which started half an hour ago, this school was huge I was never gonna find my way around here.
‘Now here’s your first classroom, now you’ve got all your books and everything like that? Right now come to my office after class and I’ll give you your timetable and a map to the school, now you know where my office is right?’
‘Umm... yeah....’ I think.
I knocked on the door, and as I entered the classroom, I felt every ones eyes on me.
‘Oh you must be the new girl, Grace. Well how nice of you to join us half way through this class, take a seat, theres a free one right up the front near me.’ I could hear the scarcasm, and a false sweetness seeping through her voice, and I could tell that this was going to be a fun beginning to my day.
‘Okay’ I sad down at the front of the class, ‘but um miss, I wasent accually told, what class is this?’
‘Don’t call me miss, my name is Mrs. Finch, and this is maths dear, and in my maths class there is no talking no day dreaming nothing but maths, understand?’
I nodded, great maths, my worst subject and the teacher seemed so mean, I looked at her properly now, she was a short thin old woman who seemed like she exsited before the dinosaurs did she had grey thinning hair, and a mean look on her face.
Class was over fairly quickly, and I went to get my timetable, okay not bad, I have English next, but first I have to make it through recess, I walked around outside looking at all the cliques, and thats when I saw him, the cutest boy i had ever laied eyes on, sitting in a group playing his guitar, I felt like I was in love.
Then i herd someone shouting, ‘hey new girl!’ I looked over ‘yeah you! Come over here.’ It was a girl calling me over, she had shoulder length black hair she was sitting with two guys, I walked over, atleast someone was talking to me.
‘Hey whats your name?’
‘Grace.’
‘Cool name, I’m Ami, and this is Nat.’
‘Umm.. cool.’
‘Sit with us, we don’t bite, not like the rest of the people in this school.’
‘Okay,’ I sat down.
‘So where you from?’ Nat asked.
‘Queensland.’
‘Geeze what bring you down here?’
‘Oh just stuff with the parents, hey who is that guy?’ I asked pointing at the guy playing the guitar.
‘Well it seems that you have spotted Dan, just like every other girl in this school’
‘Except me!’ protested Ami.
‘oh you where under his spell of hotness for a while to you know! I do remember that!’ said Nat, and at the weird look I was giving him he added, ‘I’m gay by the way, so I’m aloud to say that he’s hot.’
'Um ok.' I said confused.
'Well I was never “under his spell of hottness” and as if I would ever fall for somone like him, I'm not like all the other losers in this school, besides new girl, if you wanna get with him, you'll have to get in line.'
‘What do you mean?’ I asked.
‘Well like every girl in this school is totally in love with Brad, ‘he’s the guy.’’ Nat Explained.
‘So basically I have no hope?’
‘You don’t wanna get involved with him anyway.’ Ami said.
‘Why?’
‘Yeah Ami why?’ asked Nat mockingly.
‘Look he’s just a jerk ok.’
‘If he’s a jerk, why do all the girls in the school like him?’
‘Cause he’s a hot jerk.’ Nat stated knowingly.
‘Oh,’ Well, I’m sure he can’t be that bad.
‘So anyway new girl, how you liking school so far?’ Asked Ami.
‘Yea how was your first lesson of maths?’ added Nat.
‘Ugh bad, and how did you know I had maths?’
‘Cause I’m in your class, come sit with me up the back next time.’
‘Ok, cool, at least now I wont be a totally loner.’
‘Of course you wont, you can be friends with us now,’ Ami said smiling hopefully.
‘Really?’
‘Sure, I mean you don’t look like one of those orange faced sluts like the rest of the school, so why not?’ Grinned Nat.
‘No I’m defiantly not.’ I laughed.
We kept talking for awhile before the bell rang to go to c lass.
‘So Grace, what do you have next?’
‘English.’
‘Same what classroom are you in?’
‘A11.’
‘Oh damn, me and Nat are together in A17.’
‘Damn, do you know who’s in my class?’
‘Dan is, that’s all I know.’ said Nat.

My English class isn’t that bad, it’s a very small class of about 15 people and my teacher was really nice, the only bad thing is that there is a seating plan, and I have been put up the front right next to Dan who had been sitting by himself.
Maybe this could be my chance to get to know him? He can’t be as bad as Ami and Nat say he is can he?
‘So Grace, have you read the book Romeo and Juliet?’
‘Yeah I have..’
‘Oh wow, so you don’t mind if I give you the work on it we have been doing in class?’
‘No not at all.’
‘And you understood it, so you would be able to answer these questions?’
‘Yea sure.’
‘Well then guess what? Since you have read the book, you’re no longer behind in this class, cause that’s all we’ve done so far as well, so did you like the book? And how well did you understand it?’
‘Yea I liked it a lot, and I understood it really well.’
‘Well I read some of your old work and talked to your old English teacher in Queensland, and you seem like an excellent English student.’
‘Um thank you..’
‘I hope you have a good time in this class.’
We spent most of the class discussing Romeo and Juliet, Dan didn’t evan see I was there, I was right, I did have no chance.

'401, 401, get on bus 401.' I repeated to myself, walking to the bus bay, then i herd someone come up behind me.
'Hey there Grace! Are you catching the bus?' Nat asked catching up.
'Yeah, I have to catch bus 401.'
'Oh cool, thats the bus that I catch.'
'So then I wont have to sit by my self? Or next to some random?'I asked worridly.
'Nope you can sit with me.'
'Cool, I hate sitting by myself.'
'Yeah, it's this bus at the end..' Laughed Nat pulling me back as I went to get n the wrong bus.
'Um yea, I'm kind of good at doing stupid things, like getting on the wrong bus.'
I walked slowly so that Nat could get on the bus first and choose a seat. I hate choosing thing, evan things as small as where to sit on a bus, Nat probebly likes to sit somewhere in particular anyway and I still don't know if he likes me at all- I was distracted from my thoughts bysomene singing and playing their guitar, again, Dan catches my bus, great, the universe just wants me to suffer. Wow he has an amazing voice, I found myself humming along to his song.
'Umm, Grace, your holding people up...' Nat muttered to me from the seat he sat in a couple of minuites ago, looked behind me to see a line forming impationatly waiting for me to move, I sat down next to Nat.
'Um Grace? You have a bit of drule going down your chin.'
'What?'
'I'm just kidding, and I probly shoud have warned you that Dan catchs this bus aswell..'
'Ugh, why should you have? He's just a cute guy.'
'A guy that you have totally fallen for by the look on you face just before.'
'What? No. That was just cause of the music, I love music and everything about it, I specially love to sing.'
'Oh so your a singer are you?'
'Oh no, I just love to sing, I'm not really that good at it, and as much as I would love to be a singer, I enjoy writing just as much, and it's something I'm accually good at.'
'Ah, so your our little author then?'
'Well I plan to be, so anyway whats the deal with Ami and Dan, why dose she hate him so much?'
'I knew you wouldn't last off that topic for long, but I'm sorry it's not really my placce to say, it's something you'll have to ask Ami about, but I don't advise you to, she dosen't really like talking about it.'
'Okay then, I wont bring it up.'
It turns out Nat is really nice and easy to talk to, he ended up making the arrangement of coming to my house.
'Wow your dad really fixed thi old place up.' Nat said looking around my living room.
'Fixed it up?'
'Yeah noone has lived in here for years, until your dad obviously, this place was a wreak.'
'How'd it get that way?'
'I don't know, never really thought about it. It had just always been that way.'
'Hmm, so how long have you and Ami been friends?'
'Since year 7, we where the outcasts, so we figurd why not be outcasts together?'
'Why where you outcasts?'
'Well, I was gay, and most of the guys here don't really like that, and Ami was a gothic wiccan, both perfect outcast material according to the rest of the bar code students.'
'“Bar code?”'
'The students here are all the same, followers of the popular, sheep who detest anything diffrent, and we had different written all over us.'
'So then you to became best friends?'
'Yep.'
'And do you invite just any loser to come sit with you?'
'Hell no, but you looked kinda normal so we though we'd give you a chance, a test.'
'Did I pass the test?'I said worridly.
'No, theres no way you can hang out with us.' Nat could tell by the look on my face that I could'nt tell he was joking.
'I'm kidding, I'm kidding, we want you to be friends with us. but theres some rules..'
'What?'
'If you ever turn out like Kate Homes, you cannot be friends with us.'
'Kate Homes?'
'Yeah the popular girl of the school, blond big boobs fake eveerything, you know the type I mean Kate Homes, who is also Dans girlfriend.'

Kate Homes was a beautiful girl who was like completely perfect, as I found out the next day in first period P.E, p.e is not my bet subject, if the whole subject was just being able to trow and catch a ball then sure, I'd be fine.
I fell to the ground, rubbed the bump on my head from the ball Kate just threw to me.
'Hey loser, learn how to catch the ball, or atleast to duck.' Kate said laughing with all her friends.
'ouch, bitch, she knew I wasent looking.' Oh who am i kidding, I cant catch to save my life, I got back up and threw that ball at Kate, I missed her and got the teacher in the back of the head.
'Oh good shot,' Kate and her friends laughed harder.
I'm spending the weekend at Ami's house so I'm really nervse, cause like I know Nat likes me, but I'm not sure if Ami dose, I brace myself as I walk up the path, and I try to act normal. I knocked on the pink door infront of me.
'God I hope this is the right house...' I said just as Ami opened the door.
I let out the breath I had been holdind when she opened the door and smiled at me,'you made it new girl.'
'Yeah, how long are you gonna call me “new girl”?'
'Until your not new anymore.. or until I find something funner to call you.' Said Ami leading me to the lounge room. The lounge, like the rest of the house was big and beautiful, and I never knew one room could be so pink, everything but the couch was varing shades of pink.
'Wow your housr is beautiful, and very pink.' I said in awe.
'Yea I hate it.' I laughed as I sat down on the couch next to Nat and Ami sat on the other side of me. You could tell that Ami didn't fit in with the house itself, the house was all pink and white, and Ami was dressed in all black and red.
'So, new girl, how you likeing everything now?' Asked Ami as she turned on the tv.
'Yeah it's ok, the people here are nice..' I trailed off.
Ami and Nat looked at me criptially.
'Okay, you two are nice, everything ealse is just so weird, that girl you where talking about, Kate Homes totally hates me, and because she dose, so dose the rest of the school, and I don't know why.'
'Well she hates you because shes an outright bitch and also-' Nat was cut off by Ami clearing her throte loudly.
'Also what?' I asked wearily.
'Also,' Nat began smirking at Ami, 'she dosent like you because her “boyfriend” has taken an fancy to you..'
'She dosen't need to know about with.' Warned Ami.
'Whose Kates boyfriend?' I asked, still wary.
'Well Kate wishes he was her boyfriend, and he kinda is, just not on an offical scale.' Nat dawdled.
'Who damnit!?' I was impatient now.
'Dan.' Finished Nat, Ami snorted when he said the name. I though Nat told me not to talk about Dan infront of her, so why is he?
'Waite what?' I was wary again.
Ami was glaring at Nat as she spoke, 'You really don't wanna go there Grace.'
Nat cut me off before I could say anything 'Dan fancies you.'
'Huh?' I was beyond confused.
'He never said he facies you, he was talking and he said “Hey that new girls hot isn't she?” in passing, and Kate isnt happy about it, Don't read into it. He treats girls like a piece of meat!' Ami looked so angry as she spoke, I didn't even ask her what she was on about, Dan thinks I'm hot, usually a thought like that wouldn't get to me so much, but I couldnt help be feel insanely happy.
Though, by the angry look Ami was giving Nat, and the wide grin he was giving me, I couldn't help but think they where pulling my leg.