opening day

Amelia's Pov

From the parking lot, I saw people laughing, hugging and chatting in exhilarating excitement, probably about their summer holidays and the late night parties they had.

In one corner, the schools football team, the Green claws, were just returning from football practice, and from the way they looked, they appeared drained out. The coach didn't seem to care because he kept on talking, and from the way his face looked, he meant serious business.

The green claws are going to be something this year.

In another corner, I saw the GGGs, which is short for the gorgeous girls of greenfield high ( what an alliteration!) make their way from their hot BMW sports car to the main entrance of the school.

They just wore their normal school uniform and yet they made it rock. All eyes were on them as they made an entrance. I could not help but imagine them walking in slow motion.

Honestly, I do not really like the girls. They were bratty, mean and condescending people. But when it came to admiring them that was everybody's role to play.

I went to my locker and started getting ready for the first lesson when I felt somebody grip my shoulders tight and shout into my ear. I let out a small scream and turned around to see Belle.

" You know you scared me?" I said putting my hand on my chest.

" What are friends for?" she replied. I rolled my eyes at her and kept arranging my books in my locker.

" I can't believe that you actually came to school today. Were you not exhausted from assisting at the Animal Pal Shelter yesterday?"

" Yeah but you know I can't miss a first day of school, especially when Literature is the first lesson."

"You're a freak for Romeo and Juliette."

" Well excuse me for loving such an interesting story." I said defending myself. The bell rang and we started walking to class.

"So are you planning on joining the theater club?, who knows maybe you could be Juliette."

" Oh no. I don't like acting. Everybody knows that dancing is my thing." I said smiling.

"Amelia, I've seen you dance. Dancing is not your thing."she stated as a matter of fact.

I frowned and said " Well...", but she cut me off.

" But luckily for you, I heard that there is a dancing club this term, maybe they could teach you."

"What!" I said in surprise. "There is a dancing club, I thought the school cancelled that."

"Yeah but Kylie from the GGGs spoke to the head teacher about the importance of dance and how it could bring money into the school, so the school authorities decided to bring it back. "

" So Kylie is the leader of the dance club?" I was really excited about the dance club but I just could not imagine Kylie being the leader, it would be hell.

We entered class and got seated.

" Yep, I'm sure there is more information about this on the notice board. We'll go check it after class."

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Freddy's Pov

I opened the classroom door and went right straight to my seat.

"Young man, you are late" The math teacher said as he glared at me.

" Sorry. Just return to your teaching and pretend that I'm not here. " I said in an exasperated tone, as I put my hand through my hair.

I really did not want to come to school today.

When the annoyed teacher carried on teaching, I heard Dan silently calling me.

"What! " I said in a bit of a harsh tone.

"Where were you dude? We had football practice. You know coach has become really demanding." he whispered.

"I was tired" I replied dryly.

" Tired? Dude you have only missed practice twice and coach is already starting to rethink you as our quarterback."

" Just leave me man! " I raised my voice higher than I intended to. Aware that everybody's eyes were on me, I diverted my attention back to the teacher." Sir, can I be excused? "

Immediately he permitted me, I went to the bathroom.

As soon as I entered the bathroom I got another text from my father.

Common son, your future step mom is very pretty. - dad

After reading that text,I kicked the first thing I laid my eyes on . Hard. I ran my fingers through my hair, trying to think of what to do, but I could not, I was boiling mad.

It was the fourth time this morning since I left home that my father sent me demeaning text messages. Damn messages telling me to leave my mom and get to know that hell of a woman he called his girlfriend.

Dammit.

I had to get my anger under control or I was going to break something. I counted numbers as slow and as gentle as I could until I was sure I was fine. I then switched off my phone and went back to class.

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After the break time bell rang, Dan and Corey hopped over to my desk.

"Hey, bro. Is everything alright with you? You seemed angry just before you walked out of class." Corey asked.

"Yeah, I'm fine."

"You sure about that?, because you missed our last football practice for the holidays, did not attend football practice this morning and still haven't told us why." Dan stated.

I exhaled and ran my fingers through my hair, " There's no problem guys, I've just been tired that's all " I said, trying to convince them.

" We just want you to know that no matter what we're here for you bro. So are we cool? " Dan asked.

"Yeah we're cool." I smiled a bit before we gave each other the bro handshake - it was our way of saying that everything is okay and there is no problem.

"Is coach really rethinking about me being captain of the team?" I asked, concern dripping in my tone.

"He hasn't actually said anything, but we can tell that he's thinking about it." Corey answered.

I cursed under my breathe. I had to find coach quickly or he might end up kicking me out of the  football team and I could not let that happen.

"I better go and find him, see you guys". I immediately got up from my seat and rushed towards the door.

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Amelia's Pov

"BELLE!, " I cried for the umpteenth time. "let's go."

"I'm still looking at these pictures Lia, you can go to the notice board without me." She stated before going back to giggling over some boy magazine with one of our classmates.

You could never count on best friends especially on those that got obsessed over boy magazines.

I turned on my heel and walked out of the class. I walked down the hallway and passed by the GGGs, who were giggling over something as usual, before coming face to face with the notice board.

Peanut butter and pickles!

The notice board was very large and had like a million posters on it, how was I going to find the poster for the dance club now?

Right in front of me there was a huge poster of the football team. Some of the team players were kneeling in front of the team players that were standing in the background. The coach of their team was standing on the furthest left and the quarterback was standing on the right holding a ball.

The quarterback is Federico, the school's golden boy. Everyone wants to be around him ( except me - I'm not an obsessor), he has the best table in the school's cafeteria and is one of the best football players in the state. He is  going to be a great football player in the future.

Yes!, I found the poster for the dance club. It was at the top of the football poster, to the right. It was really hard for me to see it from where I was, so I had to stand on my tiptoes. I still could not see what was written on the poster, the problem now was my glasses, I took them off and tried to clean them but I barely could see what was written on the paper when I put them back on, I was really struggling with this.

Then I heard someone in a deep voice, say, 'Hey', beside me. I then stopped standing on my toes and looked up to see a tall, masculine boy with dirty blonde hair and gleaming blue eyes looking down at me.

It was Federico

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End of chapter one