• Chapter 1

    "Anna! Time for school" I heard as I slouched to the bathroom to take a shower. "Uhh...alright" I replied. I took a quick shower and straightned my hair. I brushed my teeth and grabbed a quick breakfast bar, then headed out the door. The bus ride to school was long. I was the new girl, had no friends, and said nothing on the half hour trip to school. Today was going to be a long day.
    I had a seat in the cafeteria as I waited for the bell to ring for Homeroom. An old lady with a bright red dress called for everyone to go into the gym. I grabbed my over-stuffed bookbag and headed for the gym. As I walked into the gym, a lot of students were already sitting in the bleachers. I walked slowly to the bleachers and took a seat on the corner end. People kept looking at me and pointing. I just sat and looked down at the floor the whole time. Then, I felt a tap on my shoulder.
    "Hey! Your new right?"
    "Y-yeah." I whispered.
    "Well, my name's Faith."
    "I'm Anna."
    "Cool, well I hope you have a great year here at Minnelton Middle School"
    Then Faith walked over to a group of girls and talked with them. I continued sitting in the same place, quietly, until the bell rang. I grabbed my things, put them in my new locker and went to Homeroom and my first class, History.
    I walked into homeroom and there was a big crowd of students by the door. The teacher, Mr. Fenson, was calling names and assigning seats to each student. He called everyone, except me and this other chubby kid.
    "Name?" He sturnly said to me.
    "uh..Anna Robinson."
    Then He pointed to a seat and I walked over to it. I put my binder under the seat in a little basket, and then my chair squeeked. A few people stared at me.
    "Uh..the seat did that." I said to a girl sitting next to me.
    "Ok." She replied nicely.
    History, we just learned about the class and Mr. Fenson asked what we know about history, and learned our names.
    My second class, English, We did an assignment and played a game called 2 truths and 1 lie. In science, We learned about the teacher, Mr. Stevenson. Then, I walked to my next class, Reading.
    I walked in and the teacher, Ms. Joans, let us pick our own seats. I chose the seat all the way in the top corner. Ms Joans talked to me one on one. She asked if I had any friends yet, If I had any questions about the school, or if I need help knowing where my classes were. I said no to all of them, and I took my seat.
    I worked on a journal entry that Ms. Joans assigned to us. Then I felt a light tap on my shoulder. I turned around and I saw a girl with wavy brown hair, very slim, and had a big smile on her face.
    "Hi! Your new here right?"
    "Yeah.."
    "I'm Heather. Your Anna right?"
    "Yeah."
    "Nice to meet you!"
    "Nice to meet yo-" Then she turned around and started talking to a boy. I didn't really pay much attention to him.
    Class went my slowly. I turned around every five minutes to check the clock. Lunch was next period, I was starving, and I had nobody to talk to. I finished writing and Ms. Joans announced that we could just chit chat for the rest of class. I just put my head down and waited for the bell to ring. After about ten minutes, I got my notebook out and doodled. I doodled for a few minutes until I heard a voice.
    "Hey."
    "Hey" I replied, still finishing my doodle. Then I looked up. That boy that greeted me must have been the most goregous boy that I had ever seen. I closed my notebook, sat up, and just crossed my arms on my desk.
    "You new?"
    "Yeah, I'm Anna."
    "Christain." he replied, then leaned against the wall.
    Then, of course, the bell rang. Lunch passed by slowly, i had nobody to talk to, and I was nervous to get assigned my elective.
    Next period came and we were told to go into the gym. I sat by myself again in the gym. I saw Christain with Heather and some other friends and I just avoided him. I sat in the corner again and then, four teachers walked into the gym. Later, the principal, Mr. Pain, assigned each student to a teacher. I got assigned to a hairy guy, with a frown, and he gave each kid that was assigned to him a glare. "Oh joy!" I whispered to myself. I was assigned gym, this will be fun, for me. Just to make it better, Christain got assigned gym also, so he will probably avoid me because I will be falling on him every two minutes.
    Gym turned out pretty good. I didn't fall once, and I met my first friend. Her name is Delzie, or DeeDee for short. She invited me to sit with her at lunch with her friends. Finally, school goes the way I hoped.
    I just hope Eighth grade doesn't turn out a disaster.