Everglades High School: A Short Story

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Short story First day of school Pd.4 On August 19th 2013, Mariah is a new student attending Everglades High School. Mariah is a very shy person, so it might be hard to make friends. As soon as she gets to school she recognizes an old friend from elementary school. She immediately came towards her to have a conversation. “Mariah? Is that you? Mariah replies, Yes, Jordan how have you been?” As they continued their convo Mariah checked the wall for her homeroom class. She realized that she didn’t have the same class as Jordan. The first bell at 7:20 rung for 1st period, Mariah is walking in the hallways trying to find her class. When she looked up to see the room numbers this random boy bumped into her by accident and dropped her papers. He bent over to pick them up and hand them to her. He replied “You must be new?” Mariah said “Yeah I am, do you know where…show more content…
She felt very uncomfortable and couldn’t do her work. Mariah was just staring at the clock waiting for 1:44 p.m. to hit for the next class. When the bell rung Mariah dashed out of the class and Daniel immediately ran after her. “Hey can I talk to you? I’m sorry about that whole confrontation earlier”. Mariah stuttered “No its fine-fine.” She never felt so rejected in her life, as if someone snatched her heart out of her chest. Mariah came home from school looking dull and gloomy. “What’s wrong baby girl, how was your day?” said her mom. “Mom, I really don’t want to talk about it.” Throughout the night her mom checked up on her to see if she was ok. Tears began to fall down her eyes onto her cheeks, when she decided to call Jordan for comfort. Jordan gave Mariah advice just to leave him alone and focus on school. Mariah couldn’t understand why this was happening to her. The next morning, Mariah gets up for school and gets 3 missed calls from Daniel. Her heart almost jumped out of her chest. She called back but he only asked for the math homework. Until he asked Mariah “Do you like me?”

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