The First Day

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The First Day The excitement, butterflies in your stomach, the thoughts running through your head – am I going to fit in? Will people like me? Who doesn’t think about all this before their first day of high school, especially when you were the unpopular, four-eyed, brace face freak in middle school. As I walked into Moline High on my first day, nothing but fear arose through me. Here I was, a tiny helpless freshman surrounded by immense, endless hallways with people running every which way. Of course, with my luck nothing went right. I went to the wrong classroom full of seniors, locked my schedule in my locker, and even fell up the stairs as I was running to get to class on time. I didn’t know anyone in my classes. It was as if I was a stranger in some long-lost world. Thoughts pondered through my head as I sat in my room that night. I wondered if I was going to make any friends. Would that perfect dream boy ask me to any dances? The next few weeks were some of the worst weeks of my life. Never-ending piles of homework, tests stacked up all on the same day, and still no friends. I didn’t know what it was. I just wasn’t the same as all the other girls in my class. They had everything, the straight, gleaming hair, sun-glistened tan, the perfect hourglass figure, and confidence. As I stood at my locker wearing my baggy sweats and t-shirt trying to shove all my books in my backpack, one of the Abercrombie-wearing girls led her herd down the hallway. Muttering remarks to each other, I saw their heads just turn looking at me with disgust. I had become an outcast. I remember multiple days when I came home, and my parents would ask me, “Mayuri, do you want to go to the movies or something with your friends?” All I could do was make up excuses. I felt ashamed and didn’t have the courage to tell my parents that I didn’t really have anyone to hang out with.
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