Urghh"
I opened my eyes for a split second and realized that it was morning. I was having a terrible hangover after last night's video party with my friends. Is it legal to hurt like bad?
I stretched out my hand to try to reach for a glass of water on my bedside table, and as I tried looking for my mouth hole the water spilled all over my face. I immediately sat up on my bed and realized something
! It was my first day at a new school and I was going to be seriously late!
I hurriedly showered and dressed up in a black velvet high waist jean and a black Louis Vuitton top paired with a black floral jacket and black combat boots. I was so screaming sexy and in record time too.
I went downstairs to see my chef, butler and personal bestie Gabe with my backpack, lunch and breakfast.
"Ahh kalia, how could you oversleep on your first day of school?" he scolded in his heavy Mexican accent
I just smiled at his poor pronunciation of my name
"And why are you wearing all black. Where I come from that's bad luck"
"Can you please not jinx my day?" I said as I stuffed my face with pancakes.
"I'm just saying first a hangover I'm sure" he said handing me some aspirins to which I smiled knowingly "then waking up late, wearing all black and very soon choking" he looked knowingly at him.
I swallowed the huge fill in my mouth before saying "I'm not going to choke"
"Sounds like a bad day in progress"
Looking at the big clock on the wall I realized that if I didn't leave I was going to be so late "Oh God I should better leave. Bye Gabe" I said giving him a peck on the cheek.
"Bye my love. God bless you".
I pulled up in the school's parking lot and stared at the building before me. My dad and I had moved to L.A during the summer to the headquarters of his multi-million dollar gaming company. We moved to a town called RIDDENVILLE and you wouldn't even believe what the town slogan was "Riddenville; home for the rich and wealthy".
I got out of the car and walked into the building. It felt like a scene from one of those chick- flick movies where the new girl walks in the school doors in slow-mo and they were aahs and oohs from girls and cat whistles from boys but no this is real life and instead of oohs and aahs I got silence, utter silence. And by silence I mean the normal teenage chattering between old students.
Nobody cares about you in the real life. Nobody gives two shit, not even the janitor.
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"So this is hall C and I'm supposed to go to Hall A" currently I was lost; in this huge school building, looking for my locker and class. I've been stuck here for like 10 minutes since the bell rang and anybody I asked completely ignored me.
How that was possible in this big school was completely beyond me.
And presently I was going nowhere in my search. I'm late on my first day to my first class. Great!
"Are you lost?" I heard a feminine voice ask and I turned around to see a sun tanned brunette. Damn she looked like she came out of a vogue magazine.
"Yea, I'm looking for Hall A where all my classes are and I'm in Hall C right now." I complained
"Well I have geography now it's in Hall A and since I'm already late, I might as well show you. Follow me" She said as she led the way.
We walked up the stairs to the third floor before she showed me my locker and coincidentally, her's was right next to mine.
Such amazing luck.
As we walked to our next class- cause geography was already over- we decided to get to know each other.
"I'm Talia McCarthy. What's your name?" she asked
"I'm Kayla Jacobs" I answered as we got closer to our classroom
"Hold up" she said as she stopped abruptly "Your dad is Mr. Henry Jacobs, game mogul and owner of that multi-million dollar gaming company "
"Yep that's just about everything" I chuckled nervously
"You are going to be the most popular kid in school" she said excitedly
"Why?" I asked her already knowing the answer to my question
"Well people are going to want exclusive access to the world's most played games" she explained
"Let's just get to class please"
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We entered the chemistry lab together as that was the next class we had together just as the bell rang.
"So, I don't want you to like think you can totally depend on me so we're not sitting on the same station. Go meet some new people" Talia said as she shoved me in the direction of the station on the second row to which I gave her the nastiest glare ever. And to which she just smiled.
"Hi, I'm Christine" I turned as saw I was my lab mate introducing herself. She was a petite looking blonde wearing a white leather mini skirt and a burgundy sweater- you know, mean cheerleader clothes. Noticing that I was staring I said "Sorry, I'm Kayla. ".
"It's no biggie." she said in the tiniest voice I swear I had even heard. How was it even possible for a human being to produce such sound.
"Oh, our teacher's here" she said breaking me out of my train of thoughts
"Good morning class" a tall, slender man entered our classroom with a boy of about 6ft who had blonde hair and gorgeous eyes and no I'm not over exaggerating. His eyes were gorgeous.
And he was handsome and coming from me that's saying something. My standards were literally up in heaven.
"Look who I found wondering in the halls after the bell rang" he said obviously referring to the boy "Take a seat Jackson". The boy whose name I just learnt was Jackson walked over to a station behind the class and the girl next to him looked scared shitless.
"That's Jack Dantes, he's the school bad boy slash heartthrob. Boys want to be him and girls want to be his girlfriend" Christine explained "He hangs out with no one but his friends Kyle Landon and Nicholas Vernen. Oh and he's in a gang". I turned around to look at him and our eyes met, I quickly looked away.
"Oh, pardon my manners; we have a new transfer student. Ms. Jacobs can you please introduce yourself. I'm Mr. Rodrigo"
Bad teacher, very bad, bad teacher.
"Um hi everyone, my name's Kayla Jacobs. I just moved to L.A during the summer break from Cali." Then I sat down
"Your dad is Henry Jacobs right?" someone asked as I sat down
"Yea" I answered
"Cool" echoed the whole class.
"Well everyone settle down. Welcome Kayla" Mr. Roberts said
Good teacher, good, good, good teacher.
"Now Mr. Dantes can you tell me why you were late for my class." Asked Mr. Dantes "And please no more I ran out of gas excuses".
"Well, some dumb idiot parked in my space and I had to look for where to park. And also I ran out of gas" he said with a smirk -that if I copied would make me look like a constipated cat- that made the whole class chuckle lightly.
"Well, Jack. I'm glad you find this funny cause you're going to be serving it in detention"
Cue the oohs
"Quiet down. This semester is going to be so fun. I've paired you all in groups of two's for a half semester project. Pick a topic with your partner and broaden your scope on that particular topic. The arrangements has been scattered so you're getting a total stranger and it's not alphabetically". The normal groaning of students occurred followed by a quick shushing as he started calling the pairs.
"Are you nervous?" Christine asked
"Yea, a bit. I wouldn't want to be paired with a complete stranger. The only people I've met are you and" I pointed at Talia who was talking to a bunch of people surrounding her station.
"Don't worry. Mr. Rodrigo wouldn't be heartless on your first day".
I hope so
"Mystiana Clive and Lily Walter, Talia McCarthy and Denis Lino; then lastly um, Kayla Jacobs and Jack Dantes" he concluded sending me an apologetic look.
Cue Dramatic Music
"You are so lucky" cooed Christina. I decided to turn around and look at my so called partner and found him staring at me with his signature smirk on his lips
"Then why do I feel so unlucky"