The High School Experience

No one looks forward to the first day of anything especially first day of high school. Having to deal another 4 years with people you’ve known your entire life and seeing as how most turned into complete assholes in middle school, this doesn’t seem like it’s going to be a blast. Now let’s see, its 4 am and I’m supposed to be asleep for another 2 and a half hours to be “fully rested” for the first day, but seeing as I haven’t been able to sleep more than 2 or 3 hours since half way through 8th grade, and I’m already awake, I should find something to kill time without waking up my mom or brother. Should we go and walk the streets and possibly get mugged and worse? Or continue to stay in my room and be bored shitless? I don’t like either option. The backyard won’t be dangerous to lounge around for 2 hours.
I sat on the ground with my back against the wall and looked up for a bit, the stars were still visible; I got out my notebook and began to scribble in random shit, possible poems, crappy drawings, anything to keep me entertained for a while.
I didn’t know the time but I saw the sun up so maybe it was time to go inside and start to get ready.
6:23
Little bit earlier than the time my alarm clock was set to, but I could use an early shower so Mathew doesn’t come banging on the door, complaining that he needs to get ready too.
After the much needed shower, I went to my room and saw my mom was already downstairs and Mathew was on his way to the restroom to complain. He looked stupefied when he saw I was out earlier than usual.
“Wow that’s the first” he said surprised
“What is, that I’m out before you got the chance to bitch at me?” he nodded at my question and I smiled and let out a little sigh
“Yeah, it’s a surprise to me too, but c’mon start getting ready so I can take you to your very first day of 7th grade!” I said excitingly and he groaned and smacked his face
“Don’t remind me! I don’t look forward to this whatsoever”
“Aw come on. ITS GONNA BE SO MUCH FUN!” he just started to bang his head on the wall and I laughed and headed to my room
I got the first t-shirt and pants I saw on the floor and some clean pair of boxers. I looked at myself in the mirror and realized my hair was parting in the middle causing me to cringe at the sight. I fixed it to the way I liked it and put on my vans and a black hoodie then headed down stairs.
“Mother” I greeted my mom
“Frankie, excited for school?” she asked, kissing my head
“Not one bit, excited for work?”
“Not one bit either” we both chuckled
I started to proceed in my morning ritual of coffee and cereal and sat at the table and finally mat came down grabbing his own bowl of cereal, mom kissed his head too
“Okay my little angels, I have to go, be good and don’t fall asleep in your classes, okay?” we nodded at her with mouths full of cereal
“Good, I love you. I’ll see you 2 at dinner time” and with that she walked out the door
It was already 6:58 meaning we had about 5 minutes left to eat and 7 minutes to catch the bus on time.
We actually barely caught the bus when we got there. And of course when getting on, the bus was full of teenagers and pre-teens thinking they were top shit talking about the stupid shit they supposedly or probably did in the summer. Mat and I had to stand since every seat was full, I put on my earphones and drowned the people with music, and I thank whoever created iPod and earphones for creating these things. When we got to BMS, mat said goodbye and disappeared with the rest of the kids who got out too. Now there was more seats available and saw faces in sight, some I knew because I used to talk to them or never have but have seen them all my life. I think I actually know everyone in this bus.
The next stop, few more people got on, and I recognized all the faces except for 1, this guy with black hair that didn’t look anymore older than I was. This is not a man you want to fuck with. He is wearing a fucking hoodie with a jean jacket and black jeans in the hot ass summer. And here I am already dying with a plain t-shirt and jeans. And he didn’t even have a backpack, but a satchel on his right shoulder, then there’s my lame boring backpack. He sat on the opposite side of the bus with his earphones on too, he glanced over at me for a bit before he sat down and I noticed he had pretty eyes- whoa what the fuck!? Why am I looking at the guys eyes? And every detail of his? I don’t like guys, why am I observing his every detail?....let’s just ignore I ever did that and continue the day as normal as possible.
He got off on the same stop as me. I was one of the only people walking all the way in the back because I did not look forward to getting to the door steps of Belleville High. He put his face in his hands and rubbed his face before stepping inside the gates, so he was a high schooler, I wonder what grade? WHY AM I PRACTICALLY STALKING THIS GUY! STOP IT THIS INSTANT FRANK.
When we got inside I lost him because ray approached me
“Sup man! “
“What? Oh! Hey ray” I tried looking over his shoulder to see the guy. So I won’t even listen to myself now.
“What are looking for?”
“Oh! Nothing, SO! How’s the incoming fro?”
“It’s great, how’s the gages coming along?”
“Hurt like shit. But they’re coming along very nicely. Seen boob anywhere?”
“No, he texted me saying he just woke up so the dumbass is going to be late on the first day already” I laughed and shook my head.
The man on the intercom said all incoming freshman’s to head to the auditorium so me and ray headed. When we got there, the place was already almost full and I was kind of starting to freak out a bit and I started breathing weird and moving around more. Luckily, ray noticed and pushed past the people and we sat all the way in the back of the room
“Thanks man” I said when I calmed down
“Any time, you really should check up what the hell you have, cos this happens too much” he sounded concern, typical ray. Everyone needs a friend like ray.
I spaced out so by the end, I had no idea what the hell we had to do, I just saw people starting to line up
“What the hell are we supposed to do?” I asked ray
“Spaced out again huh,” he laughed “based on the first letter of your last name, you line up and grab your schedule”
I nodded then got on the line which H-K and waited for my turn, I saw boob barge in through the doors and nearly fall, and I’m assuming he asked one of the teacher what to do because he nodded then stepped in the first line and waved at me.
“I SAID NEXT” what? Oh shit! I approached the lady
“Name.”
“Uhm. Iero, frank.” She scavenged through a bunch of little envelopes then picked one out
“Alright, here you go, do you need a map of the school and bell schedule?” this lady was so done with her job already. I nodded yes and she handed me 2 other papers and I walked by the doors waiting for boob and ray
We compared classes with each other to see if by some luck we got to stay together. WE DID
1st- science with ray and boob
2nd- creative writing only ray
3rd- geometry with boob
4th- free period with ray and boob
lunch
5th- pe(what a fucking drag) with and boob
6th- Spanish with neither. Oh how fun
7th- English with ray
Not bad, I expected a much worse schedule. We headed to our first class which was science and right away I spotted a familiar crazy bastard with 2 jackets on. I couldn’t help with smile a bit. You’re just not gonna stop being a creeper are you.
He was sitting on a table by himself reading what looked like a comic. The teacher took down our names and then said something but I wasn’t paying attention.
“I’m sorry, what did you say?” I asked, confused.
“I said you sit on the 3rd table on the right with the young man over there.” She pointed to the crazy bastard from earlier on the bus. I smiled and felt excited, what.the.fuck.frank.
Ray was sat with some guy with glasses and bob with some girl with short hair, both a row up from me. I approached the table and set my backpack down, he didn’t pick up his head but he did move his eyes and glance at me again. Time for me to shine.
“Hi” I might’ve said that a little more excited than intended. Fuck. He finally picked his head up and turned to look at me. I waved and smiled, controlling myself this time. He awkwardly smiled and waved back
“Hi” his voice sounded nice, I want to hear more.

Notes

HEY THANKS FOR TAKING YOUR TIME AND READING THIS. I HOPE YOU STICK AROUND TO SEE WHAT ELSE HAPPENS, I HAVE A BIT WRITTEN OUT ALREADY SINCE IVE BEEN WRITING THIS FOR MY FRIEND SO I HOPE THAT I WILL HAVE CONTINUOUS UPDATES! SO ANYWHOO THANK YOU AGAIN BYE BYE