You never would have expected that, after everything that had happened to you, you’d end up in Bristol, a city in England. You moved to Bristol because of your mom’s nursing job, and now you’ve started at RoundView High School, along with several other kids.
You weren’t used to the extreme freedom they had. You were walking to school when you saw a car crash into a pole, almost right in front of you; your eyes widened. You heard a boy laughing at a food stand, along with two others. The one laughing had the air of a popular kid, with typical foreign features; another had curly hair, his blue eyes still staring at you. You almost shrank back in your spot before you saw the last boy; he wasn’t laughing, nor was he scared.
You walked to the gym when they pointed it out to you, and sat down next to a blonde girl with pigtails and another girl with black hair and blue eyes. The blonde looked at you with a smile, and you smiled back shyly. You chatted for a while before they started, and you met Effy and Pandora. Effy was quieter and more reserved—similar to you in some ways—while Pandora was overly energetic, but she still made you smile.
The initiation ceremony began, and by pure chance you glanced over at the students. You saw the same kids from the shopping cart incident; you raised an eyebrow and looked at the tanned guy with a half-smile, then sheepishly looked away. Then they took roll call; you turned to look—their names were JJ (the one with curly hair), Cook (the outgoing one), and Freddie, the guy who was looking at you. You also heard names that rang a bell: Katie, Emily Fisher, and Naomi Campbell—a bad name for a girl.
His tanned skin and a scratch on his chin made you raise an eyebrow. The man got out of the car, and you went on your way, feeling a little embarrassed. After a questionable opening ceremony by the teachers, you were opening your locker when the same guy from the food truck approached you. You’d seen him at the opening ceremony, but he came over to talk to you with an apologetic smile.
"Do you mind taking this locker?"
