First Person POV
September 4th, 2019
7:50 a.m.

We arrived at the high school at about 7:50 a.m.  We would've been at the school at 7:40, but Keith forgot his binder (he noticed he didn't have it in his bag when we dropped Katie off at the elementary school). So, we had to drive home and then drive back to school.

"Make sure you have everything, Keith, 'cause I'm not driving back home today." I told him, exiting the car once it was parked in the parking lot.

"I know, geez, stop hovering over me like a mother hen." He muttered as he exited my car. I could tell he was embarrassed by forgetting his binder.

"I will. I'm just making sure you didn't forget anything else." I retorted before locking the car doors on my G6 and heading towards the school door.

As I walked in, I saw a banner that was hanging in the hallway. It said:

  Welcome Back Students!

I smiled a bit before pulling out my phone from my pocket. I then began to text Charlie.

Claire Bear: Here. Sorry it took so long. Keith forgot his binder at home, so we had to turn around.

I then placed my phone bag into my pocket and began to make my way down the hall, in search of my locker. The halls were pretty crowded, the people varying in age. To my left, there was a group of freshman girls talking and sharing schedules,  trying to figure out if they had any classes together.

A group of senior jocks were on my right. I couldn't really tell what they were talking about, but I'm gonna go out on a limb and say they were talking about football.

I managed to find my locker, which was on the opposite side of the school from where I walked in at. I pulled out my schedule from my pocket and scanned over it, trying to find my locker combo. 09-19-01: The sheet said. I began to turn the knob. Turned right and stopped at 9, then went left and stopped at 19, then went right again and landed on 1. I grabbed the locker handle and pushed upwards. My locker opened with a somewhat loud creak.

As I slung my bag from my shoulders, I felt a pair of arms wrap around my waist. I glanced over my shoulder and smiled as my eyes looked into two deep pools of blue. The person smiled at me as he stared right back into my eyes.

"Hey Linnie. I haven't seen you in FOREVER!" I said, hinting the sarcasm in 'forever' as I placed my bag on the floor and turned, giving him a hug back.

"I know right?!? It's been, what, 16 hours since we last saw each other. That amount of time is too long to be separated." He said dramatically, ruffling my short hair with his hand.

Charlie was a pretty good looking guy. He had black hair that stuck up in the most oddest places. He had a bunch of freckles over his face, which reminded me of the stars. His eyes, like I mentioned before, were two dark blue pools of water. You could easily get trapped in them if stared at them for too long. His nose had the German arch to it, but was plastered with a small scar and dozens of freckles.

"What's your first hour?" I asked, looking up at him. He was about a head taller than me, and I was about 5' 0", so he was around 5' 5" or 5' 6".

"Hmm, lemme check." He said, slinging his backpack onto the floor and opening it.

As he looked for his schedule, I turned around and began putting some of my stuff into my locker. I arranged all of my class stuff, so the first folder and notebook on the right would be used for my first hour class.

"Here it is. I have......" He tried to straighten out his paper so he could read it, "Intro to College Statistics. What about you?" He asked.

I looked at my folders. I had them all labeled with what class I have and what hour I'll have them. "I have College Biology." I said, grabbing my folder and notebook for that class.

I stood up and placed my bags into my locker, slightly shoving them inside as they couldn't really fit. I would bring my gym bag to the locker rooms when I had gym later in the day.

"Okay, what other classes do you have for this trimester?" Charlie asked, looking over my shoulder to see my schedule that I had in my hand.

"Let's see....... I have College Biology for first hour, but you know that. Second hour I have band. Third hour I have College Literature. Fourth hour I have Chemistry. Fifth hour I have Intro to Stats, and finally, I have Agriculture Production for Sixth Hour. How about you?"

That's when the five minute warning bell went off. I still have to find the College Biology room.

"Well, I have Intro to College Stats first hour, then band for second hour. I have chemistry for third hour, and then English 11 for fourth hour. Fifth hour I have Greek mythology and then Agriculture Production. So we have two out of six classes together." He said with a huff, folding up his paper and shoving it into his pants pocket.

"Well, we should probably go. We have about two minutes until the bell rings and we're late. Which way do you have to go?" I asked, checking my phone clock to keep track of the time.

"Yeah. I have to head upstairs. I'm gonna guess you have to go upstairs too?" He asked, beginning to walk towards the stairs.

I checked the room number: B153. "Yeah. I'll beat you up the stairs." I said before speed walking towards the stairs, then taking stairs two at a time with Charlie right behind me.

1007 words. Oof.

Welp, I guess I'll be posting how many words I write on here 😂

Also, these are just some filler chapters in order to get to the juicy stuff (which should happen in a few chapters 😉)