Being a freshmen in high school is hard. Not as hard as being a scientist or a life saving surgeon. But it- to some degree- is fairly difficult when you have very few friends, an alcoholic mother, an annoying brother, and depression.

But to some point, most of the people in my life have someone to love. Almost all of my friends have a boyfriend or girlfriend. Someone to hang out with all the time. To text lovey dovey crap to. Bleh. Sometimes it makes me sick.

This morning was the exact same as it always is. I woke up, got ready, and left as quickly as possible. Then I waited at my bus stop for what seemed like ages until it finally came. I got to school and waited in the hallway for my friends to arrive.

Soon enough my friend Daniela came down the hall wearing the ductape hat my other friend, Paris, had made for her. Paris had one of her own that she had made, and Daniela admired it greatly. Finally she got enough courage to ask for one and Paris happily said yes.

She walked to where I was and sat down with me. "So what are you doing in PE?" I asked. She had PE first period and we were currently in the recreation portion of the school year, meaning we could choose between swimming, playing on the field, or staying in the gym. It was about two weeks to the end of the year so the three PE teachers gave us a choice.

She shrugged, "I'll probably stay in the gym and pretend to be productive,"

I smiled. I always like Daniela's personality. Her sarcasm could make grumpy cat smile.

I pulled out my sketchpad, "Look at what I drew!" I opened it to a picture of Natsu from Fairy Tale that drew last night.

"Aww it's so cute!" She smiled.

Then the bell rang. I frowned and got up. Saying goodbye to Daniela I walked a bit down the hall an waited in front of my class.

Paris, who had zero period jazz band (a class one hour before the rest of school) walked in. I smiled at her and she smiled back. Of corse she was wearing her ductape hat too. "Lookie." I showed her my Natsu.

"That's. So. Cute." She said, taking the book and looking at it a bit more closely. She handed it back and showed me a picture of one of her Welcome to Night Vale characters named Sirrah. We decided that he was going to be shipped with my character a while ago.

Then she said she had to go and left to math. I walked into my class and sat down in my seat. As the rest of the class shuffled in and settled down the bell rang. Then a voice came on over the loud speaker for the morning announcements.

"Goooood morning Wildcats! It's Monday, May twenty-third-" he started. I stopped listening and started sketching on my bell work instead of actually working on it. "-Have a good Monday!" The announcements finally ended a couple minutes later.

My attention was drawn away when the door opened. A person I'd never seen in my life walked in. She had brown hair and was wearing a black shirt with a Fairy Tale picture on it. Her backpack was space themed.

My teacher looked up from her desk and smiled, "Ah. You must be Aspen." She stood, "Class this is our new student Aspen. Please treat her nicely." She guided Aspen to the only open seat in the room......right behind me.