School, some of the worst things in the world happened there. It's five days a week of pure torture. Why we have to go I don't know, I get that we need education for a good foundation in life, but why school. It's a place where the weak get mauled by the jocks, and everyone is as fake and plastic as a Barbie doll.

Don't get me wrong I like going to school, I'm on the popular side of everything, so I have friends, but just the idea of being taught what the state wants as to be taught just irks me. We are fed information and then must spit out those exact answers for tests that we are required to take by the state. It's terrible we're noting more than brainwashed zombies created by the government. It sucks.

Sorry about my rant I just hate learning about what they deem important when there is so much out there we could be learning. I want to read the 'banned' books that the government officials have declared inappropriate for library's to have in possession. Which sucks, there's a lot of good books on that list worth reading that are so much better than the ones I am forced to read.

I made my way through the day slowly, the events from my first class still stuck in my head conflicting me. There was something about that teacher Mr. Gregori, something unnatural but alluring too. And then there was Lex, she seemed a little too close to him especially after class and their strange exchange that just unnerved me. I walked in around in a daze just going through the motions. It's a good thing that I know this dang school like the back of my hand or I would be in so much trouble right now.

"Katie! Kate! Katalina!"

I jumped in the air about five feet when I felt a hand grab my shoulder and turn me around. I held in a scream as I turned to face my assailant.

"Ohh it's just you Shelby. Don't sneak up on me like that!" I shuddered gaining my breath back and slowing my heart rate down.

"Uh duh who did ya think it was the big bad wolf?" She laughed at her attempt at a joke.

"Ha ha funny Shell. What do you want?" I asked I really wasn't in the mood right now for her theatrics at that moment.

"Wow who pooped in your cereal? Anyway I've been calling you for the last five minutes girl. But you were off in la la land, so let me say again. It has been confirmed, Sam was asking about you and ya know how your my best friend he came to me and he told me wants you there. I think he likes you!!!" She squealed jumping up and down.

"Uh okayy that's nice Shel real nice. Look I gotta go. Class you know bye." I brushed her off.

"Oh no you don't Katalina Monroe don't you dare brush me off like that. I don't know what's wrong with you but you have got to get over it. You are going to that party and you are going to like it got it!?"

Wow I had never seen her so angry before, except of course when we were in middle school and Jonny Benson dumped his tray of spaghetti all over her as his way of proclaiming his unfailing love for her. It was hilarious honestly. Her face became a bright shade of red that covered her entire face. I won't say what she did to the poor boy but he still avoids her to this day. And now she's looking at me the same way. I'm dead.

"So I'm in the wrong when I don't leap for joy when you tell me Sam Collins likes me? I don't care if he does or not, I don't care. I don't live for the party scene like you do. I like my books and I like my peace. I've known you for years how do you not still not know that? Look I'm not in the greatest moods right now so I'm going to leave before I say something really bad. Okay? Bye."

I turned and walked away leaving her looking broken hearted behind me. 'Man I'm a bitch, she was only trying to help me, in her own crazy fanatic way but help me non the less. I shouldn't have yelled at her. I'll apologize at lunch, yea now to get through the rest of the day.'

As it turned out Shelly was not at lunch that day and I didn't see her the rest of the day. I didn't think anything of it just that she was avoiding me not wanting to see me after our dispute earlier. I went home that day with a load of homework all due by Friday so I sat myself down at my desk to finish it all.

God I hate AP classes, it's all work work work but you never learn anything worth learning just what the government thanks is worth learning about for the Exam at the end of the year. But I needed AP credit for college so I grugendly sat down to do my work to better my future like my parents wanted.

I heard parents return home half way through my biology homework. "Katalina we're home! Come on down for dinner!"

My mother Genevieve worked at a Fashion Magazine as the Editor in Chief a few cities away. She worked weird hours but wasn't an absentee parent, she actually was home more often than other people's mothers who worked in town. Actually she'd been taking a lot of long hours lately so that in a few months she doesn't have too. My mother found out two months ago that I'm going to have a younger sibling so my parents have been preparing for the new little ones arrival. My father was especially freaked out but he soon got use to the idea of a baby in the house.

My father, Lucian, stayed closer to home working as a pilot for the local airline. He really worked strange hours but he loved his job and most of the time he was home a good portion of the week and I liked that. Since they worked different hours every day they didn't want me to bother making dinner every night in case it was just me. So my parents brought food home every night.

Yeah I know fast food is unhealthy for you, but I have an active lifestyle and I am very fit. If the weather is good you will always see me outside hiking in the woods just beyond my house line. So I don't have to worry about gaining weight or anything like that. Yay fast metabolism!

'I wonder what mama brought home tonight, I just hope it's not Churches Chicken again.' With my mother's cravings getting stranger and stranger as the pregnancy increases she's been eating a lot more chicken as of late. The baby is a meat lover, great. 'Oh well I better head down before she flips out on me.' As if she could hear my thoughts my mother screamed up the stairs for me to get down right now! So I got off the bed, closed my textbook, and trudged downstairs for dinner with my parents.

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