Learning How to live

Who actually enjoys going to school anyways? I never really enjoyed going back to school. I enjoyed going shopping for new clothes, school supplies and anything else I could convince my Mom I absolutely could not live without for school. But actually going back to school I never really cared for. 1

    I never really saw myself as a beautiful person. I am not ugly by any means but I'm sure there could be some improvements.I never really liked my dark brown curly hair so I died it red and straighten it. I have learned to accept my hair though and keep it curly most of the time. I am not thin, but full figured. I have "curves" as people like to say. Which can be a good thing. I have a lot of muscle from the various sports I partake in and keep myself in pretty good condition. 2

    I have never had an over abundance of friends either.. I can count on one hand the amount of actual friends I have, and amount of true blue friends I have had. 3

    My best friends name is Raven, shes a very pretty African American. She always has her hair in these long braids, shes thin and has the hourglass figure all girls would die for. She always has some guy talking to her, She and I usually do a bit of the "back to school" shopping thing together. Our taste's are very similar though unique to everyone else. We are always commended for having the "cutest or most original  outfits" . Which is nice. We go for the nice, sophisticated, yet we have these private wild lives that come out of the closet everyonce in a while too, look. We make a perfect pair of friends. I am lucky to have her, and before this story ends I will learn why..4

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"MOM!" I rustle through my luggage that I have yet to unpack from my trip to Germany for the summer. I bought the cutest green top and placed it right on top of everything and yet, as usual. It is not where I left it. "MOM!" Gees the woman needs a hearing aid. " yes Honey?" She walks into my room holding out my freshly ironed shirt. I smile casually. My mother never ceases to amaze me. "Thanks I was going insane trying to find it." My mom just stands there looking at me with this weird -my baby is growing up look- It seriously worries me sometimes."What?" God I hate that look. It is usually fallowed by some profound piece of wisdom that no body really needs to know or cares about..Like "don't count your chickens before they hatch" or.."don't count on a full box of crayolas if you bought it form the flea market" that one is even a bit to profound for me sometimes so I don't even listen when she says that one."You are just growing up to fast." She smiles at me with this proud look upon her and leaves the room.Wow..that was odd.I throw on my new denim skirt with the slits up the side and my funky new green shirt that looks, by the way, as if it came from the early 70's and head out the door. On to my Junior year of high school. "what fun" is all I can seem to mumble as I stumble out of my moms truck and onto school property for what promises to be a very interesting year. 6

 Not having your own car can be a definite pain, after sitting here for almost thirty minutes I see Raven's car pull up into the student parking lot, A privilege for the smart." Kaylin!" She screams at me before she even gets out of her car. " Hey girl whats up?" I watch her fumble with the unbearable amount of A.P. and Honors books."Girl, please, I am trying to get out of the car, hug you and manage five books at a time." I glance at her with a stupid look which causes both of us to laugh. "Girl, why don't you just putt your books on your car, ain't no body around caring what classes your taking.Most of the guys around here can't even Spell A.P. anyways so I do not know why you bother showing it off." I look at my watch to catch the time, of course it never goes by as fast as you would like it to when your in school."I know. But I had work I had to do last night, I still haven't read all of this stupid novel and we have a test on it today." Leave it to Raven to wait until the last minute to read something she had three months to finish."see that is why I don't bother with honors classes. Who wants to do homework over the summer?" All she can do is roll her eyes and smile." You don't have to tell me that. I don't know why I bother with it myself." Then we go our separate ways and I run off to my first period of the day. R.O.T.C.....Yay.7

    I guess it wasn't as bad as I though it was going to be.Sgt.Fredrick wants us to do more physical training and drill this year. I may go out for the Riffle team. Maybe not. I have too much to do as it is. I hate having A Lunch. It is the first of four lunches for the day and you just feel hungry by the end of the day.Who eats lunch at 10:45 in the morning anyways? I go to a Soda machine and grab a water, when someone taps me on the shoulder. I turn around fast enough to almost knock someone over and realise it's just Amanda. "Oh My Gosh Hey!!!" I squeal as I give her a hug."You look good!" She exclaims " Wow you have lost a lot of weight over the summer." 8

"Yeah, about 25 pounds I guess." She just looks at me amazed." well you look great." I motion over to the cafeteria,"would you mind walking through the line with me? i want to grab some Doritios or something." 9

"sure, no problem" 10

"Great."11

So anyways I never really got school food. They complain that we Americans as a whole do not eat healthy enough and yet all they want to give us besides the mystery meat are Little Debbie snack cakes and pizza. Yeah sounds good.12

I open the door and step outside into the humid, hot, sticky air of Florida and walk over to a nice vacant spot along the wall."So Amanda how was your..Oh My God..."13

"what ?What is it"14

"wow"15

"Wow what?Where"16

"Amanda that is the cutest guy I have ever seen"17

"where!?"18

I point over to a pick nick bench where the most gorgeous creature I have ever seen sits, alone, drinking a Pepsi.19

"Yeah he's pretty Hot Kaylin, you should go talk to him."20

"right, I dont think so."21

See I have never really been one to just jump in and take the plunge into a conversation with a guy so this suggestion was just ludicrous to me."Kaylin you will miss out forever if you don't learn how to approach people."22

"your right"23

Why on earth did I say that? I guess that means I have to go over there now. Oh how I love making a fool of myself!I nervously approach the guy and clear my thought. "Hey..Um Hi How are you?" I smile hesitantly, I'm going to kill Amy.He just looks up at me. "Hey." Oh God. I'm going to die.this is it, dig my hole and stamp my name on a gravestone."I haven't seen you around school before, are you new?"24

"well yeah sort of, I moved here the end of last year, I'm a senior." Oh He is so, so so so cute.25

"Where did you move from?" Wow this almost isn't so bad.Maybe hes from out of state?26

"Daytona." or..not.27

"Okay well it was nice meeting you, My name's Kaylin." I smile the sweetest smile I could muster and extend my hand.28

"Hey Kaylin, I'm Steve." Finally I get a smile out of him.29

Steve..What a name. A name I have fallen in love with. A name I will eventually, learn to hate..30