• It’s the first day of high school. And I think to myself. “This is my chance to turn things around for the better! To make friends.” So I start looking for people I knew from before. I don’t want to be alone again…

    By first period I'm sitting in the back of the classroom all alone. I haven’t seen anyone I know all morning. So I look around the classroom and see everyone laughing and having a good old time. Having fun with friends they grew up together with. I put my head on the desk and I remember how I felt my first day in elementary school. How I cried when my mother left me all alone with strange kids. Who also grew up together. I was a stranger, an outcast. One who doesn’t belong. I remember I cried for an hour straight, I remember how all the little kids would look at me strange and talk about me behind my back. But hey. I didn’t mind…that much… im used to it now. That was eight years ago. I was 6 then. I'm now 15. I hoped to change things when I went into high school. But turns out the outcast part hasn’t exactly left me.

    So now back to the present. I'm sitting in my desk, waiting for my class schedule. When I see Shay, my friend walks in the class door. And I burst out laughing. Automatically everyone shuts up and looks at me. So I say. “Haha he has no hair!”.

    “Jay! Man I'm glad to see you. I thought I was the only one from J.D here!” he says as he sits besides me.

    “Haha now you know how I felt all morning.” I reply back as I put my head back on my desk. But I still feel that emptiness in the pit of my stomach…