I hope today doesn’t end up like the other days I’ve been having. There’s been too much work to do at school and definitely way too much things to do at home. Scarlett Aubrey was a high school student and Dignity Social Academy, 16 years-old with an older brother who was just three years older than her. She wasn’t much of the chatting type of person, unless of course it was someone she knew well. Just like any other teenager her age, boys, school, and friends were the main topics in her life. Monday to Thursday after school and on Saturday, she would help out at her uncle’s restaurant and on Friday and Sunday she would help at the Humane Society to clean up the animals.

    A pounding traveled through the house, “Hey, Scarlett! Let me in! I have some good news!” a voice shouted from outside her house.

    “I’m coming, I’m coming. Hold on!” Scarlett shouted from her room. Just hearing the voice, she already knew who it was. She walked down the steps of her staircase and opened the front door. A brunet with ombre red at the tips of her hair came through the door as soon as it opened.

    “You will not believe what I just heard!” Clara shouted as she rummaged through her Tiffany blue purse to get out her phone to show her some text messages.

    “And what is it that I’m looking at, Clara. Some ting you do with your boyfriend?”

    “What?” She looked back at her phone to make sure she was on the right message section and put it back in Scarlett’s face. “Why would you think that? But anyways, You remember Carter Hale from math and economics, right?”

    Scarlett nodded her head and walked to the kitchen to pour some cereal for both of them. Clara sat in her usual seat by the table where the sun shined the most. Scarlett got out a couple of bowls, their favorite cereal, and a carton of milk. “And where are you going with this exactly?”

    “Well,” Clara started back up and flicked through her phone to read through some messages that she and Carter exchanged. “Carter asked me if you liked anyone and I told him no. Then he asked me to see if you like him. And honestly, I think you shouldn’t like Carter because he’s a for not asking you in person if you like him.”

    Scarlett pondered about Carter for a while. He was good looking in a way. Straight dark brown hair, the perfect body, a nice set of colored eyes, and his voice. Carter was a music person and the first time she heard him sing, it was like the angels had come down from the sky to enjoy the wonderful voice that they gave him.

    “I’m not really sure if I like him or not. I mean, he is pretty hot and I wouldn’t mind having a piece of that,” Scarlett said as she set down the cereal filled bowl in front of her friend and placed a spoon next to it. “I think Carter is actually a nice guy and I find him really funny and cute.”

    Clara stared at her friend in awe with hanging open to the point you could see the back of . “You can’t be serious, right? You and Carter at total opposites. He’s the fun and friendly Ken Doll while you’re the quiet and mildly fun Barbie. He’s a music guy who will soon be going off to college because he got a full ride, while you’re a striving culinary amateur who only has, what, 25% of a ride to college?”

    “Hey now.  At least I have something to help me go to college and I’m not some laid back high school student who some how manages to pass all her classes without doing .” Scarlett took in a spoon-full of cereal to while scrolling through her friends phone to look at the messages.

    “And I am very good at what I do. But are you serious? You actually want to go out with this person?”

    “I do, okay? Even if we’re total opposites, I kinda want to see how it goes. Now, hurry up and eat so we can go to school”, Scarlett said in one breath.

    Clara pouted at Scarlett while shoving spoon fills of cereal into her cavernous mouth. After a few minutes of digesting their breakfast, they both hopped into Scarlett’s car and drove to their school. When they arrived to their school, Scarlett parked the car and headed to their first class, AP Chemistry. They took their seats next to each other behind the lab desks and got out their books. The room started to fill up quickly as students rushed to their class before the bell rang. The teacher had joined the students in class and began taking roll call.

    “Welcome back students from your summer break. Did you have any fun?” the teacher asked but the class stayed silent as Mrs. Hall waited for a response. “Alrighty then. Well, can our new students come up to the front and introduce yourself. Included the things listed on the board.”

    On the board it read: Name, Age, Previous school, Hobbies, and Interesting Fact about yourself. It was a routine that almost every teacher in every class asked just to get to know the brand new faces they come across. Only one student had come up to the front of the class. He was wearing grey jeans, a loose grey shirt to the point you could see his collar bones, with a dog tag hanging from his neck, red and white laced shoes, and a black belt that had a bit too much rope hanging at the end of the buckle. His skin was a tad more white than tan, the color of his hair was a deep black, and his eyes were a light brown color like milk chocolate. Scarlett’s deep brown eyes traced the outline of his figure and made their way to his lips that started moving.

    “My name is Jin.”