I was standing in front of the mirror, checking for any sticky outie hair strands I wanted to look perfect on the first day of school especially for Colin. Last year he told me he had a crush on me and I said no, out of reflex, just to realise how much he meant to me and how much I’ve hurt him. So I finally said that I liked him but I wasn’t ready for a relationship at the moment. He was so sweet and overjoyed when I told him that and now we’re like best friends. We’ve been chatting on the internet with each other for the whole summer vacation and now it’s finally time to see each other again. I sighed and gave up on trying to make myself perfect. As a wise hobo once said ‘Nobody’s perfect, why practice?’ ....I really don’t know where that came from...honestly!

I picked up my new schoolbag and ran down the stairs to grab a bite to eat. There was almost nothing to eat with a slice of bread so I ate a few handfuls of cornflakes instead and left the house. It was a cloudy day but it was still pretty warm. I enjoy walking to school, it’s nice and refreshing (at least in the summer). After I took the shortcut through the park, I Went through a path through the woods and then on a road filled with pretentious houses that only the rich and snobby can afford where one of my worst enemies lives, the prissy, annoying brat. I remember the days where she hadn’t come to Canada, the neighbourhood was a better place and everyone was one big group of friends. Then she came and split us up in to two groups, one group that worships her and the other that she hates because they think she’s a loser (which I belong in).

She’s a spoiled immature brat who copies everyone and the thinks she’s the best of everything and everyone. Let’s take myself as an example: She has copied me numerous times and failed to impress everyone else. She knows she’ll never be anything like me and it bothers her a lot. But If you’re as hard headed as her, you’ll just try to make yourself feel better by putting everything else down that is better than yourself. So then she looks for my weaknesses and takes advantage of them she tried calling me names and tried to get everyone to hate me, she’s tried to take advantage of our very different tastes and tried to make everyone like her music instead of mine, which got most of the girls but the guys just laughed and told her she had no taste and this year she tried her most evil plan yet. It’s the first time that I’ve ever had to take action against and not just sit and watch her fail miserably. She tried taking advantage of my shyness.

I was always more of a loner and most people say that it’s a bad quality, but it’s very helpful to keep your mouth shut sometimes. I’ve never really felt the need to fight back. I just watched as people made fun of me and tried to aggravate me. Of course it’s no fun and it can hurt me a lot but it’s better than making a total fool of myself. At least for me, I don’t like to attract attention at all. I start feeling stupid and embarrassed whenever people start staring at me. Also another trait of loners is that they don’t like to be in crowds or in public spaces. So I don’t really socialize either. I like walking through empty parks and sit at home alone. I like it when it’s quiet so I can hear my own thoughts and not get distracted.

When I finally arrived at school I stepped in to the gym and sat down in a corner with my bag by my side. I was one of the first ones there. I waited as the gym started to fill up more and more. I hear someone call my name a little farther away so I looked up to see who it was. I saw my best friend Lauren walk towards me. I smiled and waved back

“Hey, what’s up?” I said to her as she sat down next to me.

I’m not much of a people person the only people that I just randomly talk to for no reason are my two best friends Lauren and Wren and of course Colin who I’m more than happy to talk to. But sadly Wren got sucked up in to Sandra’s little group of worshipers. Yes I am talking about the stuck up, prissy Sandra that I talked about before. She’s still sane and all but she doesn’t have the courage to stick up for herself and tell her that she doesn’t like her so much. Wren is a peace keeper ( I am too but in a way less obvious way), she doesn’t really take sides in fights and all but she just hangs out with her best friends who also got sucked up in to Sandra’s little posse.

“Lots of stuff! But I’ll tell you at lunch!” Lauren said with a few added hand gestures.

We waited around for a while and listened into different conversations from around the rooms when I heard that bitchy stuck up voice. “LONERS!”

I swear I almost cringed at that damn voice. If you would have seen her, I am more than 100% sure she`ll remind you of one of the prissy bitches in the normal teenage life movie with her super short shorts and her nose stuck high in the air. If she wasn`t so annoying I bet I would have laughed at the sight of her. She walked by me and went over to where the rest of her posse was sitting. Another point why I hate her is that she’s, once again like in the movies, the popular one that talks to everyone so of course everyone hangs out around her and that we were the only ones that weren’t in that group of people. And I know that if Lauren wanted to a part of that big group (a.k.a. the rest of our class) she would fit right in and would be accepted.

I, on the other hand even if I were to be accepted as one of them, wouldn’t be able to manage the pressure of so many people around me and I would get really bored around them anyway. Yes I know that the trait ‘loner’ fits to me and it really doesn’t bother me that much. And in my defence, the people who tease ‘loners’ for who they are just can’t understand the simple sentence that all loners use: ‘Leave me the fuck alone.’

“I swear if it wasn’t for the gift of self control she would be crying her ass off this very moment.” I murmured to Lauren who nodded in agreement.

“Yo Colin!" I heard another classmate shout. My head quickly snapped up to the entrance of the gym seeing him smile and greet his friend. Colin has the brightest smile in the entire world. If it wasn’t for him the whole classroom would just fall apart. He was the one who brought life and humour in the classroom. I couldn’t help but stare at him with a smile of my own. As he passed me he joyfully greeted me and I returned his greeting. He walked over to his friends who were over in the big crowd. A few more minutes passed until the Principal walked over to the microphone and asked us to quiet down.