Shadow Lake
Chapter One: Change in Pace
I'm sitting in the corner of my room, crying my eyes out. My once straight brown hair is now in rats. How could my parents do this to me? Right when everything is going good for me at school, they have to pull the rug from under my feet. So, I can get out of hand sometimes, but doing this to me is just insane.
Two Words: boarding school. This boarding school I'm going to be sent to isn't like the one you see in movies or hear about in books, this is a hard core boarding school. My parents told me the news this dreadful Thursday afternoon. They decided to force me to go when I was expelled from Midland High School today where I was in the tenth grade. I don't see why I was expelled in the first place. Ok, so my best friend, Landen, and I did go running through the halls, but that was it. Fine, fine, that wasn't it. I can't lie to myself. Landen and I ran through the halls, but whenever we found a guy, we would flash them, and then continue running. Once we had found every guy in the hallway that was possible, we went into the cafeteria and pulled our hoods around our heads to conceal who we were, and then we ran onto the auditorium stage, and flashed everyone in second lunch.
The only problem with our fun time we had flashing people, was that we were caught. Right after flashing all of second lunch we were running out of the cafeteria, and we smacked heads with the principle. Just colliding with the principle would have gotten us a weeks worth of ISS, but the vice-principle had witnessed our flashing, and so we were expelled.
When my parents were called to the principles office, a cop came too. This wasn't the first time I have had to deal with a cop at school, it was the fifth. The first time the cop came was when I was in first grade. I had beaten up a fifth grader because she had slapped my friend. I was suspended from my middle school for a week, and the fifth grader came off clean. The next time a cop came to my school was when I lived in New York (I live in California now). I was a third grader at the time. That morning I had egged a teacher's house because she was flunking me. The teacher had something against me because I was much smarter than all the other students, but yet, she decided I needed to be flunked. The teacher filled me to the principle, so I was suspended from the school for a month, not to mention during the month I was forced to spend the mornings doing the homework and schoolwork that I was missing, but in the afternoons I had to do community service. And that's only what the school and the authorities made me do. My parents were livid with me also. After I had finished my suspension, we moved to Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania was the worst thing that had ever happened to me. I wasn't living with the Amish, but it was pretty close. I have always had a problem with authority, haven't you noticed.
"Chloe?" I have been so engrossed in my thoughts that I haven't even noticed that my brother had walked into the room. My brother, Hayden, looks a lot like me, but that can be expected since we are identical twins. Over the years he had grown very tan, unlike me who is still deathly white. Hayden has bright green eyes and an oval face, just like me. His brown hair goes down past his ears and covering some of his eyes. Hayden looks down at my tear stained face and then rushes at me. The next thing I know, I am in a sibling embrace with Hayden.
"Chloe," He snaps while setting me down on the couch. "Chloe stop fucking crying! It's not that bad. You have no reason to stay in the corner." He was true; I had been sitting in the corner for about seven hours. But I still didn't get why he thought it wasn't that bad. He couldn't be happy that I am going!! We are best friends and he understands me more than anyone in the world.
"Chloe, snap the hell out of it! Guess who just called? Landen did. And she also has to go to boarding school, and mom says that she wouldn't care if you went to the same boarding school! I don't want you to leave, but if you can't have me there, you might as well have Landen!" Hayden laughed. After a good set of laughter from Hayden and me, we started a tickling war.
Ten minutes later~~~~~~~~~
"Eh hem. Err! Kids! Stop it! Listen up!" Hayden's and my heads snapped up at the sound of my mother yelling. She was standing in the threshold of my door. The person I despised most in my family was my mom, closely followed by my dad in the hatred scale in my family.
I'm sitting in the corner of my room, crying my eyes out. My once straight brown hair is now in rats. How could my parents do this to me? Right when everything is going good for me at school, they have to pull the rug from under my feet. So, I can get out of hand sometimes, but doing this to me is just insane.
Two Words: boarding school. This boarding school I'm going to be sent to isn't like the one you see in movies or hear about in books, this is a hard core boarding school. My parents told me the news this dreadful Thursday afternoon. They decided to force me to go when I was expelled from Midland High School today where I was in the tenth grade. I don't see why I was expelled in the first place. Ok, so my best friend, Landen, and I did go running through the halls, but that was it. Fine, fine, that wasn't it. I can't lie to myself. Landen and I ran through the halls, but whenever we found a guy, we would flash them, and then continue running. Once we had found every guy in the hallway that was possible, we went into the cafeteria and pulled our hoods around our heads to conceal who we were, and then we ran onto the auditorium stage, and flashed everyone in second lunch.
The only problem with our fun time we had flashing people, was that we were caught. Right after flashing all of second lunch we were running out of the cafeteria, and we smacked heads with the principle. Just colliding with the principle would have gotten us a weeks worth of ISS, but the vice-principle had witnessed our flashing, and so we were expelled.
When my parents were called to the principles office, a cop came too. This wasn't the first time I have had to deal with a cop at school, it was the fifth. The first time the cop came was when I was in first grade. I had beaten up a fifth grader because she had slapped my friend. I was suspended from my middle school for a week, and the fifth grader came off clean. The next time a cop came to my school was when I lived in New York (I live in California now). I was a third grader at the time. That morning I had egged a teacher's house because she was flunking me. The teacher had something against me because I was much smarter than all the other students, but yet, she decided I needed to be flunked. The teacher filled me to the principle, so I was suspended from the school for a month, not to mention during the month I was forced to spend the mornings doing the homework and schoolwork that I was missing, but in the afternoons I had to do community service. And that's only what the school and the authorities made me do. My parents were livid with me also. After I had finished my suspension, we moved to Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania was the worst thing that had ever happened to me. I wasn't living with the Amish, but it was pretty close. I have always had a problem with authority, haven't you noticed.
"Chloe?" I have been so engrossed in my thoughts that I haven't even noticed that my brother had walked into the room. My brother, Hayden, looks a lot like me, but that can be expected since we are identical twins. Over the years he had grown very tan, unlike me who is still deathly white. Hayden has bright green eyes and an oval face, just like me. His brown hair goes down past his ears and covering some of his eyes. Hayden looks down at my tear stained face and then rushes at me. The next thing I know, I am in a sibling embrace with Hayden.
"Chloe," He snaps while setting me down on the couch. "Chloe stop fucking crying! It's not that bad. You have no reason to stay in the corner." He was true; I had been sitting in the corner for about seven hours. But I still didn't get why he thought it wasn't that bad. He couldn't be happy that I am going!! We are best friends and he understands me more than anyone in the world.
"Chloe, snap the hell out of it! Guess who just called? Landen did. And she also has to go to boarding school, and mom says that she wouldn't care if you went to the same boarding school! I don't want you to leave, but if you can't have me there, you might as well have Landen!" Hayden laughed. After a good set of laughter from Hayden and me, we started a tickling war.
Ten minutes later~~~~~~~~~
"Eh hem. Err! Kids! Stop it! Listen up!" Hayden's and my heads snapped up at the sound of my mother yelling. She was standing in the threshold of my door. The person I despised most in my family was my mom, closely followed by my dad in the hatred scale in my family.