Chapter 5

Francisca's POV

This can't be happening, This can't be happening,This can't be happening, This can't be happening.

Ivan and Dan are here, together, at my school, we're going to be attending the same fucking high school.

Jenny was right. Oh god Jenny was right! The universe IS trying to get us to reunite.

I can already see her smug face.

And I can already hear Lori laughing at me because of this....strange strange situation.

Dan is saying goodbye to whoever is in the car while Ivan seems to be just walking away, annoyed.

And then I see him.

My dad.

He's right there.

Just a few feet away from me.

I haven't seen him in so long.

He looks...exactly the same.

I can feel the tears in my eyes beginning to spill, but I try to blink them away.

He's right there after all this time.

I could go right to him right now and...I don't know hug him, just stay in my dad's arms for as long as I can.

I really want to do that, but I just look at him, stunned, and watch him drive away.

I see Ivan and Dan head for the school doors....the doors that I'm in front of.

I quickly snap out of my daze and head inside quickly.

I hide behind a wall and watch them walk past me with a couple of their friends.

What a start to the new school year.

Things just got a lot more complicated.

I'm....I'm going to be seeing my brothers every single freaking day now.

How the fuck am I gonna survive that.

It's only a matter of time before we bump Into each other again with how the universe seems to be working right now.

Am I....prepared for that?

I force myself out of my thoughts.

And go to get my school schedule.

"Hi sweetheart, How can I help you?"

"Um hi, I just want to get my schedule"

"Name?"

"Um Francisca....Griffin?"

Saying that my last name is Griffin was still freaking weird.

Whenever I get asked about my full name, I immediately think of Hill as my last name, and it has always been weird to say otherwise.

The woman laughs. " are you telling me or asking?"

"Telling?"

She laughs again and hands me my schedule and locker number.

My first class is English so I'm looking for the classroom, and I can't for the life of me find it.

The bell rang and I mentally facepalmed, now I'm gonna be late on my first day, it's not a good look.

Just then I see a girl who looked in a hurry, she had dark brown hair with bangs, brown eyes, had her hair in a ponytail and wore glasses.

she was grabbing a book from her locker and started speed walking towards me.

I felt bad for stopping her, but I needed to know where my class room is. So once she was right in-front of me and I kind of grabbed her hand.

She looked at me surprised, and I quickly drop my hands.

"I'm sorry, you look like you're in a hurry" I say "but I'm looking for..." I look at my schedule "mrs Waldorf's English class?"

The girl blinks at me twice before snapping out of whatever daze she was in and says "oh"

"You're a sophomore?" She asks.

"Yes, i am and new so I'm kind of lost" I say.

She nods and says "well im heading there right now, follow me".

She leads the way and I follow after her.

We reach and enter the class room, everyone is already seated, and who i presume is Mrs Waldorf looks at us.

"Ah miss Tate, welcome back to the new school year, you're unusually late". Mrs Waldorf says.

"Yes, I'm so sorry Mrs Waldorf I uh got caught up" the girl who helped me says. She seems kind of panicked.

Mrs Waldorf glances at me "oh I've never seen you before, are you new?" She asks.

"Uh-yes, I just moved here" I say.

Mrs Waldorf hums in response. "Well since it's the first day of school I'm going to let you being late slide this time miss Tate". She says looking at the girl who helped me find the class room again.

The girl sighs in relief and head to find an empty desk.

"Now, would you like to introduce yourself miss..?"

"Oh Um hi, my name is Francisca Griffin, and uh I just moved here from Virginia".

"Very well miss Griffin why don't you go ahead and choose a seat".

I nod in response and begin to look for a seat.

The only seats available was the one beside the girl who helped me and one beside a guy who looked to be asleep - already bro? - So I sat next to the girl who I have yet to know the name of.

She glanced at me like she was surprised I sat next to her and I just smiled at her.

"I'm Francisca" I say when she says nothing I continue. "which you probably already know because I introduced myself to the whole class hehe".

She keeps quite...okay then, maybe I'm not as lovable as Matt thought I was.

The lesson starts, I like English, Lori and Jenny always thought that it's boring but it was the only subject I actually enjoyed at school.

We are almost halfway finished with the class when, the girl next to me speaks up.

"I'm Violet" she whispers, I almost didn't hear her, I look at her and she's playing with the sleeves of her shirt.

She looks pretty nervous, it feels weird for someone to be this anxious and nervous to speak to me. So, I smile at her.

She looks hesitant but she smiles back.

Soon enough the class ends.

Everyone gets up quickly out of the class room including violet but I quickly catch up to her.

"Hi!" I say. She doesn't say anything just looks at me confused.

"Um what class do you have next?" I ask.

"Math"she says.

"Oh I have science" I say.

She nods her head.

It's a bit of an awkward silence.

I clear my throat.

"Well um, as you know, I'm new so I was wondering if maybe I can sit with you at lunch?" I ask.

I really really hope she says yes, I need to make friends here, I don't want to be all alone my entire high school career.

She looks surprised at my question. "Really?" She asks.

I look at her confused, why wouldn't I want to sit with her, I mean she is pretty shy but I something like going on with her? Does she not have any friends? I mean that's fine I'll just be her first one.

"Yeah I mean if that's okay with you" I say.

She nods her head and I smile at her.

"Well I'll see you at launch, violet!" I say as I leave her to get to my locker and then my next class.

******

At launch time I scan the cafeteria for violet, I don't see her at first but you know who I DO see. My brother of course.

Their table is full like really full, they appear to be quite popular, I can see a girl basically throwing herself at Ivan and it makes me want to gag, and I see Dan basically inhaling his food....which also makes me want to gag, I mean where are his table manners?

A voice takes me out of my thoughts.

"Hey" a guy says.

He was someone in one of my classes. I look at him and look at the girl beside him. He had blonde hair and blue eyes, while she had dark skin and Afro black hair and deep brown eyes. They are both looking at me waiting for me to respond.

"Hi" I say.

"I'm Tanner, this is Bailey" he refers to the girl next to him.

"I'm Francisca" I say, "im new".

"Oh yeah we noticed" Bailey says. "We have science together"

"Uh yeah we just came here to ask if you wanted to sit with us at our table over there". He gestures to a table with four other students.

"Oh I'd love to, but I actually made plans with a girl to sit with her today, I just can't seem to find her".

"Oh who?" Tanner asked.

"Um her name is Violet". I say.

Tanner and Bailey look at each other.

"What's her last name?" Bailey asks.

"Tate I think, have you seen her?"

"Oh um no, but uh I-we don't think it's a good idea for you to hang out with her". Tanner says.

Huh? Why not? what's wrong with violet? She seemed like a nice girl, definitely didn't give me "you have to stay away from her vibes".

"Why not?" I ask.

"She's just a weirdo, we tried talking to her last year and she was completely unresponsive, didn't even look at us" Tanner says.

"She thinks she's better than everyone else just because she gets amazing grads at like every subject so she thinks she's too good to even talk to us" Bailey says while shaking her head.

"I mean her sister Clair is a stereotypical high school bitch who thinks she's above everyone else too so it's not surprising." She continues.

Now I'm super confused, these two lost me completely, Violet didn't seem like she thought she was above me, she just seemed nervous. Shy.

"I don't know about that, she just seemed shy to me" I say.

Bailey shrugged.

"Just be careful I guess, you're welcome to sit with us at any time." Tanner says.

I force a smile at him.

Is that what everyone at this school thinks of Violet? I mean, I don't know Violet like at all, but she didn't seem like what Tanner and Bailey just described.

I am brought out of my thoughts when I hear a crash followed by an obnoxious laughter.

And what do you know. There is Violet, who was obviously tripped by the bitch laughing.

Some of the people in the cafeteria are looking and murmuring can be heard. But most don't really care.

But I care, who the hell does this bully bitch think she is?

"Hey!" Both the Violet and the bully look my way.

"What the hell do you think you're doing?" I ask the bully trying to be as calm as I can.

The bully is a red head with brown eyes, she had her hair up in a ponytail and she wore a yellow skirt and a shirt with colorful stripes, I would have complemented her clothes if you know she wasn't an absolute bitch.

I absolutely Hate bullies with a capitale H.

"Um what does it look like?" The bully asks while laughing. To who? I will never know.

"It looks like you're acting like a bitch" I say.

Ooooohs can be heard from some tables at the cafeteria.

"I'm just messing with her it's a joke, right violet?" She says.

"That's funny, because I don't hear anyone laughing" I say.

"I'd say you should exclude being a standup comedian as a possible career choice" I say.

She starts getting defensive. "Listen bitch, it's none of you're business what I do".

"It is when you're doing it to my friend so please run along no one wants you here."

She scoffs and scurries off.

I go towards Violet and help her up.

"Are you okay?" I ask.

She just nods her head. And she and I head towards an empty table and take a seat.

We sit in awkward silence for a while before I break it.

"The cafeteria food is great, isn't it?"i say forcing out a laugh.

She pauses for a second and frowns and shakes her head.

I chuckle "yeah I've had better to be honest, I was just trying to make conversation". I say awkwardly.

She seems to be deep in thought, something must be really bothering her.

" why are you being nice to me?" She suddenly asks.

I look at her surprised. "Is there a reason why I shouldn't be?" I ask. She just shrugs.

"I think it's pretty common decency to be nice to people" I say.

"People at this school don't really like me, tend to avoid me and stuff" she mutters.

"Why?" I ask.

"I think it has something to do with me being-" she stops talking, I wait for her to continue but she doesn't. She just keeps looking down at her food.

"Well whatever it is I can tell you don't deserve it" I say. She still doesn't say anything.

"And plus like I said, I'm new I need to make some friends here and you seem pretty cool" I say.

She gives me a small smile.

I think this school year is starting out pretty good already. I almost forgot about my brothers being in the same city, school, room as me haha.....almost.