Ricky Bowen, Nini Salazar-Roberts, E.J. Caswell, and Gina Porter are a group of friends that are part of a bigger group of friends. Their all enrolled at East High and their lives have completely different lives and personalities.
Nini has it we...
My head dropped as well, it's just like Alabama, I had a perfect life, perfect friends, the perfect school and we're up and moving, I didn't have anything else to say to her. "How long do I have?" I ask, tears ready to fall.
"A week."
I didn't say anything else after that, but my mom could tell I wanted to be alone, so she walked out and gently closed my door, and that's when I finally decided to let the tears out, but I stuff my head in my pillow so she wouldn't hear me.
I know what your thinking and no, I wasn't sad that we were moving again, I was sad that Jamie, my brother, the one person I could talk to about all my problems, wasn't coming back.
It was a day after my 13th birthday, it was a princess party, which I, without a doubt say, I loved, all my friends at my school came, there was cake, games, and my most favorite of all, dancing, which I'm a pro at, not to brag.
I was helping my mom bring down all the balloons, but now that the happiness was gone, it became filled with sadness. "Baby, what's wrong?" My mom asks, she placed her hand on my shoulder that made me look at her. "I guess I'm just a little sad that Jamie wasn't here," I said, when I was a kid, Jamie would always sing me a special song and do this whole choreographed dance, he would be next to me, taking my hand and cutting the cake, and be there to help me open my first present.
"I know baby girl, I miss him too" My mom gave me a big hug. I looked behind her to see a couple boxes, I knew that could only mean one thing.
"We're moving again?!?" I ask, moving away from the hug." "Baby, I..." My mom starts but I cut her off.
"When were you gonna tell me?" I ask her, she answered a few weeks after my birthday. I couldn't believe what she said, I always open up to the people I meet and I always have to move after, I didn't know what else to say, so I didn't, instead, I ran to my room, leaving her down there and slamming the door.
I slid my body down the door pulling my knees up to my chest and started telling my eyes out, I always have to move, I can never just stay in one place.
After time and time of moving, I found myself in Utah, my first day at the High School, East High. Yep, that's right, the same East High where High School Musical, one of my favorite Disney Channel Original Movies was shot.
After me moving so many times, I learned a life lesson, I shouldn't open myself up or let anyone in, cause the next thing I know is that mom will be telling me I'll be moving again, if I don't care as much, I won't be as sad or attached. Just hide behind my walls until you have to be on the run again, I'm safer that way. So far, it was working.
It was my first day at school so I didn't know where any of my classes were, so I was just wandering around the school. I was bound to find my class, eventually, right?
Someone's lipstick rolled next to my foot. I look down and see a girl grabbing her stuff. I kneel down and hand her lipstick back. "This yours?"
The girl had had brown eyes, as well as long brown hair to match, she wore a pink leather jacket, a sweater, jeans, and brown boots.
"Yes, thank you!"
"Yeah, um, actually, any chance you know where these classes are?" I show her my new class. "Yea, these are all the same classes as me," She said and told me to follow her down the halls to our class.
"By the way, I'm Nina, but everyone calls me Nini."
"Nice to meet you, I'm Gina."
"Hey, Neens!"
I look to my side and saw a group of kids walking towards us, they all looked nice and friendly except for one, who wore a hoodie over his head, had guy-liner, and kept his hands in his pocket.
"Oh hey, guys" Nini waved at them. "This is my new friend, Gina. Gina these are my friends, Kourtney, EJ, Ashlyn, Carlos, Seb, Big Red, and Ricky."
Most of them waved, smiled, and said nice to meet you, but Ricky just nodded his head and said hi, I wondered what was wrong with him.
"Nice to meet you guys" I smile. As I walk off with them, I got a text from my mom.
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I smiled at the text. Weird, even if I don't believe a word she's saying, I might as well play along, just to amuse me.
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So that's Gina. Her brother Jamie might play a good part in her journey, I kinda tried to mention Jamie in the final part, but I didn't know how to bring him in. Do you think she'll open herself up, or stay closed? E.J.'s coming up next.
