The First Call

When we finished dinner, we went to our rooms.

When I woke up, I found Drew in the kitchen making breakfast, well, making cereal. It was good enough for him, I guess.

"Good morning Drew," I said rubbing my eyes as I walked closer to him.

"Good morning Ash. How did you sleep?" He asked not looking at me.

"Oh great! These beds are just perfect!" I said taking one more bowl for cereal.

When we finished our breakfast, both of us went to our rooms to get ready for school. Apparently we are going to the same one.

"I'm going now, lock the door when you get out," Andrew said leaving the apartment.

Half an hour later, I left too.

When I got inside the school yard I saw Ben running to me, two boys following him.

"Hey Trash," Ben said hugging me. "How's in the apartment?"

"Great." I just smiled.

"So, these are my best friends. Andrew and-" Ben started but I cut him off.

"BRENT!!" I screamed.

He immediately turned around. "Ashley?" He asked confused. We haven't seen each other for a couple of years.

I jumped on him wrapping my arms around his neck. I hugged him tightly. "I'm so happy to see you after all those years," I said still in his hug.

"I know, right?" He put me down. "We have to catch up with each others lives later, ok?"

"Yes!! You can come to my apartment. Well, mine and Andrew's." I smiled looking at Drew.

"Oh you didn't tell me you're sharing apartment with Trash, Drew." Ben acted like he was mad.

"Chill bro, now you know." Drew rolled his eyes laughing.

"Ash, let us see your schedule, maybe we have some classes together." Brent told me taking his schedule from his bag.

"Ok, here you go." I did the same. Most of classes I had with all of them, except for English, I had it with none of them. "So, where do we have the first class?" I asked looking at all three of them.

"Don't worry, just follow me," Andrew said taking my hand. That was fast...

During the lunch break I noticed three girls staring at me and boys while we were eating. I saw them earlier that morning too.

"I'll be back." I mumbled and got up from the table. I went to those girls. "Hey, I saw you staring at me and my friends this morning and now again. So I wanted to ask, what's going on?" I said looking at them.

One of them who had plenty of braids looked at me with a surprise. "Well, we, um, we were wondering, how are you, the new girl, so close to the most popular guys at school..."

"Ohh, I see. You don't have to be shy. You could have just come to me and asked me to introduce you to them. Anyway, I've been best friends with Ben and Brent since we were kids, we've been living in the same neighborhood and I'm sharing apartment with Andrew. I'm Ashley by the way." I gave them a warm smile.