Cheers to the Teenage Years

I watched as the popular girls marched across the hallway, using the same legs as each other as they walked. Everyone stared at them and whispered to the nearest person. Some just stared and admired and others tried to walk behind them, to fit in.

I carried on sitting on the school steps, watching as they walked through everyone. They didn’t care when their bags bounced off others, they didn’t care if they were pushing people out the way, they just cared about how they looked.

Their school skirts were right up their bum, you couldn’t tell they were wearing them. Their white school shirt was hanging out, most of the buttons undone. The school tie was looking more like an accessorize for them, and their hair and makeup was totally over the top, as always.

I stood up and looked at my planner, wondering where my first lesson was. I was the new girl in Sennie Hill High School, and I felt lost as soon as mother pulled up in the car park. I was nervous for everything, but I tried my best to stay calm. Watching them five girls walk through the hallway like that, automatically gave me the first impression of them all. "The popular girls in school."

Starting a new high school in the middle of year ten isn’t the best thing to do. I didn’t ask to leave, but mother and father found a new job down in America, and they weren’t prepared to give up that opportunity. So, it was goodbye Devon and hello America for me.

In Devon I had a lovely, normal, sweet life. I went around with this little red-headed girl, "Lizzie" and she was the sweetest girl, I’ve ever met in my life. She was easy to talk to, and loved her education. We were always on time for lessons and always the teacher's pet. I loved every single moment of my life in Devon.

When I came to America I was sure that I didn’t want to change into a big airhead. I didn’t want all the boys chasing me. I didn’t want to be popular and go of rails. I want to be the girl I am, the girl I was in Devon.

But after my first two weeks in my new high school, that completely changed, and it was very unexpected...