Moving to a new city is already hard enough, but going to a new school may be even harder for a teenager my age. My name is Seth. I'm just your average 16 years old boy; originally from Los Angeles, CA. My dad got a promotion from his job relocating us to this god forsaken small town called Forks. My life back in LA was all I could ever ask for. Why my dad took this job I would never know. I hated the thought of leaving the city I've grown up in to move here.
"Let's think of this as a new adventure in our families lives baby", my mom trying to cheer me up while unpacking the boxes in our new home. "I know mom, it was just hard to leave all my friends...my life back in LA. I know dad took this opportunity to provide for us so we can all have a better life. Thinking about having to start all over is just a scary feeling I guess..."
"Stop whining and just get over it!" Yelled my sister Leah from the other room. "You're not the only one who had to leave their old life and come here." She was always the aggressive type.
"Can we not argue and stick to unpacking!" my mom trying to calm both of us down. "Seth baby, why don't you start on your room. You have a busy day tomorrow."
Ugh. I hate when she starts being all parental. I walked to my new room and got started on the boxes. Tomorrow, I start my first day of school. Just that thought makes me nervous.
Sorting the items in the boxes my eyes fell upon a picture. My heart became heavy and my eyes started to water. It was a picture of my ex boyfriend Jeff and I. We have been together for almost a year until it just ended. He ended it so abruptly. Suddenly he just stopped talking to me. Ignoring my existence. I found out the reason a few months later. My best friend at the time confessed to me that he and Jeff were secretly dating and that's what cause Jeff to stop talking to me. To say that I was hurt was putting it lightly.
"I need to get over this!" Why I have this picture still I don't know. It was a secret heartbreak I had to deal with on my own. That's right, I'm your typical closeted homo waiting for my chance to skip out the closet. The problem is that I'm just not ready to tell my family yet. That was something that I would have to deal with another time.
When I woke up the next morning I did everything I can to just take my time. Leah, the sister that she is kept hounding me to hurry up. Telling me we were going to be late at our first day at Forks High. Just the name of it didn't sound appealing to hurry my turtle mood up.
Finally arriving at my new school I took time to look at my new surroundings. It didn't look like a big school. I guess it won't take me long to get use to the campus. Leah and I walked towards the office, grabbed our new schedules with map the of school and we were on our separate ways.
Walking into my first class I took the first available seat towards the back and sat down. Since it's the first day of school I didn't think there would be assigned seating or at least not yet. One by one I watched students coming into the classroom and took a seat. It seems like most of them already knew each. I felt eyes looking my way. Great, they're starting to look at my like a rare creature that rose from the lake or something like that. Once, the class got started I was trying to pay attention to the teacher when I felt someone tap my shoulder.
"You're new here aren't you?" asked this guy sitting next to me. "Yea, do I look that obvious?" giving him a small smile. "It's a small school. Most of us grew up together. So yea, seeing someone new here isn't really an ordinary thing that happens around here. The name's Embry. Welcome to Forks." He seemed like a really nice guy. Someone you can get comfortable around and seems like good company is what I get from him. "Seth" replying back.
"So Seth, where are you from?" Embry inquiring.
"Los Angeles." I replied back. "Sweet! I haven't met anyone from LA before. So how's it like around there? Weather's probably better there too" Embry asked with excitement.
"It's great actually. I miss it alot, but my family had to move here for work." I said. Embry and I continued talking getting to know each other and he invited to have lunch with him and his friends. Who am I to deny friends since it was my first day here. I accepted his offer and he told me where to meet up in the field.
It only took half the day to actual get to know this place. I met up with Embry at lunch and I met his other friends Quil and Paul. Quil gave me the same feeling as I did with Embry. While in the other hand, Paul just had this intimidating demeanor about him, but quickly got comfortable with him as well.
Halfway during lunch another guy joined our group. He was tall and built. He looked like he may have been on the football team. He had tan skin and his smile. Oh his smile. I had to quickly turn away so he wouldn't catch me drooling.
"Hey Seth, this is Jake." Embry introducing us. So his name was Jake huh? I said hello and we all got to chatting. Turns out we all lived within a few blocks from each other. They all invited me to hang out with them after school.
I couldn't keep stealing quick glances at Jacob. This was going to be hard. My first day at a new school and I'm already crushing on some guy. "Snap out of it" I kept thinking to myself. This day is just full of surprises.