Ella's pov:

"Noooooooooooo!!!" I hold on to the car seat like my life depended on it as Luke loudly sighs trying to detach me from my death grip.

It was actually a funny scene really, Luke trying his best to get me out of his car while I on the other hand continuously shake my head over and over again, hugging the car seat closer and closer to my chest.

I probably would have even laughed, you know, if I wasn't so focused on the... current situation.

"I'm going to dieeeeee."

"Ella they're not going to kill you-..."

"Yes they are!! They will find me, and shove me into a closet, and take my Nutella!! My poor Nutella-..."

"Ella it's highschool not... they are not taking your Nutella... wait why do you even have Nutella??!" He pauses, as do I.

"Uhhh... it fell in."

"Your book bag?"

"Yeah it just has a mind of its own."

I couldn't see it, but I assumed he just rolled his eyes, as he attempts to try and get me out of the car again.

"Ella, sweetie, marshmallow, let go of the car seat-.."

"No."

"I promise no one is going to hurt you, I won't let them." He says, trying his best to pull me off without hurting me at the same time.

"You don't understand, they will take one look at me and hate me, just like every movie, the new girl is always hated." I cry.

Suddenly, he wraps his arms around me in a small hug from behind, "No one could ever hate you, you're perfect, you need to stop watching those high school drama films and reading Wattpad-..."

"Reading what?" I question, while he just awkwardly laughs and scratches the back of his neck.

"N-nothing."

"Uh huh, but how can I help it? You know I need Netflix, it's the love of my life...."

"I thought I was the love of your life?"

"Yeah I guess you're somewhere up there too."

He shakes his head, and again attempts to pull me off the seat.

Well, that was until...

"HEY.........guys?" A startled Julie's voice breaks me out of my death grip, but not by a lot as I turn my head to face Julie who gave us nothing but a confused facial expression.

"Is... uh... yeah I'm going to go..." She points behind her and attempts to walk away, but Luke quickly removes his arms from around me and stops her.

"Wait, I need help." He pleads, as Julie turns around.

He points at me, and Julie's at first confused expression turns into a soft one as she walks over and kneels in front of me.

"Are you nervous?" She says in soft voice, as I, embarrassing as it is, nod my head.

This morning was fine, I wasn't nervous at all, but as we kept getting closer and closer to the school, I couldn't help it.

Fear got the best of me.

One second we were getting out of the car, and the next, well, the car seat became my new best friend.

"I don't want to go in." I mutter, looking down in shame.

"It's okay to be scared Ella, I should know, being the new girl can be really tough. But you got me, your sister, and a love-struck puppy-.."

"Hey!"

"Don't deny, just don't." I couldn't help but laugh a little as I look over at Julie to see her smiling at me.

"Did you really have no one when you moved here from across the county?" I ask, and she nods her head.

"Yeah, at first it was rough, but then I met Gianna-.."

"When did you meet Ashton? You never told me that story-.."

"Well uh... oh why don't you look at the time, we don't want to be late now do we." She stands up immediately, grabbing my arm and pulling me off the seat.

"Let's go!!" She points at the school like a mad woman and speed walks away from us before I had the chance to ask her about how she met Ashton again.

I look at Luke in confusion as he smirks, "I'll tell you later, it's actually pretty funny-..."

"LUKE BARRINGTON I KNOW WHERE YOU LIVE-..." Julie faces us, glaring at Luke as he slightly moves closer to me.

"On second thought, maybe it's best unsaid..." He lets out a nervous laugh and grabs my hand.

I kiss his cheek, "You're cute when you're scared."

He raises his eyebrow at me, "Who me? Scared of Julie? Why would I be-.."

She turns around again and grins at us before waving down Gianna.

"I don't want to talk about it." I laugh as we catch up to Julie, who was complaining about going in as we stood outside the front doors.

"I thought you liked school?" I playfully nudge Julie's shoulder as she laughs and pushes her glasses up.

"I don't hate the learning part, I just... dislike the way people decide to exist." She says, making us laugh.

In the corner of my eye, I see Ally getting out of her car and I take it as my chance to get her attention.

At first, she doesn't notice me, but then, she looks up and sees me and smiles.

I wave for her to come over to us and she shyly picks up her pace.

"Where did you go this morning? You were out the door before I even had the chance to say good morning." She grins as I give her a small hug.

"I was a little excited-..."

I feel myself get elbowed in the side as I give Luke a side glare, "Okay maybe a lot excited," I say sheepishly.

She nods her head looking past me, while I come to the realization that I didn't introduce them to her.

"Oh I almost forgot, this is Gianna and Julie." I say, pointing to each of them as they stop mid conversation and wave.

"You guys are twins?" Gianna asks shocked as we nod our heads.

"You guys look nothing alike!" Julie says also, looking between the two of us.

I just laugh, "Thank god, I-..." but I didn't get to finish because I got elbowed again but on my other side as Ally scrunches her nose at me.

"You guys are so abusive." I whine, rubbing both my sides as we all laugh.

"Gosh, I wish the boys weren't in college." Gianna says, once we stop laughing, turning herself towards the school doors as we all follow behind her.

"I think about that too, but I feel like Ashton would have a heart attack if he had to come back here again." Julie chuckles.

"I could just imagine, 'Julieeee, babyyyy, lets just stay home and cuddle all day and eat skittlessss'"Gianna says in a mimicking voice as Julie laughs and bumps her shoulder.

"Hey guys!" A voice calls from behind us, we all turn around to see the boy who I remember to be Damien walking towards us with a toothy grin.

"Damien my child!!" Julie cries out as she goes to hug him, but he sides steps before she could reach him shaking his head in the process.

"Not you too!!" He groans, as Julie eventually pulls him into a hug, "You're all grown up!!" She says, pretending to fake cry as she sniffles.

"I'm only a junior."

"A junior, I remember when you were just a lil baby sophomore-..."

"You met me last year..."

"And now you are taller than me!! Woah, puberty hit you like a-.." but he covers her mouth embarrassed as we laugh from behind them.

"I agree, you did get taller! It's just you and me for the boxing team Damien, time to show them what we are made of." Luke grins, fist pumping him after Julie let's go and ruffles Damien's hair.

"Ashton, Zander, and Jake want a group photo of all of us for the first day of school." Julie says, pulling out her phone and telling us to move in closer together.

We all crowd around her as she clicks on her camera app before we move around making sure we all fit on the screen.

"To Ella's and Ally's very first day of school and Damien hopefully finding love this year-..."

"wAIt WHat-..."

"CHEESE!!!!!"