I walked through the quiet halls as barely anybody had arrived at school yet this morning. I got a text from Marcus.

Marcus: Hey Wanna hang at lunch?

I turned off my phone and kept walking. I was starting to get over yesterday's situation but it was just annoying.

I leaned on a wall while I waited for the halls to open. I scrolled through Instagram and found myself rather entertained by the memes I saw.

I felt a tap on my shoulder and turned to see a pretty girl looking at me.

"Oh hi"

She spoke hesitantly

"um do you have math first period?" I nodded "yeah. You new here?" She nodded

"I'm Sierra"

"I'm Isabel"

We talked while I showed her around a bit and she showed me her schedule. How ironic that we have three classes together.

We ended up walking to first period. She sat in front of me since the seat next to me was already taken by Emory.

We were taking a pre-assessment today which meant we got ten minutes to study before taking the test.

Sierra copied my notes onto a separate sheet of paper and studied in silence. Emory being Emory didn't study.

"Aren't you going to study?" She held up her hand.

"Please..I'm a nerd after all" we chuckled

I started the test and successfully got through it without having to cheat off of the nerd I sit next to.

We watched a video for the rest of the class explaining how numbers were made into a thing.

The bell rang and class was finally over. I spent second period on my phone mainly. We had free time since we worked a lot the day before. I talked to a couple of people but that was it really.

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I walked into the cafeteria and looked for Sierra. I made eye contact with her and she waved me over. I greeted her. We walked over to the library and found a table to sit at. Sierra had to catch up on some notes from class so I helped her out with that.

I was so concentrated on the work that I didn't notice someone calling my name. I was startled when Sierra poked my shoulder and pointed behind me. I looked over and a girl was standing there with a note in her hand.

"Uh this is for you..Someone told me to give it to you."

I took the note and did a subtle nod. The girl then sped off and out the door. I turned back over and opened the note. It read

'You're not even pretty. I don't know why he likes you'

I immediately shut the note and ripped it up. I felt anger and sadness build up in me. I was so pissed I didn't know who was sending these notes.

I stood up and walked out the door and searched for the girl who handed me the note. It was a while before I spotted her walking around in the hallway. I ran up to her.

"Hey...hey you wait up!."

She turned around and saw me but immediately turned away and started walking faster. I chased after her and grabbed her backpack to pull her back.

"Look I just want to know who wrote the note"

She turned around and looked down.

"I..I really shouldn't be telling you"

I looked at her confused.

"I won't tell anyone I just need to know"

She pulled me into an empty classroom and made sure no one was walking by.

"Look all I can say is that the people here..you can't trust them. They will do their best to make sure you know they have 100% control over you"

I looked at her still confused.

"So you're saying that-"

She interrupted

"Listen! Kasandra and her group threatened me! I had to give you the note or else they'd do horrible things to me...again..And God knows who else they're after too"

I saw a sad expression on her face

"Don't worry I'll make sure she doesn't do anything stupid"

Her eyes went wide

"No! You can't intervene it'll only make things worse!"

Tears started to well up in her eyes.

"Hey don't worry about it I promise she won't bother you anymore"