I Meet Claudia
It was the first day of school and I was totally bummed out. 3 weeks ago, my best friend, Jenny, moved away to Alaska. Why Alaska? I'll never know. Anyway, I was trying to get my locker open when some stupid jocks started laughing at me because i couldn't get it open. Then, when I finally did get it open, (after 23 times of trying) they closed it on my fingers! Man! I was seeing red, blue, and black!! I couldn't get my fingers out of my locker and it hurt like crazy!!
Then, some girl around my age came up to my locker with a key. She opened my locker, pried my fingers out, wrapped them in a bag full of ice and walked me down to the nurses office. Glaring at the jocks through the whole thing. I think she scared them. )I hope they were scared!!)
She was really pretty. She had worn black leather pants, a white, sleeveless turtle neck shirt, and a black leather coat that went down to her ankles. She looked really really pretty. I later found out that she was actually a student at my Jr. High and also the Art teacher. Her name was Claudia de Louvre. She was really smart, like me, and she was AWESOME at art. (I'm o.k. at art, but you can't be great at everything.)
.) As for the rest of the day, it was a disaster. I couldn't find a table at lunch, my Social Studies teacher kept calling me Melinda, I got called down to the princapal's office to tell her "why did you harass those nice football players and trip one onto your locker and say that he closed it on your fingers," I scraped my whole arm in gym on the pavement, (jocks fault again) I got a detention for not having my books in Literature, ( How could I? they were in my locker that doesn't work!) and I didn't understand anything the teacher said in LA, or Science, and I couldn't copy down any notes in Math because of my hand! The only thing that went right today was Art class when I saw Claudia. She gave me a reassuring smile and went on with the class as if we had never met.