Events

Summer came and it passed for the people of Yorkville, and all of the people seemed to have an overall sense of happiness within the frame of this city. They laughed at barbecues, stayed up at sleepovers, and tanned on the beach.

All these happy incidents might just get looked over by the younger members of society that dread the recurring hellscape which is school. The place where they must learn to deal with others and change within themselves.

They didn’t know whether they were weird or popular. Only assured by the misery of others, and the pain they cause or feel. Yet, this wasn’t a strange sight to see at Harrison High. 

The first day of high school was today, and there were many students in their bathrooms cleaning up and preparing to face their fears and anxieties. All of the students were special and interesting, but the most interesting bunch was a bunch of students that destiny united.

Fate had a plan to make those students meet. They were going to interact with each other soon, and that simple interaction was going to unleash events onto their lives that will change them forever.

Jess Milton

I am excited about the first day of school. I can’t believe I am finally going to the 9th grade. I hope to get good grades this year, but I am not sure about how I might do that as I am also looking for a job to help my parents out at home.

I mean… they got me into this school with their sweat and tears, and I might be young but I am not heartless. At least, I hope so.

Let me be honest, I might seem excited about school but I am really scared. It always feels like everybody is looking down on me, and I just feel like I don’t deserve to be there, especially after what Aubrey said to me last year.

Since that incident, I have always felt like a bystander here. I now know that my opinion doesn’t matter and that probably nobody wants to hear me out. That’s fine by me. I will get by in a way that is comfortable to me.

I will try to become a silent assassin in this school. I will be the silent audience member and watch the drama because if I can't participate, I guess it wouldn’t hurt to watch the people around me. After all, they probably don’t know I exist.

Josh Chadson

School has always been a cakewalk for me, and I only go there for fun. All I do is have fun, and play sports. I know it seems kind of weird of me to say, but I kind of like being at school. It’s a fun distraction for me from my life at home.

I don’t do much at home, and I don’t connect with my family easily… so being at school is interesting, because I get to connect with people and find friends based on what I want. I can decide who gets to be my friend.

I have a gift, and that is an extreme amount of charisma tightly packed in a chiseled body. People look at me from afar, and are dazed by my blue eyes, and light brown locks of hair that swing around as I walk into school.

People just listen to me naturally, and I don’t need to do much to feel heard in the world. I even experimented once by making a stupid joke in class and I was surprised to see that everybody laughed.

I went back home that day and looked up at the ceiling while lying in bed, I thought about that power that I had and how I could use it.

I use this to my advantage to find people. This is how I found my girlfriend Aubrey. We've been together for a year now, laughing and kissing throughout the eighth grade.

Ahmad Sultan

It's my first day at a school abroad. I don’t know what I am getting myself into, and I'm not sure how this will go. I never expected to go to school abroad, I was always happy at my home.

I only came here because my brother needed treatment for his back, and all the surgeons back home couldn’t help him properly, so my father looked everywhere for a doctor that seemed to know his craft, and something told him that he would find a doctor in this quiet little town.

I wasn’t originally supposed to come here, but my father didn’t trust me to stay at home, especially after taking the car keys and going on a joyride. My father scolded me, and I got the usual beating.

I thought that he was going to stop there and I was going to get the chance to run around for the next year or two. Yet, when the day of their travel came, he called out to me and when I approached him, he showed me my bag and told me to change.

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At first, I was in shock and I couldn’t process what was happening until I got into the car and realized that I couldn’t escape this trip and that I was going to be forced to live someplace new, all because I did one dumb thing.

I just want to get this year over with, and I want to go back home.

Destiny Williams

Today is the first day of hell for me. I always felt like an alien, and today I was going to be sure of it. It hurts to feel so different and not know the reason why. People always stare at me for the way I look.

I feel like I have done something wrong, although I am only walking between them. I mean, could I blame them? I look different from everyone here. I feel like an exotic reptile in a zoo full of mammals.

Yet, If I am so different… why would I be here? The answer to that question is simple. Ever since my father died, my mother has always been in turmoil with herself. Blaming him for the strain that she faces.

It's almost like she can’t let him go but still wants to blame him for leaving us so suddenly. I never seem to understand whether she loves him, or not… but I try my hardest to help her by being there when she starts to get sad.

I still remember the day when we moved here. She tried her hardest to keep the words that spun in her mind hidden, but she couldn't help but release all the information at once in the car ride to this city.

I still remember that conversation we had word for word, and how she told me that dad was gone and that we were moving to a new place. It went like this:

Mother: Destiny.

Me: Yes?

Mother: I need to tell you something.

Me: What's wrong mom?

Mother: Nothing’s wrong, but since we're a family… I just want to be honest.

Me: Honest about what?

Mother: Why did we move here.

Me: It's fine mom, you can tell me.

Mother: Are you sure?

Me: Yeah, I'm sure.

I put my hand on my mother’s hand and waited for her to speak. Mom teared up and looked at me for a moment before looking back at the road.

Mother: Destiny, your dad is gone.

Destiny: Wh… What?

Mother: Yes, he was hurt badly by an enemy soldier.

Me: Where is he?

Mother: He won’t be coming back… there was nothing left of him to bring back.

Mom started to bawl her eyes out, and I felt really bad for her. I just wanted her pain to stop, so I decided to smile at her, and put on my headphones to blast music and end the conversation.

I think she understood what I was trying to do, which was probably why she treated me to ice cream and junk food. Which I enjoyed, but I had a feeling she wouldn’t get better any time soon.

Aubrey Finnegan

School is boring to me because I don’t need it. I only need my hot boyfriend Josh Chadson. He cares about me, and every time we lock eyes, I get to forget the world. His beautiful blue eyes draw you in effortlessly.

I spend time in the classes that I do attend, thinking of Josh. I watch the other girls as they stare at him wishing that they could be in his arms, and that makes me happy. To know that I have yet another thing that they will never have.

They spend their time studying, but I don’t feel like I have to honestly. My family is rich, and school is more of a playground for me. I believe that after school, I will move to college with Josh and we will probably get married, which would be a dream come true.

I'll try being honest here since this is a diary… I don’t always feel like I can connect with others, but that is only because I feel like I am better than everyone else. It's always been a competition to me, and I'm currently the reigning winner.

I just enjoy beating others. It's something that I learned from my father because without this skill we wouldn’t have the money that we do. I hope that someday I can reach my father’s level, and show him that I can do more than my lazy brother.

I know that I do not take school seriously, but It's just because I am much more interested in business, not math and physics. My father didn’t make his fortune by knowing how to find the velocity of a stupid car!

Well, I'm sure that it has been your pleasure to read this…

Sincerely, Aubrey.

Russ Milton

I am what most would categorize as weird, or at least I think so. I care about things that connect me to nature. I care about emotions, poetry, and stories. I try my hardest to look for natural beauty in life.

I know that I am not like anyone else I know, and I always get admired for what I do, but I feel like it makes me seem unapproachable. People always seem to think that I have complicated thoughts in my mind, and that makes me seem intimidating… mentally.

I've always had vivid dreams of being an author one day. I'd have my type-writer on a desk by a window with a view of a flower-infested river or lake. I'd have tea and biscuits to feel a little luxurious and posh.

I type my days away pleasing my eager fans as they waited outside bookstores for hours just to get their hands on the books that I have written, but I know that my lazy nature will stop me from achieving this goal.

I do hope that I can someday reach that goal to be able to provide my family with what they want.