18

Sapphire

I was oddly squirming in between a bunch of random people that I had never talked to in my entire existence at Autumn Ville High School. As I tried to be the person I was not, I tried to pull different kinds of smiles. Some fake, some genuine, some forced and some weird.

In the end, I was putting up a fake show.

Although Parker wasn’t one of my closest friends, I knew him well enough to know who he hangs out with. I didn’t speak to any of his friends much in the past apart from Chloe. Chloe was just a very sweet person and didn’t speak to a lot of people. But the few people she spoke to, she values their friendship a lot. The fact that Chloe was going to be at the table helped convince me to sit with Parker today.

Jake was an amazing guy, I'm not complaining. He's been trying to pull me into conversations but I wished that he knew that I suck at sports. Chloe's been really friendly with me. She was the one that actually wanted me here, in the first place. So, I'm kind of