A New Family

Lily's POV:

It was lunch and luckily, I packed a better one: Fettuccine Alfredo, cheese-it's, a plum, and sugar cookies for dessert. As I was taking my lunchbox out of my locker, I remembered that I don't have anyone to sit by. My shoulders slumped and I made my way to the library, I have more friends there.

I took out one of my favorite books: Tangled, by Carolyn Mackler. It didn't have to do with the Disney movie but it was a romance book. I settled down on couch, took a bite of my plum and started to read. About halfway through the first chapter I was interrupted by some giggling. I glanced over to the window and saw Reyna, Claire, and Sophie. Rolling my eyes, I went back to reading, I can worry about them later. But by the time I finished the first chapter, they decided to come inside and talk to me.

"Hey Lily" said Claire.

"Hi."

"Why aren't you sitting in the lunch room?"

"Is it because you don't have any friends?"

"I have a friend."

"Jacob has moved on to me. We're going out now" informed Reyna.

"I was talking about Luke."

"Lukes mine," hissed Sophie.

"I'm starting to think your guy's definition of friend is different than mine."

"Whatever."

"Can you, leave now?" I asked. They all rolled their eyes and shuffled out the door.

I made my way to my locker and put my lunch away, taking my gym clothes and books out. I headed to the bathroom to change and then made my way to the gym. The gym teacher smiled at me and congratulated me for being the first one here. As a reward he's letting me chose one person that I want to be on the same team and one person that I don't want; we're playing medic.

I grinned and told him who I wanted and who I didn't want. As the rest of the class came in, Coach spilt everyone into teams. Luke was on my team, Jacob, Reyna, and her posse were on the other. Red team (my team) huddled.

"So who's going to be medic?" Someone asked.

"It should be the smallest person, someone who's quick and can the ball easily."

"So who's the smallest?"

"Her," someone pointed at me.

"New girl, you good at avoiding balls?"

"Her name is Lily!" Yelled Luke.

"Yeah whatever" said a girl.

"I'm pretty good" I said.

"Alright and everyone needs to be fake medic." The whistle was blown and we all scurried to grab a ball.

"I won't let a single ball hit you" whispered Luke. I wouldn't need his protection, in Minnesota, I never got out. Not once.

"Everyone hit Lily!" Screamed Reyna. How did they know? About twenty balls were hurled in my direction. I caught the first ball and then another and then another. I caught about half of them and avoided the others. I quickly touched all my teammates that were down and became vigilant once more.

Normally my team would win in the first five minutes but this time. It had only just begun.

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