Athena

I woke up as soon as my alarm rang, I simply couldn't listen to that ringer go off for more than a single second. Hence why I had the worst most irritating and iconic alarm noise- so it would force me to wake up just to turn it off.

I instantly head straight into the shower and got out 10 minutes later. I let my hair air dry and add moisture to it as I brushed it. I couldn't just brush my hair as it would frizz up and cause a disaster called ugly hair. I made sure to take care of my curly, 3A, hair and took pride in that.

I looked in my closet and pulled out a pair of black mum jeans that were extremely ripped. They were cute and matched the sunny but breezy weather that was occurring. I looked at my tops and I saw a cropped lilac top that had ruffled sleeves. I put them on as well as my usual addition of jewellery.

I looked in the mirror, happy with my choice of outfit and sat down on my seat applying the same makeup as yesterday and the same makeup I'll be wearing every day.

I ate breakfast, got my packed lunch my mom made me, kissed her goodbye, grabbed my bag and patiently waited for my brother to jump downstairs to go to school with me.

"Cole is walking with us by the way." He didn't even bother to ask, not that I would say no. Cole seemed like a nice kid- well as nice as you could be when you were the exact same human as my brother.

We knocked at their door and out came Cole and behind him was his brother in the kitchen making himself breakfast. Cole walks out and closes the door behind him.

"What about your brother? Does he not walk to school?"I asked out of concern and he shook his head " He drives his car to school" He answered and pointed at an amazing black car in the driveway, and then it hit me, it's no more than a 5-10 minute walk why does he drive. So lazy.

I say that but probably would too if I could drive.

The three of us walked the whole way to school and I just kept my earphones in my ears as my favourite song came on. I hummed along while the other two chatted between themselves with a basketball in both of their hands.

By the time we got to school I had only listened to 3 songs and I was sad I didn't get to listen to more, I love music. We walk straight into school and separated instantly to walk to our own lockers. I put some books into mine and some into my bag, organising for my lessons. My first class was gym and I was not excited about it. If I was being honest, I was dreading it. But at least Olivia was in it with me.

I walked over to Olivias locker and hugged her from behind, snuggling into her. She laughed. "Athena" She sang and patted my arm and I let go, looking up at her with a massive grin she was already smiling. "We have Gym first" I state and she nods " I know you silly girl" and pinches my nose making me giggle. I loved Olivia already.

In my last school, I never had friends I was that close to after my best friend moved away. Just normal friends who I knew we only hung around with each other because it was convenient, hence why I don't keep in touch. But Olivia is different. Someone with who I felt an instant connection as soon as she began to speak to me. I knew this was the start of a friend of a lifetime.

We walked over to gym as the bell had rung and I skipped like a little kid right next to her. Smiling brightly. But I stopped since I noticed my chest moving and it started to hurt.

If I was being honest, during this summer my boobs and bum unexpectedly grew, It caught me by surprise. I had severe issues with confidence. I felt as though I wasn't womanly at all, which is very stupid for a young teenager to have because I was still growing and should've known that. But being told your body was unappealing continuously made me feel horrible about myself. I would look in the mirror and wondered if anyone would ever love me.

But as I grew older I realised that the point of my body wasn't to appeal to others and so I began to think more positively of myself. Soon after my body began to get more womanly and it didn't change how I thought of myself since I had already gotten to the point of loving my body no matter what.

Olivia and I both walk into the changing room and started putting our gym clothes on. I pulled out some Nike football shorts that were just plain navy blue with the tic in the corner and a plain short-sleeve white top. Everyone wore similar things just from different places. My shorts were from Nike whereas Olivia's were from Puma.

A girl who was changing looked at me as I got changed, her name was Layla, she was in a few of my classes and was one of those cheerleaders that hung around the Jocks. "Woa what size bra are you Athena" I instantly blushed. Flustered at the question. "It's fine we are all girls, I'm 32 C" Ashe grinned.

"Uhh.. since we're all girls, I'm a 32 E" I answer. Just in case you didn't know, the lower the number, the smaller cup is, for example, a 36 E has a larger cup size bigger than a 32 E despite being the same 'cup size'. this is because typically the bigger the width around the chest, the bigger the boobs will be. I only found that out recently.

"I'm 32 B," Olivia said smiling.

"How do you get them that size, Do you have a secret? Eat anything in particular. Y'know what they say. Girls with bigger boobs get more male attention. " Layla winks at me.

"I don't care, to be honest, male validation doesn't necessarily make me feel good about myself." I close the locker and walk away, in no way was I rude, I was honest.

"Athena, please be my spokeswomen" Olivia laughed as she walked with me. "Since you're asking" I sang and we began laughing. We head over to the field, walking as slow as possible. We both ranted how much we hated gym in the changing rooms.

"Get here or extra laps" Mr Jones yelled, he was the gym teacher. His voice was intimidating. I felt myself flinch every time he would scream within a 10-meter range. We all huddled up near him and when Olivia and I stood there together I felt a shadow go over me. I turned around and looked up to meet eyes with Ryder.

He looked down at me and smirked. I really, desperately wanted to slap it right off of his face. But I couldn't. 1. There's a teacher right near 2. He's way stronger and would probably catch my hand before it got in a good distance.

I look away and face the teacher and he instantly ordered us to do 20 laps. So much, what the hell. At my old school, we did 10 and I was always last and was on the verge of dying by the end.

We all started with a light jog and even then I was last. I had told Olivia not to even bother with me and just save herself, I didn't want to drag her down by like 10 minutes as she had told me she was on a track team so stuff like this wasn't that hard at all for her.

By the time we had done 5 laps I was over a lap behind everyone and all of I sudden I saw Ryder in front of everyone and we make eye contact for a split second before he starts running at the speed of light. Drawing everyone's attention to him.

He was a lap ahead of everyone and caught up (not really at all since I was a lap behind) to me.

He runs next to me. Using the same speed as me. Meaning he was a lap ahead of me. That's embarrassing.

"Stop" He quickly says to me and I don't know why I did. but I stopped. and all of a sudden I felt an arm wrap around my back and another underneath my knees. then I realised Ryder was holding me bridal style.

"WHaT arE-" I was so flustered and bright red and before I could create an argument with him I felt the wind go through my face as I bounced up and down slightly.

I opened my eyes and he was running extremely fast with me in his arms. Overtaking everyone easily many times.

We were done within 5 minutes and the rest of them was only on their 10th lap. The whole time I was bright red from embarrassment and was screaming at him to drop me and obviously throwing a few fists. Mr Jones wasn't interfering as he said "Ryder was actually doing something for once".

When we sat down he was breathing heavily and I was still flustered. "You're light," He says in between breaths. "Why did you do that, you idiot!" I barked and he laughed. "You was so behind it was painful to even watch"

"Then close your eyes" I stated.

"Well, to be honest, I only need to look straight and you'll be out of my peripheral vision." I punch his arm for that. "Very original" I laugh sarcastically.

"I'm glad you find me funny" he grinned at me. " are you stupid.. or? That was a sarcastic laugh on my behalf"

"Athena, don't hide your embarrassment with lies, it's ok to find me hilarious" he pats my shoulder. I quickly brush it off and roll my eyes.

"You're delusional in every single way" I walk off, quickly getting away from that idiot.

"Where is my thanks?" He yells from afar at me, I could hear him grinning to himself. I yell back "don't know, must've lost it while you were being a dick, maybe next time"

After a little while, everyone comes back to the coach, sitting down breathlessly and Olivia sat down beside me still dumbfounded by what she saw. "What was that all about" she whispered and I just shrugged not knowing myself. I could hear people around us whisper more than they were when we were running. And I didn't even blame them this time- I would probably do the same if something like that happened to anyone else.

What kinda idiot pulls a stunt like that? What even was the point of it? To embarrass me in front of other people as per usual?

We didn't speak much as we had to work with partners and he just went by himself. We were doing basketball and I couldn't even get one hoop in. I heard laughs from people behind me. One stood out which was the deep chuckle I've heard before. Making me more agitated than I already was at trying to get the ball in.

After around 10 minutes later, we only had 2 minutes left till we could go into change. I was still trying to get that same ball into the hoop at least once.

Everyone who was doing their own mini-matches before was now cheering me on, including the coach. It was embarrassing, to say the least. "You can't do it, your too short" I heard someone say from behind me instantly making me irritated.

I jumped up one last time and made it into the hoop. Jumping and shouting in victory, as did the others around me. Olivia hugged me tight as we both laughed and jumped.

Although it seemed dumb, It eventually became an inside joke to people in our gym class, that I couldn't get a single ball into the hoop for a whole twelve minutes.

I got changed, as did everyone else in the changing room. We all got back into our normal clothes and the day carried on.

Lunch came around and Olivia and I walked into the canteen like yesterday. Everyone apart from Carlos and Kai was there. But as soon as we sat down the two of them ran over to sit down. There were two seats left. One next to Romeo and the other next to me.

"I'm sitting there!" "No me!" is what we heard from behind us. Obviously from Kai and Carlos but we all shook our heads. I felt someone jump into the seat next to mine. I turned around and met Kai's huge grin and then I noticed something moving slightly on the floor.

I giggled slightly as I saw Carlos struggling to get up from the floor.

After a few minutes of Kai and Carlos arguing from across the table while the two couples had their own conversations and me and Olivia eat silently. Every now and again laugh at one of the two boys comments.

For some reason, Olivia and I didn't fit into the group. We usually ate in silence or talked among ourselves, but I guess it was nice to be surrounded by other people and I was greatful they even spoke to me on my first day. I wanted to bring up Olivia's silence when we were around the group but I didn't know if there was any proper reason for it.

All of a sudden two arms wrapped around my head. "Cole and I are going to the park to play basketball with some seniors". "So?" I asked as I turned to Alex and Cole right beside him. They were both grinning brightly. "You'll need these, Idiot" Alex holds out a pair of keys in front of my face and I snatch them, purposely showing a more than obvious fake smile at him. We both stared for a few seconds. We both wanted to fight each other at this very moment.

But we decided not to as it was at school so I pointed the fingers at my eyes then shot them at his then pointed down him from head to two and then my finger went across my neck. In other words 'You better watch out coz when we get home your dead' I could tell he understood.

So he pointed at my head and punched his hand then started laughing evilly and then fake spat onto his hand. Meaning 'I'm gonna punch u in the head so hard so you fall to the ground and laugh in victory as I spit on your dead body' I scoff and look away "Whatever" He walks away but we both laugh.

"Must be a sibling thing?" Olivia says

"Definitely" Romeo laughs.

After school, I walked home but just as I was about to open my fence I spot a car going next door and I catch myself looking. Ryder walks out and instantly looks at me. Making me look away. I was just about to get the keys out of my bag when I heard someone yell "Is Cole with your brother?" He questions. "Yep" I pop the P and he just smirks.

"They have been spending a lot of time together, maybe we should do the same-" Before he could finish his sentence I interrupted "Definitely not."

"Aww, why are you playing hard to get with me?" He longed out the end of 'me', making me roll my eyes. One day they were going to go back into my head with the number of times this idiot is making me roll my eyes.

"I'm not playing hard to get. I'm uninterested, maybe you just need to take a hint while I'm being polite about it." I state and he tuts his head. "Of course, And I'm not the best looking guy in school b-" "You are not." I hit bluntly at him.

It was more than obvious I was lying. His tanned skin and dark brown hair that was always slightly messy but sexy at the same time as well as those grey eyes could make any hormonal teenager drop dead. And those arms. They were built well from what you can see through his short sleeve t-shirts, but not too much muscle- just the right amount. I wondered if he had a six-pack... And then I realised what a dumb question that was. Of course he did.

"Your eyes clearly say something else" He starts acting smug. "what?" I sputtered.

"Well, Athena Liveria, you were just checking me out" He finished with a smirk. I fake laughed at him "No I wasn't, I was evaluating you... like a lump of meat at the market and I grade you a D, just not that great" I slapped back. "Owch so cold. Just how I like it" He smirks. "But goodness Athena, you're going fast, talking about my meat already-"

"Idiot! Don't even finish that sentence!"