Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 22:33:12 +1030 From: Reharn Chatham Subject: Just the Beginning Part one New day. Different school. I hate the fact that this is such a regular occurrence. In my 10 years of school I have already been to 14 different schools. Sometimes it sucks when your dad works for the Royal Australian Air Force although it hasn't deterred me from wanting to follow in his Fighter Pilot footsteps. Ever since I can remember it's been just me, my dad and the RAAF, not that I'm complaining or anything. My mum left us when I was just a baby. I can't really blame her she was only 2 years older than I am now but I still wish she was here. My dad was 22 when I was dumped on his doorstep with a letter from my mum saying she couldn't take care of me. I was made during a summer fling while my dad was on his 4 weeks of holidays a year. Although inexperienced with children, my father did a wonderful job bringing me up. I stayed at whatever base he was stationed at and went to the nearest school while he did his pilot training. Since I am starting year 11 this year my dad made sure that we would be stationed in the same place for at least the next two years so I was able to have a relatively normal school life. Growing up, I never really showed any interest in boys, much to my dad's delight. His worst fear was that I would end up like my mother, knocked up at barely 17. Truth be told I was never interested in dating at all really. Most of the time I just liked to listen to my dad tell me all about what he'd learnt that day and what I would get to look forward to. I never had any trouble at school probably because I had so few friends to distract me. As much as I would love to have that one best friend that I could do everything with it was just too hard when I was moving around so much and I pretty much gave up on the idea that I would ever have good friends. This year was different though. I was in a place where I knew I would be for the next two years and it kind of scared me. What if I didn't make any friends this time? I would be alone for two whole years. I guess I'll just have to wait and see. I finally got out of bed and got dressed for school. It was kind of weird I was used to going to public schools where you could pretty much wear whatever you wanted but now that I'm in the most important two years of my life (according to my dad anyway) I have to go to a private school with uniforms that look like sailor outfits. At least everyone else will look the same as me. I put my short blonde hair in a ponytail, if you can call it that. I've always had short hair, whether it was so it was easier for my dad to do or because that's what everyone else had I'm not quite sure but I like it. These days all the girls seem to have long luscious hair which is blonde and straight and fake tan all the way to their toes. I have never been that vain and am lucky enough to have naturally tanned skin anyway. I went downstairs and grabbed a muesli bar and was out the door. My dad had left early in the morning and would be home about 7 if he was coming home. Most of the time I liked to be by myself but sometimes I did get lonely. The bus came ten minutes later and I was subjected to a greeting of paper planes and noisy kids. I sat by myself right at the front and looked out the window. The place was nice I had to admit. Green lawns and big modern houses. Stepping off the bus I looked up at the massive building that would be my school for the next 2 years. I knew I was going to get lost the first few days and felt like an idiot just standing there having no idea where to go or what to do. I saw a sign that said admin so I headed towards that. Once inside I found the receptionist sitting there looking bored twirling her hair around her finger. I stood there shifting from foot to foot till she finally realised I was there. "Hey. I'm Cooper Sheridan. I'm new here." "Oh ok. Hold on one sec I'll just go get your timetable for you and ill give you a campus map so you don't get too lost" "Sweet. Thanks" Once I got my stuff I studied the map for a minute so I didn't have to look like a dick walking around with a map in my hand all day. I had homeroom first for 15 minutes before classes started. I went there and sat down. Apparently I was early, I was the only one there. After about 10 minutes or so a few people came in and started mucking around. One of the boys came up to me while his mates were staring and snickering. "Hey baby. I'm Jono. Captain of the AFL team. If you want to have some fun here's my number." He handed me a piece of paper with his name and number on it. "Ah thanks. Maybe some other time" I said as I scrunched the piece of paper up and threw it in the bin. His friends started roaring with laughter and I heard a few say "oh snap". Jono turned on his heel and walked away, I thought I heard him mutter `bitch' under his breath. "Don't worry about him, he'll try and hook up with anything that walks." I almost fell out of my seat. I hadn't realised someone had sat next to me and it scared the crap out of me. "Haha sorry, didn't mean to scare you." I stared at her for a second before I could respond. She had long blonde hair which was slightly wavy with the most amazing blue/green eyes I had even seen. She had fair skin and amazing probably C sized boobs. I had never felt like this for a girl but I was instantly attracted. She smiled at me, waiting for me so say something, it look my breath away she had perfectly straight teeth and nice full lips. "Ah that's alright. I just didn't realise you were there." I stammered. She extended her hand. "I'm Olivia by the way" "Cooper" I said taking her hand and shaking it. Just then Jono came back and leaned right in the middle of us his back completely to me and started trying to chat up Olivia. I wanted to hit him. It was my first day and already this guy was being a huge jerk. Olivia said something and I heard Jono say "Yeah ok. Later" then left. I was glad when he left and it seemed Olivia was too. She let out a sigh. "I hooked up him once a few years ago and now he thinks I want him. It's so friggen annoying." My heart sank. She hooked up with that doosh bag. What was I thinking? Of course she would have. She's gorgeous, he's captain of the AFL team. Of course she would be straight and hook up with him. Why did I feel a crushing sensation in my chest when I thought that? Just then the bell rang and it was time for my first class. I looked down at my timetable, Maths. I didn't really care. I was really good at maths but it was still boring but then again that's pretty much all school. Olivia looked over at my timetable. "Oh hey, I got maths now too. I'll walk you there." I felt my heart flutter a little bit. "Thanks" I spent the whole period pretty much staring at Olivia. She was chatty and nice and easy to get along with. She seemed to be pretty good at maths too which was cool. She was into most sports but played more of the girly ones like netball and volleyball whereas I preferred soccer and rugby. I found out they have a girls rugby team at the school so I was stoked I'm going to go join this afternoon. I also told Olivia I'd play volleyball after she begged me for half the lesson. I would have said yes at the start but I enjoyed her begging me and the hug she gave me when I finally agreed. My whole body was tingling; I wasn't used to it at all. After maths I had physics which wasn't bad although Olivia wasn't in it so it kind of sucked. I met a few other kids who seemed pretty cool. I tried my hardest to concentrate on my classes but my mind just kept going back to Olivia and her amazing smile. I've never felt this way about anyone and it kind of annoyed me that I couldn't concentrate because of her. After physics I had PE which was good. We were playing touch footy and it felt great to run around and burn off some energy. I noticed one of the girls was wearing a rugby shirt so I went to talk to her. "Hey I'm Cooper." After a thorough assessment of my body, staring a little too long at my chest for me to be completely comfortable she answered with an appreciative smile. "Wassup? I'm Jessie." "So I noticed you're wearing a rugby shirt and was wondering if you played. I want to join the school team." "Sweet as. Yeah I'm fly half and captain. That girl over there is a wing and those two there are flankers." She said as she pointed out a couple of the girls to me. "Come to the oval this afternoon at like 4 and I'll introduce you to the rest of the girls. We have training on Mondays and Thursdays and games on Wednesdays. What position do you play?" "I've played full back and number 8 a few times but my main position is half back." "That's awesome our half just dislocated her shoulder in a skiing accident so she's out for the rest of the year. Also means you and I will get to spend a lot of time together." Holy shit she just winked at me. Is that weird or do they all do that here? She's not that bad looking I thought as I subtly looked her up and down. Apparently I wasn't as subtle as I thought, when I looked at her again she was grinning like an idiot. Pretty sure she just caught me checking her out. Awkward! "Ah ok, yeah cool, umm guess I'll see you after school." Wow I must look like the biggest dick she completely caught me checking her out then I stumbled over my words and ran off. Man this is an embarrassing first day. I was glad when it was finally lunch so I could stop pretending to do school work, it was getting way too intolerable. As soon as I walked out of class I saw Olivia standing with her back against a wall with a guy leaning next to her. I couldn't stop the pang of jealousy I felt. As soon as she saw me she looked relieved and excused herself and walked over to me. I felt a little better knowing she'd rather hang with me that that creep. "Hey. How's your first day been? I thought I'd wait for you so you can come hang out with me and my friends at lunch." I couldn't help the massive smile that spread across my face. "Thanks. Yeah it's been pretty good. I met Jessie and spoke to her about rugby which was good. I start training tonight" I saw a weird look cross Olivia's face just for a second before she was back to smiling. "Oh cool. That's good. Just be careful `round Jessie, k." I didn't understand what she meant so I merely nodded. Just then a little blonde haired girl came running up and hugged Olivia and started talking at super speed about how some boy was going to be at a party this weekend and she was so excited. I tuned out pretty quick I'm not a big fan of screaming girls blabbering about boys and makeup and whatever else it is they talk about. Olivia looked over at me and rolled her eyes. I had to stifle a laugh. During the lunch hour I met all of Olivia's friends. There was a lot of them I don't even remember half their names. It seems as though she is the most popular girl in the school which wouldn't surprise me at all considering how beautiful and nice she is. I got invited to a party that weekend at one of the girl's houses and was hesitant to go but Olivia said it would be fun and that I could stay at hers after. I think my heart stopped for a second when I thought about sleeping in the same bed with Olivia. The rest of the day was a blur. I remember going to my classes but I wouldn't be able to tell you what I did in any of them. I was too busy daydreaming about Olivia then scolding myself for doing so because it will never happen. As soon as I turned up to rugby training Jessie came over and gave me a big hug. I thought it was a little over the top considering I met her only once for like 5 minutes but thought she must be the overly friendly type. She introduced me to all the girls and they all seemed really excited to have me on the team which was good. We did some fitness training then skills and tackling and it seemed like Jessie took every chance she could to touch me. Every drill we had to do in pairs she would be my partner and every time we did tackling she would pat me on the bum and tell me I did a good job. It made me feel a little uncomfortable but I also kind of enjoyed the attention. When training finally ended I was buggered and just wanted to hop into bed and have a really good sleep. "Hey Coop wait up." I heard Jessie yell as I was walking to the bus stop. "Want a lift?" "Yeah that would be great thanks". We walked over to her car and it was the sickest ute id ever seen. It was bright red with awesome mags and the whole inside had been completely pimped out. I was extremely jealous. "This is awesome. How'd you score a car like this?" "Haha yeah I love it aye. My dad told me whatever I saved up he would double it so I got a job and saved like crazy and managed to save $5,000. I bought the car for like 10 then used the other 5 to completely do it up. It's my pride and joy aye." "Man that's sick. I can't wait to get my licence I still have a few months though and I don't even know if I'll get a car I'm hoping my dad will get me one for my birthday." When we arrived at my place I was getting out of the car when Jessie grabbed my hand and put a note in it. "There's my number. Call or text me anytime if you want to talk about rugby or anything." "Thanks, will do." I walked inside and grabbed my phone and added her number. Man people are really nice at this new school I thought to myself as I fell onto my bed. The week went really quick which I was happy about. I made some new friends who seemed really cool. Jessie seemed to be all over me whenever we spoke or had rugby. I wasn't leading her on or anything but I certainly wasn't shying away from the attention she was giving me. I was still thinking about Olivia, or Liv as she wants me to call her, all the time probably even more now that I was getting to know her. She's funny and smart and popular and always includes me in everything her or her friends are doing. To say I didn't dream about her every night would be a lie and I was starting to think the reason I was never interested in guys was because I was attracted to women I just never realised it. End of Part One. Just giving a little background info before we get to the good stuff. Give me an email if you like it and want more. It'll be appreciated. reharn16@hotmail.com