School started again. This time they were there for the last time. The last year in high school. Everyone came back to school after a good and warm summer. Hope, Bo, Lexie and Abe talked about everything they had done this summer, and Kristen were back again, tan and popular as usual. Her boyfriend John, head of the football team was beside her and all of her friends.
Kristen was the most popular girl in school. She was head cheerleader and everyone wanted to be her friend. Except for Hope, Bo, Lexie and Abe who hated her more than anything. And she and John gave them a really hard time. But they didn’t care.
Everything was normal until the doors opened and a girl came in. She caught everyone’s attention since no one recognized her. She was very beautiful. She had blond hair and she had a short skirt and a white t- shirt. She walked and looked like an angel.
She came up to Hope, Bo, Lexie and Abe.
“Hi, excuse me. I’m new here and I was just wondering if you could tell me how to get to the principals office.”
“Yeah sure. Keep going here and take the next right. Then you’ll see the sign in the ceiling.”
“Okay, thank you”, Marlena said with a smile and left the group.
Hope smiled back to Marlena and then she turned back to the rest.
“She seemed nice.”
“Yeah”, Bo answered “, let’s keep her away from Kristen huh.”‘
The all nodded.
The first day was over and Marlena was going home. She started to walk. When she walked for a few minutes she heard her someone scream her name behind her. She stopped and turned around. She saw a guy run up to her.
“Hi”, he said when he came up to her.
“Hi”, she answered.
“I’m John Black. You are Marlena right?”
“Yes.”
“I heard that you are new. Welcome to Salem.”
“Thank you. So, is it nice here?”
“Yeah, well you will learn to like it.”
“How about Salem high. Is it any good?”
“It’s okay. Pretty good teachers and great people.”
“That sound good.”
“Are you going home?”
“Yes.”
“Me too. Mind if I join you?”
“No problem.”
“Great. So where did you live before you moved here?”
“Colorado.”
“Oh, how was it there?”
“Well, pretty good.”
They talked for a long time. Then Marlena came to her house.
“Well, here I live.”
“Are you kidding?”
“No, that’s my house”, she said pointing to a big house.
“I live here to. There is my house”, he said pointing to the house across the street.
“So we are neighbors.”
“Yeah, maybe I can give you a lift tomorrow to school?”
“Yes, sure. Thank you. See you then.”
“Yeah. Bye.”
“Bye.”
John watched Marlena enter her house. Then he went into his. There was something about this Marlena that he liked so much, besides the fact that she looked like an angel.
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