The Valley View Voice

ELIZABETH

By Apple Juice

 

INTRODUCTION

Okay, first let me introduce myself. My name is Elizabeth, I'm 13, and in

eighth grade. Because of my dad’s work I’ve been moved all over the country.

I've transferred to a lot of different schools and Greenacres Middle School is just

another addition to my long list of schools. Only this time my dad gave me a

guarantee: we will be staying at this town for 3 years. I am pretty excited. Well,

that’s enough introducing for now.

 

Chapter 1

The bus arrives at my stop, it is raining so I rush up the steps. Today is my

first day at Greenacres Middle School. The school bus arrives at the school and I

I gaze through the rain and watch people laugh with their friends and hurry

into the school. I look up and face the American Flag up high in the gray clouds.

So this is my new school for 3 years.

 

The first day of school starts off pretty well. I get the opportunity to talk to

some other kids and they are all nice. But then came lunch time, the worst part of

Okay, first let me introduce myself. My name is Elizabeth and I go by that

name. Because of my dad’s work I’ve been moving all over the country. So I've

transferred to a lot of different schools and Greenacres Middle School is another

one of my long list of schools. But this time my dad promised a 3 year guarantee

of staying at this town so I am pretty excited. Well that’s enough introducing for

 

So back to where I was, it is lunch time. I purchase a pizza and milk from

the cafeteria and search all around the room, but there isn’t any tables that I feel

like I can fit in. So I just grab a chair on an end of a table that is near the cafeteria

doors. I sit there eating my sandwich feeling so lonely. 5 minutes later 3 girls sit

next to me with one open seat between us.

 

“Hi! You’re Elizabeth, right?” One of the girls says.

“Yeah, my name’s Elizabeth.”

“Cool. My name is Beth and this is Ellie and Lisa.”

 

One girl introduced herself and the other 2 shook their hand as they were saying hi.

 

“Mind if we scootch down one more seat?”

“No! I would love company.”

 

And just like that we talk through the entire lunch break. They are really

nice and I am happy that they sat with me.

 

“Oh Elizabeth. Welcome to Greenacres and also welcome to ELIZABETH.”

 

Then they left. I was trying to think about what the last part of what Ellie

said meant. What does ELIZABETH mean?

 

The classes after lunch went by pretty fast and the last thing for today is

homeroom. I go to my room, 245. The second I go through the doors I see Ellie,

Lisa and Beth. All three of them. It was really surprising. The 3 of them wave their

hands and they beckon me to come sit with them. So I walk over to their table.

I sit down and smile at them. And then we all start into a burst of laughter.

 

“I can’t believe we all have the same homeroom,” said Ellie.

“Yeah, I guess we got lucky."

 

The teacher raises from his seat and homeroom starts.

The bell rang to notice the end of the school. Beth came up to me.

 

“So, do you ride the bus or......?”

“My mom’s going to come pick me up because it's my first day."

“Oh. Then do you want to come over to my house? Me, Lisa and Ellie are

going to have a movie marathon.”

“Yeah, you should come! We’re going to have a lot of ice cream."

“Um... If it’s okay with you guys.”

 

So, I call mom and she says yes. And now I’m walking to Ellie’s house. I

wonder who these 3 really are.

 

ーto be continuedー