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My First Day Of High School

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It was my first day of highschool and I was super nervous. “Would I make friends? How would the boys judge me? How would everyone as a whole judge me?” was all I could ask myself. My sister told me to dress cute so that I could hang out with her and the “seniors.” She told me if I looked anything like a bum she would disown me. I was hurt by her words even though she intended for it to be a joke. In someway I felt as if she was serious. I looked in the mirror and made sure I perfected my hair and outfit. I wore a red materialistic Calvin Klein dress with shoes everybody loved which were Jordan’s. My sister straightened my once long hair that my mother made sure was healthy. My mom always said girls with long hair was much prettier. I planted that in my head like planting a peach tree. School started at 8:00AM but my sister said pretty girls always takes their time getting dressed and arrived late. By me being new to everything, I just wanted to fit in. We waited for my sister friends to ring the doorbell. Once everyone gathered up we started walking to school.

“Everyone this is my little sister India and she will be hanging out with us today,” my sister announced. I held my head down nervous.

“Damn you’re skinny, you look hungry,” one of the boys said.

At that very moment I was ready to turn back around and go home. Instead I ignored him and walked ahead to get to school faster.

Once I arrived I went straight to my counselor as instructed to receive my schedule. Walking into the counselor's office I felt eyes stabbing my body shape. I knew in their heads they were thinking “She’s too skinny,” “That’s disgusting,” “Does she eat,” and “Why is she showing her legs.” A cute boy smiled at me and I smiled back happy that someone noticed me in a good way. That was until he went up to his friends and started making jokes.

“Has she seen a meal ever in whole life?”

I wanted to punch him in the stomach but what would that prove? I have no idea of why I am so skinny. I eat all day everyday. I eat so much my doctor couldn’t even tell me where my meal went. He told my mom he wanted to enroll me in therapy for anorexia. Whats is anorexia. I never bothered to do research because my mom told me not to worry about

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