New Girl Catherine's POV I walked off the bus. I was the new girl, just joining a new high school, at the age of 18. I walked towards the door of the school and looked around. I saw groups of people. The mean populars, the nice populars, the loners, the nerds, the skaters, and the jocks. I walked inside entirely or of place. When I walked in everyone turned and stared at me and started murmuring. Judging me. I kept walking, and all the sudden I got tripped by a mean popular girl on purpose, and ran into the cutest guy in the room! I fell into him and all my books went flying. My entire face went red and everyone started laughing at me except the boy I ran into. He held his hand out to help me up and everyone watched dumbfounded. I took his hand and he helped pull me up. I stared at him just as stupefied as everyone else. I looked at him and said thanks. "No problem" He said as he gave me my books. "I'm Jake," he said "I'm C-Catherine" I said quietly. "Chin up, just be yourself and it'll all work out," Jake said as he walked to hide class. When he turned the corner the mean popular girl formed a circle around me and started kicking me and saying, "Jake is our guy," "Your so Done" "If Jake likes you more than me, good luck living though high school" they were all kicking me yelling all those words When Jake turned back around an looked at all the girls and watch them beat me up. I was laying on the ground in pain while they all stomped on me and punched me. When they saw Jake, they all stopped. I stayed on the floor. All the girls backed away as Jake helped me get up and put his arm around my shoulder to help me get to the nurse. All the girls watched with shocked faces. I hobbled to the nurses office with his arm around my shoulder. "I'm really sorry. Those girls are jerks," Jake said to me. " Yeah, found that part out fast," I said. We made it to the office and the nurse looked at my legs with wide eyes. I realized they were bruised all over. They gave me some ice and told me to go home for the day. Jake said goodbye and gave me his number. I held it in my hand and stared at it then waved goodbye and walked to my Moms car to go home.