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Chapter 1
The first day of school started as any typical day. Why did anyone even get all hyped up with starting the new school year? This one would be different, this was their senior year of high school. The last year before all the seniors at Anchor Beach would go their separate ways and find their purpose in life. Jude on the other hand was convinced he was going to stay in town after high school considering his GPA was completely destroyed from moving around quite a bit and his lack of interest in school. He did not do any extra curricular activities, and his only interest came from video games, and drawing. His moms and his family were great. He had been in the foster care system until he was thirteen, and that’s when his moms with their three other children adopted him and his older sister. Things started out great and they continued to stay great, but Jude had never been about the labels so when his moms told him he could express himself he did so in quite the obvious manner. At school he was considered the bad kid with his blue short hair, and his snakebites. The rumor even was that he had some crazy tattoos. Jude liked presenting himself this way because he was left alone and in reality he liked being a tad rebellious once in a while. However, this all changed on the first day of his senior year.
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Jude was running down the stairs to take his hipster car to school when his moms, Stef and Lena, stopped him before he could slip out the door without eating breakfast.
Lena called from the other room, “Come here honey, we need to talk to you before you go to school. Also you need to-”
Steph echoed Lena finishing her statement, “eat breakfast. After all it is the most important meal of the day.”
Jude just groaned, but walked into the kitchen because he knew if he had just left that would have left him in bigger trouble than this. It was weird for him to realize he was the last Adams-Foster child at home. Brandon and Callie had gone off to the same university studying music. Callie on the other hand was looking into doing social work with a minor of music. Marianna was studying abroad for dance, while Jesus had found that he loved Colorado and stayed out there to go to the University as well. His moms started talking, but he had been lost in thought thinking about his siblings when his moms said his name three more times before he even answered.
“Jude?” Lena asked once more.
“Huh, what did you say? Sorry I have quite a bit on my mind.” Jude stated coming out of his own thoughts.
“This year you need to bring your grades up so you are eligible to graduate. We also would really love for you to join some extra curricular activities.”
Jude’s mouth was hanging slightly open completely surprised by his moms suggestion. Like he understood that he wasn’t doing the best in school, but hell he didn’t know what he wanted to do with his life so what did it matter if he did well in school? Or extra curricular activities for that matter?
Jude replied with a simple “Sure.” Because he knew he wasn’t getting out of this one. His moms looked at him happily with Lena announcing that she thought it was a good idea for Jude to be a part of the welcoming committee for new students that came to Anchor Beach. With much enthusiasm Lena told Jude all about the fact that he would be starting today on the first day of school. She reminded him once more before he walked out the front door to head to school that he needed to meet her and the new students in the front office.
Jude parked his car in the school parking lot realizing what he had gotten in to. His mother was pretty much asking him to chauffer one of the new kids around for a week. But what if this kid wanted to be friends? Like what was his moms expecting from him anyway? He wasn’t much of a people person anyway. He got where his moms were coming from though even if it wasn’t going to work the way they thought.
He showed up to the front office and of course he was already there later than the other members of the welcoming committee. It seemed that the new people were there already too. So he thought it’s time to get this over with.
Lena glanced up “Isn’t lovely of you to join us Jude.”
Everyone in the front office glanced at Jude. Jude didn’t take in any their physical appearances except for when his eyes landed on one muscular looking boy who had blondish hair. The boy with blue eyes locked eyes with Jude. The boy quickly looked away after registering Jude’s physical appearance. This boy was definitely attractive Jude thought. He hadn’t even really defined himself because in reality he didn’t like labels and he didn’t like people labeling him. But this boy was handsome, and he felt something in the pit of his stomach that he had never felt before. This confused him. He was brought back by the sound of Lena’s voice.
“As I was saying each one of the welcoming committee members will be assigned one new student to show around. You will show them their locker, their classes, and help them wherever it is needed.”
Jude zoned off while she was going down the list of names, pairing each person off. He heard his name waiting to see who he would be paired with.
“Jude Adams Foster you will be showing Connor Stevens around.” Lena finished with his name wishing everyone luck on the new school and with that he started walking towards that blondish haired boy, Connor Stevens. He reached Connor quite quickly and reached out his hand ready shake his hand.
“Jude.”
“Connor.” He said in return letting his hand fall back to his side.
Jude looked at Connor beginning “I guess we are off, so what’s your first class?”
Connor replied, “Physics.”
Jude replied with a “Me too. Can I see the rest of your schedule?”
Connor nodded and handed over his schedule. Jude smiled slightly to himself realizing that him and this Connor Stevens had all the same classes. As much as he didn’t want to admit it he was actually happy about this. Maybe this welcoming committee idea wouldn’t be such a bad idea. Jude handed Connor back his schedule.
“It looks like we have all the same classes. So it looks like we are going to be getting to know one another quite a bit this semester.”
Connor took in Jude’s words, and even though he felt a tad uncomfortable especially with Jude’s appearance he had a slight feeling in the pit of his stomach that he didn’t quite understand. It was a good feeling, and that confused him even more. He smiled shyly before realizing that Jude sped up and Connor had to almost jog to keep up with Jude. With that they arrived at Physics settling down next to one another in the back row. Was this going to be a good or bad adventure? Jude didn’t know, but he was willing to find out.
End of Chapter 1