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This is part of a story I've been kinda working on for a while. This is not the complete story, as the complete story is non-existent. I want feedback, please please pretty please.
Kim felt lonely at school. She didn’t really feel like she belonged at school. She had gotten into a political debate with people she thought were her friends. These two girls were Jews and they had made the fight escalate. They had even gone so far as to say she wasn’t Jewish because her mother was a Christian. Besides, they said, it’s not like you had any relatives killed in the Holocaust. Kim’s jaw fell and she angrily told them about her great uncle being murdered in Auschwitz and her great aunt surviving a death camp with the tattooed number to prove it. Her great-aunt hated Germans until the day she died, even those who had nothing to do with the Holocaust, such as Leah. How dare you! Kim shouted at them, before getting up and taking her book bag into the ladies room. There, she quietly sobbed and tried to get out her hurt feelings. At home, she told her father about the fight and he was greatly incensed. He uttered some swears she’d never heard him say before. The next day at school, she tried to politely get some form of an apology and the so called friends turned the tables and tried to make her look defensive and silly. Well, the friendship ended. Kim’s friends were either outside of school, already graduated or she didn’t have too many classes with them. She found herself getting angry at the so called friends often but it was never actually expressed. Why am I seething with anger at something that doesn’t matter? she wondered. One day it hit her. Kim didn’t care about their opinions. What she cared about was not having anyone to eat lunch with. What she cared about was not having a group of friends at school. What she cared about was the fact that she felt lonely at school. She became one of those loner kids that sit on the bleachers and eat lunch by themselves. In class she often read or did homework because she had no one to talk to. Kim was shy by nature and she didn’t always know how to make new friends. Her social skills were not the most advanced because she was home schooled in middle school. Her friends in middle school consisted of her cousins that were home schooled with her, Jewel, and Rob to an extent. Rob would often spoil Kim with material goods and by spending as much time with her as he could. He saved money to take her and Jewel traveling. They went to quite a few places in Europe including Poland, Hungary, the Netherlands, Belgium, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. She had the pictures and the stories but she never really told anyone because she didn’t want to appear pompous. These travels had made her worldlier than her peers and that made her feel awkward. It didn’t help too much when Leah took Kim to see family in Germany, but it’s not like Kim was ever ungrateful for the free trip. She supposed it was worth the awkwardness if it made her a more cultured person.
In the fight with the so-called friends, she knew she was right. But sometimes she wondered if being right was worth the loneliness.
Well, life went on. Kim’s social life got better when she realized her friend Karen had the same lunch she did. She met Karen’s friends and soon became friends with each of them. Kim and Karen became particularly close and were soon regulars at each other’s houses. Tenth grade ended up being a fun year, even after the fight at the beginning. It was Kim’s green haired punk phase. She had CDs by The Sex Pistols, Buzzcocks, the Germs, The Clash, Green Day, The Stooges, The Pixies, The Smiths and Offspring. She even owned all sorts of punk mix CDs. Eleventh grade would be different than tenth…much different.