First I'll like to thank you for even reading, and this is my first fic ever so sorry for anything I missed. Now for some background info. All the boys are Juniors and all the girls are Sophomores, and boys are 17 and girls are 16. Please enjoy! :) :)
Here she was at Luna International Academy of Los Angeles, her first real school. Already Cress was terrified, her legs were noodles unwilling to step out of her dad's black SUV.
Dad was a foreign word to Cress, although Dr. Erland insisted she call him it she just couldn't. Dad was a term of endearment, something you call a man who raised you, watch you take your first breath, walk your first steps, and say your first words. Dad was something you called someone you loved Cress was sure she loved Dr. Erland, but she had only known him for a year. A year that seemed to have gone by too fast.
Dr. Erland had whisked her away from her childhood home, no her childhood prison. She was locked away in a 100ft by 100ft square room by 'The Evil Witch' she used to call her. In all reality she was just her adoptive mother named Sybil Mira, but she made Cress refer to her as mistress. Sybil was a pretty women only on the outside though. She had a darker skin tone and glossy armpit length black hair with a slight wave.
Although the room Cress was kept in felt like a jail cell it was accommodated with a top of the line computer system. Which kept Cress busy during the longer periods of Sybil's absence.
She supposed she did have Sybil to thank for making her as good with computers as she was. If it wasn't for her natural talent with computers she would have never have been able to find Dr. Erland.
He had been searching for her too. Apparently he didn't know Cress existed until she was fourteen Cress' real mother didn't even tell him she was pregnant, and by the time he'd found out about Cress' existence she'd been with Sybil for four years.
Cress reached out through E-mail and told the doctor about her living conditions and he immediately found her and sued for custody, which he won easily. By the time the custody battle was over Cress was already fifteen.
Dr. Erland turned out to be quite famous in his own right, he created the cure to the disease that mystified doctors for decades and created an epidemic in the twenty-first century, letumosis. Dr. Erland was a middle aged man, but he looked far older than he was. With his patchy gray hair and a hunched back. Cress guessed he'd aged so quickly do to stress, because his work was so time consuming.
Cress had spent her year with the doctor delivering the antidote to third-world counties across the world, and also catching up on her studies. Developing a must needed tan after being locked away in a room for so long she caught a case of vitamin D deficiency.
Cress was already naturally pale she had looked sickly since she was quite skinny and an even 5ft, but her big, vibrant, blue eyes brought life to her. She looked more healthy now having seen the sun and was eating more, filling out her body though still skinny.
She were her favorite shirt it was white reading in black type writer font play with fairies, ride a unicorn, swim with mermaids, and fly to the moon. Paired with light wash skinny jeans that had slits at the knees and her strappy brown sandals. Cress never were makeup having no one to teach her how, but her hair was always done elaborately. Sybil had never let her cut it under her care so it grew to just below her waist, but once with Dr. Erland she still never cut it growing quite attached. For her first day she were a simple side braid that reach to the small of her back. She had brought with her a brown satchel bag which was acting as her book bag and an army green rolling suitcase.
"Crescent," Dr. Erland called snapping Cress out of her deep thought.
"Y-Yes," she stumbled over her words.
"Are you going to get out of the car by yourself or do I have to drag you," he joked.
"I was totally open to the idea of going to school, but a boarding school is a bit much too fast. And especially so far from home."
"I know, I know trust me this is as hard for you as it is for me, but you have to integrate back into society again, and make some friends."
Cress thought back to a time before Sybil when she was in an orphanage where she made her first real friend, Julian. He was two years older than Cress, but they did everything together at least they did until she was adopted by Sybil. She often wondered what had become of him if he was still in the orphanage or if he had been adopted like her. Actually not like her, but maybe by a nice couple who would truly love him.
"Cress!" Dr. Erland yelled his annoyance evident in his tone. "You're going to this school and that is it, we've already talked about this."
She huffed but gave him a hasty hug goodbye and nearly tripped out of the SUV. Maybe her legs were really made out of noodles she thought. She lugged her suit case out of the back seat and let her satchel hang loosely on her right shoulder pulling the luggage with her left hand.
She watched the car disappear through the front gates of the building along with her last chance to get away from this school. She took in her new home for the first time, it was grand. A bit much for Cress's taste, to enter the school you had to walk up an abundance of steps to reach the gigantic front doors already held open. Above the doors was a sign that read Welcome Students, to either side of the doors were humungous stone pillars which looked to be there more for decoration than structural support.
After a strenuous journey up the stairs Cress finally reached the wooden doors, she was greeted by a red headed student as she entered. Nearly everything inside were in the school colors of black, red, and white. The walls were white with one stripe of black through the center and a stripe of red beneath it.
Cress decided to head to her locker first instead of her room, subconsciously she knew she was attempting to avoid meeting her roommate just yet. She pulled out the map of the school and her schedule out of her bag. Her locker was in hall D, just a ways down the main hall on her left. Stuffing the papers back in her bag she went on her way.
She maneuvered her way through the maze of students greeting their friends . A pang of envy went through Cress, but she quickly shut it down. As she went down the main hall she passed hall A on her right, then hall B on her left, next hall C on her right again, and finally she found hall D.
As she entered the hall she pulled her schedule back out of her satchel, her locker was D-48. When she found her full length locker she decided to leave all her school things there school wouldn't be starting for another two days so there was no point in carrying it around. She removed her satchel hanging it on the hook and making sure to take her rose gold iPhone, schedule, and map with her.
Still not wanting to meet her roommate she looked down at the map to see there was a common room. Separated into sections for each grade. She decided that was her best bet to make new friends, hopefully.