Chapter 1: New Student

It was a long day of car driving. Roy was trying not to puke trying to concentrate on the images running by the car window.

"Are you ok?"

"Y-yes, is Beacon Hills near yet?"

"Just about 15 minutes or so. Are you nervous dwarf?"

"No."

The driving seat was occupied by his older brother Adam, a man in his 30s working as a programmer in a random bank which name Roy always forgets. The other seat was for the middle sister Lauren, working as an archaeologist. Since Beacon Hills has recently discovered some archaeological items of great value and the fact that the town has a museum, it was almost like they were destined to go there. In fact, before Roy ever knew about the job coincidence, he already pointed that he was interested in that town, but he was unable to express how. Either way, they managed to arrive at town at late evening. Fortunately they expected this and arranged a hotel room since the furniture would arrive at their new home the next day.

There were no problems with the rooms and Roy was glad that the stomachache didn't ruin their dinner. All three siblings were eating and having a happy fun time discussing how they would conquer the city within 3 days. Of course that wasn't their plans and they wouldn't imagine that the days to come would welcome them with life-changing events.

The next day promised to be a busy one. Roy and Lauren had to go to school and the museum respectively and Adam had to wait in their new home to welcome the moving truck. After her sister left the bathroom, he occupied it so he could shower really quickly and prepare himself mentally for the ordeal to come. The three of them departed after wishing good luck to each other and left.

Roy feared that his first day would be a horrible one. On one hand he was awfully shy and had a bad time making new friends, thing that happened multiple times since their siblings (especially Lauren's) job needed them to move a lot. So there were no actual friends in his life. And in the other hand it was the schedule problem. The three siblings arrived in town a couple of days after school started so he was the newest kid to be late to the school in terms of school days. In other words, he was screwed.

Going by bike was unexpectedly tiring since he was at the other point of the town and he needed to look at his phone multiple times to avoid getting lost on the way to school. He sighed in relief when he reached it. The overwhelming sea of students leaving their cars, bikes or other means of traveling and entering school was ironically reassuring just because there were so many students they would never notice that there was a total stranger wannabe student right in front of them. He parked his bike and proceeded to enter the high school.

When Roy went inside he remembered a horrific truth. He didn't know where the principal office was.

"... Well... It could be worse... it could rain."

The options were to ask or to explore or to die, and he was not giving up on life just yet. The new student went in an exploration mission. While he was walking through the corridors full of people, he managed to feel some of their emotions. He had that… kind of ability. He could sense any kind of emotion that the people around him were feeling. If they were happy, angry or sad, even if they tried to hide it, he will know. Of course he thought about this "ability" of his thoroughly and came to the conclusion that he was more empathic than anyone else that he met during his life.

The fact was that it was not the time to remember old times, so he just focused on the present and actually found the principal's office. Knocked on the door and came in. Roy explained the situation to the principal who was impressively kind and understanding. Afterwards, the principal handed Roy his schedule after searching on his files and offered to show him the way to his classroom.

A very regular classroom he said to himself, maybe it wouldn't be so bad after all. One step into the class and he felt something very peculiar. But before he could know what it was, the principal started talking.

"Hello students, I introduce you to a new student, Roy Temens. Be respectful and welcome him, now, if you'll excuse me."

The principal left the classroom and he left the new student who was staring at all of those eyes pointing at him. It was always non pleasant to join as a new addition to anything in this world. There are always rumors, giggles, whispers and all kind of social behavior that made Roy hate society from time to time.

"Well then "Roy" sit over there, behind Isaac."

The teacher pointed out to an empty seat behind a blonde guy so he went there and left his bag on the floor. Properly seated and at the beginning of a new class of Economics, his "not so favorite" subject, he looked around the class with the purpose of memorizing their faces. When he looked at his left side, he encountered a girl who was staring at him with a smile in her lips. She waved her hand at him and when she tried to talk to him, the teacher, also known as Coach, began his class.

The free time began after the English class. Roy took his things and when he tried to get out of the classroom he was intercepted by the girl from before.

"Hi, I'm Allison; I was the newest student before you came in."

"Oh... Erm... Hello, I'm Roy... Nice to meet you."

They shaked hands and the boy noticed how her feelings were between happiness and a kind of annoyance. Was it because of him? He resented that.

"I was wondering if you would like to eat with us. We can get to know each other better."

"O-oh, right... If there is no problem..."

"Then it's settled!"

And lunch time happened. Roy was seating with Allison, a popular stereotype girl call Lydia, another popular of the other gender called Jackson, and two boys called Scott and Stiles. He still had to know their names and his priority right now was to overcome his shyness in time.

"So Roy, Where were you before you moved here? –Asked Stiles while he was devouring his lunch like there was no tomorrow"

"Erm... I was in Boston, and before that Los Angeles. I move quite a lot."

Allison entered the conversation.

"I move a lot too because of my father's job. I thought I was the only one."

"Now we are two I suppose, but we think that we will stay here for a long time so I have time to adapt."

"Same here."

Suddenly he noticed a feeling of hatred and jealousy. He raised his head and looked at the source of the negative emotions. It was not hard at all to point out where was it coming from since it was Jackson and Scott. It would seem Jackson hated Scott a lot. The mystery was why.

"Are you alright Roy?"

Roy snapped out of his thoughts and looked at Allison.

"Yeah yeah, what were you saying again?"

"I was asking what are your parent's job"

"... I rather not talk about that" Said in a low voice.

Everyone, except for Lydia and Jackson stared at Roy with a perplex look. He looked at the corner of the room and quickly change the subject to favorite series and movies. Stiles and Roy catch up pretty fast and were discussing how Star Wars was amazing and recommending it to the rest of the audience.

"I can't believe we are actually hanging out with these twerps" Jackson said with an annoying face. Roy was going to reply but reconsidered that he didn't deserve the time so he paid him with the silence treatment since Scott kept his mouth shut and Stiles reminded him they were human beings with feelings. After having a fairly good time lunching with them and ending the classes. Roy only had to worry about having stamina enough to ride his bike to his new home.

Just when he was taking his bike he sensed something strong. He looked at his surroundings with a feeling of uneasiness and finally saw it. In the distance he could have sworn to see a person watching. But watching what or who? He turned around and saw Scott and Stiles talking with gloomy faces and, for one second, thought it was them who that man was watching. Unfortunately for him and his curiosity, the man was no longer there.

Roy decided to leave the matter be, after all, probably it had nothing to do with anything. Even so, he couldn't get that sensation off his head. Finally he reached his new home, a humble house with two flats and a medium size garden at the backyard. He felt really happy when he saw it. Rushing to the door and entering through it he didn't wait a second to look at every corner with excitement.

"It's amazing."

"I know right? I chose it for a reason."

Adam got out of the kitchen with a bunch of knives in his hands trying to look like a serial killer.

"... Was everything ok Adam?"

"Of course, I was here to ensure that, your things are in your room upstairs, you just have to unpack it. Have fun with that."

And ending the conversation, he went to the kitchen again. For what Roy could smell, it was Italian food. He walked up the stairs and entered his new room. It had the essential to live: Wardrobe, bed, window, table and chair and plenty of space to put his things.

"Perfect."

He unpacked some of his things before he heard the main door opening. Roy ran to the first floor and saw his sister standing and observing her surroundings just as his younger brother did.

"This is wonderful. I think I will kick you out and live here all by myself."

"You love us too much for that sis."

"I am reconsidering it right now."

Both brothers laughed hard getting the oldest brother attention.

"Dwarves, it's time for dinner."

"Yay!"

Spaghetti with sausages was the menu of the night and such was devoured by the family. They shared their first experience of their days. Lauren had a good day at the museum examining and helping the staff with some of their new items. Adam took all the boxes and put them in their respective rooms and had enough time to go to the bank and introduce himself to his new co-workers and Roy talked about how he already made friends and how economics and chemistry hated him. He omitted the parts of the feeling sensor as he called it because he liked to have something to himself that no other human being knew about him.

After cleaning the table and washing the dishes he unpacked the rest of the things and decided to leave for tomorrow the part of organizing his stuff due to having to finish his homework for tomorrow. After a while pretending to have a headache looking with horror at the Economics homework and finishing it without puking, he had a shower and went to bed with the image of the man at the distance fading from his memory to become a dull but frightening nightmare involving people killed and Dr. Who saving the day by changing the polarity.

The next day he will discover that someone was attacked inside a bus.

Author's Note: Thanks for reading this! I will try to keep writing it but i'm a slow writer so please don't murder me while i'm sleeping!