Thankyou people who reviewed for me to put this chapter up, means so much :D!

Well here's the first chapter!

Written by Reanne; Enjoy!


It was the first day of the eleventh grade at Mica High; Nick and Joe were stood, with their backpacks on their backs, outside of the school, waiting for the same old bell to ring so they could go to class.

Nick and Joe's eyes wondered over to the incoming students, some of them were coming on their bikes, others were walking with their friends, smiling, talking about boys or their celebrity crushes.

Then Nick was broken from his gaze as Joe said something to that made his face scrunch in confusion.

"Did you see her?"

Nick turned to face him, wanting to know what he was talking about.

"See who?" He asked.

"Hah!" He craned his neck, scanning the mob. His eyes beamed like he had witnessed something remarkable; it showed on his face. He grinned, still scanning the mob. "You'll know what I mean."

There were hundreds of us, milling about, calling names, pointing to their tanned faces that we haven't seen since summer. The student's interest in each other was never keener than during the fifteen minutes before the first bell of the first day.

Nick, losing his patience, he punched Joe's arm in annoyance. "Who?"

The bell rang.

All the students quickly poured inside. Nick kept hearing the same thing over again. First in homeroom as people were whispering behind him saying "Did you see her?" "You see her?" He was hearing it everywhere! Even in English and Geometry.

Many thoughts were running through Nick's mind.

Who could it be? A new student? A celebrity? Or from back East, where many of us came from? Or one of those summer makeovers, someone who leaves in June looking like a little girl and returns in September as a full-bodied woman, a ten-week miracle?

Nick was in science room, learning about Physics. He couldn't concentrate on what the teacher was teaching the class as all he wanted to know, who was this person was? Then he heard a peculiar name behind him, "Stargirl"

He snapped his head around and turned to the senior, who was slouching behind him. "Stargirl?" Nick said. "What kind of name is that?"

"That's it. Stargirl Ray. She said it in homeroom."

"Stargirl?" Nick repeated.

"Yeah." He nodded.

The bell rang.

He grabbed my school books and quickly put them into my bag, walking out of classroom. He really wanted to know who this Stargirl was. Was she one of those exchange students? Or maybe she came from another country or something?

Whoever she was, He needed to know, now.

It was lunch and Nick walked into the cafeteria but when he walked in.

He saw her.

Stargirl.

Her back was to him but he still had a good look at her. The clothes that she was wearing was out of the ordinary, she wore an off-white dress. The dress was so long, it almost covered her shoes. There were ruffles around the neck and the cuffs on her small wrists. Her hair was graciously long, fell past her shoulders, just past her bottom. Then he saw something was strapped across her back, he thought it was a book bag but as he looked closely it wasn't a book bag. First it looked like a miniature guitar. But after getting a proper look, he found out that it was a ukulele. She was carrying a large canvas bag with a life-size sunflower painted on it.

Silence.

As she walked by the cafeteria was silent.

She stopped at an empty table, laid down her bag, slung the instrument strap over her chair, and sat down. She pulled a sandwich from the bag and began to eat the sandwich.

Half the lunchroom kept staring, half started buzzing, and others was murmuring and pointing their fingers at her.

Nick turned around to Joe, who was grinning. "What'd I tell you?"

Nick nodded, still amazed.

"She's in tenth grade," he said. "I hear she's been home schooled…till now."

"Maybe that explains it," Nick said, turning to look at her.

There was no one sat with her, but at the tables next to hers kids were cramming two to a seat. It looked like she didn't seem to notice. She seemed marooned in a sea of staring, buzzing faces.

Nick turned to Joe, who was grinning again. "You thinking what I'm thinking?" he said.

Nick grinned back and nodded. "Hot Seat."

Hot Seat was their in-school TV show. They had started it the year before. Nick was producer/director; Joe was on-camera host. Each month he interviewed a student. So far, most of them had been honour student types, athletes, model citizens. Noteworthy in the usual ways, but not especially interesting.

Suddenly Joe's eyes widened.

The girl was picking up her ukulele and she was strumming it and started to sing! Strumming away, bobbing her head and shoulders, singing.

"My grandma and your grandma, sitting by the fire. My grandma says to your grandma, "I'm gonna set your flag on fire,"

Again then silence came back.

Then the sound of a single person clapping broke the silence.

His head turned to the direction of the sound and looked.

It was the lunch-line cashier.

And now the girl was standing, slinging her bag over one shoulder and marching among the tables, strumming and singing and strutting and twirling. Like she didn't care about anything else. Heads swung, eyes followed her, mouths hung open. All their facial expressions matched each other.

Disbelief.

"Talking about, Hey now, Hey now, Iko iko an nay,"

When she came by Nick's table, Nick finally got a good look at her face. She wasn't gorgeous, neither she wasn't ugly. Generally, she looked like any of the hundred girls in school, except for two things. One, she wore no makeup, and her eyes were the biggest I had ever seen, like deer's eyes caught in headlights. She flashed me a smile before she twirled past me, her flaring skirt brushing my leg, and marching out of the lunchroom, still singing her song.

From among the tables came three slow claps.

Someone whistled.

Someone yelped.

Joe and Nick stared at each other.

Then Joe held up his hands and framed a marquee in the air. "Hot Seat! Coming Attraction-Stargirl!"

Nick slapped the table, in agreement. "Yes!"

We slammed hands our hands together.

Finally someone who will build our viewers up on Hot Seat.


What d'ya think?

If you're wondering what the song is, it's iko iko by dixie cups :D

Love that song, keep on singing to my friends in class, there like stfu. But i still carry on :')

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