Part one, arrival: It was a particularly hectic day at Echo Creek high school. There was rumors flying around of a new student arriving after somebody saw a new family moving into an empty house on the outskirts of town. Although this only happened one day ago, rumors were already abuzz. You could say this was because it had been such a long time since a new student came to their school, but it was mainly because of who the last new student was. Star butterfly, who had changed the entire town into something you'd only expect to hear about in the most outlandish stories, and made the people of the town ready to accept anything enough, Janice Dusky, the only child of the new family in town, did start at school on that very same day, not that she cared about starting school so early, she'd much rather be there than at home unpacking, though she had no idea what she was in for.
Despite her height, and the school being on the lookout for a new student, Janice managed to slip through the halls unnoticed, following the instructions she had been given until she finally reached her homeroom. As she approached the door, the room seemed to be extremely loud, although she couldn't make out any words. She turned the handle to open the door, and everything fell silent. She peered inside, but there was no teacher. Once she finally entered the room, there was a sigh of relief before the noise gradually grew. It seemed like nobody realized that she was new, but that didn't really matter to her.
She made her way to an empty desk, behind a boy wearing a red hoodie in the first row. A few minutes passed before he turned to her. 'Hey, what's your name?' he said calmly, almost too quiet for her to hear. 'I'm... Janice.' She replied, trying not to be drowned out by the class' noise. And with this came another silence. The class had finally noticed her, but before they had a chance to rush her desk, the teacher came in, and Janice turned white. She could hardly let out a a scream before her head began to throb painfully, and she collapsed to the ground.
When she woke up, she was lying in the nurse's office, and she could hear voices from outside the room she was in. 'I've never seen anyone react to Skulnick like that.' Said a male voice her groggy mind could only assume was the boy who sat in front of her. 'The normal thing to do would be to be afraid right?' Came a female voice. '...And I guess if somebody had a nervous disposition they'd faint too.' 'Why are these people talking about this like that woman is suffering from an inconvenient skin condition?' She thought to herself while thinking back to what 'Skulnick' looked like. It was clear to her that she wasn't human... 'Or maybe it is...' she told herself in an attempt to calm her still throbbing head. 'Maybe I'm just out of touch with the world.' She sighed to herself.
Just then, the boy entered the room with the nurse. 'Oh, your up!' said the nurse cheerfully. 'We called your parents already, they'll be here to pick you up soon. Perhaps you should talk to her a bit about this.' She glared lightly at the boy before stepping out. 'I'm Marco by the way.' He said as she climbed down from the bed. 'So our teacher, she had a little... Accident with another student, who... You'll probably run into sometime soon, which is why she looks like that. I guess everyone here is so used to it now, we never even considered how new people would react.' Janice stared blankly for a second. 'What kinda accident could cause that kinda damage? And you say this student is still here?' Marco laughed awkwardly. 'Yeah... She was actually in class with you just then. She's not dangerous... Just a little bit... Uhh clumsy? I guess.' Janice stayed silent as she imagined all the ways a person could end up like that, and shuddered at the idea of somebody doing that by accident. 'They'll be moving you to a class with a normal teacher, so don't worry about it.' He flashed an enthusiastic smile her way, but she wasn't comforted at all, she could only think about eventually running into this student. 'I'd better get back, I hope you feel better, I'll see you tomorrow!' He waved happily as he walked out the door. He didn't seem to bad to Janice, atleast for a first impression.
It didn't take long for her parents to arrive, and when they did, they seemed terrified after Janice explained what had happened. They rushed her out to the car with no second thoughts, the nurse tried to ask if she had ever fainted like that before, but they didn't stop. 'We can't stay here.' said her father with a hint of nervousness in his voice. 'Then what?' Her mother retorted angrily. 'We can't just find a new house a day after moving in here. How would we ever pay for that.' Janice remained silent as they got into the car. 'There has got to be another school around here right? Let's look into that!' 'You guys are overreacting!' Janice interrupted angrily. 'I was just a little surprised, it's not worth looking into a whole other school for, is it?' They both looked at each other silently, and then went back to facing forward.
The rest of the trip was silent. Janice hoped this meant that they had listened to her. She couldn't remember them being particularly concerned about her health, but she also didn't remember ever getting headaches so bad that she fainted. Once she got home, her parents told her to take the day off tomorrow. She knew that this meant they'd be deciding whether to find a new school or not pretty much straight away. She went to her room, uncertain whether she even wanted to stay there or not.