Author's Note: Hey my readers. I hope you're enjoying my first phantom fanfic 'The Truth is Beneath Your Eyes'. I promise I will still update and finish that. In the meantime, I hope you will enjoy this new fanfic that I decided to write called 'High School Drama'. It's different than my other fanfic, but still a phantom story.

Summary: Anna is the new girl in school, but she manages to fit right in and befriend many of her classmates, including Erik, the mysterious masked boy whom she finds an attraction to. But as love triangles and teenage drama ensue, Anna has no idea what she's getting herself into.

Chapter 1

The New Girl

Anna was a little nervous as she approached her first period class at her new school. She was fine, but she could tell her breath was a little steady and her fingers were slightly shaking. She didn't know why she was so apprehensive about attending a new school. In fact, when she first moved to New York, she was quite excited to be going to somewhere new. Now, she just simply felt a little shaky.

She took a deep breath before she took a step into her new first period class, English. Immediately when she walked in, all the eyes of the students directed toward her, but Anna pretended not to notice that. A woman, who looked like she was in her thirties advanced toward her from the other side of the room. She was thin, but not much taller than Anna, and she wore black reading glasses with little rhinestones at the corners.

"Good morning," she greeted, holding out a hand for Anna to shake, which Anna did so hesitantly. "I'm Miss Krause. You must be out new student, Anna Branson. Welcome to Leroux High School and I truly hope you will enjoy your high school years with us." Anna was listening to her new English teacher speak, but she was slightly distracted because she could observe Miss Krause's yellowing teeth when she spoke. But she did hear what she said.

"Um...where do I sit?" Anna asked wanting to just get on with class, and not remain as the awkward new girl at the front of the classroom that everyone was getting bored staring at.

"You may sit at this desk at the front of the row," Miss Krause instructed pointing in the direction of where the desk was which was right behind her.

Anna simply moved to her new desk and set her notebooks and folders down. However, even after she sat down, she could still feel the eyes of all the other students directing right at her. She was happy that she was at the front, because she had no need to look behind her.

Miss Krause walked over to her desk and pulled out a few sheets of paper, before walking back to Anna. She handed Anna the papers and a little packet. "Anna, these are papers informing you of what I expect in my class and to inform you of what we are doing right now. We are going over ideas and overviews of Romeo and Juliet, before we actually begin reading it. Um...may I ask what you last did in your last previous English class?"

Anna took the packets and gave a quick look at them. "We...actually were going to start on Romeo and Juliet as well. So we were about to do this as soon, too."

"Oh," Miss Krause seemed surprise like this were the first time she ever heard this. "Do you have a copy of the book? We have extras in here, but I would like you to have your own copy better to take home."

"Oh yes, I bought a copy before I moved, but I didn't know if I needed to bring it with me," Anna informed. "Where exactly are you in this overview?"

Miss Krause made a swish motion gesturing to Anna that it was nothing. "Don't worry, Anna, we've just started, so you have nothing to worry about."

"Thank you," Anna replied, wishing that Miss Krause would stop focusing on her and begin class. Her prayers were answered soon enough as Miss Krause backed away from Anna's desk and returned back to the front of the room. Even though Miss Krause seemed like a nice woman, Anna never liked it when a teacher would make one student the center of attention, whether it be her or someone else, not for a good or bad reason. She was happy that class would continue. She was also happy that Miss Krause didn't hand her some ten pound text book that would have weighed her arms out of their sockets.

"Hey Anna, welcome to Leroux," the high-pitched tone voice of a girl who was sitting next to her caught Anna's attention. She turned to see a blonde-haired girl with blue eyes waving to her and saying 'hi'. "I'm Meg," the blonde introduced. "Meg Giry."

"Hi, Meg," Anna smiled, trying to be nice. "I'm Anna. Well, I guess you already knew that."

Meg giggled like that were funny to her. "If you need any help getting to your next class or if you need any help in this class, just ask me."

Anna smiled at her. "Thanks."

Her attention then returned back to the front where she saw Miss Krause scrawling Romeo and Juliet in an attempted fancy, Shakespeare style which she failed at. Miss Krause pulled up a stool and a notepad filled with notes, which was for class discussion, and she sat on the stool, trying to figure out how to begin class after being introduced to a new student. Maybe teachers were nervous as well, despite the fact their job involved them standing at the front of a room all day.

"All right class," Miss Krause cleared her throat. "Now, let's begin. How many of you are familiar with Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet?"

About half the class's hands went up, including Anna and Meg's.

"Anna," Miss Krause called on her directly, but Anna didn't mind as she loved Romeo and Juliet. She just hoped this wouldn't be some in-depth question that would send everyone scratching their heads. "Would you take the honors of giving us a short summary of Romeo and Juliet, without giving away the ending, please."

Taking a breath, Anna was trying to figure out how to explain a synopsis of the play that was quick, but wouldn't spoil anything. "Well, Romeo and Juliet is about two teenagers in about the sixteenth century, living in Verona, Italy. They're both from feuding families and despite the fact, they manage to fall in love. It was one of Shakespeare's best plays which depicted the purity of true love."

"Oh please," she heard the rude tone of someone behind her. She turned around to see who it was and was surprised to see a lanky boy dressed in black with a black mask hiding his face, except for his mouth and chin. He had dark hair which was quite tousled as if it were naturally like that. She couldn't recall seeing him at all when she walked in. It was strange, as if he just appeared. Even though she couldn't fully read his face she could tell that he had an arrogant expression on him.

Anna, however remembered what he had said and quickly returned her focus back to that. "Excuse me?"

"Please. Romeo and Juliet? True love? Please. That story was a bunch of garbage." the boy folded his skinny arms and leaned back into his seat, with such a cocky attitude. "If that was Shakespeare's greatest love story, he was a dunce who knew nothing about love. This school should seriously pick some other book or play that actually portrays true love."

"Shakespeare was a genius!" Anna countered back, enraged at his comment and fully turned around in her desk to face him. "Romeo and Juliet proves the greatness of pure love, even if it were only in the forms of two young teenagers. So tell me why then do you think it's a bunch of garbage."

He tsked as if that were the easiest question he thought he would hear leaning back into his chair some more. "Where do I even begin?" He chortled like an evil villain, triumphant in the end. "Well first off, Romeo is a lovesick puppy. At the beginning of the book he was in love with some girl named Rosalie and then he falls in love with some thirteen-year-old girl at a party he crashed. Excuse, but I find that a horrible beginning to a love story. Then they realized they both are in love with each other after he says what, ten words to her? He breaks onto her property and spies on her as she's in her nightgown talking to herself. Then they both decide to get married after they've known each other for three hours. Seriously, Anna, I could go on with this till the bell rings."

"You're missing the real point of the story!" it was like a tragic accusation Anna was firing at the boy, whom she didn't care if she were wrong or right, she just wanted to defend her point, her perspective. "It doesn't matter how long, Romeo knew Juliet or how long she knew him, they were in love. Does anything else matter? Who cares if she was thirteen and he was sixteen? It could have been worse. She could have married some thirty or fifty-year old man."

"Miss Branson and Mr. Monet, please settle down! The two of you!" Miss Krause bellowed at the two of them, getting off her stool. "It's nice of you two to get into an in-depth conversation, but please don't spoil it for the rest of the class. However you two have given me a brilliant idea." She turned to the class with such a bubbly inspiration, she clapped her hands which made a slight clank metal sound due to the many rings she had wound on her fingers. "Class, instead of us just reading the play together in class and then discussing it, I'll put all of you into pairs and the two of you will discuss it yourselves. Then when we are finished reading the play, you and your partner will act out a scene from it. I'll start off by pairing you two, Anna and Erik."

At the immediate mention of being partners with a boy, she just spared off with, she turned and looked at him with dislike, but not of hate or loathing, which she considered the advanced form of disliking someone.

The boy, Erik cocked his head to one side and gave a sadistic grin. "Well, this should be interesting.......partner," he spoke the last word jauntily.

Anna returned a fake smile as if she were fine, but when she turned around in her desk, she wasn't afraid to express her utter disdain at being paired up with a boy she couldn't already get along with. Perhaps maybe with time, she might get along with him.

When the bell rang, Erik was the first to dash out the door, but he did it in such a skeletal motion that it gave the appearance of him walking like a ghost.

Anna took her time to collect her books and she didn't mind being the last one to file out of the class. When she got to the door, she found Meg, waiting for her.

"Hey," she greeted in that bubbly peppiness she owned. "Yikes with the whole Erik thing. I feel sorry that you're partnered up with him."

Anna was confused by what she heard Meg saying. She gripped her books a little. "What do you mean, Meg? I mean other than us arguing over a three-hundred-year old play, he can't be too terrible. At least he knows what he's talking about."

"You don't think he's creepy with that mask on?" Meg was astounded, as she was use to people agreeing with that statement.

Anna shrugged her shoulders. "It could be worse."

"Anna, you don't know Erik," Meg tried to explain, grabbing Anna's arm gently. "He's such a weird kid," she whispered cautiously, fearing that by declaring it out loud would be the death of her. " He's a loner and he's just creepy, not just the mask, but other things. He's got like no friends. Heck, this the first time I've seen him do partner work."

"Really?" Anna almost couldn't comprehend what she heard Meg saying. But then she happened to catch something out of the corner of her eyes. Down the hall, she saw the boy, Erik was name. His dark clothing and the way he walked gave him the appearance of death stalking down the hallway, searching for his next victim.