RIIIIIINNNNGGG!
Everyone left in the hallways were scurrying down to their rooms, not wanting to be late for class. All… but Thorne. And this cute girl he was hooked up with. Cate, he thought was her name? He didn't know, but after a few minutes, she broke away, and smiled a coy grin.
"Well, Thorne," she said, tracing a finger on his jawline. "I'll see you later." And she walked off into the building.
After a few minutes of his quiet time, Thorne gathered his stuff and went into the building, also. Well, she definitely distracted him from his problems.
Thorne walked into his homeroom, and surprise! There was a short, baby-cute girl, with the longest golden hair Thorne has ever seen in his life, sitting in his seat. The teacher wasn't paying any attention to the students, and Thorne walked over to the new girl. She looked frightened.
"Hey, you," Thorne told her. She looked up and her big blue eyes stared at him.
"Me?" she squeaked.
"Yeah, you." He rolled my eyes. "You're in my seat. Were you trying to get attention from me or what?"
The girl swallowed, and scrambled out of my seat. "S-sorry. I-I didn't know…" Man, now she was making him feel bad.
"Well you better have not known."
She went over to the teacher's desk and said something so quiet that the teacher had to lean in and ask again what she was saying. Then, he pointed right next to me, the empty desk that used to be some kid's, but he got kicked out of the school for… something. He didn't know.
The girl saw where the teacher was pointing at, and Thorne could see the fear and dread in her eyes. Her whole body language screamed it. She was sliding her feet across the floor, trying her best not to be seen, and carefully sat on the edge of her seat, as far as Thorne as possible.
Thorne kept in a laugh. This was the first time he's seen a girl at this school this shy. Or uncomfortable with attention. At least over half of the school, all the girls wanted attention, one way or another, but this girl was different.
"Hey, you," Thorne told her again. She looked up, and the same big blue eyes stared back at him.
"Y-yes…?" she mustered out.
"What's your name?" Thorne asked her.
Thorne had to wait a few seconds before she barely whispered, "Crescent Moon. But I prefer Cress… please."
Before Thorne knew it, the smile that was tugging his mouth finally came out and he turned away to hide it. This girl was just too adorable. When was he going to find a person like this? Before he could say anything to her, Cress, he thought, the teacher came up to the front of the room and tried to settle everyone down.
"Now, class. Listen up for a moment please." Everyone shut up. "Thank you." The teacher paused before he spoke. "My name is Torin. Just call me that, and I will be your homeroom teacher for the rest of the year." Another pause. "Now, I'm knowing that everyone here is not new and knows each other well?"
"No, Torin. There's a girl back there next to Thorne, and no one knows who she is," said a boy. Thorne couldn't see his face from here. Beside him, Cress froze.
"Ah, well, would you come up to the front of the class and introduce yourself, miss?" Torin asked her. Cress was still frozen, and it took her a few seconds to get herself recollected. She slowly stood up, slowly took slow steps, and slowly turned around to face the class. Her blue eyes got bigger. She cleared her throat and managed a very weak smile.
"Hi, my name is Cress… it's nice to… meet you guys…" she whispered. Thorne groaned. What is up with this girl?
Someone in the front laughed, repeating Thorne's thought, except he said it out loud. "What a joke. What is up with this girl?"
Everyone started to laugh, and Cress looked like she was about to cry. Thorne sighed. Before he knew what he was doing, he raised my hand so Torin could see. He did. "Ah, yes, mister…?"
"I'm also new to this school. Could I introduce myself to the class?" Thorne shouted over the laughter. Everyone stopped laughing and looked at him. He shot a warning glance to everyone in the room, saying, Don't you dare tell Torin I'm not new.
Then he got up, made his way through the rows of desks, and faced the classroom. Cress was frozen, not even able to look at his way. "Go sit down, Cress. Can't you see it's my time?" he said, making sure everybody could hear me. She got out of frozen mode, and unlike before, she raced to her seat, and put her head down, trying to make herself smaller.
"Ahem. Yeah, well. I'm Thorne. Thanks," Thorne said, and went back to his seat. He still didn't know why he did that. Was it for the attention? Or was it just to help Cress?
The room got so uncomfortably quiet, that Thorne wished someone could break the silence. Luckily, Kai, the son of the director at this school and the girls' number one choice of asking out (of course, Thorne was number two), raised his hand. Torin gladly called on him. "Yes, mister Kaito?" Of course, Torin knew Kai's name.
"It's Kai. And I was wondering… can we please start class now?" Kai asked him. "It's kind of getting really… quiet."
A girl from the other side of the room snorted. Thorne turned to see who it was. Linh Cinder. Everyone knew who she was. She was the best mechanic in the school, and everyone came over to her whenever they broke something. The next day, Cinder would come to school, having the whole entire thing good as new.
Kai's face got red when he saw that Cinder snorted at him. Cress was still in her official panic mode, and hasn't raised her head up. His friends, Wolf and Jacin were snickering about something in their little corner, Scarlet Benoit, the French girl was in her own place, writing something in her notebook, and the crazy girl, Winter Hayle-Blackburn was in her own world, muttering things to herself while bumping her head on the wall behind her.
Next to him, he heard Cress's voice, repeating over and over, "I am a courageous adventurer that loves to meet new people, and loves attention. I am a courageous adventurer that loves to meet new people, and loves attention. I am a…" Thorne sighed. He could tell this was going to be a long year.