"Ok kids, everyone push your desks against the wall, we're going to play a game." The teacher instructed, pulling out a ball.
Shawn knew this game, his dad had taught it to him, all you had to do is remember names and throw the ball, since everyone from last year was here, he though it was pointless, but then he noticed a new kid. A really pale white girl with very red hair and a fake kitten tail attached to the back of the shorts she was wearing.
The game began and of course Shawn remembered every name, the tail-girl was named Sorcha.
"Miss Splinterson, are you paying attention?" The teacher snapped.
Sorcha jumped really high, she had just been running around in circles chasing her tail, with a really happy grin on her face, "Yes I was."
"No you weren't you were chasing that tail, take it off."
"I can't I have a note from my doctor that says I have to wear it, cuz if I don't I get really bored then I don't pay attention, then I get really hyper, and bouncy and stuff gets broken."
"Oh really, well if you were paying tell me the names of the everyone." The teacher grinned a bit evilly; only Shawn was ever able to get every child's name right.
"Daisy, Leslie, Burton, Adam, Jacob, Jared, Justin, Christy, Heather, Carol, Mark, Jose, Carl, Shawn, Gabriel, Kate, Jasmine, Michael, Jessica, Sorcha," She said pointing to everyone as she named them then touching the tip of her nose as her name.
"How did you do that!" Shawn gaped; only he'd ever remembered everyone's names.
"I dunno, I remembered, I remember a lot of stuff when I learn it." Sorcha became disinterested again and started to chase her tail.
After every student recited the names that they could remember, they moved their desks back to the original positions of groups of three, Sorcha was seated next to Shawn and Gus. "Hi I'm-"
"Sorcha Splinterson, who has a really good memory, a kitty tail, and loves chasing it," Shawn piped in.
"Yup, and your Shawn Spencer, Burton Guster's best friend, your father is a cop, and you have a photographic memory, and love pineapples."
"How did you know that?" Gus asked.
"I saw him sneak some pineapples out of his lunch-box, and his father dropped him off in a police car, and every says you two are best friends," then she got distracted by a bird flying by the window, Gus and Shawn stared at each other, this was the beginning of something great.