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I awoke groggily after being pulled from my best dream yet by my alarm clock. Sighing, I got out of bed and began to get ready for the first day back to school. "Gotta suck up another year with Sister MDA." I said grimly as I headed out the door. As I walked down the sidewalk, I saw a red van pull up beside me. A window rolled down and I saw my best friend, Gabe, waving at me.

"Hey Carol!" He said.

"Hi Gabe." I said, waving back.

"Guess what!"

"What?"

"I heard we're getting new teachers and a new principle." I felt my heart leap for joy.

"Seriously?" I asked excitedly.

"Yeah!" Gabe exclaimed.

"Awesome! I'll see you there!" The window rolled down and the van drove away as I continued down the sidewalk. As I walked into the parking lot, making sure to keep close to the fence so I didn't get hit by any incoming car, I saw a tall lady with an odd looking man standing beside her. I saw Gabe walk up to them and the lady shook his hand and the stout man told him something that made him cringe as he walked inside the gate. I walked up to them and the lady gave me a smile.

"Why hello there. What's your name?" She asked.

"Carol Smith, ma'am." I replied.

"Glad to meet you." She said. "I'm Lust and this is my assistant Gluttony." She gestured to the man who smiled dumbly at me and waved as I waved back.

"Stay out of trouble." He laughed. A look of confusion took over my face as I walked inside the gate. I took care to avoid the basketball court because a muscular man seemed to be repainting it diligently as I headed to the 8th grade room. I walked inside and saw everyone from last year talking about what they did over the summer, a man sitting at the desk, and Gabe talking to a boy who looked just a bit younger than us. The man pointed to the desk next to the boy, which I assumed was my seat. I walked over and plopped my backpack by the front left desk leg and saw Gabe wave at me.

"Hey, Carol." He said.

"Sup, Gabe." I replied. "Who's this guy?"

"Selim Bradly." The boy said. "What's your name?"

"Carol Smith." I said.

"Carl Weezer." Gabe said, failing to hide it as a cough.

"Shut up!" I said, laughing and hit him on the arm where he winced in slight pain.

"Alright!" The man said, walking up to the front. "Everybody calm down. Let's get things started." The rest of us who weren't sitting sat down as the rest of us turned our attention to the man. "OK kids, listen up! Name's Greed. Anyone of you steps out of line, you have three chances to straighten out. Now, who can list the most valuable things in this school?" Everyone looked around for a minute. "Anyone?" Greed asked.
"The lights?" Noah suggested.

"Something with real value, idiot." Greed sighed, slightly annoyed. We all laughed that this Greed person called Noah an idiot.

"Honestly," Gabe piped up, "There's not many valuables here."

"He's right ya know." Moses said. "We're not a very rich school."

"I see." Greed looked thoughtful for a moment. "Well then, I guess you can all just wait until I find something for you to do!" Fine by me. I thought although everyone else groaned with annoyance. We ended up doing nothing for the rest of the period and then headed to P.E. As I was in a stall in the girls' room changing, I heard the girls outside talking.

"That Greed guy is really weird." Jazmine said.

"Yeah," Brea agreed. "He looks Asian but he talks like a normal American."

"What's wrong with that?" I asked as I walked out, fully dressed in my P.E. clothes and now lightly smoothing my long blonde hair back into place, not that I minded it being scraggly anyways. "I have this friend who Chinese but she talks English like she's been doing it her whole life. There's nothing weird about that."

"I know." Dystany said. "It's just that I've got this weird feeling about him." I heard Jazmine, Brea, Desiree, and Lexi tease her about 'liking' Greed as I walked outside happily humming some Yume Nikki OST from the FC world. As I went to put my regular clothes in my backpack, I saw Selim and Gabe outside the window, waiting for me. I smiled and mouthed 'I'll be out in a minute.'

"Hey, Carol." Gabe said as he and Selim ambushed me as I opened the door. "You'll never guess what! Selim's dad is the P.E. teacher!"

"Just like Peter Luke!" I said happily.

"His dad was the old P.E. teacher?" Selim asked me.

"His mom," I corrected.

"Oh, alright." Selim said smiling. Something about that smile chilled me; something wasn't right about this boy. I had the feeling of dread forcefully taken away from me as a voice from down the hall spoke up.

"Hurry it up down there." A male voice said, who I assumed was Selim's dad. "I'd like to start P.E. today and not tomorrow."

"I'll go get the girls." I said and started down the hall. I paused and turned around as the girls ran down the hall. "Nevermind." A dark haired person opened the door next to ours.

"No running in the damn halls brats!" He yelled.

"Jeez." I said as Selim, Gabe and I walked outside. "what's his problem?"

"I don't know." Gabe said, shrugging. We got outside and saw a man wearing an eye patch over his left eye.

"Awesome!" I exclaimed. "He's a pirate!"

"That's my dad." Selim said with what I'm certain was pride.

"Lucky!" I said. "I wish my dad was a pirate." Selim laughed, but I felt it was more at me and not at my joke. We walked over to find the man talking to us in as we gathered in a large group.

"Alright everyone." He said. "You will address me as Mr. Bradly. I will be your new Physical Ed teacher for this year. Is that clear?"

"Yes." We all said in unison. He then told us to run three laps around the basketball court for a warm-up. As we came back, I nearly fell down from exhaustion, I wasn't really used to that much running.

"Great work everyone." Mr. Bradly said walking up to us. "Five minute break. Selim, may I talk to you?" Gabe and I walked over to the bench as I put my hands behind my head. I watched the leaves rustle in the wind on a nearby tree until Gabe tapped me on the shoulder.

"Hey, Carol." He said. "What's up with Selim and Mr. Bradly?" I looked in the direction of Selim and Mr. Bradly and saw what looked like Selim threatening his dad.

"The hell?" I said leaning over. "What the fuck is that shit?"

"Should we go see if everything's okay?" Gabe asked. Selim caught sight of us and glared at me. Mr. Bradly began to turn around as I quickly went back into my original pose, whistling nervously. Mr. Bradly turned back to Selim and they continued to talk some more as I let out a breath I didn't know I had been holding. Mr. Bradly then looked at what looked like a stop watch and turned towards the rest of us.

"All right!" He called. "Looks like that's it for today! Next class!" I got up and walked towards the hall with Gabe as Selim ran over to us.

"Hey Selim." Gabe began. "What was up with you and your dad?"

"Oh." Selim hesitated. "Nothing. Just some family issues." I swear that was a lie.

"Oh." Gabe said. "Okay then. Hey Carol-" I ignored what he had to say as I saw something like a shadow dart out of the corner of my eye. I spun to where it had gone and saw nothing.

"Is everything alright, Carol?" Selim asked with malice in his tone that made me shiver.

"Uh… Yeah." I stammered as I gathered my regular school uniform and walked to the girls room to change back.

Once I was back outside again, we headed to history. As we entered the room, I saw the person who had yelled at the girls for running in the hall earlier sitting at the overhead like Mr. G did last year.

"Alright pipsqueaks." He said. "Everyone get in and choose a seat. I don't have time to give you all your seats." I had a little fight with Noah over who got the seat the farthest away from the person which I won by default since Gabe had to break us up since the person didn't really do much except just watch us with an entertained look on his face.

"OK." The person said. "You will all address me as Mr. Awesome Envy! Understood?" We all nodded except for Selim who looked like this Envy guy was playing a really bad joke. "Alright! You're first assignment will be on the Ishval Civil War." We all looked around in confusion as we had no idea what Ishval even was. "What's the matter with you all?"

"Uh…" Noah paused. "We just don't know what Ishval is." Envy grabbed Noah by his shirt collar and growled.

"You don't know what Ishval is?" Envy hissed at Noah. We all cringed. I know I wouldn't want to be Noah right now.

"We've never heard of it!" Noah protested. Envy growled and threw Noah at a wall.

"Holy shit!" Julian yelled. Envy turned towards us and we all cringed back in our seats except Selim; I was happy I was way in the back.

"And that's what will happen to you if you don't follow the rules! Any questions?" Envy said with a lighter tone. Dystany handed me a folded up pink sticky note underneath our desks.

Multi personality disorder much? I scribbled back: LOL maybe. Dystany read it then flashed me a smile that was silver because of her braces that she'd got over the summer. I smiled back as Gabe passed me a blue folded sticky note.

Look in the corner. Slightly scared, I slowly turned my head to the corner of the room. There I saw a flash of a long shadow with one red eye before it quickly disappeared underneath Selim. He glared at me and I quickly turned my head in the other direction.

After school was over I quickly scurried off to the gate where Lust and Gluttony were talking to Gabe and Selim. "Hi Carol!" Gabe said when he caught sight of me.

"Hi." I said. "Sorry, can't stay. Have to get home or else mom's going to get all paranoid." Of course that was a lie, I just didn't really want to be around Selim right now or anybody else.

"Alright." Lust said, hopefully falling for the bluff. "See you tomorrow Carol."

"Bye!" I called as I began to run home.

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