"Mommy, do I have to go?" a 5 year old Ally asked her mom. "Of course you do sweetie. You'll love it!" her mother said while driving to Lakeshore Academy. "Oh… okay… BUT WHAT IF THE OTHER KIDS DON'T LIKE ME?!" Ally said with tears starting to form in her eyes. Her mother continued to drive to the school and once they parked, she looked at Ally with a smile on her face and said "Sweetie, they will like you, don't worry. You're a friendly, loveable, sweet person Ally." Ally couldn't help but smile at her mom. Ally's mother stepped out of the car and walked to Ally's door and held out her hand to her daughter and said "Are you ready Ally?" Ally was hesitant at first, but she grabbed her mother's hand and with a smile on her face, she said "Ready! Let's go mommy!"
They walked hand in hand to room P7 where the teacher was at the door greeting all the other students and parents. When they reached the door, Ally was starting to get shy and was hiding behind her mother. The teacher smiled and said "Good morning, my name is Mrs. Peterson and I will be your daughter's kindergarten teacher" she said to Ally's mother. Ally's mother smiled at Mrs. Peterson. Mrs. Peterson noticed Ally hiding behind her mother and smiled and kneeled down to Ally's height and said "Well who do we have here?" Ally peered behind her mother and with a small smile said "Allison Dawson, but I like to be called Ally". Mrs. Peterson smiled and said "Ally, what a lovely name. Would you like to go play with the toys in the classroom?" Ally smiled and nodded. Ally then looked at her mommy and smiled and hugged her mom and said "Bye mommy" and her mother said "Bye sweetie, I'll see you later" and Ally nodded. She turned back around to see Mrs. Peterson with her hand held out; Ally grabbed her hand and walked inside the classroom.
Ally couldn't believe her eyes, the classroom was huge with lots of colorful posters on the wall, a corner full of books with beanbag chairs, an area for painting and arts and crafts, an area with bins of building blocks in every shape, color, and size, but the one thing that caught her eye was an area full of different instruments, a triangle, a tambourine, a small guitar, a piano and many more. She was so excited when she saw the piano. Mrs. Peterson noticed Ally's reaction when she saw the piano, she smiled and looked at Ally and gestured her to go to the piano. Ally's smile grew wide, she let go of her teachers hand and walked to slowly to the piano. She started to play random notes and then she remembered the song her mother was teaching her, it was a simple song, but she liked it, she played Ode to Joy. Once she finished, she noticed that everyone was looking at her, she started to get nervous and she started to chew a piece of her hair and walked behind the teacher. Everyone clapped and Ally made a small smile at everyone.
About 10 minutes later, Mrs. Peterson got everyones attention and said "Hello everyone, I hope everyone is having a good time so far, right now I would like for everyone to stand at the back wall and I will assign you tables where you will be sitting for the rest of the school year." Everyone walked to the back of the room and waited patiently for their name to be called. "First table I would like Dez Fisher, Austin Moon, Trish De La Rosa, and Ally Dawson" Mrs. Peterson said. Dez, Austin, and Trish ran to their table while Ally just walked slowly. She sat at the table and noticed a red hair boy with freckles, a blonde hair boy with a pic around his neck, and a curly brown hair girl with a zebra shirt on. The blonde hair boy was first to introduce himself, "I'm Moon, Austin Moon" he said with a smile, then the red hair boy introduced himself "I'm Fisher, Dez Fisher" he said grinning, the curly brown hair girl was next "I'm Del La Rosa, Trish De La Rosa" she said while rolling her eyes. Then all three pairs of eyes were on Ally. Ally started to become nervous again, but she still managed to introduce herself "I-I'm D-Dawson, Ally Dawson" she said with a small smile. They nodded and smiled and they started talking "So Ally, you played really good on the piano" Austin said, "Oh my god, you totally did!" Trish said, Dez just grinned really big and nodded his head. Ally smiled and said "Thanks, my mom was teaching me that song. But I'm really shy, I don't know how I did that to be honest." "Well your mom is a great teacher and don't be shy, you're really good" Austin said smiling. Ally smiled. Ally remember the pic around Austin's neck, she looked at Austin and said "Do you play the guitar? I see a pic around your neck." Austin glanced down and touched his pic and chuckled "Yeah, I play the guitar, I'm still learning though." Ally nodded. Trish then said "Well since we're going to be together for the rest of the year why don't we become friends!" Dez was thinking about it and then said "No, BEST FRIENDS!" he said smiling. Austin then jumped in and said "I agree, BEST FRIENDS!" he said grinning. Then once again, all three pairs of eyes were on Ally. Ally couldn't help but smile and said "BEST FRIENDS!" All four kids put their hands in the middle and yelled "1,2,3 BEST FRIENDS!"