This was going to be a pain, no doubt. There I was, standing in front of my new school, with no idea where to go. You would think that after doing this for a couple years you would get used to it. Yes, I said a couple years. My dad and me have been traveling the world for a while now. Why? Well we'll get into that later, but for now let me tell you about my day.

I was walking to the front door of the school. There weren't a lot of people outside; I came a bit early so I wouldn't get lost around the school. I figured if I woke up early and walked there I would have around 20 minutes to go to the front office and get my schedule. I walked up the concrete steps in my brand new Nike sneakers and opened the door into the strange place that I was eventually going to have to call my school.

After walking around for a good 10 minutes I finally found the office. 'Only 10 minutes till school starts I'm going to have to make this quick'. I opened the door and walked in. "Hello dear, how can I help you this morning?" A chipper voice asked.

I looked up. The woman at the front desk looked around 40- maybe 45 years old. She had dark brown hair that fell upon her shoulders, and some grey strands hidden in it as well. "Hi," I said with a smile, "I'm a new student here and I was wondering if I could get my schedule?"

"Transferring in the middle of the year? Well, that's awfully strange."

'Was that supposed to be a compliment?'

"Yes, well I just moved here so…"

"I see where from?"

'Can I just get my schedule and go?' is what I would like to say but I knew better.

"The United States, me and my dad moved down here for business" Are all staff as nosey as her?

"Interesting, well I'm sure you'll love it here. Now, what's your name Sweetie?"

"Clair Brown."

Sorry for the late introduction, but this is me. My name is Clair Brown I'm sixteen, and just moved here from California. More specifically LA or otherwise known as the golden coast. I have long brown hair that I always keep up in a ponytail and brown eyes, nothing extraordinary. Like I said before, my dad and I travel the world together. He has always wanted to settle down somewhere with me though. After my mother left us when I was nine he wanted to get away from that life and start a new one. And of course he brought me with him. We went to China and Rome. I even got to visit Paris, and of course my favorite place, London.

You're probably wondering where we are now, right? Well right now we have settled down in Japan. Yep, the one place I've never been. Don't worry I'm fluent in Japanese. My dad made sure that I at least know a little bit of every language, of course just the important stuff like 'hello my name is…' or 'could you help me I'm a little lost?'. He also made a rule that I must at least be fluent in three languages, and yes, you guessed it, one of those languages just so happens to be Japanese. But anyway back to my first day.

"Yes" the woman, said, "I have your schedule right here." She handed me the schedule and I started to look it over. First I would have English 1 as a foreign language. Then I would have to take an English literature class. After that I had lunch followed by science/history, and Geometry. Well, that was fairly simple. I looked at the time on my cell phone. 'Crap, 5 minutes till school starts, better speed this up.'

"Thank you very much Ma'am" I bowed. Sure I was new to Japan but I had most of the mannerisms down. "I'll be taking my leave now."

"Wait, honey." Great, now she was calling me honey, next it would be sugar. "Here's a pass in case you get lost and end up late to one of your classes. Feel free to take a look around."

"Thank you." I plastered a smile to my face.

All of a sudden the first bell went off. "Once again thanks for the help ma'am. I'll be off now."

"Okay, bye sugar. Enjoy your first day at Seishun Gakuen."

And there's the 'sugar' I was waiting for. Seishun Gakuen is the name of my school or Seigaku for short. I thought it was a pretty weird name at first too, but I accepted it. I made my way out of the Office and started trying to find my first class, English 1. The hallways weren't to crowded as I maneuvered my way through the people walking along them. After a short while I found my class, I took a deep breath and walked straight in.

All the students were scattered around the room, talking to each other, and they didn't seem to notice my presence at all. 'Great I'm invisible, and I promised myself I would stand out this year too'. I spotted the teacher and made my way over to him.

He was pretty young; he seemed to be in his twenty's, if I had to guess. I would say he's maybe twenty-six or twenty-seven years old. He also had a wedding band on his left hand. He had short black hair that seemed to stop right above his ears. And wore a big smile on his face. I could already tell that the teacher was a nice guy. "Hello, you must be Clair Brown the newbie, it's nice to meet you, I'm Mr. Tanner."

He held out his hand for me to shake. I took his hand and held back some laughter while saying. "Hi, it's nice to meet you to, it's the first time I've ever heard a teacher call someone a newbie."

"Sorry," He said maturely, "hope you didn't take any offense to it."

"None at all. I'm actually quite disappointed because that's what I was planning to introduce myself as."

He started chuckling "Well I see we have a comedian on our hands, this semester should be interesting." He said with a huge smile on his face. "Why don't you stand up here and I'll have you introduce yourself to the class".

"Yes, Sir." I motioned a salute with two fingers at him.

After the Bell rang all the students sat down and stopped talking as the announcements came on. Some of them started taking notice of me as the announcements came to an end. By the end of the announcements the whole class was whispering, about me I'm sure, after all it was only natural to wonder about something new. Of course by now I was quite nervous and just stared out the window at the school gates. There was a chair at the back of the room next to the window. Seeing as that was the only chair not occupied I was betting I would get that one.

"Attention class, as I'm sure you're all aware by now we have a new student. I'll let her introduce herself to you."

He turned to me and kindly smiled giving me the signal to start. I turned to the class with a giant smile. "Hi, my name is Clair Brown and I just moved here from The United States. It's nice to make your acquaintance."

I then bowed to the whole class. They all still looked at me with heightened interest.

"Does anyone have any questions for Ms. Brown?"

A couple hands went up. I picked the one all the way in the back. He had red hair with a patch on his face, and a huge grin almost reminding me of a little boy. "I'm Eiji Kikumaru, I wanted to know where in the United Stated do you come from?"

"I'm from California, more specifically LA." I said with a grin.

"Eh?" he shouted out loudly. "Why would you want to move away from a place like that?"

A sweat drop appeared on my head. "Um, it's kind of complicated." I said scratching the back of my head a bit.

Next I picked the boy behind him. He kept his eyes closed and had a smile on his face. The smile didn't really look genuine though. He had short brown hair that came down right before his shoulders and looked extremely calm. "I'm Fuji Syuusuke, why did you move here?"

Did these guys know how to read minds, it's like all the questions I don't want to answer, they just end up asking, but there's no point in whining about it. "Actually there isn't, it was more like we moved here in the spur of the moment."

Of course there were other contributing factors, but I wasn't going to mention that to a stranger. There was only one person left raising their hand now. She had long blonde hair that shined and bright blue eyes. Just from a first look you could tell she wasn't Japanese. I was thankful I wasn't the only one. "Hi, my name is Yumi Chesler, I just wanted to know if you played a sport or maybe you have a hobby?"

Yep, every question that I didn't want asked was definitely being asked. I was now positive that someone, somewhere in the world was out to get me, and he or she was definitely doing a good job at it. How was I supposed to answer this question? Tell them all about my promise with him? Well I guess it can't be helped, I'll just have to lie myself through this one. "I don't particularly have a hobby or a sport I like to play…um… I skateboarded to school…does that count?"

The class started laughing. "I'm going to take that as a no then." I mumbled to myself.

"Okay, You can all talk to Ms. Brown after class or at lunch, but now it's time for learning." The whole class gave a tired groan.

"If you could take a seat in the back by the window that would be perfect, I will gather the books you need for this class tomorrow." He said, ignoring his 'eager' students.

"Yes, sir."

I made my way towards the back of the class being followed by the curious eyes of my fellow classmates. I set my purse on the floor and took a seat, seeing as I didn't have any books yet I didn't see the need to bring a book bag to school. I glanced outside the window to look at the view. It was around 8:00 AM, the sun was still coming up and I had a perfect view of it. I felt a tap on my shoulder and turned to find the cause of it. It was the Kikumaru guy.

"If you're from America why are you in this class? Isn't this class to easy for you?" He whispered.

He was right, my native language was English, and I knew from the start that this class was going to be a breeze. It was an easy A, but that didn't mean I wouldn't be bored out of my mind as I sat here for an hour and forty-five minutes.

"It is, but they put me in this class. I didn't get to sign up for my own schedule; they put me in whatever was open. I don't really have any complaints about it though, I'll pass this class easily."

He smiled at me. I swear he looked like a little kid on Christmas every time he smiled. "Do you mind if I see your schedule?" he asked, looking like he was about to jump out of his seat.

It might have been a little too early to muster up a smile, but I must have pulled it off because he smiled right back at me. "Sure, hold on a second."

I reached into my pocket and unfolded the paper. Once I made sure it looked presentable I handed it to him. He looked it over quickly and started smiling again.

"We have next block together. After that you have science/history with Fuji and Taka, and then you have Geometry with Inui and Tezuka." He said like I already knew these people.

I sat there trying to understand who the people he just named actually were. He must have noticed my confused face because he started to explain. "Fuji is this guy over here," he pointed to the guy behind him who had his eyes closed with the fake smile. "Hello nice to meet you, sorry for eavesdropping on you, but it seems we have third block together."

I just smiled back with his polite smile now on my own face. "I'm looking forward to it."

But before he could answer Kikumaru continued." Then Taka is another friend of Fuji's and mine, you'll like him he's very nice, just…" he sweat dropped.

"Just what?" I asked curiously.

"Just don't hand him anything sport related, okay?"

I sat there, confused as to why, but I guess I would find out sooner or later. "Okay, so who are the other people?" I whispered back.

"That's right, you have geometry with Tezuka our captain, and Inui he's nice just…"

Here we go again with the sweat drops. "Just what?" I asked, kind of cautious this time seeing as his face was getting paler by the second.

"Just, if he ever offers you something to drink, say no and walk away."

That kind of answer definitely scared me. What? Did he drug people by spiking their drinks? Or bring alcohol to school? Or did he-"Wait, um, that came out wrong, it's not what you think. He just isn't very good at making drinks is all? You know like protein shakes!"

He must have noticed the look on my face before to be answering this quickly. Although I have to say I felt a lot safer now. Fuji spoke up. "Kikumaru I think I should do the explaining from here on out, okay?"

"Okay." Kikumaru said with a pouting face.

Before I had a chance to laugh at his funny reaction something he said before peeked my interest. "Fuji-kun?"

"hmm?" he answered, focusing his attention on me.

"Before, Kikumaru said something about your captain. Could it be…you're all on a team or something?"

Kikumaru looked stunned, while Fuji's smile just got bigger. "Actually we are. We're all on the te-"

"Fuji, Kikumaru, Brown." God I hated my last name. "If you to would like to talk now you could always learn this after school with me?" Mr. Tanner threatened.

He smiled as he said this, but he was giving off a pretty deadly vibe. Kikumaru started stuttering as he spoke. "N-no sir, W-were sorry it won't h-h-happen again."