It was a rainy Monday morning when Alison was awoken from her slumber. She had exactly an hour before she had to leave for work. She would spend exactly 15 in the shower, 25 minutes getting dressed, 10 minutes eating breakfast and the last 10 minutes
checking she had everything she needed before heading out the door and making her way to her job. Alison was the Head of English at Rosewood High School, so sure, she loved her job, she had a pretty normal life, but she couldn't remember the last
time she did anything spontaneous. Again she didn't mind this, she was a fan of order and organisation, but she couldn't help the niggling feeling that something was missing for her life. She now though, as usual, she chose to ignore it as she
entered the school and made her way to the staff room. It was the start of a new year at Rosewood High, this meant staff meetings every day this week to ensure everyone as getting settled back into their jobs.
"Hey Ali! Wait up!" Alison heard from behind her as she was walking down the currently empty school halls she turned around and saw her colleague and best friend running after her. She stopped and waited for her to catch up.
"Hey Spence, looking forward to our first day back on the job?" Alison said as Spencer started walking by her side.
"Yeah I am actually, I completely reworked the curriculum from last years stuff, but then again you already know that so I'll just go with yes I'm excited!" Spencer quickly. Alison just laughed happily at her best friends excitement, Spencer had
always been extremely academic, both her and Alison had been in competition for highest the grades going through school, eventually Spencer won when Alison decided she didn't want to completely write of her social life because of school. Now she's
Vice Principle at Rosewood High, she heads the schools clubs community and she teaches politics. So she her to particularly ecstatic about the school year starting again was nothing new to Alison.
Once they made it into the staff room they clocked their other two friends straight away. Aria, who was head of Art, was sat down at the meeting table next to Hanna, who taught Fashion Art. The two had become extremely close since Hanna joined the art
department. Alison and Spencer made their way over to the other two girls and sat down next to them.
"Hanna, Aria, hey! How were your summers?" Alison asked the two girls as she sat down. Just as Hanna was about to answer, two more people entered the room gaining her attention. One of them was the schools headteacher, principle Hackett. Alison looked
passed the older man to see who the other person was, she didn't look familiar to Alison, but for whatever reason, she couldn't take her eyes off her. She was tall, athletic looking with long brown hair and caramel skin. Alison continued to look the
girl up and down until she made eye contact with her, her eyes were a golden brown colour. It was then that Alison realised she was starring and before she could look away she could feel the blush rising up her neck. She didn't know if this mystery
person has caught onto it, but she knew someone had. While Aria and Hanna had continued there conversation, Spencer had been watching Alison from the side, and was now wearing a teasing and slightly shocked looking smirk across her face.
Alison tried to avoid her eye contact, continuing to look down and try to figure out what she was going to say when Spencer inevitably asked her what was up later that day. Honestly she had no idea. I mean sure, everyone in the room can probably see how
attractive this girl is, but it was like she got completely drawn into her just from her presence. Luckily, before Alison allowed her thoughts to go completely haywire, principle Hackett cleared his throat and gathered the attention of the entire
room, again, luckily, forcing Spencer's eyes off of her and onto the task at hand.
"Good morning every body, welcome back to Rosewood High for what I'm sure will be another successful year of education." The principle started he continued on talking about policies and courses for the next 10 minutes or so, Alison allowed herself to
zone out again a little, having heard all this the previous few years she'd been at the school. She felt eyes on her as she sat there in silence, looking up she saw the mystery girl just looking at her curiously, no shame, a little amusement, and
a little smug gracing her features. Alison had never been one to back down from any kind of battle, even silent staring battles with strangers, so instead of backing out and looking away again, she maintained eye contact with the girl, raising her
eyebrow a little to look a little more in control. They stayed like this for what must have been a few minutes at least, because finally the principle was coming to the end of his beginning of year speach...
"Oh and one last thing, I would like to introduce you all to the newest member of our team, Emily Fields! Stand up for us Emily!" The principle said and the mystery girl was no longer a mystery, well she was, but at least that mystery had a name now.
For some reason Alison felt herself becoming taken in by Emily, she found her presence interesting, she had a sudden impulse to get to know her. This was completely out of character for Alison's pretty dull and perfectly timed life, but she wanted
to find out why she was feeling like this all of a sudden.
All these thoughts sped through Alison's mind in a heartbeat, she looked up at the now stood up Emily Fields to see her still staring at her from the corner of her eye with a now even more smug look on her face as she continued to watch Alison's thought
process on her face. She tried not to draw to much attention to herself, she was the new girl after all, but she knew one way or another she was going to get to the bottom of whatever this blonde haired teacher was thinking.
"Emily will be replacing Paige as head of gym, she will also be coaching the swim team. So, let's do everything we can to make her feel welcome, OK?" The principle finally finished, Emily sat back down and began chatting away to one of the other gym coaches,
making sure to send a side eye to Alison every once in awhile.
On the other side of the table, Alison was looking anywhere but in the direction of then apparently distracting brunette, which again, did not go missed by Spencer.
"What is up with you?" Spencer whispered loader that probably necessary, Alison turned her head and look at Spencer like a deer in the headlights. Instead of getting worked up though she decided to try and play it at least some what cool.
"I don't know what you're talking about Spence, your coffee addiction must be causing you to hallucinate again" Alison replied nonchalantly before digging her phone out of her pocket and focusing her attention on that.
"Don't give me that crap Alison, do you think I didn't notice the blush that basically devoured your entire being when the Emily caught you staring at her?" Just the mention of Emily's name caused Alison's body to react in a weird way again, and because
she couldn't form a reply, she was once again thankful for principle Hackett's perfectly timed interruptions
"Ok, everyone, first lesson starts in 15 minutes, so go back your way to your classrooms and enjoy your first day back!" With that everyone stood up, and started to file out of the staff room, Alison tried to get out first to both avoid any further conversation
with Spencer and avoid any contact with Emily. Unfortunately for her as she pulled her bag up over her shoulder, she did so with such force that she managed to tear one of her bags straps, causing the contents of it to drop onto the floor. As she
knelt down on gone floor cursing herself, she noticed the presence of someone else who had started to help her with her belongings. She made a quick assumption on who it was.
"Spence, i swear to god, if you make another smart comment right now, our 21 year friendship is over."
"Well can't make any promises for other people, but I should warm you, smart comments are kind of my thing" replied a voice that very clearly wasn't Spencer's, or Aria's, or Hanna's, or anyone else's she knew. Emily. Alison's movements froze as she looked
up to see the brunette smiling down across at her as she continued to help gather Alison's things. She looked up once she realised Alison had stopped moving.
"Am I just going to finishing this on my own or...?" Emily asked, amused the blondes sudden change of behaviour.
"What? Oh, uh, no, sorry, uh, thank you for helping, Emily right?" Alison knew damn well what her name was, but after the previously failed attempt to form a sentence she didn't to sound anymore ridiculous that she already did. To top it all, she'd seen
Spencer waiting for her by the door, thoroughly amused by the whole situation.
"That's me, well, it looks like my work here is done, you're welcome...?" Emily said as she rose to her feet again and offered a hand to help Alison up which was gratefully accepted.
"Uh Alison, my names Alison." The blonde replied, still stumbling over her words as she started to shake Emily's hand having not let it go after she helped her up.
"Are you sure? You don't sound too sure" Emily said in a joking mannor, probably trying to lighten the mood but ended up making Alison even more embarrassed than she already was. Feeling a little sorry for the girl she decided to just leave her to it.
Letting go of Alison's hand she said her goodbyes.
"Well Alison, I'm sure I'll see you around, enjoy your first day back" and with a quick wink she stepped pasted Alison and proceeded to leave the room. Alison was left a little what she could only imagine was star struck. She had to snap herself back
into reality before making her way out of the room, noting that Spencer was, still, standing at the doorway with a smile so smug that Alison surprised it hadn't gotten off her face and walked over to Alison herself and laughed in her face.
"Don't talk, we, are not talking" Alison said as she walked past Spencer as fast as she could, finally makers her way to her classroom
"Alison, if you think we are not talking about this, you are so wrong!" Spencer shouted down the corridor as she made her way to her own class. Alison just ignored her. Strutting down the corridor fiercer than usual. Something had been sparked within
her this morning, she didn't know what it was, but today, for the first time in a long a time, she actually felt something different.
So, there we go! Chapter one complete! I was mainly trying to make sure characters and settings were established in this chapter, it'll get a lot more interesting as time goes by, if y'all want more that is!
Review, be brutal, show some love, etc, all much appreciated. Not sure when the next update will be, I've started writing it, but will wait for your feedback before continuing properly!
Apologies for any grammar mistakes, please let me know if ther are any!
Until next time! NerdWrites x