Chapter - 1 - New boy in class.
"Wake up Mary, you have school today!", called out Mary's mom.
"Okay mom", said Mary as she got up to get ready for school, she sighed looked at the books spread around on her desk. Thinking over which one to take school today, she picked up Paper Towns by John Green and kept it in her bag.
Today was going to be an ordinary school day as usual, she would go to school sit at the front bench along with her bestie Candice and would read her book. She couldn't really have asked for or wanted anything more
.
On the way to school, in the bus she talked to her friend, Joey who was a really friendly and cheerful guy, she could always talk to him freely without worrying about anything. As they reached school, the bell rang and the assembly began. It was going as it usually went first period was their stream subject, Computer
Science. Today however instead of being on time, the teacher was a tad bit late. Seeing this a good opportunity she took out Paper Towns and opened it up using the cute Bookmark that Candice had recently gifted her.
She couldn't care less about the boys in the back who started at their boyish routines, throwing paper balls at each other, teasing each other and just causing a scene in rushed to their seats as the class leader, Abhirag announced that the teacher was on his way to the class.
The CS Teacher entered the class but with him was a boy, one that she had never seen before in her life. A tall boy with uncombed but settled hair with nothing special at all about him. Everybody stood up to wish the teacher and most of the children were wondering who the boy was. The boy himself was looking quite nervous, as anyone would be on their first day of a new school. The teacher asked everyone to sit down, and announced the newcomer's name, "This here is Ethan, a newcomer to our school hailing from Central India. Be friendly and helpful to him, okay? Now Ethan, this is your new class, please take a seat wherever one is available"
Everybody was wondering of what kind of a guy Ethan was, but not Mary she couldn't be bothered less if everybody except Candice left the class and didn't come back. She was happy with her books and her rest of the day went as usual with the exception, of a round of introduction of Ethan to all the teachers. As the final bell rang, Mary and Candice packed their bags as they started to head out of the class towards the Library as part of their Club activities. As they started to head out, a soccer ball swooshed past their heads as a happy Ethan rushed after it nearly hitting both of them.
Ethan turned around and yelled, "Sorry!" and ran off. Mary sighed, apparently the soccer club was a big thing among the boys and the new guy had
ideas about joining it too. Candice yelled out, "Watch were you're going idiot!".
As they sat out in the library they started discussing about the books each of them read and started fangirling over Percy Jackson series. An hour passed as a bell signifying the end of club activities rang, and the duo walked towards the exit. At the gate Mary said goodbye to Candice and starting walking towards her bus, She would walk alone to the bus everyday, because she liked to be alone at some times. She was better off that way she thought. On the bus she chatted a bit with Joey and got off at her house.
Washed up and changed she sat down to study. Mary was really hard working. She loved her parents and wanted to do her best to get a high score in her exams. She studied up till 9PM, after which she head off to "sleep".
She took out Paper Towns from her bag and started reading it, she would usually read books still she would fall asleep usually around 12 or even 1
at night. During this time period she was free to do anything and would share posts on Google+ using her phone, she wasn't like the other girls
and didn't have Facebook. She used Google Chat to talk to her old bestie from her previous school. Her father worked in the corporate bank, on a
transferable posting. And she had transferred to her current city just recently. She fell asleep soon after as the moonlight gleamed on her face from
the window.
