Greeting, guys, gals, and Non-binary pals!
I know what you're thinking!
For so Degrassi fans, this is odd.
For my fans, this is odder.
But, I actually wrote a version of what I'm posting today, without some main element. In any case, I wanted to do this for a long while, maybe ever since I started watching Degrassi when I was a kid in school. And I like to do a mulit-chapter story where it doesn't consume years and years of my life.
I wanted to write this for a Valentine's day thing I was doing, but the romantic element won't come in until a few chapters in.
This was officially the weirdest day of Margarita Maribona's life.
Even if's was technically night, when it turned instantly into day. God, she was going to drop dead by the end of this 'day'.
One minute, she was complaining to her sister Maribel about trying to back out of watching Degrassi: New Class, her sister's latest new favorite Netflix show. She didn't really wanted to waste time using Skype to watch a show Rita had given up on sometime when Clare graduated from Degrassi.
In literally the next minute, she was sitting on a bulky as hell computer, with the screen turned off, with a huge headache.
Frowning, she moved around, her eyes widening at the unfamiliar room, yet so similar to her own. For one thing, the lack of wood walls threw her off. Along with an actual bed. She lightly touched the mattress, not even nearing her laid out clothes (which would be something she would have worn, if she was a middle class girl in second grade).
Soft to the touch.
"No manches!" She moved away from the bed to the dresser, to a picture of her, her sister, and her mother, smiling, next to their mixed dog, all dressed up! She pressed a hand to her mouth. She set that one down, and looked at the other one that was on the dresser. She wanted to cry right then and there.
"Rita!" She heard her sister shouting, bolting to the door towards Maribel's voice. Her mom and most of her family uses Margarita, and occasionally, Maggie, but she preferred Rita, for now.
"Maribel, please tell me you know what's going on!" Rita stopped in her tracks and smelt before she saw breakfast. Huevos a la mexicana, and sausage, with homemade hashbrowns, with cheese inside.
"Only your first day of school, sis, chill! And don't worry, I can still take you if we can hurry up on breakfast, sorry I couldn't find the noplales, but better than nothing." Her sister stopped talking and turned to Rita, a smile reaching her face. "Come on Rita! Are you still upset?"
The questions Rita had fell by the wayside. "Refresh my memory."
"Moving here, to Toronto, instead of staying in Chicago, since Mom wanted to take you to Mexico. I get it, it's still a big adjustment. But I promise you, when winter break comes, we can head to Mexico to see her and the rest of the family, okay?" Maribel walked up to her, and laid a hand on Rita's shoulder.
Rita took a deep breath, and released it. "Okay, fine. Here's hoping for a good first day."
When her sister helped her to her new school, Rita took all of the information in. This couldn't be a dream, everything's too real, and not real at the same time. She brought an extra notebook to take notes in, just to see what sort of differences are in Toronto. She knows of the name, but she couldn't really place it anywhere. The year is a whole other issue altogether. When Rita had asked about her phone, she gave her a Motorola Flip phone. She couldn't find her Android anywhere, at least not in time for school.
Look, when it comes to classes, and textbooks, and the homework, Rita was all for it. Even if she had to drop out because of her mom. She wasn't going to question that part.
What she really wanted to do to be back in her room with wooden walls, and her wooden bed, getting ready to help her mother with getting the water from the water pump.
And that's the other thing. Her sister, where Rita is from, is a nurse, in Mexico city, and visits infrequently. Rita had the option to move with her sister when her family decided on relocationing to Mexico, but she was too scared at the time to do so, and her mother needed her.
What does this all mean for this, right now? And what the hell Toronto has to do with all of this?
She kept looking at herself in the rearview mirror, a few years difference than what she normally looks like, thought her hair is much longer, up to her shoulders.
"Rita, it's for the best, you're going to continue your education, and you're going in one of the best programs that this school has, you're on your way in no time!
Rita's eyes darted around when she saw the familiar roads, when she was sure she had never been to Toronto, in her entire life.
Then she saw a cream colored 'Welcome Back' banner, with light blue lettering. Underneath it saying, Degrassi Community School.
When Maribel's van came to a complete stop, Rita took everything she had inside of her to not freak out. Right there, walking towards the steps of Degrassi, were Emma Nelson, Liberty, and Toby, whose looks came straight out of season 4. She should know, it's was one of her favorite seasons to rewatch.
She was in Toronto, where Degrassi is, even if the later seasons kinda were Americanized, she remembered Fiona and Declan.
Maribel walked her inside the school, talking about how the latest surges of activity in the school doesn't deterred from their positive qualities.
Rita smiled, made polite conversation, and made an overture to listen, hearing about having a student who was in all of her classes who could help her.
She was in season 4 of Degrassi. That season.
Holy hell. What did she wake up to?
