Craig walked down the hallway of Degrassi High. So far things were going ok, he and Ash were on good terms again, and his band just got a gig the night before. He was going over his chemistry notes on the way back to his locker when he heard,

"Excuse me?"

He looked up and saw a beautiful girl. Craig quickly looked around and seeing no one else, asked "Are you talking to me?"

The girl nodded. She was about 5' 5", with dark blue hair just past her shoulders, pale skin and blue eyes. She was wearing jeans, a black tank top, black leather combat boots, and a red motorcycle jacket. A red ribbon was tied around her neck and she had on a necklace with the Star of David on it.

"Could you tell me where Mr. Raditch's office is?" she asked.

Craig nodded. "Um... Sure. I'm on my way there now." The girl smiled and Craig smiled back.

"Oh sorry. My name's Tinka."

"I'm Craig." They walked towards the office.

"How long have you been here?"

"My family and I just moved here about a week ago."

Craig nodded. "How do you like it so far?"

"So far I like it, including right now, it's much quieter than L.A.."

"L.A. as in Los Angeles, California."

"One in the same."

They walked into the main office and Tinka gave her schedule to the secretary. The secretary looked at it and nodded. "Welcome to Degrassi Miss Pierce. Grab a seat. Let me guess Mr. Manning late again" "Yeah," answered Craig. "You know the drill."

They both went over and sat down.

"So why'd you moved from the City of Angels to Ontario?" Craig asked, as he started to fill out the tardy sheets. "My dad's company transferred him. It was a better job and more money, so we decided to move." Tinka replied.

Craig was about to ask another question, but Mr. Raditch walked out of his office.

"Ah Ms. Pierce your here we've been waiting for you."

"Sorry," said Tinka, "My dad got lost."

"Well that's alright it is your first day, come on in."

Tinka got up and started walking toward the door, right before she walked into the office she turned around," Bye... Craig right?"

"Right. Bye, Guess I'll see ya around."

"Guess you will."

Craig finished filling out the forms and handed in to get his late slip. Twenty minutes late for first period, Mrs. Risco was going to be pissed.

Craig handed Mrs. Risco his pass and headed toward his seat in the back of the room. "Late again Craig?" "Sorry Joey's car broke down." "At least you have an excuse, just make sure to get the notes from someone." "Okay."

As soon as he sat down he heard some guys talking from the row in front of him. "Did you see the new girl." "The ninth grader, yeah she's sooo hot, and the southern accent don't get me started" "What no. The new girl's Hawaiian with brown hair and no accent I talked to her," said the first one. "Didn't you guys hear," said another one, "there are five new kids, three girls and two guys." "Ohhhh."

After class Craig ran to catch up with Spinner and Jimmy who were walking really fast for some reason.

"Jimmy, Spin!"

"Hey Craig, what's up?" Spinner asked, opening his locker. "I just met the most amazing girl." Craig gushed.
"Yeah? What does she look like?" asked Jimmy. "She has dark blue hair, she's kinda gothic, oh and these amazing blue eyes..." Craig trailed off lost in thoughts of Tinka. His friends grinned. Whoever this girl was, she had Craig head over heels for her already.

"What's her name?" asked Jimmy.

"Tinka Pierce. She's one of the new kids, she moved here from California."

"Tinka?" said Spinner breaking into a fit of giggles.

"What's so funny," asked Paige, she and Ashley had been on there way to the bathroom but she couldn't resist talking to her boyfriend. "Craig's in love with a girl named Tinka," he singsong until he noticed Paige's other companion, "Hi Ashley."

"Tinka?" "Love?" Inquired the two girls at the same time.

"Where's Tinka I've been looking all over for her," asked Ashley. "She's up in the office with the other new kids, how do you her," Craig asked in return. "We're old friends, she lived down the street from me when I was eight, and she was my best friend. But then her family moved out to California and I only got to visit her every couple years, but now her family's moved back to Canada." Ashley looked so excited it was good to see her happy again.

The bell started to ring for the net class to begin. "Lets go we don't want to get Simpson mad at us we can find your friend later," said Paige before she started to pull Ashley off toward his class with the guys right behind them.

"Wait Ash," said Craig after the walked into the class room and motion for her to come over. "I just wanted you to know that I'm not in love with Tinka, Spin was just messing around." "I already knew that, anyway it's okay for you to like people I don't care I'm over you." "Really," asked Craig completely surprised by what she'd just said. "Really," Ashley answered as she walked over to her seat.

"Quiet down guys, Class as some of you know we have a few new students, they just moved out here from California," said Mr. Simpson," And Mr. Raditch chose our class for tour guides, So do I have three or four volunteers that will generously give up one day of classes to show these guys around?"

The whole class raised their hands.

"That's what I thought okay how about, Paige, Gavin, and Craig. You three can head up to Mr. Raditch's office to be assigned your buddy."

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