Jack pulled up his hood as he walked towards the imposing brick building. The whole thing was a modern art lover's dream, all glass and steel and dark grey stonework. When his social worker had brought him here for registration the day before he had all but begged her to take him somewhere, anywhere, else. This place was obviously for the uppercrusts. He was going to stand out like a sore thumb, even more than he usually did.
Besides, rich people had a habit of being snobby and judgemental. The teenager did not do with with snobbish or judgemental, as his extensive juvenile record of fights and pranks gone wrong well proved. He sighed and did his best to hide his white hair as he walked up the smooth (was that black marble?) steps. Not that he wasn't drawing attention anyways, his worn brown skinny jeans and blue hoody, along with his tattered (almost non existent really) blue converse, were obvious indicators of an outsider. And the teens loitering out in the early morning spring sunshine stared down the poor new kid as he entered the building of the school.
He glared at the neat and tidy plates stuck to the walls near the doors as he passed them, comparing them to the piece of paper he had been given the day before. He probably should have paid more attention the day before when he and his social worker had been given a quick tour. But the principal's assistant had had such a monotonous and droning kind of voice that Jack had kind of lost himself in his sulky thoughts. So now here he was, at yet another school, lost, and trying to figure out what to do about that fact.
As he stalked forwards reading yet another room number off of the wall he suddenly rammed into something. Hard. His but hit the floor about the same time that he heard a very colorful curse from above him. He quickly looked up to thee that the something had actually been a someone, a very tall muscular boy with odd charcoal colored hair and shockingly green eyes. "Oi, what the hell mate?" The still standing boy growled ill temperedly, muscular, well tanned, forearms. Jack registered that he had an austrailian accent before his brain caught onto the fact that he was still sitting dumbly in the floor making a fool of himself.
He lightly jumped up and took a step back from the guy he had just crashed into. "Hey sorry man," he said giving a small smile to try and lighten the mood. "I was trying to find the right classroom and wasn't looking where i was going. My bad." The other boy didn't look plicated. "Yeah it is yer bad. What kina gumby doesnt look tha direction e's headed?" Jack took another half step back, not liking the hostility in the other boys voice. "Look, I'm sorry ok? Now if you'll excuse me I've still got a classroom to find." The austrailian opened his mouth to reply but was cut of by an excited and high pitched squeal of, "ASTER!"
They both jumped as thin arms, covered in a rainbow of plastic beads, came out of nowhere and wrapped themselves around the larger boys neck."Congratulations on winning the art competition! I just heard this morning! Why didn't you tell me sooner Aster?! I would have had my mom make the kachodi you like to celebrate!" The dark haired boy looked uncomfortable. "It wasn't that big a deal. Uhm… i'm kind of in the middle of something Tooth… could we not talk about this here?"
The colorful arms disappeared as a thin, equally colorful girl stepped around the boy, Aster, Jack surmised from their conversation. "Oh," She said in a more moderate tone. "I didn't realise you were talking to someone! Who is this Aster?" The tanned teen shrugged and said gruffly. "The blogan who ran into me is who 'e is." Tooth rolled her eyes, which Jack noted were a bright purple color. He wondered if she wore contacts, he wouldn't put it past her with all the colorful highlights she had in her hair. "Come on Bunny. How many times have I told you not to be a grump? I mean how rude can you get? Not even asking the new kid for his name then calling him something mean in your weird slang!" Aster all but growled at the reprimand. "'E was rude first in not lookin' where 'e was goin'. An' my slang ain't weird!"
But by this point the girl (who Jack suspected was made of pure energy) wasn't listening and had moved closer to the kid in the blue hoodie. "Hi!" She said chirpily. "I'm Toothiana Tyagi. Also known as Tooth! And the Grump Is E. Aster Bunnymund. I'd tell you what the E stands for but then he would be even grumpier and that would be a real mood kill. You can call him bunny if you want to though, everyone else does."
Aster was glowering behind her, but Jack hesitantly took the hand she was offering anyways. "Uhm, I'm Jackson Overland, Or just Jack I guess?" The spritely girl beamed. "It's so nice to meet you Jack! Is today your first day here?! Oh how exciting! Do you know where your first class is? I have time if you want me to show you!" Jack was already feeling tired in just listening to the girl, Tooth. But she had just offered a solution to his problem so he offered her a friendly smile. "That would be great actually. This place is huge."
But Tooth was already ignoring what he was saying in favor of another squeal. "Your teeth! They're beautiful!" Jack backed up a bit when she looked like she was going to launch herself at him. "Uhm what?" But she was completely focused on getting another look, she had reached up to pry his lips away so they would no longer hide the objects she so desired but a large hand came out of nowhere to stop her. "Now Tooth,, fingers out of mouth yes?" That seemed to snap her out of her trance. "Oh!" She exclaimed. "Sorry! They're just so pretty!" The hand released her arm and Jack traced it back to a hulking monster of a teen who was standing next to him.
He had long brown hair, blue eyes, and a five o'clock shadow even though it was barely eight in the morning. His eyes twinkled as he smiled at the short newcomer. "And who might this be?" The mammoth of a boy inquired of Tooth an smiled excitedly. "This is Jack! It's his first day! Jack this is Nicholas St. North! And the quiet one standing next to him Is Sanderson Mansnoozie," Jack looked down to see a short blonde boy almost hidden by his companion. The kid smiled and gave a little wave. Jack nodded slightly in reply. "North and Sandy respectively." Tooth finished.
"Hi.." Jack said uncertainly. Slightly put off by the size difference between him and North. The larger boy smiled in an inviting way and exclaimed, "Iz good to see new faces no? And new school iz like adventure! Jack gave him a small smile back. "Yeah I guess so." I just wished I could stick to one adventure a year. He thought snarkily to himself. North was then distracted as Sandy tugged at the hem of his shirt. "What iz eet Sandy?" The shorter blonde pointed at a familiar piece of paper, which Jack only then realised he was no longer had that happened? "Oh!" North exclaimed, "You have same lunch times! You will eat weeth us?" Tooth dashed over to look at the paper over sandy's head. "Ooh! Not just that Jack! You have very class with at least one of us! How lucky! This way we can make sure you won't get lost today. We can just make sure whoever you have class with will show you the way!"
Jack shrugged, uncomfortable at their attentions. "Uh, I mean, I don't want to be a bother…"
He stumbled as a large hand clapped him on the shoulder. "Nonsense! Iz nobother to help new friend." The white haired teen looked down shyly but could of swore he heard Aster snort in quiet derision.
"Bunny." Tooth said, warning tone clearly evident in her voice. "Jack has the same homeroom as you. Why don't you go ahead and show him the way? It's time for us to be heading to class anyways." Aster looked like he was going to protest, but with one look at Tooth's expression he changed his mind. "Yeah. Fince. Whatever." Tooth nodded and turned to Jack, suddenly all smiles. "Ok Jack follow Bunny and when homeroom is over Sandy will pick you up and lead you to biology ok?" Jack had a feeling that turning down the girl's offers would be a bad idea so he nodded. "Sure… Thanks I guess?"
North let out a loud laugh. "Is great to make friends on first day no? Now to class." With that he lumbered down the hall and the rest of them split off. Jack obediently following a certain grumpy australian. The teen had a feeling that he was in for a long day.
Hello! Welcome to this weird little brain baby I call a story! I'm going to try and put as much of this up as I can while I still have access to a computer. So wish me speedy writing ya'll!