He ran his hand through his long hair nervously. Coming to a new country had been nothing compared to starting a new high school for the first time.

This was all his father's fault. Why did he have to take the new job in the States. He missed his old mates. He missed his old life. His father pulled up in front of the school. He felt like he was on display in front of everyone.

The kids streamed around them in droves on their way to class. He sat there and watched them out the window for a few minutes. "It'll be fine Robert, just be yourself, everyone will love you."

"I don't want everyone to love me father, I just want to go back home, I won't fit in here." His eyes scaled the High school. It bricks and tall windows making it seem more like a prison than a school.

"The gym looks impressive. maybe you can try out for football this year."

Robert Rolled his eyes, "Soccer, they call it soccer here." He didn't have much time to learn the slang here but he had caught on as fast as he could. His frown hidden from his father behind his hair. His father didn't like it that long, to his shoulders but Robert didn't care. He cleared his throat before looking over , "I can find my way home, alright?" His father nodded not saying anything. He knew how badly the boy wanted to fit in and your parents driving you to school wasn't a good way to start. He would make sure Robert got his driver's licence as soon as possible so that he could drive.

Robert got out of the car not looking back and walked under the overhanging that everyone was standing under, talking, laughing and Robert felt on display, he would be happy if the day passed as quietly as possible, he just wanted to fly under the radar.

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"Alright everyone, let's find your seats. "Mr. Gold you can have a seat there, beside Jefferson. Robert looked around and immediately saw a boy wave him over , pointing to an empty seat beside him. Everyone watched him as he took a seat, sliding his backpack over his chair. He hadn't been issued a locker yet. The bell rang, announcing that School had officially begun.

"You new man?" Robert looked over at the kid that had waved him over.

"Apparently."

"What classes did they give you, I can point you in the right direction. This school can be a little confusing." Robert handed over his slip of paper displaying all his classes. Robert was lucky he had found his home room class in time for the first bell.

"These aren't that bad, and look" Jefferson pointed to Robert's science class, "we have one other class together."

Robert flashed Jefferson a fake smile, "Great." Jefferson handed the slip back to the new kid.

"Your next class is just down the hall, but the others are on the second floor."

Robert just wanted to get the day over with but the annoying kid Jefferson kept talking.

"Hey, you can eat lunch with us if you want."

"Wonderful" Robert responded just as the bell rang announcing that it was time to go to his first official class.

He sluggishly plucked his backpack from off his chair and went out the door turning to the left with his slip of paper in hand looking for his next class. that's when he bumped into her, almost knocking her to the floor. A pair of striking blue eyes and long wavy hair.

"I,I'm sorry, I didn't see you." She even had an angelic voice Robert thought as he just stood there, staring.

"It's no matter, are you alright?" She smiled at him then, which made the complete package for Robert, she was the most beautiful girl he had ever seen. He tried to smile back at her but was positive that he just succeed in having a stupid love-struck expression on his face, but no matter how hard he tried he just couldn't knock it off. He could feel the heat on his face.

"Wow, that's some accent, where are you from? No, don't tell me, let me guess, Ireland? No, that's not right" she laughed when Rob started to shake his head no, giving her the clue that she had misguessed, "Scotland, am I right?" His grin gave it away, she smiled brightly. "another foreigner finally." She held out her hand, "I'm Belle."

Robert took her hand, "Belle, well my name's Robert, Robert Gold."

Belle bit her bottom lip as she tucked her hair behind an ear, "I'm from Australia, but I've been here for a long time now." Robert didn't speak, he was just listening, he was afraid to say something stupid, so he figured silence was better than saying something that could possibly embarrass him.

"It's uh nice to meet you Belle, but if I don't get going I'm going to be late on my day." Belle nodded as she noticed he was holding the paper with his classes printed down on it.

"Well, maybe I'll see you in one of mine." Robert nodded as she excused herself and left, going to her own class.

Robert stumbled around untill he found his room and upon entering it he quickly found a vacant seat and sat down. Kids were streaming in and a group of boys entered as Robert watched. They looked like a gang, most of them dressed in black, they didn't look friendly and of course they spotted him right away. The one that looked like the leader smiled at him, but it didn't look too friendly as he swaggered over , followed by the rest of the boys, they all sat down around Robert.

"Hey man, you the new kid?" the obvious leader of the pack spoke to Robert. He closed his eyes for a moment trying to conjour up his courage, it had never been one of his strong suits. He needed to act brave, be cool. He didn't want to start out making enemies, and he sensed that making enemies with this particular group of boys might not be good for his health.

"How'd you guess?"

The boy smiled. He had dark unruly hair and blue eyes. He was dressed almost completely in black. You could tell, he thought a lot of himself, and considered himself very clever but that remained to be seen according to Robert.

"Well, that crazy accent for one, where you from anyway?" Robert gave the kid his most intimidating smile. No way was he going to back down in front of the kid and be made a fool of.

"Scotland." The kid raised his eyebrows, he seemed impressed, he looked around at his friends. One of the kids looked like a big, dumb jock. The others just followers of the obvious leader.

"My name is Killian, and this is Greg" he pointed to the jock, Robert nodded his head as Killian introduced no one else, he just looked at Robert expecting a response.

"Gold, Robert Gold."

"Right, Nice to meet you,mate." The others laughed as Robert's face fell. He knew when someone was making fun, and Killian had only said mate to illicit a response from him. He was making fun of his accent. It wasn't anything Robert hadn't been expecting.

"Funny." Gold smirked, no way was he going to let this little bastard rifle him up on the first day, not when he was obviously invading their turf. The boys snickered as the bell rang and they all took their seats. Then the impossible happened, Belle walk in and took a seat right in front of Robert.

He felt his heart skipped a beat as she set down her books on her desk and turned around and smiled at him.

"Well, I guess we do have a class together, good." Robert just knew that stupid look had returned as he smiled at her. He was in trouble. His smile faded when he heard Killian's voice behind him.

"Belle, love, come sit by me." Belle looked past Robert to Killian and her smile faded, she reluctantly picked up her books and moved back a few chairs to take a seat by Killian. Robert closed his eyes and sighed, great, he was already in trouble, he had a full-blown crush on Killian's girlfriend, what was he going to do now.

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