Miserable day, miserable weather, miserable me. I walked slowly behind a group of boys in leather jackets, kind of thuggish. It was my first day at school, I've moved here from England and things were…shit. My parents didn't care that it meant I would leave so much behind like a group full of friends and a good rep.
"Hey grease, looking especially oily today!"
"Wow I can smell the filth!" some posh kids shouted from across the car park at the thugs,
"Why thank you, that's such a nice comment!" one of them shouted,
"You know baby, we prefer the word slick." Another one added, they all laughed and kept going and I made my way into the office.
"Hi my names Tia Daniels." NOT A WORD!
"Ok Miss Daniels, follow me please, here is your lesson plan and your personal diary and here is the principals' office just wait here and he'll be with you in a moment." She handed me the things pointed to a seat and walked off, some bedside manner!
"Miss Daniels, nice to meet you im the principal, Mr Doo." As in Scooby?
"Nice to meet you too." I replied as he offered me to come in.
"Now Miss Daniels or Tia if I may. I Hope you will understand that we have expectations here at the Doo high school. We want the best from our students and we take extreme pride in what we do." He went on to ramble about some other stuff I just nodded. "Your lesson is now starting." He said as a bell went. "I'll take you." I followed him down loads of corridors and before entering a classroom passed me a map then went in, I followed behind.
"Good morning class!" he exclaimed, everyone looked up and one of them shouted
"It's the Doo-man! What's up sir." I couldn't help but laugh the 'Doo-man' wasn't pleased.
"Class this is your new student, Tia Daniels." They all starred at me and looking around I could tell I wouldn't fit in. If the thuggish lot, I mean really there not thuggish just sort of rebel/hoodlums, but anyway if they really were thugs I wouldn't like them, for sure and I could tell from were I was standing I wouldn't fit with the snobs, it was difficult, I wasn't wearing leather of ties…just jeans so I stood out like a sore thumb and then after to much starring I blurted out,
"WHAT?" and with that they went back to the conversations they were having.
"GUYS! Stop it now." The teacher shouted as the principal turned to me,
"Im going but just remember, you can't spell principal with out pal." I smirked at him confusedly as he left,
"Im miss starling, there's a space over there." She pointed to an empty seat next to one of the hoods, but he wasn't really hoody or thuggish just cute. I went and sat down and he smiled at me,
"Hi im Tia." I said casually
"Im soda." He replied turning away from the boys, I paused
"Your soda."
"I am."
"Good."
"Ok." Then miss started talking and to my surprise the whole room paid attention.
An hour later and class was over and off I went to maths. The joy. I went in and miss greeted me,
"Hello my name is Mrs Howarth and I will not tolerate talking in my class so you know, your name is Daniels so ill put you in the alphabetical seating plan." She glanced down at her papers "Next to Curtis, Now." I rushed over the table she pointed at and to my surprise it was soda. Soda Curtis? Unique.
"Hey again." I said as I sat down
"Nice…" he said, nice? What the hell does that mean?
"What?" I questioned
"Well I have a feeling im gonna enjoy maths a little more now."