It's good to be welcome!
It was a nice and sunny day. The birds were singing, the sky was blue and everyone was happy. NEARLY everyone. Me and my parents were moving. Again. Slowly I began to think that we'll never find a place where we can stay for longer. Every once in a while someone came to conclusions that we weren't 'normal'. That's was when we moved weren't humans. Zombies? No. Vampires? No. Ghosts? Of course not. We were like something in between life and death. Immortals. We were not humans, we had abnormal powers. Humans (that was if they knew which was very unlikely) called us th'Living Death'. A bit dramatical, but I guess that was what we were.
I climbed into my dad's car as he gave me a sympathetic smile. We drove off. I took a last glance at our old house thinking this is not the last time I'm doing this. We drove for hours but I could tell we were getting closer as my mom was getting more and more excited. She could be so childish at times.
Finally we arrived to a little cute town of Golden Valley. Mom mentioned it was very pretty but I thought she was exaggerating it. Now I know what she meant. It was absolutely breathtaking. It was Autumn here and all the leaves were tinted in burnt orange, crimson red and golden yellow.
'So, do you like it?' Asked mom 'It is truly the most beautiful place I saw in my entire life' and I definitely meant it. Both of my parents smiled at me and I smiled back. ' We've got a surprise for you.' added mom' We thought about the driving licence you just got and decided to buy you a car as a welcoming gift.' what? A car? Great! ' Thanks mom. I don't know what to say. You really didn't have to.' I was amazed. 'Its already parked on our driveway and all you gotta do is tell us if you like it. Oh and then pick the keys up from the neighbours.'
We pulled over at a enormous white house my dad had bought for us two weeks ago. It was bigger than our last one. The garden was stunning. It had tons of plants and flowers I didn't even know the name of. A little further left I saw a little forest and on the right there was another big house. These two were the only ones I could see so these were the neighbours my dad was talking about.
We didn't usually have neighbours. Their house was also big but not as huge as ours. I noticed a silver car parked on our driveway. It was mine! It was absolutely perfect. I loved everything about it. The size, the colour, everything. My parents always knew what to get me. Although I shouldn't be surprised. After all they read minds. Not that I liked it when they messed with my brain.
'Go and pick the keys up, but be back soon. We need to talk. I walked toward the house on the right. It was kinda like ours with the big windows and enormous garden though a little more glum maybe. I rang the doorbell anxious to get home already. I was tired and needed sleep desperately. A guy about a year or two older than me opened the door. He was quite tall and handsome.
He had dark brown hair and baby blue eyes. 'Hi,' I blurted out 'I'm here to pick the car keys up. My dad left them here a few days ago. ' I explained.'Oh, hi' He had a casual tone of voice ' You must be Lilly then. I'm Daniel by the way. Wanna come in?' He looked at me curiously. 'No I gotta go' I answered. 'Well maybe another time then ' he continued 'Wait a second I'll bring them here then.' He left and I waited patiently. A minute later I saw him coming back with silver keys in his right hand. 'Here you go. So do you like it?' he probably meant the car. 'sure, Its perfect.' I said as he handed me the keys. 'Sure you don't want to come in?' He repeated. 'No i can't I really gotta go now.' I insisted. 'Right. Bye then.' He sent me a friendly smile. 'Bye' I answered.
I found both of my parents sitting by a large table in what I suspected was our new dining room. It was mostly white and black and the table was way to big for a three person family, but my parents always liked it 'posh'.
'Sit down honey' Said dad and I sat next to him on a wooden black chair. 'You know the rules, I know it's going to be really hard for you now, but I have to remind you not to let anybody even come to conclusions again. Try not to stand out.' His blue eyes were nothing but worry.
I knew what I had to do. I just needed to blend in with the crowd. But since everyone here grew up together I suspected it to be pretty hard. 'Okay dad, don't worry I'll be fine. I always am.' I sent him a warm smile and the both smiled back at me, but it didn't reach their eyes.
I asked the directions to my room and walked off. I stomped up the stairs, third door on the right. I opened the door and walked in. They managed to unpack my stuff as well. The room was very big. It had creamy white and purple walls and a big window that opened up to see the garden. In the centre of the room there was a massive bed with lavender curtains. I got dressed into my old silk pyjamas, took a shower and went straight to sleep. Tomorrow would be a stressful day.
I didn't sleep well that night. I was too nervous to and the hot weather didn't help it either. By the morning I was absolutely drenched with sweat.
When I woke up the weather was nice, but I didn't trust this to last as there was already a few cloud forming in the sky. I looked around my room once again. It was just how I wanted it to be. I decided to take a shower. I walked out of the bathroom realising what time it was. I was already 15 minutes to my first class! I quickly ran downstairs grabbed my bag and flew out of the door.
After a moment of driving along the main road I realised mom gave me false directions to school. As usual. She always mixed stuff u so I was now twenty minutes late. Crap! What a motivating start to the day.
I finally found what I was looking for. A big white sign saying 'Golden Valley College'. I parked near reception. The school was big and it didn't look nice at all. It started to rain as I raced up to reception. What a perfect day to forget your umbrella. I walked towards the grumpy old looking receptionist.
'How can I help you?" She asked not even looking up at me. 'I'm Lilly Sparks I just moved in here.' I explained nervously. After a second she looked up at me with loads of papers in her hand. 'All right Miss. Sparks, here is your timetable, locker number and appropriate behaviour booklet. Go straight through that glass door and turn left. First door on your right is your next class. Give that yellow note to your teacher. Oh, and do not be late again.' She said pointing to the glass doors behind her. Great, now I'm going to be in one of these freakishly perfect schools.
I looked at my appropriate behaviour booklet and wasn't too happy about it, I'll never use it anyway. All the restrictions would be ignored in my last school but this was some sort of a 'Never let them be happy again' clan.
I walked thorough the door ignoring the 'No mobile phones' sign. A long beeping noise hit my ear drums. Dammit! I didn't know they had metal detectors here. The grumpy old looking lady at the reception pointed at me and gestured for me to come forward. She grabbed me by my elbow to the 'No mobile phones' sign
'Can you read?' She asked 'I'm pretty sure I can.' I grumbled 'Empty your bag!' She demanded 'What?' I said empty your bag!' she repeated. 'I heard the first time thank you.' I snapped in annoyance 'Then empty it!' she continued. 'No!' I argued. 'Then I'm afraid you'll have to go with me.' she answered calmly 'Fine, have the stupid old phone and let me go!'I definitely wasn't going to be happy in this school. 'Thank you for cooperating. Are you sure you don't have any mp3 player's or anything of this sort with you?' she questioned. 'Yes I am' I replied. 'Fine but let me warn you that we do not tolerate this sort of behaviour at this school but as it is your first day here I will let you off.' she said eyeing me from head to toes. 'Whatever' I said not even looking at her now.
I walked quickly into the main hall. It was big plain and apart from the few windows and lockers there was nothing. It was like in a prison. This was going to be just great. I stopped at my classroom door ' Just try to blend in' I repeated the words in my head over and over. I put my hand on the doorknob and inhaled deeply.
I opened the door and entered the light classroom. As soon as I walked in I noticed everyone was staring at me. Great. Just what I needed for a confidence boost. I thought to myself sarcastically. The teacher didn't seem to notice me so I walked forward to him and gave him the note the receptionist gave me. The teacher studied the piece of paper carefully and turned to me clearly curious.
'I see then ' He said in a monotone voice. 'Miss Sparks Right?' I nodded. I could hear people whispering as soon as he said my name. No wonder people were gossiping about me. That made me even more uncomfortable. 'I'm Mr Mason we're doing French history now. He informed me. 'Sit at the back of the class please.' He instructed.
People watched me as I walked across the school, I was clearly unwelcome. I sat on an empty chair beside the window. The whole lesson I tried to focus on my work, but I couldn't ignore the whispers. The girl that sat in front of me told her friend that my parents were so rich, they probably invested in plastic surgery for me. Nice to know! You couldn't ignore that! By the end of the lesson no one even cared to whisper.
'I bet she thinks she's better than us cos she's so rich and pretty, but I bet she's so dumb she can't tie her own shoelaces. And look at all the makeup she's wearing.' That surprised me a little because from what I could remember this is the highest level history class, and I didn't even have any makeup on today. The girl obviously didn't care I heard her. When she turned around and met my gaze she had a very satisfied smirk on her face.
'Just try to blend in' I said to myself once again. I was going to have manage without friends this time. I stood up and was about to go when a short boy, a bit taller than me stood in my way. He had brown spikey hair and a very friendly expression.
'Hi, so you're the new girl right?' He asked. I just nodded still looking at the girls in front of me. They were now leaving the room laughing to each other. 'I'm Micheal.' He said looking the same direction as I did. 'Don't worry about them, they're just jealous.' He looked back in my direction. He probably heard them as well. 'I'm Lilly!' I finally answered looking away from the girls.
'So, do you need help finding your next class?' He asked. 'Yeah, do you know where room 204 is?' I eyed my timetable. 'Sure, I can show you the way, I'm in 203.' Thank god! I didn't want to be late to another lesson. 'Thanks a lot' I mumbled and gave him a thankful smile. He talked all the way to my next class asking me questions.
'See you at lunch then then.' He said smiling at me. I nodded and found the room straight away. 'Thanks again.' I repeated. I was one of the first ones in so at least I wasn't late. I walked across the classroom to the teacher's desk and gave her the same note I gave Mr. Mason. 'Welcome in our class Miss. Sparks. Take a seat next to the window.'
To my disappointment I didn't have the pleasure of sitting alone on this lesson. Blond girl with short spikey hair was sitting next to me. She was about my height and had happy baby blue eyes. I sat on my chair trying not to disrupt anybody.
'Hi, I'm Tia!. She said smiling at me. 'I'm Lilly.' I answered. 'We're doing Shakespeare now. Do you need any help?' She asked politely. 'Actually. I could use a hand.' I answered. I wasn't dumb, but no matter how many times I did Shakespeare before (and that was a lot of times) I just didn't get it. 'Well, now we just need to read that extract and then we can work together on the questions.' She said pointing at the long text in my English book.
The rest of the lesson I spent talking to Tia. She was a very nice person, very helpful and chatty. At the end of the lesson Tia offered for me to sit with her in the cafeteria, so I agreed. We sat at the front where we could see everyone else. Tia asked a lot of questions about my previous school and a few people that I didn't know joined us at the table. Micheal, the boy from my History class joined a few minutes later and flooded me with mountains of questions.
The girl that said I had plastic surgery was walking pass our table not looking our way. She was followed by a group of older boys. A dark haired boy looked at me happily. 'Hi' he said smiling at me. Everyone suddenly turned to look at me. 'Hi' I blurted out and looked back at my food. I wasn't hungry anymore but everyone was staring at me and I could feel my face going bright red.
I wondered what my dad thought of my blending in technique. He could read my mind from miles away. To be accurate he could read my mind anywhere.
'You know him?' I heard Tia's curious voice. 'Know who?' I didn't look up. 'Daniel!' The boy you said Hi to!' I shrugged. I only now remembered who it was. It was my neighbour. 'Anyways, they're not good company.' Informed Tia. 'Actually they're one of the worst people meet here. They think of themselves as royalty. For me they're just a bunch of wannabes. That boy you said Hi to, Daniel, he's no better. He might be handsome, but he's most selfish and arrogant of them all. I wouldn't waste my time on them.'
Weird. Yesterday I thought he was nice. 'So what's your next lesson?' She asked changing the subject. I got out my timetable and found my next class. 'Maths. Room 101.I replied 'Oh, I haven't got maths now.' she said a little disappointed 'Do you Micheal? She asked him. 'Yeah. That's great.' He answered.
The bell rang and I followed Micheal to my next class. He talked to me all the way there, All the other classes I had with Micheal and he never ever stopped talking. Not for a minute! Finally my last lesson ended. Even though I told Micheal I was perfectly capable of finding the parking, he still insisted on walking me all the way up to my car. Talking. Finally he gave up. I put the engine on and drove home.
I turned around the corner and off the main road into a smaller street. I suddenly banged my head on the back of the seat. For the first few seconds I didn't know what was happening. Then I saw a car in front of mine. It must've hit me pretty hard because my front headlight was smashed to pieces. Seconds later later another car pulled over. I got out of my car as quickly as I could to see the from a smashed headlight and a massive scratch on my front bumper, nothing alse was wrong. But it was enough to make me furious.
A short boy came out of the car that hit me. I didn't recognise him at first but I realised it was Micheal. His expressions was absolutely terrified but I didn't care. My PERFECT car wasn't so perfect anymore and it was HIS fault! To my surprise the boy in the other car was Daniel. He climbed out of his car with a smirk on his face.
'You have just ruined my new car!' I shouted at Micheal. 'I am soooo sorry!' His voice was very weak 'I'll fix it!'
He went back to his car and tried to get it out of my way but instead he had gone forward and smashed my other headlight. Daniel stood there laughing at him. My mouth fell open as Micheal struggled for words. He was in his car nearly crying.
'Get out of my way before I seriously hurt you!' Daniel was in hysterics while I shouted at Micheal. 'Whats so funny?' I was losing my temper now.
I'm coming honey. I heard my dad's voice in my head. No dad! I can handle it! Besides, how will you explain to them you knew what happened? You wont tell them you read minds will you? Just stay out of it dad! I thought in my head so that he would hear me. I heard Daniel burst out laughing as Micheal hit his head on the door.
I stumbled over to my car and collapsed on the passengers seat. I something was wrong with me. Suddenly I felt really hot and sweaty. 'I don't feel very well.' I informed them both. If I calm down maybe I'll feel better. But I couldn't calm down. 'How about I just get you home and your dad can come and sort this out?' Asked Daniel. I didn't answer him. 'She doesn't look so good.' he carried on. Micheal just nodded with tears in his eyes. Daniel drove me back home in silence and I climbed out of the car thanking him. And then it hit me.