A/N Hiya! Thanks for clicking on this story... I hope you like it(: Please excuse the lame title.. it's temporary.

Now, I'm only going to do this once.

Disclaimer: I don't own M.R.

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I stormed out of my small living room, thoroughly pissed off with my mother. I was most likely just overreacting, as I tended to do. I flopped onto my bed and pulled my iPod over to me by the headphones, pressing play and turning the world off. My mom had grounded me for something some stupid kids had done at school; I had gotten blamed and now I was being punished by both my mother and the school. I was grounded for a month and my school was making me show around some new kids, on-top of 3 weeks of detention. I really didn't want to, as I was bad at explaining stuff, and would probably make a fool out of myself. Plus, I had better things to do. I slid the paper containing their names out of my pocket and un-crumpled it before attempting to memorize them. They all had an unusual last name - Ride. There was Nick and Iggy. Well, easy enough. They were both in grade 8 like myself, division 8-3. It was noted on the paper that Iggy was blind. 'Well, great.' She told herself, putting the paper on her bedside table and crawling under her comforter. 'I have to show around some blind kid with a weird name.'

The next day I woke up early. That usually never happens. More often then not I would sleep in and skip the first class or two. I always got away with it, my school didn't call home until third block so I had enough time to walk to school and check in before my mom would hear about my absence. I glanced over at my clock, 6:47 am, it blinked at me. I really hated my stupid clock. It was awkwardly shaped and not just the little colon thing blinked, the whole number blinked and it tended to piss me off. Especially in the morning when I was the most irratable. I went over the time in my head, adding numbers together to figure out I had an hour and forty-three minutes to get ready before I had to be walking out the door.

Sighing, I swung my legs over the side of the bed and braced my hands on the edge of the mattress. My body was exhausted but my mind would just not shut up! That was most likely the reason I was up an hour and thirteen minutes early. I rolled my eyes at myself and sauntered to the other side of my small room where I sat at my dresser. My hair was a right mess! At least it was soft... I plugged in my straightener and began to brush through my unruly hair. As soon as the small appliance was heated up I began to straighten my hair. After that my makeup was simple. White eyeshadow, eyeliner, and mascara. I never saw the need to go overboard on makeup- at school, that is. I finally got around to dressing myself and chose this cute black top my friend had leant to me over the weekend. It had one of those lose, airy, sleeves that went down half-way between my elbow and shoulder and the other sleeve was a golden chain. I put on my good jeans and put on a Lululemon sweater in attempt to make the outfit more casual. Smiling I walked downstairs, only half an hour until I needed to walk out the door. 'That had taken an hour and a half?' I asked myself, surprised.

My mom was already gone for work, she always left before I woke up, so I helped myself to some left-over chocolate cake for breakfast. It was most likely the reason I had a good bit of tummy pudge. I didn't mind the fact I wasn't perfectly skinny, I actually kind of liked it. I was pretty damn comfortable in my own skin.

After finishing off my plate of cake I glanced at my shiny, white iPhone and checked on facebook and texted my friends back. My mom had let me get this last year for getting good grades. I plugged my headphones in and turned on some Ke$ha, pulled on my yellow converse and slipped out the door. I had no backpack because the previous day I had just left all my stuff in my locker. It was one of those rare no-homework days and I wanted to take advantage of it. The walk to school seemed to fly by while I was listening to music, dancing in the streets like a freak. It actually made me laugh when people walked by. Not because they were looking at me strangely or anything, just because I could only imagine what I looked like to them and I was in an extremely good mood. It had snowed the night before and it was gorgeous and sunny and amazing. 'My kind of day...' I thought, crossing the street.

I could see the tall, beige building up ahead and immediately tried to remember what day it was and what I had first block. If I was going to be showing these new kids around I should at least know my own schedule.

When I got up to the field kids were throwing snowballs, taking advantage of the fact the supervisors weren't out yet. It snows here so rarely that this was a big deal. Actually, I was surprised it hadn't been a snow day. Still smiling I walked into the building, the warm air fogging up my glasses. I climbed the stairs and went to my locker that only came up to my chest. Stupid school got these half-sized lockers that were so close together. It was practically impossible to get stuff in and out of them while the locker bay was full.

Once I had finally managed to get my combo correct I opened up my locker and checked the time table. Science first block, awesome. We were getting our tests back today and I was pretty sure I'd done a good job. After grabbing my books I dropped them off in the science lab and then reported to the office. They told me to be there as soon as possible when I got to school so I could immediately start showing these guys around. 'What if they're like, really cute?' The stupid, girly side of my brain said.

'What if they're total losers?' The superficial part said.

'What if they hate you?' The self-conscious one said.

'Well, you'll show them around.' The reasonable side said.

I sat in the uncomfortable blue plastic chair, making myself more nervous by the second until two boys came into the office. The taller one was all black, except for his skin which was an olive colour. He had practically no expression on his face and seemed to be describing the scenery to the blond boy. The blond's eyes looked like they had a white film over them and I assumed that was Iggy, because he seemed to be the blind one. So that means the other one was Fang... They were both extremely hot. Just my luck, I'd probably turn into a stammering idiot.

Standing up, I wrung my hands together, swaying awkwardly. "Er... Hi. Are you guys Fang and Iggy?" I asked.

"Uh, yea. That'd be us." Iggy muttered, holding out his hand. I shook it and smiled. So they were friendly. Good.

"I'm supposed to show you around today. I'm Leona. Most people just call me Lea." I let go of his hand and tucked it into my sweater.

"Oh, cool." Iggy said, smiling slightly.

"Yea..." I trailed off, thinking about what I was supposed to do now. "Oh! Right, I need to show you guys your lockers." I pointed to the hallway. "This way. Follow me."

They both nodded as I made my way through the crowd of students and back up the stairs. There was only five minutes to get them ready for their first class. Joy.

"Uh, these are the empty lockers. You can choose where you want them to be." I mumbled, gesturing. There was one beside my locker and one across from it. There were also two side-by-side about 6 lockers from my own. They chose those ones and I sighed, those lockers were in the area of the "populars" and these guys would no doubt get snatched up within a day or two. There go my chances, I thought glumly.

"So, uh, put your backpacks in them and grab a binder, paper and a pen. We can go get your textbooks at recess, I can share with you guys until then." I said, almost drowned out by the talking around me. Iggy and Fang seemed to hear me though and they grabbed their stuff just as the warning bell rang. Five minutes until class started. "My stuff is already down there so lets go..."

The classes seemed to pass in a flash. Iggy and Fang were quick learners and I easily taught them almost everything they needed to know about this school. I was actually kinda sad when the day ended. We had a rather good time together. The boys had denied hanging out with the popular boys because they thought hanging out with me would be more fun. That surprised me considering all I did at recess was go into the library. Then again, our library is pretty interesting. Go figure. "Bye Lea!" Iggy said cheerfully at the end of the day. I merely smiled and waved before walking out the doors of the school.

I immediately began walking towards my house and was surprised when a couple minutes later I heard footsteps behind me. No one usually walked this way as I was pretty sure I was the only kid from my school that lived on my street. Of coarse, being the curious girl I am, I had to turn around and look. My face immediately broke out into a smile. Iggy and Fang were following me. Well, they weren't exactly following me but they were walking in the same direction. There was, however, another girl walking with them. She looked to be about the same age as us with light blond-brown hair. I saw Fang whisper something to Iggy and he smiled as I turned around. "Leona!" He shouted and I turned my 180 into a 360 so I was walking backwards.

"Hi!" I said, quickly glancing behind me to make sure I didn't trip over something. I barely avoided a huge accident with a fire hydrant.

"Max, this is Leona, you can call her Lea. Lea, this is Max. Max is our adopted sister. She's in grade nine." Iggy introduced us. I waited for them to catch up and then held my hand out to Max. She glanced at it, and then looked up at Fang who was only slightly taller then her. Then again, he was barely taller then me. Max was about an inch shorter, 5'9 most likely. I was a solid 5'10. Fang and her seemed to have a silent conversation and she reluctantly shook my hand.

"Nice to meet you." Max said, letting go of my hand and tucking it in her pocket.

"Back at ya." I nodded and copied her, letting my hand rest in my sweater pocket. "So, if you're in grade nine, you're fourteen?"

"No, I skipped grade four. I'm thirteen." She told me nonchalantly.

"Oh. Cool." I smiled again and began to walk backwards. "So, you guys live down here?" I mostly directed the question at Iggy, he seemed the friendliest.

"Yea, we live on Harrison. What about you?" Iggy played with the strap of his checkered backpack, his eyes staring almost directly at my face.

"Mckinnon. Hey! Harrison goes right through McKinnon... you guys live close. And you have a shorter walk to school. Lucky." I turned back so I was facing the front, not wanting to trip and make a fool of myself. I easily feel into step beside Iggy.

"We should walk to school together." Iggy suggested, looking over to me. "It'd be way more fun then just walking to school with these losers." He laughed and I looked slightly nervous. Do I laugh with him, or do I keep quiet? "Just joking!" Iggy added and I chuckled slightly.

"Yea, that'd be fun. I'll meet you guys at 8:30?" I suggested, readjusting my backpack on my shoulder. It seemed that because there was no homework yesterday the teachers had really decided to lay it on today.

"Sounds great." The blond boy said, pulling some sunglasses out of his pocket and putting them on. Iggy was about the exact same height as me which was a good thing. I disliked guys who were shorter then me... kinda kept reminding me I was slightly a giant. Then again, it was fun to make fun of them for being so short.

We rounded the corner and came to the place where Harrison ran through Mckinnon. "See ya tomorrow!" I said, continuing to walk straight. Max, Fang, and Iggy turned right. The whole rest of the walk home I was smiling. I had seemed to make some new friends.