Elizabeth Swann woke with a start with the shrill, annoying ringing that filled her ears. She picked her head up off the cool grass beneath her and ran a hand through her light brown hair. Wait, grass? She could have sworn she was sleeping in a bed three hours ago. She sat up and rubbed her eyes, then stretched and glanced around. She saw two boys on the ground, next to her. They both had brown hair, but one's was almost black. One was paler than the other. Elizabeth looked at her clothes, to reassure herself that what she was wearing was what she was wearing the night before. What she saw, however, was not reassuring in the least. She jumped up and looked down at herself. She was wearing a green-and-white striped shirt with jeans, and green sneakers. She had a green bag on her back. She sat down again, and looked through the bag. She found a notebook, two binders, a book entitled "Earth Science", and a folded piece of paper, She opened the paper.

Swann, Elizabeth

Grade 7

1A: Drama 1B: Science

2A: Dance 2B: Math

Lunch

3A: Public Speaking 3B: Rotation

4A: English 4B: Civics

Elizabeth figured it was a schedule of some sort, so she refolded it and put it back in the bag. She then bent down and tapped one of the boys, the paler one with lighter hair. He woke up immediately.

"What's your name?" Elizabeth asked him.

"Will Turner, what's yours?"

"Will!" Elizabeth said, hugging him. "It's me, Elizabeth!" she exclaimed. She looked him up and down. He was wearing a vertically striped blue, orange, and white button-up unbuttoned over a plain white t-shirt, and tan cargo pants. He had a tan bag around his shoulders. His hair was shorter, falling on his forehead in front and at the top of his neck in back.

"Elizabeth? But...you look about twelve!" he gasped. "You do too!" she shrieked. Her brown eyes widened. "If I'm Elizabeth, and you're Will, then that can only be..." she said, gesturing at the tan boy still sleeping.

"Jack!" they both said in unison. Will bent down to wake him up. He sat up with a start, then stood up. "Where am I?" He looked down at his clothes, a shirt in the same style as Will's, but black with flames rising from the bottom, and he was wearing jeans. "Will? Lizzie?" he said, squinting his chocolate eyes. His hair was longer than Will's, and darker.

"Where are we?" he asked. Elizabeth pulled out her schedule. "A place called Sunnyville Middle School, apparently. Look in your bags, see if you have one of these," she said, shaking her schedule. "I think it's a schedule to tell us when our classes are."

The boys rummaged in their bags, then each pulled out a folded sheet of paper. They compared. "We all have the same classes! That's great!" Elizabeth said, looking at the other two.

"Yeah, great," Will said. "Great, but the only problem is that we don't know where anything is!" Elizabeth came across a solution as soon a she saw a few students walking to the front doors.

"We'll just ask another student to show us around! Let's see if there's anyone our age," she said, as she began to walk over to a girl with long, dark brown hair. Jack and Will followed.

"Um, hi! What're y'all's names?" she said. They replied "I'm Elizabeth Swann," "Will Turner," "Jack Sparrow,".

"I thought you were older!" she said, looking puzzled. "What?" Elizabeth asked, looking equally puzzled. "Never mind. I'm Tori. Actually, it's Victoria, but everyone calls me Tori," the dark-haired girl said. "Well, Tori," Jack said, "we're new here, and we thought maybe you could show us around. Will ya?" he asked, shaking a strand of ebony hair back from his face.

"Sure! Let me see your schedules," she said, stepping back a little. They noticed her outfit, a black t-shirt with a denim mini, red sandals, and silver earrings. "Wow! We have all the same classes! That's crazy!" she said. "So it shouldn't really be a problem. Where are y'all from?" she asked. Elizabeth and Will glanced at each other before telling her "Port Royal". Jack said "Tortuga". She looked suspicious. "Okaaaay...This is getting weird." "What's so weird?" Jack asked. "Oh, never mind. I'll show you after school. Now, though, we have to get to class."

They walked into the main hall, where Tori took the liberty of telling them random snippets of information about the school. "Well, these are the girl's bathrooms, but there's more in the auditorium...Here's the passageway to the second floor, not a lot of people know about it..." They turned a corner. "There are the boy's bathrooms...And here's the auditorium. We have Drama and Public Speaking in here." She walked ahead of them. Elizabeth was shocked at some of the clothes she had seen on girls since they had gotten there, including Tori's miniskirt. At least her pants were long. Will and Jack seemed to have no objection, though. Men, Elizabeth thought.

"And this is the classroom!" Tori said, after walking through the seats and backstage. They walked in. "Hello, class," Mr. Harrington said. "Today, as you know, we will be holding auditions for Romeo and Juliet, but I see we have some new students." He walked over to the class list. "Will, Jack and Elizabeth, is it? Well, you've already acquainted yourselves with Tori, I see, so... The first pair to audition will be Ben and Valerie."

The auditions began. Jack leaned over to Tori and whispered "What's Romeo and Juliet?" "Oh, a classic Shakespearean romantic tragedy," she replied. Jack looked puzzled. "Boy in love with girl, boy kisses girl, girl thinks boy's dead, girl kills self, boy sees, boy kills self. The end."

Suddenly Ben and Valerie's audition was over. "Alright, next let's have..."

OOH! CLIFFHANGER! FUN!