Cassandra rolled over and hit the snooze bar for the fifth time that morning. Here she was for the first time in her life in a new town about to go to a new school. The thought chilled her to the bone. What if nobody liked her and her weird fixation on characters in books and TV shows? Her mind was full of images of how the other class mates would react when she got to school them pointing and laughing at her when they found out just how much she loved anything to do with books. Cassandra got up the next time the alarm went off and took a quick shower to prepare for her first day at spring valley Prep. She had just gotten dressed when she heard her mother calling from the bottom of the stairs that she had to get up or she would be late. "Be right down!" she called looking in the mirror quickly pulling a brush through her curly red hair stepping back to admire her reflection she was wearing a pair of worn jeans and her favorite Doctor Who T-shirt that said "don't blink" and had a picture of an angel behind it satisfied she grabbed her converse and ran down the stairs and grab some breakfast and head to school.
Cassandra couldn't help but gasp as her mother turned the corner and Spring Valley Prep came into view.
It was a huge building that she could only explain as a castle right down to there being a spire reaching up to touch the sky it was beautiful. Cassandra couldn't believe that this was a school.
Her mother pulled the car to a stop at the curb of the school. "wow" Cassandra whispered looking up at the imposing structure in front of her with wide eyes. "it's….." she paused searching for the right words "it's amazing." With this she opened the door and stepped out into the fresh mountain air she noticed that there was other children of different ages milling about the school grounds greeting their returning classmates and introducing themselves to the new students. Some of the children she noted looked oddly familiar but she couldn't place where from. Saying a hasty goodbye to her mother Cassandra ran up the steps to the door to the school which opened to an interior as beautiful as the outside if not more so.
Cassandra felt as if she had just stepped into another world. Never before had she seen such thick carpeting and comfortable chairs in a school. She looked around trying to find the office so she could get her schedule and map of the school. "You look lost" someone to her left said looking over she found herself looking at a short brunette girl who was smiling up at her "uh yeah do you know where the office is? It's my first day" Cassandra told her "Really? It's mine too! And I think the office is this way" she said as she took off down the hall so fast that Cassandra had to run to catch up with her when she did the girl said "my name is Sydney by the way" extending her hand Cassandra said "pleasure to meet you Sydney I'm Cassandra" "looks like we're here" Sydney said pointing over her shoulder at the door that had the word "office" printed on it smiling Cassandra opened the door and stepped inside moving to the side so that Sydney was able to enter the room beside her sitting behind the desk was a s woman that looked up when the girls entered the room the tag on the desk announced her to be Jackie Tyler she was a pretty blonde woman who looked to be about Cassandra's mothers age reasonably tall and she looked eerily like Camille Coduri who played Roses mom in Doctor Who. She smiled kindly at the girls and asked for their names when they answered she handed each of them a folder with their names written on them and gave them directions to their first classes. It turned out that they both had history with Professor Smith for first period which they found fairly easy seeing as it was straight across the hall from the office. Sydney and Cassandra found seats in the middle of the class room right next to each other and waited for the class to begin. As the other students filed in Cassandra got that wave of déjà vu that she got earlier that feeling that she had seen these people before. Looking around Cassandra was trying to figure out why the all looked so familiar that she missed Professor Smiths entrance until he spoke the voice was what snapped Cassandra back to the present
"Hello I'm professor John Smith and I suppose I'm your new history teacher marvelous thing history no matter where you are in the universe there is history no matter when you are there's history. Isn't that cool there was history in history" he had a British accent that sounded very familiar and when she looked up she almost fell out of her chair. There at the head of the class as though he wasn't a huge television star stood David Tennant in his Doctor costume right down to he had the chunky glasses and Converse while his trench coat hung on the wall by the door. Beside her Sydney looked just as shocked as she did but unlike Cassandra Sydney looked over and grinned at her and said in a great Catherine Tate impression raised her hand and said "can ask you a question sir?" Cassandra was having trouble not laughing "are you The Doctor sir?" and Cassandra had to cover Her mouth in order to stop herself from laughing and she almost missed Professor Smith answer.
He grinned at the back of the class "yup I'm the Doctor now lets get back to history shall we?"
Cassandra decided right then and there that history was her new favorite class.