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I wanted to have a go at a Swan Queen school story, but I know nothing of the American school system so lets just pretend it's the British school system.
This chapter covers Emma's first day at Stroybrooke Maine, - If it gets some interest i may upload a new chapter by weds.
Storybrooke Maine School
8.36am – March 12th
"Do I really have to go here?" Emma said, as she looked out of the car window at a dozen kids, in casual clothes and to be honest, a really old-looking building with double doors and the words Storybrooke Maine School, above etched in the stone
"Yes honey, there is only one school in this town" she looked through the mirror at her daughter, who was slumped down in the seat with a crunched up face
"Why did we have to move here, we were fine in Boston" she sighed, pulling her backpack to her lap
"You know why honey, your father got this great job opportunity here, and if I remember rightly, you wasn't to fond of that school in Boston"
Emma scoffed
"Least I had some friends"
"Your make new ones here...come we need to get to the head mistresses office" she opened the door to get out and Emma huffed and pulled herself out of the car
She stood for a moment, pulling at her fennel shirt and then throwing her bag over her shoulder, she noticed one or two of the students stare at her but she tried to ignore them
"Come on" her mother said and once inside the doors, they immediately turned straight to the right and up the dark brown stairs, going all the way up to the headmistress office
"Hello, Its my daughters first day and I was told to bring her here" she told a woman sitting behind a desk
Emma glanced around, noticing expensive looking art works on the wall, it looked more like a magazine company than a school up here, she thought
"Take a seat, Ms Mills will be with you shortly"
They both took a seat, on the black leather chair, both looking at the pictures scattered around, suddenly the door opened to their right and the bell sounded out
"You better get to class" a woman said
Emma glanced over looking at a brunette girl, with the most beautiful face she had ever seen, the girl was walking towards the stairs, looking down at her books
Emma felt time slow, as she watched the girl, she blinked once, then twice, her mouth slightly gaped and her stomach fluttered uncontrollably, she had never experienced such a feeling before
The other girl though, didn't look at her or at her mother, she had clutched her books to her chest and quickly went to down the stairs
"Emma...Emma!" Mary Margaret nudged her pulling her out of her inner musings
"Huh?"
"Let's go" she pointed to the office
Once they were seated in the office, Emma looked around, still slightly dazed from seeing the other girl moments before, she noticed a professional tidy black sleek desk, comfortable chairs and filling cabinets along the plain coloured walls
"Hello" the headmistress said, while she sat straight in her chair seemingly sizing up the woman
"Hello"
"This must be Emma" she turned her head to study the blonde
"Yes, she's a bit nervous"
"Mom" Emma sighed before looking at the dark haired woman, seated opposite, who was wearing a tailored black suit
"That's okay dear, everyone is nervous on their first day, my daughter was when she started here" she smiled picking up a form on her desk
"How old is your daughter?" Mary Margaret asked, being polite, yet nosey
The older woman narrowed her eyes at her, then seemed to breathe in heavily before answering
"She is 15"
"Oh, the same age as you Emma" Mary Margaret smiled
There was a brief silence, while Mrs Mills went over the paper in front of her
"Everything seems to be correct here, we have almost the same curriculum as your last school, you should settle in with no problems (she pulls a plastic portfolio from the desk and hands it over to Emma) that is a welcome pack that every student gets upon starting here at Storybrooke Maine and your timetable is in at the front with subject/times/room numbers"
"Great" Emma mutters
"I am sure you will do well here Emma, i am pleased to welcome you to our school, your tutor is Mr Hopper he is also the school chancellor and if there are any problems you should report to him, do you have any questions?"
Emma just stared at Mrs Mills, something about the woman slightly unnerved her
"Emma, do you want to ask anything?" Mary Margaret softly said
The blonde clutched at the portfolio
"Um...where do I go now?"
Mrs Mills smirked
"If you open the first page of the portfolio, it will tell you, although I believe you have English literature, with Miss Belle in Room 209"
Mary Margaret raised her eyebrows at Mrs Mills Knowledge of her daughters schedule, while Emma opened the black portfolio and indeed saw that she had English Lit with Miss Belle Room 209
"Your right" she also raised an eyebrow
The headmistress once again smirked smugly
"Well, you are already late for the lesson, but i will escort you there now as its your first lesson and all" she rose prompting Mary Margaret and Emma to rise
Once they got to the bottom of the stairs
"I will pick you up at the end of the day honey"
"Okay"
She squeezed Emma's arm before leaving and Emma suddenly felt more anxious than ever
"Come dear" Mrs Mills firmly said
As they walked, Mrs mills gestured to the rooms they were going past, saying what they were
"This is the main hall where meetings/assembles and so on...were currently on the ground floor, there are three floors, in your portfolio there is a layout of the school so you should have no problem finding your way around"
"Thanks" Emma replied still wary of the woman
The rest of the way was in silence, once they reached the room, Mrs Mills opened the door, to find Miss Belle standing in front of the class holding a book in one hand and gesturing to the white board with the other
"Miss Belle, Sorry to intrude, but I have a new student here, for your class, her name is Emma Nolan " she held her hands together looking Belle up and down
Emma shuffled in behind her, squeezing her bag handles tight
"That's okay Ms Mills" she gave a small smile
" I will let you go ahead with your lesson now" she ducked her head and left
Emma stood there, clearly uncomfortable with everyone staring at her. she didn't look at them though, if she did she would have seen the odd smirk or dirty look, but the most intriguing of all was from the beautiful brunette girl called Regina
She had heard her mother's voice on entering, yes the headmistress was her mother and she ducked her head, before hearing the name Emma Nolan, which made her look up and once she laid her eyes on the blonde who was stood there awkwardly, in that fennel shirt, hair tied in a ponytail, a backpack that was kind of geeky, she felt a sudden warmth inside her chest, that she didn't understand
She saw the blonde bite her bottom lip and she smiled at that, she found it kind of cute, she found herself watching every move the blonde made, she didn't know what this feeling was, but it felt good
"It's okay Emma (Belle smiled) please take a seat, we are discussing Shakespeare, are you aware of his work?"
Emma quickly made her way to the closest empty desk and plunked herself down, not looking at anyone else other than Miss Belle
"Yes I am"
"Great" she walked over handing Emma the book she needed
As Belle carried on about the book, Emma took out her pen and notebook, she stared at the white board which had a load of names and a diagram
The lesson passed quickly to Emma's surprise, Regina had kept looking over at the blondes back throughout the lesson, until the bell went
"Emma can you stay behind please" Belle said and after everyone had left, Belle came over and sat next to her
"So Emma, how did you find the lesson?"
"Oh, it was fine miss"
"Good, was there anything you didn't understand?"
"No, I got it thanks, I was learning this at my last school"
"Well, if there's anything you don't understand you must ask me, I am here to help" she smiled
"Thanks miss"
"It's no trouble, you may go" Emma got up
"Bye" Emma said heading for the door
"Bye Emma"
During break, Emma sat on her own on one of the outside benches, she was going through the portfolio seeing where she had to go next
"Hey newbie"
Emma looked up to see a long-legged girl with long dark straight hair and wide brown eyes, smiling at her
"Hey?"
The girl plunked herself next to Emma
"I'm Ruby"
Emma glanced sideways at her and raised an eyebrow
"I'm Emma"
"Yeah I know, we just shared a class together"
"Oh, really?"
"Yeah I was sat 2 rows behind you"
"Oh" Emma glanced back at the timetable
"You're not every chatty are you" the brunette chuckled
"Sorry, I just need to find out where I am going next"
"That will be science, with Mr Gold Room 329"
Emma smiled
"Thanks"
"what options did you pick?" Ruby asked looking down at Emma's portfolio
"Drama, Resistant Materials, compulsory language - Spanish"
"oh, were be in the same drama class together, as I have French and food tech as other options" she grinned
Emma smiled
"Listen if you want to have lunch with me and a few of my friends at lunch, come sit with us in the cafeteria" she smiled before getting up and walking off to go inside
Emma smiled to herself, maybe this won't be so bad after all, she thought as she watched Ruby go inside and then saw someone come out of the doors that made her catch her breath
It was the brunette girl from earlier, Emma gawked at her as she walked the opposite way over to a blonde haired girl, they were smiling at something the blonde girl had in her hand
Emma slowly ran her eyes down the brunettes body. she suddenly shook her head what the hell am I doing! she thought before grasping her bag and walking quickly off to her next lesson
Science!
"You're a bit eager to learn, dearie?" a deep mans voice said, as he came to the door of room 329
"yeah I guess"
"I haven't seen you in my classes before, you must be new here" he entered the room and Emma followed
"Yeah I am" she went to take a seat at the back on the room, near the window
"Emma Nolan" the man muttered picking up a book from his desk
"How did you know" Emma tilted her head at him
"I know a lot" he said sarcastically
Without thinking Emma muttered
"Like what?"
The man smirked and stared at her
"well, I know science is not your best subject, am I correct in thinking that you got a below standard mark at your previous school?" he raised an eyebrow at her
Emma, pulling out her pen and notebook, tilted her head at him wondering how he knew this but she lost that thought, when the bell suddenly went and other students started to enter
"Sit down quickly" the man shouted
Emma watched the others enter and there she was again, the beautiful brunette who suddenly looked right at her
Emma didn't know what to do with herself in that moment, she just stared at wide brown eyes
Regina paused, causing her blonde friend to bump into her
"Regina!" the blonde shouted, knocking the brunette out of her daze
"Sorry Katheryn, I don't.."
"Regina will you sit down" Gold interupted
"Yes Sir" she ducked her head and sat in the front and Katheryn next to her
"Right class, Frederick is passing the chemistry books to you all, turn to page 108 - fundamental ideas in chemistry"
Emma opened 108
Great, she thought, atoms, periodic table crap
For about fifteen minutes Gold rambled on about atoms, compounds chemical bonds
The blonde found herself bored, she peered over to where Regina was sitting, the brunette was writing down what Gold was saying
Emma sighed
"Emma...Emma Nolan"
Suddenly she looked to the front of the class at Mr Gold, who was smirking at her
"Emma could you please tell the class what AU means in the periodic table?"
Emma's mind went blank
Ruby shouted across the room
"Its our teachers last name"
"Miss Lucas, you will not shout across the room"
"Gold?" Emma said smiling
"Yes Emma, now miss Lucas for your interuption, you will tell the class what LI - NA and He are?"
Everyone chuckled apart from Ruby
"Lithium...Sodium and...Rubidium?"
Mr Gold smirked, pacing the front of the room
"Two out of three miss Lucas, not bad"
"What one was wrong sir?" she shouted
"Rubidium, which is RB, you should have said Helium"
Lunchtime
Emma picked up her tray in the cafeteria and helped herself to the chips, she knew it wasn't healthy but it was her first day at a new school, so why not
She walked into the seating area looking to find Ruby, which she did, she was sitting near the large window with a few other students, Emma approached the table
"Hey"
"Hey Emma, come sit down"
"Emma smiled, sitting opposite Ruby
"Guys this is Emma, Emma this is the guys"
They all laughed
"No seriously, this is Neal, Frederick, August"
"Hey" she said
They all nodded and said hey back
"So where you from?" Frederick asked. leaning over the table, next to Ruby
"Boston, moved here a week ago"
"Oh"
"What do you think of Storybroke?" August asked
"its..interesting"
They all laughed
"Yeah, you won't be saying that next week" Ruby joked
While Ruby muttered on about random stuff, Emma looked out the window and chewed on a chip, she nearly choked on it, because she saw Regina looking at her, not far from outside the window, the brunette seemed to be smiling at her, while her two friends were talking beside her
Emma quickly picked her drink up, to stop her from coughing
"You alright Em's?" Ruby asked confused
"Yeah, fine" then she glanced back outside, Regina and her friends were gone
"Last lesson of the day Em's" Ruby huffed, whilst they walked down the busy corridor, the guys were walking a couple of paces behind, checking out the older girls down the corridor
"Yeah, then my first day will be over" the blonde said happily
"It will get easier"
"Yeah and thanks for making me feel welcome here"
"No problem, friend?" she said playfully
Emma chuckled and nodded
"What did you think of the guys?" she whispered
"They seem nice" she tucked a stand hair, behind her ear
"Yeah their great guys, they like you, I even think Neal, has a thing for you" she smirked
Emma glanced sideways at her
"What! no!" she blushed slightly
"Yeah, he gets dead quiet around girls that he has a thing for"
Emma chuckled, as they reached the classroom
"Do you just hang around with guys?" she asked
Ruby leaned against the wall, smiling to herself
"Yeah, girls can be really bitchy here"
Mr Jefferson appeared next to Ruby
"Bitchy indeed Ruby, I hope your be putting in your best performance, for your role in the play"
Ruby smiled widely
"Mr Jefferson, we all know who is leading lady and it aint me" she muttered softly, Emma thought Ruby must have a crush on this guy, he just smiled and walked into the classroom
Once everyone was inside sat on the carpet floor
"Right class, as you know we doing a small play and have a lot of work to do, he pulled a dozen sheets of paper from his bag
"Sir, I think I know who can play the saviour" Ruby shouted
Jefferson looked up and stood awkwardly with a hand on his hip
"Who?"
"Emma here" she put her hand round Emma's shoulder and grinned
Jefferson looked at Emma and immediately took a step forward
"Hello Emma, you must be the new girl (he smiled) come, stand up"
Emma slowly stood, feeling awkward
"I don't know, sir" she muttered
"Have you done qny plays before?" he asked
"Yeah once, about a years ago"
"Did you have a big or small part?"
"small"
He brought his hand up to his mouth, thinking, before turning around and picking up a sheet of paper with writing on, everyone else sat quietly watching
"Here, take this, you are Emma Swan the saviour and have come to break a curse in this town, although you are not aware of this, can you please read the first paragraph as if you were playing the role?"
"Okay..."(she cleared her throat, looking to Ruby, who was nodding expectantly)
She took a deep breath and looked at the writing on the paper
"Listen to me, kid, I am not in any book. I'm a real person. And I'm no savior. You were right about one thing, though. I wanted you to have your best chance. But it's not with me."
Suddenly Ruby clapped
"Thankyou Emma" Jefferson said, taking the paper from Emma's hands and looking to the rest of the class
"Class, I believe we have found our saviour"
They all laughed
"Told you sir" Ruby shouted
"Ruby what have you got me into" Emma snapped as she went to sit next to her
"Well, you shouldnt have been so good at it then" the brunette rolled her eyes
Emma pushed the brunettes arm and huffed
Suddenly the door opened to the class and Regina and another blonde girl entered
"We did as you asked sir" the blonde said handing a pile of papers to him
"Thankyou Tinkerbell...Regina"
Emma just sat there, gawking, as the brunette pushed her hand through her hair, the blonde felt that warmth again inside her, suddenly she heard a whisper in her ear
"Hey Emma, you were great reading that line"
Emma turned to see Neal smiling at her
"Thanks Neal, are you um, going to be in the play?"
"Yeah we all have to have a role, il properly have one or two lines or something" he stared at her, like Emma was doing to Regina a moment before
What the blonde didn't know was Regina, had watched Neal speaking to Emma and she didn't like the way he was looking at her, not one bit
"What did we miss?" Tinkerbell asked Katheryn as her and Regina sat with her
"oh, nothing really, the role of saviour as been filled, though" she looked to her fingernails
"Really? who?" Regina snapped
"The new girl"
Regina's eyes widened, her breathing faster
"She could be your enemy in the play Regina, if you get the role of madame mayor" Tinkerbell said
Katheryn narrowed her eyes
"We all know that Regina is going to be the the mayor"
Regina smirked
"Don't be to harsh on Emma, though" Tinkerbell muttered
"Why?" Katheryn asked confused
"She's new"
"and she's not the brightest?" Katheryn joked
Regina clenched her jaw to stop her saying something back, she didn't like to hear any kind of insult towards Emma, which she found odd, she had only known her one day and she hadn't even spoke to her, she felt confused
By the end of the lesson, every role was assigned to someone and now every drama class would be rehearsals
"See you tomorrow Em's" Ruby muttered as they exited the entrance doors
"Yeah sees ya" she smiled and walked around 20 paces to the car parked out front and her mother smiling widely
She opened the door and slumped into the seat
"So?" her mother asked
"It wasn't so bad, I guess" she huffed
"Looks like you have made a friend then"
"Yeah (she smiled) I think, I have made a few, actually"
"That's great honey, I told you everything would be okay...put your seat belt on"
As the blonde pulled her seat belt across her and set it in place, she glanced sideways to her left and as Mary Margaret was getting ready to pull off, Regina appeared with Katheryn at the entrance to the school
Emma sighed
"Let's go home"