It was a cloudy autumn day at Skool elementary. Outside, one walking on a sidewalk could look in the farthest right window of the 1st floor of Skool, and see 25 miserable, nose picking kids listening to the torturous rambling of a mad teacher, known as Ms. Bitters, who was indeed very bitter. BR
A young girl named Raven sat in the very back of the room in the left hand corner, drumming her pencil on her desk. She glanced at the new kid, who had no last name and called his green complexion a "Skin condition". Next to him was the paranoid Dib, who shared Raven's love for Aliens, but spent his time trying to catch and punish them rather than join their cause of destroying the world. BR
Raven pulled back her blonde hair, then turned her head to the window, longing for the open outdoors of freedom. Next to the wall sat--what was her name--Andy? Yeah, Andy. It wasn't that Raven didn't like Andy or ignored her; the reason why she was hesitant about her name was because she only heard it spoken once: at the beginning of school. Andy was very shy, but very nice to Raven when she first came to this new school; Andy supplied Raven with all the materials that Raven had forgotten her second day of school so Ms. Bitters wouldn't try to kill her. BR
But there was something odd about that Andy. She sat directly in the back of the close, at the opposite corner to Raven, but seemed more 'lost' than any of the other students. She would stare, almost psychotically at the front board. Her eyes dilated, a faint smirk at the corner of her mouth, but she never spoke a word, never seemed to move from her spot, not unless she was writing something down, which wasn't often in class. BR
Andy had found her place in the darkest corner of the room, farthest from any window and always stayed that way. Darkness came naturally to her, she found find it no matter where she was; In class, out on the playground, even walking home on the sidewalk, she always managed to stay in the shady part of her surroundings. BR
Andy's eyes traveled up from her paper that sat neatly upon her desk to the crazy, Ms. Bitters. That same demented look slowly made its way back into her expression before it was instantly gone as she looked back down to her paper. BR
She wore all black; Jeans, shirt, jacket, gloves, everything was no other color, and her shirt read "I'll stop wearing black when I find a darker color." well, that wasn't happening any time soon, so black it was going to be. BR
Her hand seemed to be shaking as she wrote furiously on her sheet of paper as if Ms. Bitters was speaking too fast for her to write down anything quick enough, but for once, she wasn't speaking as quickly as Andy made it seem, Guess she wasn't writing down notes, was she? BR
Meanwhile, Raven diverted her attention back to the window--she didn't want Andy to catch her staring at her. Too many people thought she was a freak already. BR
She heard Ms. Bitters start yelling at George, the class idiot, about mathematics...something about 4 x 5 was 20 and not 'yo mamma'. George wasn't trying to be stupid; how could he try to be stupid when he already is? It was cruel thinking, but Raven didn't have much sympathy for the moron; while George was stupid academically, he was street smart, and new how to get kids on his side. Prime example: before Zim, Raven was the 'new kid'. No, not the new kid. The new "Hey, this kid's weird. She wears red and black; has one brown eye contact, doesn't pay attention to the teacher and when introduced to the class, wears a 'Beam me up, Scotty!' T-shirts while making an alien hand sign!" kid. BR
It was like Raven had worn a bright, neon sign that flashed 'Tease me'. She knew she would get this kind of treatment, but she thought she would also get some friends. Two months later, and her total number of friends: Zero. BR
This time Raven's eyes traveled back to Andy. What was she thinking about this whole ordeal of school? Andy didn't speak once, not once yet, not even on the first day of school. BR
Raven remembered that day well, Andy was standing at the front of the class...err...more like standing in the darkest corner of the front room. And that's how she was introduced. Raven didn't want to sound like a BR
'Teaser', as she called them, but with the way Andy carries herself it just gave off the idea of strapping a sign to her that says "I wear capes, but I couldn't wear it to school, mother said no." She seemed to be the type that was obsessed with the supernatural, especially vampires or something like that. BR
Her eyes were interesting too. Not normal colors, but violet, BRIGHT violet. Her true eye color was still a mystery, just like everything else about her. BR
Raven sighed slightly, becoming bored with her own thoughts before her gaze trailed around the room and stopped when her eyes landed upon Zim and Dib in the front of the class. Her eyes then traveled to her left, seeing Andy had also followed her gaze to the two boys in the front. What an Awkward moment it was. All four of them staring at one another as if they hadn't seen each other in class before. BR
It was one of those I since when did they get here? /I moments. BR
Yep, they all had FINALLY noticed each other. Hey, maybe this was a good thing, right? BR
"And who might those uninteresting human children be?" Zim asked, seemingly to himself. BR
"That's, um, Raven and Andy." Dib replied, as if Zim were asking him the question. BR
"I wasn't talking to YOU." Zim replied back, turning himself around in his seat so he was facing the board again. BR
Dib snorted slightly, glaring to Zim before turning himself around as well. BR
Andy just sat there silently before both her and Raven turned their heads and looked to each other. For the first time their eyes finally met each others and they both stayed silent as they seemed to stare into each others mind before Raven smiled just enough to cause Andy to TRY and repeat the kindness, only to get this demented smile that said this is my first time doing this all over it. BR
A chuckle couldn't help itself as it made its way from her throat and into Raven's clasped hands that had found themselves to her mouth, trying not to be loud enough for Ms. Bitters to hear. BR
Andy blinked slightly, instantly making her smile disappear before she looked back to her piece of paper on her desk and began scribbling on it once more, just as furiously as she had done earlier. BR
It was amazing, Andy had never written this much on one piece of paper since the beginning of the skool year combined! BR
I What is she writing? /I Raven thought to herself, trying to see all the way across the room like it was actually possible, but then stopped once Andy looked up to Ms. Bitters and she did as well, she could always find out once recess came. BR
BRRRRRIIINNNG!!!! BR
"YES!" All of the kids screamed, it was finally recess, but as Raven stood up from her seat, she looked over to where Andy had been sitting, but she was no where to be found.
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To be continued
