"Well we have found you a lovely new school called Degrassi Community School, you will be starting tomorrow but don't worry it's the start of the new semester so there will be plenty of new people to meet". My mother explained to me while I started unpacking the boxes in my new room and began to hang my small paper lanterns around my room. My Dad had given them to me when I was 13 and I had them hanging in my old room. The lanterns were cream with small prints of cherry blossoms on them. They had always reminded me of my Dad and made my room seem warm even in the middle of winter. The lanterns helped me sleep too. I made sure they were up there to remind my mother of my Dad too. I just never wanted her to forget what it was like. The way it use to be.

"So darling, please no trouble this year, can you just fit in?" Very hard to do with such a dark past. Sleeping is hard for me. I would wake up in the middle of the night with nightmares about the night I found my father. I started to feel a tear run down my face. It was too much. "Mom, I'm going to step out for a bit"

Canada was just so different, even the air smelt different. As I walked around I found a coffee shop called the dot. As I approached the door a beautiful girl around my age in a school uniform bumped into the back of me.

"oh I'm so sorry" she said to me

"Nah it's alright, I love your bag"

"thanks" "Wait do you go to that Degrassi School?" I asked,

"Yeah I do are you going there? I'm Alli by the way"

"I will be starting tomorrow and I'm Riley, I don't really know anyone I only just moved from Australia the other day, do you mind if we maybe meet here tomorrow before School starts just so I don't look like a total loner tomorrow"

" Haha, sure why not? See you tomorrow here eight o'clock"