With my glasses firmly in place and my laptop bumping against my hip, I again dashed down the stairs, jumping over the bottom four and landing with a thud, knees bent, and put my bag again, over my shoulder that didn't have my laptop on it, while crouched and ran outside and slid into the waiting back seat of the car, Sora virtually bouncing with excitement in the front, mum calmly sitting with the engine turned on. Sora turned around to look at me as we were pulling out onto the street with a ginormous smile on his face, and stopped, confusion taking over his face for a few seconds
"I can't read without them Sora." I reminded him, knowing he was wondering about my glasses and why I was wearing them.
"But you didn't wear them at breakfast, which usually means you aren't going to wear them that day." Sora pointed out, pouting. He didn't like it when I wore my glasses, I had been bullied about it in the past, and Sora just so happened to see it once. Let's just say it changed his opinion about a lot of things. But I just loved that they made my eyes bigger, and the eyeliner more noticeable, as well as hiding the bags under my eyes.
"I just had a rough night and forgot them when I woke up. No biggie." I replied dryly, looking out the window and closing the conversation. Sora gave a huff, then turned around and started to converse with mum while I just sat and stared out the window, watching people go about their lives on the street and blocking out the conversation going on in the car. Trying to memorise the path to school.
A group of teenagers passed by as we stopped at a red light, joking around and looking like they were having fun. And they defiantly stood out. I wondered if they went to my school, but I sort of hoped not, they looked like bad news, with their crazy hair and dark clothing. I noticed one had bluish hair that covered an eye, another had bright red hair, I simply stared at the bright pink hair and a blond with a type of Mohawk-mullet combo thing, piercings and their clothes, while looking amazingly cool, and I could never hope to pull off. The only person's face I could see was the guy with bluish hair, and he looked intimidating enough on his own, and he was the shortest one there! So when the red head, who was the tallest, not to mention the skinniest started to turn his head in my direction, I quickly looked towards the front of the car as it sped past when the light turned green, just so I wouldn't have to see his face. I really hoped they didn't go to my school, which I have yet to even learn the name of. I frowned at that, surely I had been told what it was, but I just couldn't remember, and I hate not knowing things.
"Hey mum" I suddenly asked, unintentionally cutting off the conversation about why we could not under any circumstances get a puppy or kitten for Sora even though we moved into a big enough house because he wouldn't look after it.
"Yes Fox? What is it?" mum immediately jumped at the chance of a topic to distract Sora, the one thing that the brunet and I have in common is our stubbornness, and our love for cute things. Sora huffed as he was ignored.
"What is the name of the school were going to?" I asked putting my elbow up against the window and put my head in my hand
"Weren't you paying attention when dad and I told you?" mum asked, glancing into the review mirror.
"She probably just spaced and wasn't interested, like usual." Ohh, Sora was trying to get me back for my glasses. Damn him. Before I could retort, mum answered my question
"Radiant Garden East High, Sora, leave your sister alone." Mum and dad were all too used to our little bicker fights, but we never meant anything by them. Everyone thought we were fighting, but we were just messing around. Multiple times people had commented on it to mum and dad, so now they tried to get us to stop, but it was a sibling thing, meaning there was no stopping the bickering.
"Ok" I answered before again tuning out the conversation and trying to memorise the surroundings again, it wasn't a very long drive to the school from our new house, or so mum says, but we kept being stopped by the numerous red lights.
After today Sora and I would have to walk to and from school, today was the exception since mum and dad start work tomorrow, and will spend the day unpacking the living room and making the new house our new home. I would rather be doing that than going to school. But I clearly had no say in the matter. I couldn't wait until I graduated and went to college, no more moving then, that was really one of the things keeping me going the past few years, besides Sora. But for now, I was stuck with my family.
At least I got to unpack my own room. My room was my sanctuary, no one got in there without my express permission or without my presence in the room, and I would more often than not slam the door after anyone had left.
Before long, we pulled up outside the school, and I looked around with disinterest as I slid out of the car, while Sora jumped out and gaped at everything, but all we could see of the school was vague buildings, they were all hidden by trees, so he was gapping at trees. I scoffed, rolled my eyes, said goodbye to mum, promised to be home as soon as we could, and promptly dragged Sora into the schools gates by his sleeve. People were already staring at us, whether from the fact that they knew we were new students, or the spectacle that was Sora.
I kept my head down as we descended the hill that gradually slopped down as soon as you entered the school grounds and when we reached the bottom, looked up to find that we were at the administration office. Relieved that I didn't have to wander around to find it, I dragged Sora inside and deposited him on the line of chairs just to the right of the door.
The office was nice. Carpeted floor with white walls and a school trophy case to the right of the door, after the line of chairs, the front desk was a little to the right, but straight ahead of the door as soon as you walk in, to the left of the desk was a set of glass doors, much like the doors to the office were, leading down a short corridor that lead back outside on the opposite side of the building. The hallway had even more doors, which I assumed to be offices of some kind.
I walked up to the desk and looked to the lady sitting there, she smiled kindly, held up one finger and continued talking into the headpiece on her head, which was lit up blue, indicating she was on the phone with someone
"Yes, as soon as they arrive I'll let you know, Mr Thorndike. Thank you." She pressed a button on the head piece and turned her attention to me fully, "how can I help you" she was certainly a chipper person
"My brother and I are transfer students." I pointed to Sora, indicating he was here as well, upon hearing my voice, he seemed to snap out of his little dream world, wherever the hell that was and walked over to the desk, all smiles. I had yet to show another expression on my face except the neutral one I wore when I was in an uncomfortable situation, which was always. Sora dealt with people. Not me. I scared them away.
"Oh yes!" she really was a chipper person, "we have been expecting you!" I internally roll my eyes, of course they would! Why else would we be transfers if they didn't know we were coming? Ok so I'm a little sarcastic today, but give me a break, I woke up in the middle of the night! Stupid nightmares.
She introduced herself as Shia, and told us to stand still while she get our papers, planners, locks for our lockers, and any text books we don't have. I pointed out that we already have all our text books, and she laughed, claiming us to be the only students in the school who do, which left me thoroughly confused, what type of school was this to let students not have the required equipment?
Shia excused herself and then it was just Sora and I. "I like it here." He said while looking around, "it looks like a good school."
I sighed, feeling the weight of my restless sleep slam into me suddenly, my shoulders dropping and running a hand over my tired face. "Sora, just because it looks nice, doesn't mean it actually is."
"I know that." He scoffed, "but this place has a nice feel to it"
"This is just the front office," I reminded him as I pushed away from the desk and went to inspect the trophy case, and discovered a hallway that was hidden from view when I first walked in by the trophy case.
The hallway lead out onto school grounds and I could see a few block of class rooms and some lockers next to a small court yard type area with bridges over the grass and a few trees. I saw the group from this morning, the ones who were walking to the school with the crazy hair and I silently cursed, they did go here and I quickly went where they couldn't see me and inspected the trophy case.
"besides," I absent mindly continued my conversation with Sora, "what if the principle decided to pay big bucks on the front office just for that reason, and the rest of the school is a dump. Or the teachers are bullies, what would you do then Sora?" I ended up teasing him, god I'm a nice sister. As much as I love Sora and his kindness, he can be a real child sometimes and he cries easily. Especially from adults. Usually everyone loves him, and think he's adorable, so when one person doesn't like him he gets tears in his eyes and pulls the puppy-dog-pout. Guaranteed to get anyone to fall in love with him, and to do whatever he wants.
But since he has such a kind heart, he never uses it for evil, unlike me who used it to get a doll house. I was 6! Young and naive to the ways of the world. And when I actually dressed like a girl and acted like one, but I grew out of that phase thank god.
Sora was extremely simple, if he doesn't like something, he will tell you, and wears his heart on his sleeve every day of the week, it's his favourite accessory on weekdays.
Sora scoffed, but moved to stand next to my right elbow, where I was within grabbing distance if something happened, and I internally snickered, knowing he suddenly got scared, I loved teasing him.
"Excuse me?" Shia had returned with our papers, locker combinations and planners. She handed them to us, explaining that the planner was used to write down homework, as well as important dates, such as excursion or tests or days off school, as well as keeping a copy of our timetable , bell times and a map of the school, that looked like it was drawn by a bad art student, but was surprisingly detailed.
From the map, I could see that all the buildings were single story, and that there were about nine or ten different buildings with classrooms in them, labelled by a building letter, followed by a class number (for example, G3 is in building G, classroom 3.). There were rooms such as the E rooms, L rooms, H rooms, C rooms, T rooms, G rooms, S rooms, PD rooms, and the gym, library, year 12 study centre, an EL room and a canteen to get food from.
Sora and I both tried our brand new combinations a few times, committing them to memory, I memorised both combinations, since Sora was more than likely to forget his, even with a little piece of paper telling him the numbers. Looking at my timetable as well as Sora's, I could see that we had different classes all day. At least we would be able to see each other at break and lunch. The issue would be finding a place we could both meet up that Sora could find easily, since he is horrible at maps and all kinds of directions.
I quickly got bored, so I thanked Shia for handing us everything, as she smiled and went back to work, and I turned back towards the trophy case, Sora still at my elbow.
"Hello." A deep voice sounded from behind us. Sora squeaked as he whirled around, as I just looked over my shoulder at the man behind us. He was a tall man, with dark brown hair in a type of buzz cut, and a dark suit and tie. Great, formal and uptight. I can tell I'm going to have fun with this. "I'm Mr Thorndike, vice principle here at Radiant Garden East."
A/N- okie, chapter 2! horray! and, can people please review if you like this? im seeing views which is making me oh so happy that people are actually looking at this, since i've NEVER done something like this before, but i need to know if its good and continue writing, or scrap it and start another one.
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till next week!
