As soon as I got inside the school, I headed straight toward the office. It was a simple place, a few well positioned plaques, plastic plants, and small photographs were the decorations of choice. As of all other schools that I had been in, they had thought that this was high-style too. A middle-aged woman with shorty, curly hair was talking to someone on the phone behind the desk. "You must be here to register as a new student." She said with a smile. "Actually I am just here to make sure all of the forms made it through the mail." She frowned like she was thinking. "That must have been the letter from Virginia that was promptly soaked by an errant ink-bottle. We couldn't see the return address, and the forms were fully saturated with ink, so we couldn't even tell who it was from." "Yeah, that would be me." She paused for a second. "Go see Nathaniel in the student council room; he can help you with registering." She gave me the basic directions, and then I departed with a "Thank you".
I forged my way through the crowd of unfamiliar people that I would soon be classmates with. I wonder if any of them were juniors like me. When I rounded a corner, I ran into a boy who was walking very fast. Needless to say, we both fell over with an "Umph!" from him and a little "eek!" from me. We were both sprawled across the floor rather awkwardly; he had managed to land on top of me. "Sorry!" he half stuttered. "I didn't see you coming" As I gathered myself I replied "No, I should have paid a bit more attention." Then I saw his face. He was pale, with this gorgeous white-blond/silver hair with black-dyed tips. His most stunning feature was his eyes. One was a liquid golden color; the other was an iridescent green. My wishes never came true, but now it seems whoever is in charge of granting wishes has taken a liking to me. I picked up a top hat that went with his Victorian-styled clothes and handed it to him. I noticed a note book on the ground that was open to a page. I closed it and placed it in his hands. (They had very elegant fingers!) He smiled a tiny smile. "Thank you." He helped me get up and then said "Why don't we meet in the courtyard under the big oak tree at lunch? I am sure that you would fit right in." He pointed at my graphic-tee with the guns-and-roses logo. "That would be great!" He grinned. I waved good bye to him and continued on my quest for the student council room.
When I finally arrived there were still almost twenty minutes before school began. "Excuse me, but I am looking for Nathaniel, do you know where he is?" Someone came out of another room, maybe they keep all of the files in there? "I'm right here, what do you need help with?" It was the same guy from the parking lot! "I am a new student here, I heard from the secretary that you could help me register as a new student." I was beginning to blush a bit. Something about him made me feel a little nervous. And I have nerves of steel, it comes with preforming. "Do you have the student registration form, a picture of yourself, and twenty five dollars for the registration fee?" I rifled through my green Harry Pottered themed messenger bag. "I have everything but the form." He thought for a second. "I think that the form requires that your guardian or parent to sign it; you may not be able to register until tomorrow." I blushed. "Um, I'm emancipated. If you give me a minute to fill it out, I can give it back right away." He smiled softly and tuned away to search through the stacks of paper inhabiting a shelf. "Yet another one." He mumbled under his breath.
Soon I had filled out the form and handed it back to him. "I'll make sure that this reaches the principal." Nathaniel said softly. Then he blushed a bit. "Um, would you like to eat lunch here? I could show you around after we eat." Then I blushed. "I'm sorry, but I already have plans for today. Maybe tomorrow?" "Yes, that would be great." He continued to blush harder. "Well here is your class schedule, and it starts in about five minutes." "Thank you a lot, Nathaniel." Then I stepped back out into the hall way.
I was just about to reach my first class, Trig, when somebody slammed into me. Luckily this time I managed to stay upright. This time instead of apologizing I was getting ready to ask if they needed their eyes checked, why anyone would suddenly change from going forward to a left oblique is a mystery to me. I looked and saw the same pretty girl who thought I was someone called "Castiel" this morning. "Watch out where you are going loser!" She glared at me, as well as her posse of two almost-but-not-quite-as pretty girls. "I think you may need your eyes checked, not only do you think that you were walking in a straight line, you also think that I care what you say." I snapped back. It seemed that everyone in the hall way stopped and stared at me. "Don't you talk to me like that LOSER, or I will make your life a living hell!" She yelled. I was not about to be bullied, not by a stuck up little princess or anyone for that matter. "Oh, watch out. We got ourselves a bad a** over here" I said sarcastically. Then she slapped me. Or she tried to anyway. It was a bit tricky but I side stepped at the last moment and caught her arm, it was covered in bracelets that could probably feed a family of five for a month if sold. I put her up against the wall and grabbed her by the collar. I put my face close to hers and growled. "Try anything like that again sweetie, and you'll need someone more than those two lackeys to stop me." My hands started to shake; I needed to stop this now before I get into trouble. I let her go and stomped off to class.