CHAPTER 2

Belle had finally weaved her way through the hallway and found her locker. She started to open it and had almost gotten the combination right when someone came up from behind her. 

"So I hear you're the new girl." Belle turned around to see two extremely tall guys. One had jet black hair, it was tied back into a pony tail. The other had his orange hair in a sweat band. They both were built and had football jerseys on. "The name's Gaston, and this my buddy Hercules, we call him 'Herc' for short." Belle waved awkwardly to 'Herc'. 

"Hi...I-I'm Belle." Belle could feel her face turning bright red. Suddenly Gaston had grabbed her by the waist. 

"You know...I'm currently looking for a chick like you. How about it?" he said with an evil grin on his face.

"Well...uh...I...don't..."

"Gaston...for the last time you're still dating ME." Belle turned to see the girl with the pink cheerleading uniform from her homeroom. "Plus...ew...why would you be interested in her? She's so...not me."

"Aurora...I..uh..."  Gaston let go of Belle. "I was just...welcoming her to our school!" with that he gave a nervous grin.

"Whatever." Aurora turned to Belle "Stay away from my boyfriend jingle bell, or i'll make sure you go nowhere here." 

"Aurora do you really think that this innocent girl is gonna steal you 'big strong man'?" said a girl with long black hair and glowing green eyes. "Leave her alone okay? I'm sure you have better things to do like, marry a mirror." the girl said with a smug look on her face and the 'don't mess with me' stance. Aurora rolled her eyes and left, taking her brute of a boyfriend with her.

"Thanks for that, i appreciate it." Belle said still blushing.

"Sure thing, just watch out for Aurora, she can be rude like that. My name is Esmeralda." They both shook hands.

"I'm Belle." 

"Nice to meet ya, well we'd better to get to class. Don't wanna be late. See ya!" Esmeralda said as she ran in the other direction to her class. Belle then proceeded to her science class, excited to see if Adam and Kida were there.

The bell rang, and Belle entered the room and searched for a seat. "Belle! Over here!" Adam was waving her to sit in the desk next to him. Belle's heart melted once more.

"O.K. Class, Settle down. Now, for those of you who don't know me, my name is Mr. Thatch, but i don't much care for formalities so just call me Milo." Belle looked over at Kida, who was staring dreamily at Milo. Belle giggled.

"So, I hope you all are ready to get cracking on History, but since today is the first day of school, you all can have the rest of the period to yourselves." The class suddenly went into a dull roar of people talking.

"So is he the most handsome thing you've ever seen or what?" Kida said to Belle, still gazing at Milo.

"He seems nice enough."

"Yeah well, I hope you like to read, cause he loves to assign stuff with lots of reading." Adam said glumly. Suddenly Milo came over to where the three of them were sitting.

"So this is the new student eh?" Milo was a very thin man with short light brown hair, round glasses, and a somewhat large nose.

"My name is Belle, I'm excited for your class Mr. Thatch." Belle said, blushing a bit.

"Call me Milo, oh and Kida? Wait after class is over, I need to talk to you." He gave Kida a strange wink and then headed back to his desk. 

"What was that all about?" Adam said as he made a questioning face at Kida. "Is there something you should be telling me about?" Kida started to blush quite vividly, which made her tattoo stand out even more than usual.

"It's nothing really." Kida said shyly. Adam rolled his eyes and let out a long sigh.

"Whatever Kida." He then turned to talk to Belle. "So, how're you enjoying your day thus far?" he gave Belle another gorgeous smile.

"Well I did run into a bit of, i guess you could call it trouble, between classes." Adam looked interested to hear about what had happened. So Belle told her story. Adam listened intently and would occasionally ask a question. 

"Heh, so you met Esmeralda." Adam said with a grin. "She's one of our good friends. By the way, you should sit with us at lunch today. That way you can meet the rest of the gang." This made Belle's heart leap with joy, she was going to meet so many new friends! "Well, the bell is gonna ring again here soon." Adam said as he glanced up at the clock on the wall. Kida sighed.

"Man, that means i have Jafar next...That's never good. He hates my guts." 

"What does Mr. Jafar teach Kida?" Belle asked.

"Chemistry. It's a total nightmare, isn't it Adam?" Adam shook his head in agreement. Belle had never liked science, but was strangely excited to see how challenging Mr. Jafar's class would be. The three continued to talk and soon the bell rang and they went there separate ways. Belle looked down again at her schedule she had english with Ms. J. Porter. So far the day had given her a few surprises, and she was eager for more.