"This is homeroom" he said opening a door. I walked in all heads snapped to gawk at the new girl.
"Nicolas Parker. You're late!" The teacher said. She was a younger teacher with curly long blond hair and big blue eyes.
"Yea, yea, yea, call the police." He said. "I was showing the new girl around." He said knowing I must hate that.
"Well the teacher continued, take your seat and Ms. Uh….
"Max. Maximum Ride" I said.
"Well nice to meet you, why don't you come introduce yourself to the class" she said.
"My name is Maximum Ride, call me Max. I just moved from New York." I said as all the kids stared at me. "Any questions?" I asked, daring someone to speak. Sure enough a spray tanned arm shot into the air. It belonged to a red head sitting next to Fang.
"Is you sister…like Ella Martinez?" she asked as she cracked her gum.
"Yep, well…half sister" I said.
"Thank you for that, Max" the teacher said. "Here are your books, we are in chapter two, and you can take a seat next to…." She said looking around the room for an empty seat. "Oh perfect, Lissa come sit up here by my desk" she said to the redhead next to Fang. She got this huge pouty look on her face and gathered up her books and went up to the seat in the front, but not without giving Fang a big kiss on the check. Oh joy. "Max, take the seat next to Nicolas."
I wordlessly took the seat next to him and the lesson began. This is how the next three hours went. I would introduce myself to the class and then I would sit next to someone I didn't know while they all whispered and I pretended not to hear. After my fourth hour, History, we had lunch, and like any other school the cliques were very pronounced.
"We usually sit over here" Fang said pointing to a table in the back of the cafeteria that was somewhat empty. There was a boy with blond hair, a white tee-shirt, and kaki shorts on. He was almost blinding.
"Is that him?" I whispered to Fang. He nodded. We went to the table and sat down; I knew that he knew I was Ella's sister.
"Oh Fang, is this new girl? What does your girlfriend think if this? I can just see it now…new girl replaces old skank. Dude you really need to ditch her." He said referring to Fang's girlfriend Lissa. He just nodded and rolled his eyes in an 'I totally know way' "Do you have a name new girl?" Iggy asked.
"Max Ride" I said as I took a bite of ice cream.
"Oh so your- EW, speak of the devil and the devil shall be." He said looking off in the distance. Fang and I turned around to see Lissa walking in with two blond sidekicks next to her. She was wearing shorts and a tee shirt that was so low cut I swear if she tripped it wouldn't be a pretty sight.
"Oh Fangy, who is this?" she asked in disgust looking at me.
"This is Max, she just moved here from New York." He said.
"Arent people from New York supposed to be like….cool?"
"Yea, I guess that's why I didn't ever meet you there." I said.
"Oh dang." Iggy said. Lissa ignored us both and turned to talk to Fang.
"We really need to get some new friends. I mean they aren't even popular," she said.
"Yeah, well they're my friends." Fang said.
"Well…I…we're going to sit with my friends." She said in a winey voice.
"Have fun with that" was all he said before she walked off. When we had all stopped laughing a girl with deep mocha colored skin walked up and sat down in Lissa's vacant seat.
"Fang, who is this?" the girl asked. "Oh, and mom said we have to pick up Angle after school." She said.
"This is Max and I already knew that"
"Hi Max" she said turning to me "I'm Nudge, his adopted sister." She said.
"Okay Max, we have to get to Creative Writing." Fang said. "Oh and I should warn you…the teacher…a little…-
"CRAZY!" Iggy yelled.
"Physco" Nudge added.
"One fry short of a happy meal." Ella said.
"Not the brightest bleached blond out there" Iggy said.
"Yea" Fang said "It's a small class room so you may not have a desk but that won't stop her. She'll make you like, sit on my lap or something." He said jokingly. Little did I know that that's exactly what happened.