The next morning after breakfast, Ava, the twins, and Nina are on their way to their new school, Ridgeway Public School. Ridgeway is a school made up of three huge buildings: one elementary school (Preschool-5th grade), one middle school (6th-8th grade), and one high school (9th-12th grade). Nina drops off Ava first at the middle school, so that she could guide the twins to their preschool classroom. "Now Ava, you're going to have to take the bus home everyday since I'll still be at work. I'll be picking up your brothers during my lunch break and drop them off with Mia. I don't have an extra house key yet for you but until then when you get home, you will stay at the Toretto house until I get home tonight. Got it?" Nina reminded Ava to which she responded with a nod. After taking the twins to their preschool classroom, Nina left to her job at her new law firm. Ava wanders around the hallways looking for her 6th grade homeroom and decided to ask someone for directions.
"Um, excuse me...can you tell me where Mr. Bender's homeroom class is?" she asked an auburn-haired girl.
"Let me guess? Newbie?" the girl asked which Ava confirmed with a nod. "That's my homeroom class too. I'll take you there".
"Thanks," Ava said. "I'm Ava Romero and your name is...?"
"I'm Hayley Brown. So, where did you come from?" Hayley asked her new friend.
"I came from Tucson, Arizona. My mom, my little brothers, and I just moved here yesterday," Ava replied.
"What about your dad? Oh, are he and your mom divorced?" Hayley asked but soon begins regretting asking that question.
"No, he actually died," Ava answered and now Hayley began to really regret asking. "No, no! It's okay, I'm moving on which is sort of the reason I moved. Too many memories".
"Well, I'm sorry, anyway. Oh, we're almost there," Hayley said pointing to the classroom straight ahead and once they got to the door, Hayley stopped to talk to two other girls, one African-American and a blonde-haired one. "Oh, Ava, these are my friends, Kylie and Maddie. Girls, this is Ava. She's new here," Hayley introduced everybody.
"Are you in our homeroom?" Kylie, the African-American one, asked.
"Looks like it," Ava answered. "Forgive me for asking, but hopefully, you're not one of those really girly cliques who thinks of your looks as your #1 priority, are you? I don't really want to fall in that kind of crowd".
"I would rather shoot myself than be one of those girls," Maddie, the blonde-haired one, replied seriously.
"What Maddie is trying to say is that we're not really girly even though we do have our girly moments every once in a while. We're all on the girls' soccer team, so we're pretty much tomboys," Hayley explained which made Ava smile.
"Then, I'm going to like you girls," Ava said making the three girls laugh. The four girls then walked into their homeroom classroom where Ava goes to Mr. Bender and talked about her "newbie" situation. As she waited for Mr. Bender to start by introducing her, she spotted the blonde-haired boy she saw last night talking to his three friends, one African-American, one Asian-American, and a brown-haired one. She then finds out that the boy is indeed the Jack she heard about from the Torettos yesterday after one of his friends exclaimed his name. A minute later, the school bell rang.
"All right, class, take your seats. Class has begun," Mr. Bender started the class. "We have a new student joining us today. This is Ava Romero, she is from Tucson, so let's make an effort to make her feel welcome here," Mr. Bender introduced Ava who noticed a look of recognition from Jack's face which means he has been informed about her. After Mr. Bender was done, she sat at an empty desk in the second row of the classroom between Hayley and Jack, to which the latter smiled at her and she smiled back. She also caught someone else looking at her, a black-haired boy who is bouncing his eyebrows up and down therefore giving Ava a suggestive remark. As soon as homeroom was over, Jack came up to Ava.
"I'll catch up with you girls in a minute," Ava said to her three new friends, so she can go talk to Jack.
"So, you're our new neighbor that my mom told me about. Ava, right? I'm Jack O'Conner-Toretto," Jack introduced himself while he and Ava shook hands.
"I know. One of your friends indirectly introduced you by shouting your name," Ava joked making Jack laugh.
"Sense of humor. Nice! That's one of our qualifications of working in my family's garage," Jack joked back making Ava laugh back. "Well, I have to go to my classes now. See you at the bus on the way to my house, okay?" Jack said to which Ava nodded and the former left for his classes. During lunch time, Ava sat down at a table with Hayley, Kylie, and Maddie.
"Were you just talking to Jack O'Conner-Toretto after homeroom this morning?" Hayley asked.
"Yeah," Ava answered. "I moved in across the street from him. I'm also going to be working at his family's garage".
"You are so lucky. He's one of the cutest guys in school," Kylie said to which Hayley and Maddie nodded receiving a weird look from Ava.
"This is one of our "once-in-a-while girly moments" I was talking about earlier," Hayley said to which Ava understood.
"And what did he mean that he'll see you at the bus on the way to his house?" Maddie asked.
"Oh, my mom works as a lawyer, so she's at work most of the day. So until she can get an extra house key for me, my little brothers and I'll be going to Jack's house everyday after school until my mom gets home," Ava explained. The girls then continued on talking and went about their classes as the school day progressed naturally.