OK, here's the next chapter.

Well, I did believe it was some kind of dream at first. Then I thought it was a delusion. Finally, I decided to just pretend it was real until I figured out what was going on.

That morning, the girls in my dorm all questioned me. "So you're the new girl." one of the girls said. She was very pretty, with long blonde hair which she straightened each day. "What's your name? What grade are you in?"

"My name's Mariah Stewart." I answered quietly. "I'm a sophomore."

"Oh." said the girl. "My name's Ophelia." She then gestured to a dark-haired girl next to her. "This is Janet."

I smiled nervously. "Hi."

The boarding school was interesting. Since this did seem to be based on the movie, I kept a lookout for a scrawny blonde kid, maybe about a year older than me, but I didn't really see anyone that looked anything like Arthur...or as he was known, Artie. Maybe it was because I kept out of the way of the conceited jousting team.

The school did seem to have a total popularity-contest thing. The boys were all weird. As well as the jousting team, there were a few other muscle-man boys that were just sickening. Some of them reminded me of Justin in looks, although he hadn't been as self-absorbed as all that...had he? I wasn't sure any more, since he dumped me for no reason, apart from that it might have been hurting his reputation, hanging out with an orphan girl.

There were also the drug addicts. If they weren't getting high, they were getting smashed, or just smoking. The nerds weren't much better. The computer geeks played chess all the time, since computers didn't exist in this timeline.

As for the girls...well, I didn't try to fit in with them. I was friendly, but not conformist. I just couldn't be bothered. In the end, the girls just started ignoring me. I was basically the invisible girl, doing everything I was supposed to, but not really being a person. I only talked when one of the staff wanted an answer from me.

It seemed to me that Shrek was set in a fairytale universe, but I realized that living it was more of a medieval-modern simulation than anything else. Student drivers learned to drive carriages with horses. Guys asked girls out, but only dated agonizingly platonically. Justin and I had gotten to second base after two weeks of dating, while most of the girls at this school weren't even there after two months. They'd barely kissed a boy.

Yes, I was around for months. In fact, I was around for seven months. Seven months of being Mariah, invisible girl in the sophomore class. Roll up, roll up, to see if you can spot the invisible girl. She won't bother trying to fit in, so she tries to keep out.

Okay, Ophelia wasn't too bad. She occasionally asked me to join her and her friends, and who was I to turn her down? But the really popular girls would just look at me and start to laugh. It was obvious Janet, Ophelia's best friend, didn't like me. The girl who had the bunk above mine, Lucia, looked at me in a weird way at times.

I began to doubt this was even part of any movie, but after ten months, I looked upon it as my reality. And to tell the truth, it wasn't any worse than my old reality. I never fitted in back there after my parents' death, and I didn't fit in here. Sure, my foster mom and little sister were a good family, but really, I never felt as if I had any affection for them. And I knew that if I had the chance to go back, I wouldn't. There was only one downside to going back. If I did, I would have to face all these kids who knew I was the girl who had been dumped by the most popular boy in school.

So as time went on, I decided the school was just a coincidence. That was until we had the assembly where the school had a lecture about "just say nay", which was something the drug addicts ignored. Then it came to the mascot competition.

Just as the Headmaster was about to announce the new mascot of Worcestershire (in case you didn't know, that was the school's name. Weird), the door burst open to reveal a recognizeable ogre, followed by a pretty small donkey, and a really small (in porportion) anthropomorphic cat. I knew who they were straight away. Shrek, Donkey, and Puss In Boots.

Everyone gasped.

"That's right!" Shrek announced. "I'm the new mascot, so let's really try and…beat the other guys at...whatever it is they're doing!"

I couldn't help giggling. It was obvious no one knew what to make of this, but the school band began playing anyway, and everyone clapped.

It was interesting that I hadn't noticed Arthur yet, if he was really here. But when I looked hard enough, I could just see a kid, skinny, and probably a bit taller than me.

Shrek snatched the bullhorn off the Head. "Now, where can I find Arthur Pendragon?"

The hall went quiet. Everyone pointed where I'd looked.

"Hey, wait-" called a voice that I recognized, the Justin Timberlake voice, coming out of a teenage boy with sandy hair who was suspended on the basketball hoop.

Everyone began to laugh and laugh. I didn't. I looked straight up at him, then pointed at the jousting team and pulled faces.

Lancelot, Mr I'm-the-best-at-jousting, was laughing so hard that it caught Donkey's attention. "You should be ashamed of yourself!" he snapped at Muscles Man.

"I didn't do it." Lancelot said. "They did." He pointed up to a couple of freshmen geeks that were cackling like idiots.

I decided to have some fun. "Junior abuse!" I called out. "Freshmen abusing juniors!" I knew for a fact that Artie was in the grade above me.

When everyone looked at me, I noticed the sneers. That's when I decided to take a chance, and become a character in this movie.

I hope you liked this chapter. Mariah will begin to have a proper part in the movie in the next chapter. Please, start reviewing!