Author's Note: Please forgive me if this chapter blows. I'm having some serious writers block. I sucks. But please enjoy anyway :)

Loki was trying to navigate his way around the mortal school they called "high school." This school was a maze! There were three floors and they were all connected by "stairs," except a certain part on the third floor. Each part of the school had a certain subject taught there. For example there was a "math wing," a "history wing," a "science wing," and a "Language Wing." This made finding these subjects slightly easier but there were some classes scattered in places that didn't make sense. There were Art classes in The Science Wing and a Technology class in The English Wing. He tried his best to find where he was going but between all of the people taller than him and the labyrinth-like halls he had trouble.

He tried asking for directions from someone but they just gave him vague directions like "That way," or really confusing ones like "go down the hall until you see the double doors then go left, and just keep going that way until you see stairs then when you get there…" etc…

He was late to almost every class, but luckily most of the teachers were nice and excused it because it was his first day. He sat alone at lunch—he didn't have any friends, and quite frankly he kind of liked the loneliness. He sat and ate the sub sandwich the school's cafeteria had provided. He was looking around unintentionally eavesdropping on various groups' conversations. One in particular amazed him. They were talking about something called "Youtube," whatever that was. They said they saw a hilarious video of some sort. Loki figured it was really something dumb seeing as how mortal objects reflected mortals.

"Hi, What's your name?" Said a voice form behind him. He turned around to see a girl about 5'2" standing there smiling. He assumed this was some kind gesture.

"Alex," He lied. He figured he shouldn't give away his real name. Alex was the name of someone in one of his earlier classes.

"Nice to meet you, Alex. My name is AmberLynn, but you can call me Amber."

"It is nice to meet your acquaintance, Amber. How can I help you?"

She gave him a weird look as if the way he spoke was strange. But she immediately changed her expression to a welcoming smile. "Why don't you come sit with my friends and me? There's an empty seat."

Loki hesitated. What could it hurt? He picked up his lunch and his backpack and walked to a different table with the girl. He wasn't immediately strangled with questions like he thought he would be. He sat next to Amber at the gold table. (Apparently they had "school colors and mascots" and theirs was a purple and gold panther.) Amber immediately swung back into the conversation with her friends. Loki just ignored them and went back to his lunch and stared of in thought.

He already missed Asgard. It was quite pathetic, he thought. He'd only been gone a day, but this high school idea was a bad one. It wasn't a school, it was a social networking site. Even though he didn't care to much for friends he still felt out of place when he wasn't accepted into a group. That's why he never tried. And, again, he didn't care too much. Once he found a good book to read, that was the only "friend" he needed. Speaking of…He decided to pull out a book to pass the time away. He read a page or two of the book. He decided it wasn't that great of a book. It was some plot about a group of boys getting stuck on a deserted island. He was rather bored,

"Hey Alex."

Loki didn't respond at first not recognizing the name. Then when he noticed Amber was talking to him he looked up at her. "Yes?"

"Why are you reading that?" He wanted to defend himself but he figured it wasn't worth it. The book wasn't worth it.

"Um, Lord of the Flies?"

"You like that book?" she asked surprised.

"Um, no. I have yet to enjoy it."

She gave him that odd look again, "you mean you're bored of it?"

"Yes."

She pulled up her backpack from next to her, "Here, you'll like this better." She handed him a book. It was a small book, well it wasn't a novel. Loki looked at it confused.

She smiled, "It's a comic. You've never seen one before?"

"No…" he said slowly while analyzing the cover.

"It's really cool. It's called The Umbrella Academy," she opened the cover and skipped a few pages until there was a picture. "you read these" she pointed at word boxes.

"What are those?" he said, genuinely curious.

"Those are called speech bubbles. They're so you can see what each character is saying. See? This points to the character." She pointed at a tail on the sphere.

Loki was amazed that one of these mortals could be so kind. He spoke to him like a true teacher. She seemed nice. He felt that he could be friends with her easily—besides the fact that she was so chatty.

He began to read this "comic." It was quite interesting but not quite what he would choose to read. It was about super-children having to save the world—to keep the description short. A few pages in the school bell rang and everyone began to stand up. Loki closed the book and picked up his schedule. He debated asking the girl about where his next class. She was nice right?

"Amber?"

"Yeah?" she replied turning around.

"Can you help me to my next class?"

She smiled, and looked at her friend then back at him, "Sure."

She walked to him and took his schedule. Her smile grew bigger as she looked at it. "Hey, that's my next class! And you have sixth off! We can hang out then!"

Loki looked at her confused, hang out, seemed dangerous. "OK."

They walked to their next class together. It was called "Mythology" He thought it would be interesting to know what things mortals liked to make stories about.

The class passed by quickly and Amber seemed excited to finally be out of. They all exited into the hallway. "I hate that class." Amber complained.

"I find it quite interesting."

" I guess. I mean it was interesting until I had homework!" She laughed. Loki laughed to though he didn't see the joke.

The pair didn't talk until they walked into a library. Amber guided him to a chair and sat down across from him. She pulled a book out of her backpack, and showed it to him. "You might like this book if you like Mythology, but I have to finish it for an essay before I can give it to you. Its actually kind of interesting….hey! Maybe we can do a partner project together then we both get our of an essay!"

Loki read the cover of the book that read "Norse Gods and Goddesses: The History and where they came from." A long title it was…. He kind of liked her idea of doing a partnership for the project that was assigned today. He didn't know any of the material—though he was sure he could easily make it up somehow. He didn't understand the feeling but Amber's bubble attitude and kindness appealed to him.

"That would be splendid." He smiled

"Cool! Well, I better get reading. And you better too! Maybe we can swap books." She was referring to the comic she gave him at lunch.

"Yes." Was the last thing said by Loki. The two stayed quiet and read their books. Loki had trouble following his. His didn't really appeal to him at first but the more he read it the more fascinated he became with it's creativity. It was intriguing that these humans had such active minds. He loved the idea of superbeings outside of gods. He wanted more. He finished the comic by the end of the period and asked Amber if she had more of these comics. She offered him more comics. He looked at the titles: "Fear Itself: book one ,two and three" and, "Captain America," and one more called, "Joker's Asylum"

"This one," she pointed at the one that said Joker's Asylum, " doesn't really have much of the hero, its more focused on is arch enemy: Joker. Oh, and they aren't super, they're just really cool." She smiled amused by the comics.

"Well we better head off to seventh period. Do you need help finding it?"

"Hm, probably."

She took the paper from him again and looked excited.

"What is it? Do you have this class too?" Loki guessed.

She laughed, "No, but this class is fun. Do you know where the CU bowling Ally is?"

"The what?"

"I guess not, hm, I wonder…." She trailed off.

"Yes?"

"Oh nothing," she just smiled, "Follow me really quick."

He did what she said. He was glad he had met someone who was willing to help him so much. It did make him feel a little odd though—he was so used to doing things by himself. It was an alien idea to him to have someone take his worries away—like getting lost in this big maze school. He liked the relief. And the weirdest part was that he had so easily trusted someone.

Author's Note: Just a quick sidenote I pretty much made the setting where I live and go to school so in case you dont know here's a little background (i know "way to wait until after we read it to tell us!" sorry x) ) So there is my school, then up a hill (it's called "The Hill") is the Colorado University campus and yes we really do have bowling classes up there because there is a bowling alley and it's really cool. But yeah if something doesnt make sense just ask me :) and please review!