OK. I lied. -_-

Everyone I'm soooooooo sorry! I told you all that this would be being updated every few day's or so and it's been over a WEEK! I'm very sorry about that but I have decided to try and get back into an update schedule where I post new chapters every Sunday. Again I'm very sorry about that but here's the next part!

As always I do not own RotG or The Guardians of Childhood. They belong only to DreamWorks and William Joyce. This chapter was originally created by the fabulous writer Starskulls from whom I have adopted this story! I hope you all enjoy!

Spirit -not so- Well High School

Chapter 2: First Impressions

Now he felt a little nervous with all the eyes watching him. He wasn't sure what to do and the teacher could see this. "Ah you must be Jack" the teacher said smiling.

"Yeah that's me" Jack replied. Some kids were snickering at him already but Jack ignored them.

"Well, it is nice to meet you Jack. Your seat is here" the teacher said, pointing to a desk near the front. Nodding, Jack stepped forward down the middle row of all the desks and his mind was screaming for him not to fall. He would so angry at himself if he did.

More whispers came to his ears and he saw that kids were looking at his hair. Just the usual, he thought glumly. He reached his desk and sat down, relieved that he didn't fall over or do anything stupid. He took his bag off and dropped it onto the floor and gave it a kick so it went under his desk.

The teacher smiled at him as she placed a Mathematics Exercise Book in front of him, along with a writing book to write down questions and answers. "Just put your name on it and just copy down what I put on the board. My name is Miss Autumn" she said smiling.

Jack looked at her. With her reddish brown hair and hazel eyes, the name suited her as the spirit of Autumn. Bit odd though. But coming from him with hair white as snow, he was like the spirit of Winter and his name clearly fitted!

It annoyed him that she talked to him like he hadn't written on the front of a book before though. Miss Autumn smiled and looked back up at the rest of her class. "Now then, I will be putting questions on the board for you to do. I will be going to Mr. Moon's office for a couple of minutes so I want complete silence" Miss Autumn said which earned eye rolling and nods.

The teacher turned her back and started writing on the board with a board marker and she wrote the questions down so fast, her hand was almost a blur! After putting ten questions on the board and making sure everyone was beginning to work on them, Miss Autumn walked to the back of the classroom and exited the room, slamming the door behind her.

The second she was gone, the class all stopped what they were doing and started chatting to each other. Not Jack. Who could he talk to? Jack hid the corner of his face with his hand and he started on the questions. As much as he hated Math, he was pretty good at it and he did half of them in forty seconds.

"Hey new kid!" a voice came from the back which was an Australian accent. Laughing followed the call so Jack didn't bother to look around. He carried on working and ignored the caller. "Hey, I'm talking to you!" the voice came again but Jack still did nothing. This time, there were no more calls but a tear and a crumple of paper was heard. Next thing that Jack knew was that a paper ball had hit him on his back and laughter was echoing about.

The paper ball then bounced on the front of Jack's desk and Jack got curious. He put down his pen and pulled the ball back into a crumply sheet of paper. It had a stick figure on the front with two blue dots for eyes and an arrow pointing to the head of the stick figure. It had the word Frostbite at the end of the arrow and at the bottom of the piece of paper, there was the sentence, 'Do you dye your hair weirdo?'

Jack huffed in annoyance at the usual question but more so at the nickname. Jack re-crumpled up the paper and turned around to see the thrower. It came from a boy who was wearing a grey shirt and blue jeans and had green eyes and tanned skin. He had dark blackish hair and a red bandanna was tied around his head.

Jack cocked his head at this appearance and his eyes gleamed as he noticed the features that resembled him to a certain animal. The boy stopped laughing and looked at Jack, "Well, do you?" he asked. A random kid in the class butted in.

"Aster asked you a question weirdo!" the kid shouted.

Jack blinked. Aster. So that was his name. "No I don't Aster." he replied but this caused the class to laugh harder.

"Yeah right! It just makes you look weirder!" Aster said and to Jack this guy was being very prejudiced. Jack's bad habit took control of him and he drew his arm back and flung the paper ball at Aster.

It hit him right in the face and the whole class gasped. Not just at the fact that he had just thrown something at Aster but with such good aim too. "I don't care what you think Aster. I would rather have hair like this than look like a Kangaroo. Just hop off and shut it will you?" Jack said in annoyance.

The entire class went silent and a couple of their jaws dropped. Aster's cheeks were burning at this. "Why ya bloody little show pony…" Aster began and he was about to get up from his seat to teach that kid a lesson but Miss Autumn walked in.

She raised an eyebrow at the teen, "Is everything alright Aster?" she asked and Aster slumped down in his seat.

"Fine Miss" he replied although he was cursing on the inside. Miss Autumn then noticed the paper that was still crumpled up and by the side of Aster's desk. She bent down and picked it up and she frowned when she saw what was on it.

"You think it is funny to call people names do you?" she asked and before Aster could say anything else, she simply said, "Detention after school."

The kids in the room had wide eyes as Miss Autumn went to the front. Jack looked up at her from under his hair and she gave a small smile. Jack did nothing but he really regretted saying that. He would never hear the end of it and the kids would probably pick on him more now, especially Aster. He could actually sense and feel his anger wafting towards him. It wasn't nice.

But a yellow eyed kid, who hadn't been laughing with the rest, had his eyes on Jack. He sat at the back corner of every class and for good reason but that wasn't what mattered right now.

This white haired kid seemed different from the rest. This Jack seemed… cold. And this happened to be perfect. He, Pitch Black was filled with darkness in his heart and he was feared throughout the school. What went better together than cold and dark? There was an aura about Jack. An aura that he wanted to learn a lot more about.

Jack sighed to himself and carried on working, not noticing but feeling a strange presence watching him.

And that's the chapter! Again I'm sorry for taking so long but the next part should be up next Sunday! Oh, and ummm. I'm not sure how to ask this so I'll just come right out and say it. :P This is my first high school AU story and I'm a bit nervous about it. I'm unsure what I should do and I was hoping that if any one of you readers out there had any words of advice or encouragement you could lend me a hand? :) I'd really appreciate it.

Oh! And just a quick announcement my story 'Of Shadows and Moonlight' has also just been updated! Please go check it out along with my other work! :D Anyways! Until next time people! Keep calm and count the shadows! (ANY of you who got this reference have just won life)

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