We had been living in Germany for about two weeks and school started tomorrow. I ended up getting my license because I had nothing better to do with my time. My dad gave me his old white 2008 Audi a4 since he recently bought the 2009 model but I probably would still walk to school. I hadn't talked to Georg since the first day we arrived I saw him outside a couple times and he would wave but that was it. My mom somehow got him to walk to school with me on the first day of school since I didn't want to drive and she said it would be safer, I really didn't want to but she said I had to walk with him. I had a feeling it'd be awkward since we only talked that one time. My mom was out at the moment she went to go to pick up my program at school before hand because I refused to go. I stayed home taking care of Ollie instead. I was carrying him and I decided to go look out the window. There was not much to look at the neighborhood was pretty quiet and boring, I saw what I believed was the same kid from the day that we arrived I recognized his hair he seemed to be walking a dog. A few moments later I heard the front door open.

"Dasha! I've got your program, Are you in your room?" I heard my mom yell from downstairs. I was going to answer back but refrained from it since Ollie had fallen asleep in my arms so I set him down on my bed and made a type of barrier out of pillows even though I knew he wouldn't be rolling over yet better safe than sorry. Once I set him down I ran downstairs.

"Mum Ollie's sleeping." I said when I saw her.

"Oh sorry for yelling. When did he fall asleep?"

"Like a minute or two before you yelled. But he didn't wake up so it's fine."

"Oh okay that's good. Well Dasha I've got your program for the semester."

"Let me see." I said and she handed me an envelope. I groaned 7 classes. I had Chemistry, German, Math, psychology, English, music, and PE. I did not like my schedule I knew this year wasn't going to be so great.

"I'm screwed." I told my mom.

"All you have to do is study don't complain." she said in a snippy tone.

"Well it's not that easy." I started towards the stairs with my schedule in hand. I was worried I basically know no German and when I went to school in London I was crap at math an chemistry and to be honest I wasn't very fond of PE and I'm pretty sure that isn't going to change now. Later in the afternoon I heard my mother call for me.

"Dasha! Come down stairs we have to discuss something!"

"Ughh" I groaned into my pillow wondering what she could possibly want. I walked downstairs and headed towards the living area where she was. When I walked in she was there with my dad as well.

"Dasha sit." she said motioning me towards the couch. I felt like all the attention was on me, and it was but I hated that feeling. It made me uncomfortable.

"Dasha we have to discuss our routine since school starts tomorrow for you and something unexpected happened and I got a job."

"Oh that's good mum I'm happy for you." I said and then I saw my dad fidget and grow anxious.

"Does this really involve me you two can discuss this I already know what's going on and I have some really important paperwork I must get to." he finally said. Of course that's what it was he was always doing something work related.

"Well if you have to." my mum said in a very displeased tone.

"I have to." he said he got up and walked over to me and kissed my forehead.

"Sweetie sorry I have paperwork, goodnight I hope your first day of school goes well, be good ok we don't want a repeat of last year."

"Ok dad, goodnight." I replied. Ah last year, he was referring to my grades. I used to have really great grades and then they started to plummet. I was bullied nonstop and besides that I couldn't stand the ridiculous rumors that would go around. Not just about me but about my family. They would say that my dad was a part of some unnatural genetic experiments, mutating animals and such but that's all they were rumors. My dad does nothing like that all he does is own a company that develops scientific equipment nothing else no experiments. You would think these rumors were started by a child. Long story short I grew tired of all the crap that I would hear in class that I would just sleep through the entire class causing my grades to suffer. He walked out of the room and headed towards his office.

"Dasha" my mum said.

"Hmm"

"We have to discuss our routine."

"Oh, what about it?"

"Well I told you I got a job and it's from 6am to 4pm so I would be leaving before you wake up. I need someone to take care of Ollie, Georg's mom can't take care of him because she works as well so I found a daycare where Ollie could stay, and I need you to drop him off every morning."

"Me? Can't you drop him off on the way? I don't even like to drive."

"Well your going to have to drive, I can't drop him off because that would add like 20 minutes to get to work because I would need to take a little detour just to drop him off and it's on your way to school so you can drop him off and pick him up for me."

"It sounds like I have no choice so I guess I will. But I thought I had to walk with Georg tomorrow is he going to take the bus now?"

"Oh I forgot about that I'll call your aunt to tell her but I suppose he will because school starts at 7:26 for you guys and you would have to leave early around 6:40 to drop Ollie off."

"Ok. So just to clear things up I will drop off Ollie and pick him up after school."

"Yes and your dad put a car seat in your car for him and every morning I will wake you up and leave Ollie dressed for you so all you have to do is give him a bottle and I will leave a diaper bag ready and you will give that to the daycare attendants. Do you have your car keys?"

"Ok I'll remember that and yeah I have them."

"Ok Dasha then that's it's I'm trusting you with this don't mess it up."

"Don't jinx me and ok I'm going to go shower then I'm going to sleep goodnight."

"Goodnight."

The next day I woke to a knock on my door I knew it was my mums way of waking me up I checked the clock 5:40am. I knew she was leaving now so I went into Ollie's room to check on him, he was all dressed and I saw the diaper bag that my mom had prepared on his changing table. He looked pretty content so I went back into my room to get dressed I threw on some black skinny jeans, a black and grey striped sweatshirt, and some boots because I couldn't find my sneakers. They were probably still in one of the boxes that I was to lazy to unpack. After I was dressed I quickly curled my hair into loose curls and did my makeup it was simple just mascara and eyeliner. When I was done the clock read 6:22 I went to go feed Ollie and when I was done I quickly changed his diaper before I knew it it was 6:30 I went to grab my bag and schedule from my room and then grabbed Ollie and his diaper bag and headed downstairs i was a bit early but when I got to school I wanted to head by the main office to grab a map of the school if they had them. I put Ollie into his car seat and drove off. Ollie had fallen asleep in the short time I had driven so it was easy to drop him off I gave him and his diaper bag to the daycare attendant and signed off when I walked out I saw the boy with the black hair today it was sticking up a bit more in all directions like he had teased it a bit and he was walking with another boy who had short blonde hair. They looked at me but kept walking it looked as if they were arguing so I tried not to stare. I got into my car and drove to school, it only took me about 5 minutes to get there when I got there I saw Georg with a group of his friends but he walked over to me. His hair looked a bit tamer today.

"Hey Dasha!" he said.

"Hey"

"You drove to school?"

"Yeah I had to because I had to because I had to drop off Ollie at daycare. I'm sorry about not walking"

"No its ok I took the bus the bus. How are you?"

"I'm good thanks. If you like you can come with me after school if you need a ride."

"No, thank you though I walk home with my friends most of the time."

"That's cool, you're lucky I rather walk. Then drive home."

"Well you might not walk but in PE you can run haha. Can I see your schedule?"

"God don't remind me." I said as I looked for my schedule in my bag. I found it and handed it to him.

"Here, and Georg can you tell me where I can get a map of the campus?"

"Yeah in the main office it's next to the principal's office in the building over there it's the second room on the right." he said pointing to the biggest building on campus.

"Hey Dasha we have math and PE together." he spoke up a bit after as he handed me my schedule back.

"Great my two favorite subjects." I replied sarcastically.

"Haha it's not that bad I'll help you with math it's easy but as for PE you're on your own."

"Thanks, well I'll see you later."

"Haha bye"

I walked into the building he pointed at it was crowded with people, lot of people were staring at me and I felt like they were talking about me. I put my head down and started walking straight towards the main office when I bumped into someone hard. I fell backwards and landed on my behind when I looked up I saw this girl with pin straight long brunette hair she was wearing a white flowing embroidered top, denim shorts, and flats. Everyone looked at me like I had committed murder and she started yelling at me furiously in German. She was extremely angry, I had dropped her bag I grabbed for it to give it to her and she snatched it from my hand.

"I'm sorry, I wasn't looking where I was going" I said to her quietly but I still had my head a bit down. I was scared.

"Idiot!" she replied harshly in English, she pushed me and stomped away. Now more than before I felt everyone's eyes on me everyone started staring and talking once she left it was like bees in a beehive all scrambling and buzzing furiously. I rushed into the main office, grabbed a map and found my first class.

"Chemistry room B23"

I basically ran to class to avoid all the attention. I found the class quickly; it was on the second floor. The school seemed to be divided into departments like English, Math, Sciences, Arts, History, and another for the spare classes you can say. Each department had a letter and that's how you knew where your class was going to be building A, B, C, E, or F. When I got to my class I found a seat in the back, I was relieved no one was in there I wanted to avoid another situation. I pulled out my binder and waited. The teacher, a man walked in but said nothing as he sat at his desk.

This school year hasn't even started yet and I was already having problems. I could only imagine what the rest of my day would be like. I wanted it to be over already, I put my head down while I waited for the bell to ring before I knew it I had fallen asleep.