Chapter 2

Nina's POV

I wake up I stretch out on my bed and see my perky blond friend Amber sitting near the mirror, brushing her hair.

"Hey Amber," I call while I rub the sleep out of my eyes. "Why are you up so early? You usually enjoy your beauty sleep."

"I know, but I heard that we're getting a new student and she's going to be in our room. So, I'm trying to get ready. You should too, not only for the new girl but for Fabian!"she comments while I blush. "Nina, we all know that you're in LOVE with him."

"Yeah everybody," I roll my eyes. "Except for Fabian."

"Nina, it's fine. I know that he still has feeling for you. Why would he be willing to go on both of the quests for you?"

"I don't know, but I never wanted his help. I didn't want him hurt."

"Well, you're probably hurting him more now that you aren't telling him about your feelings,"

"Now don't make me feel bad."

"Come on Nina. Lets go talk to Sibuna about how we're going to get the reflectors off of Victor." Amber calls. "Oh, and Nina; the new girl, she's American, and we're going to have to have the meeting in Patricia's room till we find a new place to hide."

"Yeah, sure," I reply while getting my jacket on and running a brush through my hair.

"Come on Nina, Let's go down to the dining hall."

We start to walk through the door and as I sit next to Fabian he looks up and smiles at me.

"Hey Nina! So do you think the new girl is going to be mean or nice?" he asks.

"Nice I hope. You know we may have to let her into Sibuna so we don't have to make up a bunch of excuses."

"No, Nina. We're not going to let any other girl into this mess."

"I know."

Suddenly a crisp British voice belonging to our house mother Vera breaks through all of our chatter.

"Everybody, the new girl, Lauren Mendelsohn will be here any second, so lets give her a warm welcome. Outside children!" she commands.

Replies of "Fine," and "Why do I have to?" are heard but we soon find all of ourselves waiting outside for a car. Then a black car pulls up and a man walks out of the driver's seat and open the door. We all hold our breath as a girl slowly walks out of the car.

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