Chapter 1
When Attending A New School, Dress for Success
Sophia Sabatano couldn't have been happier. Today was the day that she was going to start attending Waverly Academy, the elite coed boarding school located in the rural countryside of Upstate New York. She had been anticipating this day for the past few months, since she found out from her mother that she had enrolled her and her brother there late. Now, it was just past the school's winter break, and the Sabatano's were attending the prestigious school for the second semester of their junior year.
Sophia looked across the thin aisle separating her from her older by 10 minutes fraternal twin brother Aaron. He didn't look nervous, or even excited like she was. He just looked bored. His sandy blonde hair was perfectly disheveled, falling a tad bit in front of his face, and the rest falling messily in the back, in between it looked perfectly smooth. His hair was always perfect; he just woke up looking perfect. It always made her a bit jealous since she spent forever perfecting her self in the morning, though her brother said she had the same quality and didn't need to.
He looked up at her with his gorgeous cloudy gray eyes, the exact same as her eyes, and smirked, "What?" He questioned at her protruding stare as he ran his permanently tanned hand through his hair, it falling back into place the exact same as before when he was done, "Why are you looking at me like that?"
She crinkled her nose in distaste. "Are you honestly going to be wearing that on the day of your arrival?" She examined his rumpled black Metallica band tee and old, ripped in the knees, tan chords, hardly covering his brand spanking new Black Sabbath Converse Kicks. And he wore a plain black Fedora on his head, his signature accessory.
"Of course. Not everybody feels the need to try as hard as you do." He said, not looking at her, focused on adjusting his brown leather belt wrist band.
"I'm not trying to hard…" She glanced down at her outfit, "I'm trying just hard enough." She said self consciously. She had overdressed a bit for the occasion, especially since the ground outside in the forestry area was covered to the brim with a fresh snow. She smoothed down her new Diane von Furstenberg black wrap dress, that showed a bit too much cleavage in the plunging V-neck, and tailored in length so that it went down to her mid-thigh, rather than her knee as it originally had. She crossed her legs, their athletic toned, tanned goodness accentuated by her new neon yellow Christian Louboutin Hyper Prive Peep-Toe pumps. Her long, wavy golden wheat blonde hair was slightly curled and plain down accessorized with a black cashmere Parisian black beanie beret, and her jewelry was simple, consisting of golden studs in both her first and second ear holes from Tiffany's and a small loop earring in her left cartilage. She wore a simple platinum Givenchy chain necklace, cascading down her petite, thin frame and down between her small cleavage, almost reaching the end of her V-neck, and besides that, she simply wore her favorite white gold Serpent ring that her mother had gotten her a few years ago for her 14th birthday.
"Psh… yah, right." Aaron chided as he picked up the remote from the plush purple leather seat next to him and turned on the television next to Sophia, onto MTV. Cribs was on. Sophia sighed. She didn't understand why so many girls constantly fell all over themselves for Aaron. He might be good looking, but his personality could really be so… blah.
She herself wasn't exactly modest or nice all the time, but she could be interesting. She loved to laugh, and did it quite often, and she enjoyed having as much fun as possible. She was a vegetarian, a bleeding heart liberal, and a bit of a hippie sometimes, and sometimes her clothes reflected that, but most of the time, based off of where she came from, she wore fancy designer labels and acted sophisticated and poised. She didn't really like doing that really, its just, when you have a reputation to uphold for the sake of your parents, and you were raised in the type of lifestyle she was, you have to sacrifice your own happiness in order to act like everybody else does, and wants you to act as.
Plus, she did love shopping… and dressing up.
Sophia spent the rest of the journey examining her freshly manicured O.P.I nail lacquer polished nails in Pink-ing of You, a very discreet, and soft baby pink that made her tanned skin more prominent on her hands, and looked soft and cute with anything.
And, before she knew it, her father's black stretch Hummer limo pulled up onto the freshly plowed sidewalks in the main courtyard, directly in front of the main building of Waverly Academy.