Lara Lazuli was following the teacher down the hallway to what would be her new class. She sighed, again a new class. Again about twenty new faces and names to remember, but at least this would be the last new class.
Since Lara was small she always accompanied her mother, a famous journalist, on her trips all around the world.
First the girl loved to travel. Within almost six years, she had been to more countries then some people were in their whole life. But then school started, and they needed to move about two or three times a year and every time they arrived somewhere else, Lara needed to go to a new school.
She felt like she was trapped. Trapped inside a never ending circle of being the new one. The new strange girl with strange clothes and strange hobbies.
She never was able to make any friends, either. First because everyone always thought she was weird and they avoided her. And second because she'd given up to make friends.
She tried to befriend some girls at her first few schools, but she was never able to stay long enough so that the friendship was able to survive.
So she'd given up someday.
And now? She was fifteen and her mother was dead. She died two months ago and it changed Lara's life forever.
She needed to move again. Two weeks after she arrived in Barcelona together with her mother she needed to go to America.
To Beach City.
To live with her father. Her father she never saw before. He and her mother were never married and didn't really interact with each other.
But she was going to stay here. She was finally going to stay somewhere longer than half a year. That was supposed to make her happy, but it doesn't.
She only felt nervous. Nervous and anxious, and maybe even sad. She didn't want to be here and live with her father. She wanted her mother back.
When the teacher arrived at the door with a sign that said "10b", she stopped and smiled at Lara. Then she opened the door.
Everyone stared at the new girl but she didn't pay attention to the staring, she was used to it. She even started to stare herself.
She viewed every single face in the room. Some of them seemed to be typical teenagers about fifteen or sixteen.
On the left side of the room there were three girls who caught her attention.
One of them was very tall and had dark skin and short curled black hair. She wore a pink and black hoodie and tight black trousers. Moreover she wore opaque sunglasses which made her look somehow unique.
She was definitely not the most popular one in this class, but she was not afraid to show the world she was unique. She most likely didn't care about anyone's opinion on her.
The second one who was sitting right next to her had long blonde hair with violet highlights. Her skin was supposed to be pale but the sun made it light-brown which looked quite nice. She was more corpulent and a lot shorter than the other girl. Her clothes were outworn and her black jeans had star-shaped holes at knee-level. She wore a purple top and sneakers that someday maybe had been white.
That was definitely not the kind of girl who always received A's. Maybe she was even a troublemaker.
The third one was sitting in the first row while the other two were sharing the desk behind her.
She had short blonde hair and very pale skin. Her clothes were accurate just like her hair. She was tall and thin, and she looked like a ballerina.
The girl was definitely a swot, she was most likely one of the class's best students.
Lara saw it in the way she looked at the teacher and tried to act like she was interested in the class.
"So, this is the new student" the teacher begun. Then she turned around and looked at Lara. "Why don't you introduce yourself?" Lara sighed.
"Well…" she started and the kids began to whisper to each other. "I am Lara Lapis Lazuli and I…" This moment someone else caught her eyes.
He was sitting alone on a desk in the first row and was the only one who didn't seem to pay attention to her. He was staring at a holographic screen instead.
Just when she decided to look away, he lifted his head and looked at her. Lara found herself staring into two amazingly beautiful green eyes and immediately forgot what she was going to say.
Luckily the boy who had got blond hair and pale skin looked away immediately after he eyed her briefly.
Lara quickly cleared her throat and begun again.
"So…yeah, I am Lara Lapis Lazuli and I moved here two days ago. I am living here with my father and looking forward to being here."
Well, that was not entirely true but she didn't care.
The teacher smiled. "Thank you, Lara. Please take seat. You can sit next to…um, what about you sitting next to Jasper in the second row?"
Lara somehow hoped that the blonde boy's name may be Jasper but then another boy rose his hand. He sat behind the other one and waved with one of his hands.
"I am Jasper, you will be sitting here." He pointed at the free chair next to him.
Lara slowly made her way through the class and sat down next to the boy with the long blonde ponytail and red tattoos across his face.
He looked like a troublemaker, somebody who likes to beat up the weaker ones. Lara sighed. Why was she always supposed to sit next to the bad guys?
