Transfer Student – Chapter 3
"Guardian Angel?" Rachel questioned as Jade moved on.
"Yeah. I'll tell you how the school works, who to hang with, what to do and what not to do." She said with a smile as she turned a corner to reveal another row of lockers.
"How do you know what to do? You can't have been here long yourself." She questioned. After this was said, Jade stopped and looked at Rachel.
"Nice guess. How'd you know?" She asked.
"You still have a British accent. If you had been her for a long time, it would have gone by now." She simply said.
"You're smart. And yes, I am new fairly here. I moved in the winter last year and started here with the freshmen. Like you, I'm a sophomore now. I've been here almost a year." She said, continuing to walk again. A few meters later she stopped. "Here's your locker. It's only a hall away from mine." She said grinning. Stepping up to the locker, Rachel put the combination given to her in. It opened and she looked at it. "Okay, you can decorate it and stuff. I'll show you mine and some of my friends' later. Just put your books in here and that. It means you don't need a massive bag. Just keep your note book now. You'll get text books later." She said. Rachel closed the locker and put the information she previously had in her hands, into her bag.
"That's wasted five minutes." Jade said, looking at the clock on the wall. It was ten past eight. "It should take us a couple of minutes to get to room two-seventeen, so that way we'll only have about thirty-five minutes of the lesson left… God, I hate English." She said, heading up a flight of stairs. Rachel followed. "Anyway, as I'm your guardian angel, I am supposed to tell you that you look like an idiot." She said, stopping in front of a girls' bathroom. Pushing her inside, Jade followed Rachel and stood in front of the mirrors. "First of all, the school is more relaxed than it suggests, especially on the uniform." She said. Rachel looked down at what she was wearing, and then looked at what Jade was wearing. She was right. Jade wore a white blouse, with the top button undone and short sleeves, a black button up vest with red buttons, a short black skirt, socks that went up to a third of the length of her thigh, with a red stripe around the top of each one, and black ballet flats. "You don't need to wear that." She continued.
"What do I do then?" Rachel asked her.
"To start with, roll up your skirt a bit." Rachel did as she was told. "Right, now remove the tie and undo the top button of your shirt." Jade ordered her. Complying with the orders, she removed her tie. "That's better. Now roll up the sleeves to your blazer. And voilà, you look a lot better." Jade said smiling. Rachel looked at herself and couldn't help but agree.
"Anyway, we better get to class. Whilst I'm sure Eric didn't write any times on the note, I don't think we can be gone much longer." She sighed before exiting the toilets. Having no other option, Rachel followed.
"So where is room two-seventeen?" Rachel asked. Jade pointed to a room up ahead.
"Careful here. Miss Taylor is a nice enough woman, as long as you stay on her good side. Most of the time I'm on her good side – except for Monday mornings." Jade explained. Rachel nodded and took a breath in as Jade opened the door.
"Where have you been Jade? You're fifteen minutes late already!" The teacher exclaimed.
"Sorry Miss I was asked to show the new transfer student to her locker and then bring her here. I have a note from Eri- Mr Ross." Jade explained, handing the note over. At the part of 'new transfer student', all the heads in the class shot up, and turned to the front of the class. Rachel could feel all the eyes on her, and it wasn't a nice feeling. Nervously, she smiled at the teacher, who returned it.
"In that case, your apology is accepted, as for once you do seem to have a legitimate excuse. Anyway, today we are doing group work. Jade, you shall be working with Antonio, Francis and Gilbert, as they insisted that you would work best with them, if you did turn up. Rachel, if you wish to go with that group also, you may." The teacher told them. Rachel watched as a smile grew on Jade's face as she started to the back of the classroom.
"Come on Rachel, they don't bite." Jade shouted back to her. For some reason, this comment made the class burst into a fit of laughter. Unsure of what to do, she followed her new friend to the back of the class.
"I told you Gilbert. Now pay up." A tanned boy said as Rachel sat down.
"Nien. Jade is late because she was showing the new girl around." An albino with crimson red eyes replied.
"Actually Gil, I was late anyway." Jade told to the two. Rachel watched as the albino grumbled and produced some money from his wallet. The other boy quickly snatched it out of his hands, smirking.
"Ah, Jade, you will never change, will you mon amie?" The third boy on the table said. This one had bright blue eyes and long wavy hair. Jade grinned at the boy, before turning back to Rachel.
"Okay guys, firstly you shouldn't be betting on my tardiness. Secondly, this is Rachel, the new transfer student. Rachel, this is Antonio," she said pointing to the boy with olive skin, jade-green eyes and messy brown hair. "Francis." She continued, pointing to the boy with blue eyes and blond, shoulder length hair. "And Gilbert." She finished, pointing to the albino with scruffy white hair and the unsettling red eyes.
"Nice to meet you." Rachel said, extending her hand to the group. Antonio ignored her hand and gave her a hug. Sensing her discomfort, Jade pulled him off and scolded him. Gilbert just shook her hand a winked at her. Francis took her hand and brought his lips to it.
"You are très belle ma chérie." He said, letting go of her hand. Despite taking French for three years in her previous school, Rachel had no idea what he said.
"Stop being a pervert Francis!" Jade said, obviously having finished scolding Antonio. "What are we meant to be doing anyway?" She asked the three boys.
"Something about Shakespeare mi amor." Antonio told her. The other two boys nodded their heads.
"Anything specific?" Jade asked and watched as the three shook their heads. "I guess I'll ask Arthur then." She said, a smile tugging at her lips. Rachel saw the threes' looks as she called for the boy named Arthur. She then turned to where she heard the scraping of a chair going backwards. A few feet away stood the most gorgeous boy she had laid eyes on. He had tousled blond hair, sparkling emerald green eyes and was quite tall. He seemed to have large eyebrows, but having lived in England all her life before the move, it wasn't unnatural to her. He started towards the table, and Rachel promptly turned around.
"What is it that you wanted Jade?" He asked in an accent that Rachel found familiar.
"I was just wondering what the assignment was. See, none of the boys knew, so I figured that you would be the best person to ask." She said, giving an award winning smile.
"I believe we have to do a poster on Macbeth and include information on the adaptations we have seen. That is what Alfred and I have been doing anyway." He said. Seconds later, another scrape of a chair was heard. Again Rachel turned, to see another handsome man. This one had dirty blond hair with a little flick, sapphire blue eyes and appeared to be a little taller than the man currently stood at their table.
"I heard my name." He said.
"Alfred, you're just in time. I was just introducing myself to our new transfer student, Rachel." Arthur quickly shot in.
"No you weren't…" Jade started, before being cut off from a glare from Arthur. Turning to Rachel, he smiled.
"Hello Rachel, my name is Arthur. It is a pleasure to meet such a beautiful young woman like yourself. If you don't mind me asking where have you transferred from?" He said, as if he had never spoken to Jade.
"Oh, I'm from Birmingham." She said, smiling up at him.
"Birmingham, Alabama?" The other boy asked.
"No, Birmingham, England you nitwit." Arthur said to him.
"That's no way to act in front of a lady Arthur." The boy chuckled.
"You act like that in front of me." Jade said from the other side of the table where she had started on the poster that was due in at the end of the lesson, which was only fifteen minutes away.
"Just because you are British, it does not make you eine Dame. Kesesesese." Gilbert laughed from the table. The laughing stopped, when Jade punched him however.
"Anyway dude, I'm Alfred, the hero! If you need help, you can ask me. Do you need me to save you from the bad touch trio?" He asked in a booming voice.
"The bad touch what?" Rachel asked, looking back to Jade. Jade, who had been watching the conversation, quickly looked down, as did the other three sitting at the table.
"Don't scare the poor girl Alfred! She's already had to deal with Jade today." Arthur said.
"Poor chica. You should have run señorita!" Antonio told her.
"I'm still here!" Jade exclaimed. Rachel giggled at her outburst.
"You have such an adorable laugh." Arthur told her. Heat rose to Rachel's cheeks. "I'm sorry! I didn't mean to… Sorry." Arthur started, before Alfred cut in.
"What do you have next?" Alfred asked her. Thankful for the distraction, Rachel dove into her bag and retrieved her timetable.
"I have science with Mr Blakemore." She said.
"You have that don't you Arthur?" Francis asked. Arthur nodded slowly.
"Good. That means you can show her to science, and then back to her locker. It's about five down from yours." Jade said, adding final touches to the poster.
"S-sure. I'll meet you outside of the classroom and we can make our way down." Arthur told her. Rachel nodded back to him, smiling at how he faltered at the beginning. With that, Alfred and Arthur made their way back to their desks.
When Rachel turned back, Jade was admiring a finished poster. "How did you do that? It's only been ten minutes!" Rachel asked her shocked.
"It is Jade's special talent. Es ist what we always ask her."
"Oui. She always does it very quickly. Almost like magie."
"We think that she is una bruja!"
"Yes, because I am a bloody witch. And now I curse you. Francis, I curse your food. Antonio, I curse your tomatoes. Gilbert, I curse… Gilbird!" Jade replied, making witchy hand movements. The three looked at her scared.
"Not Gilbird!" Gilbert exclaimed, falling to the floor. His reaction caused Rachel and Jade to burst into fits of laughter.
After calming down, Jade wiped some tears from her eyes. "Looks like someone's watching you." She said, pointing behind Rachel. Rachel turned around and met eyes with both Alfred and Arthur. They quickly turned away, a light pink blush on each of their cheeks.
"Le jeu de l'amour. Un tel jeu délicat avec des conséquences graves." Francis muttered as the bell went.
A/N: This chapter is about eight hundred words longer than the last chapter. I you think I should split it, can you please tell me where?
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xAccailiax
*Translations*
Très belle ma chérie -Very beautiful my dear
Mi amor - My love
Eine Dame - A lady
Una Bruja - A witch
*Note* The last line is in French but the main character knows little French. In my opinion it is better not to know at this point as it's explained later.
*Note* Some of this has been amended on 02/01/2013
