When I woke I found Blake curled up in a ball by my side sleeping peacefully. I glanced at the clock and saw I had time before I had to get ready, so I decide to stay and let Blake sleep for a bit. I try to get my story memorized so there are no slips, it would be weird if a normal person didn't know their name or where they grew up. When the time came I begrudgingly wake up Blake by getting up. In three minutes I was showered, dressed, and ready. I go downstairs with Blake trailing behind me. After grabbing some cereal I sit down at the table with Charlie, who is on his laptop. He is probably looking to see if there was any news of our disappearance in Maine.
"I see that thing hasn't left yet" Charlie said playfully looking down at Blake who was laying next to my chair.
"Nope, not yet." I said popping the "P'". "Are you ready to go, I still need to get my schedule before school"
"Do you have everything?" he inquires.
"If you mean the little emergency kit, then yes." I said walking over to the door.
Charlie makes me always keep a five day supple of dried food, spare clothes, a GPS, and a pen knife. this is incase I have to leave with out going to the house or anywhere.
"Now can we go?" I said motioning to the door.
As we go out the front door Blake whines but doesn't leave the house, as though he knows he cannot go with. The school was relatively small dreary, but that could be that fact that its raining. Nothing really looks amazing when it's raining. the second we get there, again, what little people are there stare. Charlie parks the car at the front of the school.
"You know I'm worried to be sending you to school with the chance of your legacies coming soon? Please if you if anything strange happens," He hands me a cell phone. "call me. If you start shaking, hearing voices, if you're floating, if anything happens you call" He says stressing every word, like it's life or death. Well it is really life or death.
"I promise. We can't risk anything happening."
He nods, "And no drawing any kind of attention. You can't be too smart, or too fast, you need to hide it."
I try to lighten the mood. "I know, this isn't my first rodeo. I've been dumbing it down at twenty, twenty-three different school?" I joke.
Charlie gives ma a half-hearted smile.
"I'm going to be picking you up after school. You better get going, you don't want to be late."
I grab my bag and get out of the car. The school isn't hard to navigate, all the buildings have large numbers on it. I make it to the office with ease. The woman at the desk is a ,poorly dyed, red head in her sixties.
"Hello, Isabella is it?" she said with a huge smile.
How were we known already? We haven't been here a full day yet. She must of seen my confusion.
"Oh, in little towns like this everyone talks. I heard about you guys from the realtor. I'm Miss. Cope."
Okay, that has to be the number one thing I hate about small towns.
"Nice to meet you, but I go by Bella."
"Just let me get your schedule." She shuffled behind the desk for a bit before coming back. "Here's your schedule and a map. Now do you want any help getting around, I know it can be difficult getting around the first day?"
"I think I can manage, but thank you."
By the time I got out of the office others had arrived, and it was still a few minutes before the bell. I decide to drop some stuff off at the locker, after that the bell rings right on schedule.
I got through about half of my classes, and it felt like the day would just drag on and on. Most people stared, that was the usual when we moved, but what was unusual was that many people kept coming up to me trying to direct me to class rooms I knew how to get to, others talked to me. They didn't really seem interested me, they seem interested in being able to say they meet the new girl. I usually don't have this happen, most schools acknowledge that you are there and leave you be, and I liked it like that. I didn't have to tell lies, or make up more to the story that way, I didn't stand out that way.
It was more clear as I was walking cafeteria, that just like any school they all had their cliques. I think that in small town the cliques are more tight because they were separated into them almost at birth due to all of them growing up together. It seemed like everyone fit like puzzle pieces with each other, that was until I saw the girl in the NASA shirt. She look to be the only one alone. She was walking to lunch too, but that was before she was tripped and fell to the floor. The culprits walked away in their group laughing with each other, and the ringleader looked especially proud. I guess I found the mean girls, there at every school.
I run over to the girl, who is still picking up her many books and bag.
"Here let me help." I said picking up some of her book. 'I see you like Jane Austen, she one of my favorites. What did you think about Emma-" I begin to ask but she cuts me off.
"Look thanks for your help, and I get you're just trying to be nice but don't. It's you first day and you don't want to be tied with space freak" She said putting air quotes around "space freak"
After that she takes her book and continues to the cafeteria.
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