Chapter 3

Blend In

Bex's P.O.V.

Duncan and I walked straight into the Principle's office and we took our respected seats opposite him. There was silence for a little while as the Principle searched through a few papers, looking for something.

"Ah, here it is." He pulled out a white sheet with a table on it. He handed it over to me and I instantly saw it was covered in different words. "That is your schedule, Rebecca. It tells you where you have to be and when for each period." I nodded my head, trying to understand it. He then thrust a smaller piece of paper into my hand. "That is your locker and the combination." Locker 939, combo. 39-09-69-79-69. That didn't seem too hard to remember, just a bunch of nines. "Well, Rebecca, I think that's everything. I'll leave you to say your goodbyes to your father and then I'll show you where to go." The Principle stood up and left the room. I was so tempted to shout out 'he's not my father!' but I restrained myself. That wouldn't be a good impression on my first day.

"Well, I guess this is it. This is where I lose my baby girl." Duncan his hand up to my cheek and I gave him the weirdest look I could. He was a freak sometimes and it could usually scare me when he was acting freakish.

"Yeah, okay, whatever..." I mumbled, trying not to make eye contact. Duncan tried to pull me in for a hug, but I pushed him away. "Someone could be watching!" I whisper-hissed at him.

"Okay, Miss My-dad-is-so-uncool." He joked, rolling his eyes and laughing. "I'll pick you up outside at three."

"Yeah, whatever." I said, standing up and heading for the door.

"I don't even get a goodbye."

"See ya!" I called behind me as I opened the door. The Principle was standing outside, admiring a painting on the wall. "Sir?" He turned to me and smile.

"I'll see you later, Bex." Duncan said, walking past me and kissing me on my head. My eyes widened and I looked around to check if anyone was looking, luckily the corridor was empty. Duncan and the Principle nodded to each other and my step-father disappeared down the corridor and back into the parking lot.

"Shall we?" The Princible held his arm out down the corridor and I smiled at him. The two of us walked in the opposite direction to Duncan, down a very long corridor that never seemed to end. We passed endless classrooms and lockers, and with each passing second the butterflies in my stomach were moving around more and more.

Finally we stopped as we reached the end of the corridor and I could see a pair of double doors and a sign that said Cafeteria above them. At least the locker was close to where the food was kept, that could come in handy. I could be front of the ques probably and then get the best food before all that's left is the mangy bits.

"This is your locker." I turned to face the lockers and 939 was at the top. I pulled out the small sheet of paper and unlocked my locker with the combo. number. "I'll leave you to it then." The Principle smiled. "If you ever need anything, you know where my office is." I smiled kindly at him and he walked back down the corridor to his office. I turned back to my locker. It was a decent size. There was mirror, that the previous owner must have left, on the door, a shelf with a few textbooks on and small compartment to store my messenger bag in.

As if out of no where, a loud bell sounded off and I covered my ears. It was extremely loud and it hurt. Then I looked up and saw the bell was right above my locker. So that's why no one wanted that locker, it was the noisiest place in the school.

The corridor sprang to life. Students started rushing inside, none noticing me standing there. I just blended in to the crowd. It felt weird to blend in, I never had before. But, I liked the feeling of not being recognized.

I spun back to face my locker and pulled out my schedule. There was a place above the door for me to stick it in place, so I did. I still had no idea how to read it, but I was trying.

"Hey, you must be the new girl." A cheery voice sounded off behind my locker. I peered behind the door and saw a girl, rougly about my age, standing there. She had black hair, dangling down her shoulders in loose pigtails, and bright onyx eyes, kind of like my mom's. She was wearing a plain pink t-shirt and jeans, with flip-flops on her feet. "I'm Bella Cortez, it's short for Annabella, but I like Bella best." She held out her hand and I shook it, smiling at the girl.

"I'm Bex Evers." I introduced myself.

"Oh, I know who you are, everyone does. But we were told to treat you like a normal student, like hell that will happen. You are, like, the most famous girl I know...Well, I actually don't know anyone famous, but I guess I know you now, so, yeah, you are, like, the most famous person I know." I nodded my head, smiling, but that girl was talking so fast.

"Riiight." I turned back to my locker.

"Do you need someone to show you around?" The girl asked, but before I could reply she was at it again. "I think it would be best if someone showed you around because being new is hard. I mean, I'm not new here,m I started at the beginning of the year, but I used to move Middle school's all the time and it was always hard being the new kid, so I thought I'd be friendly and offer to show you around, so, do you?"

"Yeah, that would be good. Thanks." I replied, trying to decode my schedule again.

"No need to thank me, I like meeting new people and making friends. Do you wanna be my friend?" Belle didn't even give me enough time to answer again. "I mean, you don't have to be my friend, you could always go hang around with Marisol, she's the Queen Bee around here, but I doubt she'd be a good friend. She's more of the back-stabbing kind and no one wants a friend like that. Anyway, she would only use you, but I won't. To me you're just another girl in the school because, well, you are. But everyone else will treat you li-" I slapped my hand over Bella's mouth.

"I don't want to sound rude or mean or snything because you are a really nice girl, but so you ever shut up?" I said I wasn't trying to be mean. Anbd I wasn't, she just was getting a bit annoying.

"Sorry about that. I do ramble on a bit sometimes. My dad says I get it from my mom, her and my auntie Sadie talk a lot and I guess it's just a habit I've picked up on. And I'm doing it again, most of the time I don't even realize I'm doing ti and I know some people get annoyed by it. If I'm ever annoying just tell me to shut up, I won't mind, honestly. So, what class have you got first period?" Bella looked over my shoulder at my schedule and traced her finger across one of the lines. "Wicked! You have English with Mrs. Davis. She's my teacher, too. She's really nice and helpful, she's also the guidance councilor, so you can go talk to her with any sort of problem you have. I mean anything! This guy, Nathan, he went to see her because he had itchy feet. Who goes to see a guidance councilor about itchy feet? Anyway, she gave him a note to give to his parents and they took him to the doctor, turns out he had some sort of disease that causes you scratch your feet!"

"Can we got to first period, please?" I asked, hoping she would shut up.

"Sure, it's this way." And Bella led me back down the never ending corridor.

A/N: Okay, so I gave up on studying and decided to write this instead ;) LOL! Yeah, I should be studying for my science exam tomorrow, but I can't be bothered anymore. I studied for about two hours...Is that good enough? Probably not, but I know I'm going to fail this exam anyway ;) LOL! Anyone else think I sound like Bella now?

Speaking of Bella, anyone wanna guess who her parents are? One is pretty obvious, other probably is, too ;) LOL!

Oh and talking about school-Okay, so we weren't talking about school, but this story is school based-I applied for college yesterday and now I am shit scared! Applying to it has made me realize how unprepared I am to leave school and go to college! I really am scared here people! I wish I could stay in comp. it is so much easier! Trust me, you might hate school, but don't not appreciate it. You will miss it when your gone. I haven't left yet and I feel that way! Only four months left in school!

Thank you to:

Punxysaur: LOL! I might get that in somewhere ;) Thanks :)

InstruMental: LOL! I know I do! LOL! Ha ha! I was feeling so bad writing that part...Like, really bad...I was almost crying, too! Thank you :)

bella-sk8er: Yeah, that'll work! LOL! :) Thanks :)

InsaneGummiBears: LOL! Th main point is you saw it in the end ;) Thank you :)

icarlyfanatic101: Hmm...Nope, never seen that movie...Thanks :)

pomtdwt: Isn't she just! And Darren...I don't know actually...He's just some guy I decided pair Bex with because I was feeling sorry for her being single her whole life at the age of fourteen...So, in conclusion, Darren's some singer Bex is dating ;) LOL! Thank you :)

CC IS LIKE SO AWESOME: LOL! My mom's like that, she's always telling me it's cold outside, but then let's me go out wearing skirts...It's weird! LOL! Thanks :)

CynicalSquid: I know! I can not believe I'm writing a sequel either! ;) LOL! Thank you :)

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Just thought I'd tell you, most of this will be Bex's P.O.V, but I'll still tell you who's it is :)

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