September.

Sophia's alarm clock rang and she woke up.

Her Yo-Kai partner Esmeralda was hovering by her bed.

"Morning Sophia. Are you ready for your first day of school?" Esmeralda asked.

"I think so," Sophia said.

Today was Sophia's first day at Sakura Elementary School. She was nervous as she would be starting half way through the school year. Sophia also wanted to make a good impression.

She grabbed her clothes and went into the bathroom to get dressed.

"Sophia, you're going to be late for you first day at school." Sophia's mum said.

"I'm coming," Sophia said.

Sophia grabbed her rucksack and went downstairs. Her mother was in the kitchen. Sophia took a breakfast bar out the cupboard and poured herself a glass of water.

"Mum, I'm leaving now," Sophia said.

" OK. Good Luck. Enjoy your first day. Oh, I almost forgot, could you take these forms to the office for me as well." Sophia's Mother said. Sophia smiled at her Mum and gave her a hug.

On the way to school, Sophia saw lots of other children walking to school. Most of them had close friendship groups. Sophia stood outside the school gates. The school was much bigger than her old school, but it seemed welcoming.

"Sophia, are you going to walk inside?" someone asked. Sophia looked around and found Esmeralda floating next to her.

"Oh. I didn't know that you followed me" Sophia said.

"Well, it's part of my job as your personal assistant," Esmeralda said.

Sophia sighed, this was going to take some time to get used to

People looked at Sophia. Sophia didn't understand until she realized that her Yo-Kai partner was invisible to most people.

She ignored them and walked into the school. Sophia soon found herself standing outside the office.

"Hello. How can I help you?" The lady asked.

"Hi. I'm Sophia Abbott. It's my first day today." Sophia said as she gave the lady some paperwork.

"Ah, yes they said that there would be a new student joining us today. You will be in class 5-1 with Mr. Barton"

"OK," Sophia said.

"Oh. Could you get your teacher to sign this and bring it back at the end of the day" The lady said.

Sophia took the piece of paper from the lady and made her way to her new classroom. The bell rang.

When Sophia entered the classroom, everyone turned around and looked at her. The teacher smiled.

"Everyone, we have a new student joining us today. Her name is Sophia Abbott and she has moved here from England" Mr. Barton said. "I hope that you make her feel welcome"

Sophia gave her slip to the teacher.

"Sophia would you like to introduce yourself to the class," Mr. Barton said.

"Well, my name is Sophia. I like watching cartoons and eating pizza" Sophia said.

"I have a seat for you next to Leah," Mr. Barton said.

Sophia sat down next to a girl with blonde hair and blue eyes.

"OK. Let's begin" Mr. Barton said.

Sophia tried her best with the work but she didn't understand the Maths task and she was too shy to ask for help.

"Sophia, are you OK," someone asked. Leah was looking at Sophia's empty book. "Do you want some help?"

"Yes please," Sophia answered.

Leah showed Sophia how to answer the questions.

"Thank you," Sophia said.

At Lunch time, Sophia and Leah sat next to each other.

"Sophia, what's London like?" Leah asked.

"Well, it's big and noisy. I lived on the outskirts so it wasn't as busy. London and Japan are very different from each other but I'm starting to like the differences." Sophia said.

"What's different?" Leah asked.

"The scenery, the people, the food and drink." Sophia could've gone on and explained everything but she didn't want Leah to lose interest.

After they had Lunch, the class went outside to the playground. Sophia looked around the playground and noticed that most of the grade 5 and 6 students were outside.

"Sophia, come and join us," Leah said. Leah was standing with a group of girls in the corner of the playground.

Sophia started over to Leah but she didn't see the boy who was walking across her path. They knocked each other on the arm by mistake.

"I'm sorry," Sophia said as she looked up. They boy had dark brown hair and black eyes. He was wearing a red t-shirt with a white star in the center.

"That's OK. I should be more careful. I'm Nathan but most people call me Nate, you must be the new student" Nate said.

"Yes. I'm Sophia." Sophia said.

"Well, its nice to meet you, Sophia," Nate said as he turns around and walks back to his friends.

Sophia joined Leah and her friends. They spent time getting to know each other. Sophia learned that she wasn't the only person to move here from a different country, Megan was from America and moved to Japan two years ago.

The rest of the school day was OK. After helping to tidy up the classroom, Sophia went to the office again. The lady that saw her earlier came to the window.

"Hello Sophia, how did you first day go?" she asked.

"It was OK, thank you," Sophia said as she gave the form to the lady.

After Sophia finished at the office she left the main school building. Nate, the boy from lunchtime walked past Sophia with his friends. It was then that Sophia noticed Nate's wrist, he had a Yo-Kai watch as well. She was going to ask Nate about the watch but she didn't want to embarrass him in front of his friends.

Sophia continued to walk down the road that leads to her home. She wasn't in the mood for talking about Yo-Kai at the moment.

Later on, Sophia was laying in her bed reading a book. It was quite in her room, Esmeralda wasn't their, Sophia was glad about that as she wanted to be alone. However, her quiet night didn't last for long, Esmeralda floated into Sophia's room, through the open door. Sophia sighed.

"Am I interrupting something?" Esmeralda asked.

"No. You can come in, but I'm not in the mood for another lecture about befriending more Yo-Kai. I told you last week that I don't want anything to do with it" Sophia said.

"I wasn't going to talk about that. I was going to talk about the boy from Lunchtime" Esmeralda said.

"What boy?. There are loads of boys in my school" Sophia asked.

"Nate. He has a Yo-Kai watch, meaning that he has a Yo-Kai partner of his own and he can see other Yo-Kai as well." Esmeralda said.

"Yeah? I know about that. What do you want me to do? He not in my class and I don't really know how to ask him about it." Sophia said.

"That doesn't mean that you can't get to know him," Esmeralda said.

"Maybe? I'll think about it" Sophia said.

Note:

I know that there hasn't been a lot of Yo-Kai in the story yet. Sophia's first Yo-Kai encounter(other than Esmeralda) will happen soon.

I would like to thank Hawkeye, YokaiWhisper79, Yokailover01 and ALC.10.14 for commenting on the last chapter.

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