Miss Luna put a towel around Kat when she climbed in. Then they drove silently apart from when Kat was telling Miss Luna where to turn and such.
"Left, and you keep going ahead. Then, you go left again if you want to go to the parking lot." She said as Neopian Elementary School came to view. The storm started to clear up.
"What is your name?" Ms. Luna asked as she turned in the parking lot.
"You can call me Katherine or Kat."
"I'm Michelle, but call me Shelli!" said the island kacheek in the back, suddenly.
"I think I would have to phone your mother about this." Miss Luna said, while driving down the splish splashy road. "And do I make a right here?"
"NO!
My mother would have a field day!" Kat shouted. "And no… you
keep going straight ahead, till the streetlight, and then make a
left."
"But she has to know." Miss Luna said, while
following Kat's directions.
"I know but-" Kat tried to
negotiate.
The little pink kacheek giggled when Kat said "but".
"Lacey, you're so immature." Shelli said while rolling her eyes. The other little kacheek, looking identical to Lacey, stuck her tongue out at Shelli.
"Stop fighting, girls." Miss Luna said angrily. They shut up.
"Besides," Kat changed the subject, "How would telling my mother help me at all?"
"Yes, it won't help you. But I think your mother would like to know why you were late for school today." Kat sighed, as she gave up trying to convince this lady. She got out of the car by the front of the school, since Miss Luna was going to park her car later, in the parking lot.
"C'mon girl, it won't be as hard as you think." She winked at Kat, and drove the car to the parking lot. Ha, yeah right. Kat thought to herself. Shelli waved at Kat through the window, with a warm smile on her face. Kat awkwardly waved back.
Finally, into NeoSchool Kat went. After signing herself in late at the office, she walked towards her classroom, with a pink pass in her hoofs, as Miss Luna and the three kacheeks walked into the office. What a morning. Kat thought. I wonder why those neopets are here, anyways. She turned the doorknob of the door to her classroom, walked in, and slid into her seat while the teacher was still facing the blackboard. It wasn't like she realized she had been late anyway, so she wouldn't need her pass. Not a surprise.
Kat's teacher, Miss Cook, had been teaching fractions. Math was one of Kat's worst subjects. But, whatever Miss Cook was writing on the board, was obviously very important, for she covered the parts showing, with posters in the classroom. Kat didn't pay attention to what her teacher was doing, and just listened into conversations made by other students.
"Did you hear about the new girl?" She heard Cheryl whisper to Maxine.
"Yeah, she's an island kacheek!" Maxine replied"I bet she is going to be super cool." She smiled, displaying her rather large Tonu buck teeth to the world.
"What are you talking about?!" Kat hollered, all of a sudden. First, the car ride, and then it may be possible that Shelli would join her class? Too Lucky. These sorts of things never happen to Kat.
"EXCUSE ME!" Miss Cook shot her menacing Grarrl eyes towards Kat.
"Party pooper…" She heard Cheryl mumble.
Kat was embarrassed. She sank in her seat.
"I thought so..." Ms. Cook growled, and kept writing something on the board. It was then Kat realized something fishy about the thing Ms. Cook was writing on the board. Hoping it wasn't a really long math problem, many different thoughts raced through Kat's mind like lightning. She was so out of tune with her surroundings, she didn't even notice the little chitchat conversations going on around her, or the paper planes and spit balls taking flight.
She snapped back into reality when Miss Cook cleared the posters blocking the board. It was most magnificent, wonderful, beautiful thing Kat's eyes had ever seen. It was like candy to her eyes. The chalk's smell drifted through the room tingling up her nose. The texture was so real she could almost feel the colors rubbing her hoofs. It was a welcome sign, for whom other than… Michelle Luna.