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A Different Life

Finding Out About The Students

Ch. 3

James' p.o.v

He kept up his little act towards Scarlet, following her around like a lost puppy, because he actually was lost, her attitude remaining cold and emotionless as she showed everyone most of the rooms where they would have classes, but she kept ignoring him. No matter how much he flirted or simply spoke, she would keep her head in the game of only speaking in a monotone voice, walking a few steps away from him and tipping her chin up

"Scarlet listen" James started, grabbing Scarlet by her wrist and dragging her to the side

"What?" her tone was still monotone, but it had a hint of anger underneath it, James caught it instantly

"I'm sorry, I want to be your friend" James said simply, watching as her eyes never changed emotion, only watched him make an absolute idiot out of himself. He tried to keep the blush from coating his cheeks red, but it probably was not working

"I don't do friends" Scarlet muttered, her tone almost sounding hurt underneath her emotionless voice, but James still caught it

"Please Scarlet" James begged, looking her deep within her violet eyes but still seeing nothing in them and it hurt James more than he wanted to realise. He saw Kendall keep looking down the corridor, his emerald green eyes circling through a load of emotions that James wanted to know what was going through his head, but when he looked down the same corridor, he saw nothing, but from the look Kendall was giving as he stared, he had been staring at something that James had missed, but he didn't question Kendall's motives. Scarlet had unfortunately left his side to walk down the corridor when he was not watching or paying attention, talking and saying something that James didn't hear at first, until Logan grabbed his arm and directed him outside to follow Scarlet, whispering in his ear to ask if he was alright, but he never answered, still staring at Scarlet as she walked outside into the large lawn separating the buildings. The second building they were going to was long and tall, lots of windows reflecting the midday sun into James' eyes, but he never shielded his eyes away from the glare, only slightly narrowed his eyes

"James, I asked if you were okay?" Logan's voice filtered through the haze James seemed to be in, jumping at the sudden sharpness in Logan's voice as he spoke, his hands waving over his face

"I'm fine Logan" James spoke without realising what he said, only focusing on watching Scarlet and wondering what had happened to make her so emotionless. He knew a lot about her, more than others knew, but he never said anything to anyone, so that couldn't be it. James couldn't understand what had happened to Scarlet to make her so emotionless, but a different part of him wanted to break away the walls that surrounded her, to get inside her head and figure it out, to get to know her now she had changed. Had she hung around too much with the 'antisocial bitch' of the school? So now she had a complete different attitude, but that didn't seem right to James

"Kendall" Carlos' whined loudly, bringing James' attention towards Kendall, who had stopped to glare at him as he whined about corndogs and if they cooked them in the new school. When Kendall replied that he didn't know, Carlos' face had gone sour for a second before returning to the beaming one that he had before

Kendall's p.o.v

They barely had time to unpack until Mr. Rocque's assistant Kelly came running into Kendall and James' room, demanding that they get to class before it starts. They had given each other a sceptical look before scampering out of the room, literally crashing into Logan and Carlos as they sprinted out of their room, following Kelly like a lost puppy to their class, walking quickly over the grass, even though Kelly told them that if they did this, they would get into trouble quite sternly. She gave them a glare as soon as they arrived at their destination, pushing Kendall and James into one room and the others into another, letting them crash in the door

"Hello" a man standing near a blackboard spoke in a happy tone, a beaming smile on their face as they stared at Kendall and James, they could only stare back

"We're Kendall and James" Kendall spoke for them, walking deeper in the room to the teachers desk, James nudging Kendall to speak more clearly "I'm Kendall Knight, and this is James Diamond. Apparently we're in your class" Kendall spoke louder, his voice almost bouncing off the walls because he spoke so loud

"Yes I realised that" the teacher spat, his tone turning dark as he narrowed his eyes at Kendall "I'm Mr. Griffin, your English teacher" Mr. Griffin spoke, pulling out a draw in his desk and taking out two blue books, stuffing them into James and Kendall's hands as he passed them

"Thank you" Kendall muttered quietly, not wanting his voice to echo like it did before and embarrass himself once more, but Mr. Griffin didn't seem to hear him, because he was loudly scolding Jett, who was smirking instead of looking like he was listening

"Please pick a seat" Mr. Griffin spoke when he finally noticed that they were just standing there looking like idiots, his tone once again dark. James pushed past Kendall to sit next to Scarlet, and he couldn't help but to give off a low chuckle of a laugh when Scarlet rolled her eyes. But the smile dropped from his lips as he noticed only one seat left in the room near the window, where a girl was sitting. Her orange hair was mostly covered by the same brown beanie on her head, the familiar purple headphones across her ears, her gaze staring out of the window. Kendall forced himself to move, with a little help from Mr. Griffin who also pushed him towards the girl, who didn't even notice him taking a seat next to him, until she must have noticed something in the corner of her eye. Her gaze moved to look deep in Kendall's emerald green eyes, green meeting emotionless grey eyes. But her gaze didn't meet for long, because she only stared outside once again and rested her head on the palm of her right hand, doodling with her left

"I'm Kendall" Kendall whispered, extending his hand out for the girl to take, but nothing happened, she only kept staring outside and never gave Kendall another glance

"Mr. Knight?" Mr. Griffin boomed in a loud voice, and Kendall jumped in his seat, trying to ignore the small giggles from other classmates at his embarrassment, but he felt his cheeks growing hotter as he watched Mr. Griffin raise his eyebrows at Kendall in question

"Yes sir?" Kendall replied, ignoring the small chuckles, but nothing from beside him

"There's no point in talking to Miss. Schmidt, she won't talk to you. She barely talks to me" Mr. Griffin had to make the situation worse by saying something about him trying to talk to. . . Kendall tried to remember the name Jett gave him, but he was on the other side of the room, so he couldn't easily look or try to talk to him to get her name. But a piece of paper slammed into the side of his face, the paper bouncing on the table and on the girls pad. Her gaze lazily looked at the paper before she flicked it towards Kendall, never giving him another look towards it. He quickly snatched it from the table as Mr. Griffin turned around, keeping it clenched hard in his hands and trying not to look guilty about someone swapping notes with him. He didn't want to be caught on his first day swapping notes with someone he barely knew, if he did know them because he didn't see who threw it. As Mr. Griffin turned back to the board, Kendall slowly unfurled the paper, noticing he didn't recognise the handwriting when he saw it. It was not James, because his hand writing was neat and tidy, not scruffy and wonky on the page. Kendall took one look at him from the corner of his eye, noticing him trying to speak to Scarlet like he had to the girl beside him, yet he had not gotten into trouble with the teacher. Feeling a little annoyed, Kendall unfurled the paper quicker just to annoy the teacher, but he didn't cast another look at him, only writing on the board. Glancing down, Kendall read the note

Kendall, its me Jett. Her name is Ashley remember! She doesn't speak, but if you piss her off, you're in a fuck load of trouble. Only one student has ever gotten her angry, and he ended up in the hospital for three months in a coma

Kendall's heart was in his throat after reading the note, he didn't take a glance at Ashley. Fear was creeping up his body slowly, feeling like ice was covering his body from the feet up. Grabbing his pen and shielding the paper from Ashley, he scribbled a quick note back

Jett, thanks but I should be fine. What happened to the boy?

Kendall tried to throw the note back, but Mr. Griffin turned suddenly back towards the class, his eyes seemed to stare at Kendall and to his desk as if he knew what he was about to do. Luckily Kendall had the paper scrunched up hard in his hand, ready to throw it when necessary. He didn't turn back around to the board like Kendall wanted, so he had to wait until the class was finished, and Kendall knew it was at least another 50 minutes until the class ended. He had not written a single note down from the board, his pen lying forgotten by the new book on his desk. He just kept talking about something that Kendall should have been writing down, but he had the note scrunched in his right hand, the hand that he wrote with, and changing the note to his other hand was out of the question, because Mr. Griffin would see him and he would get into trouble, so he kept his hand down at his side, casting a glance at Ashley, whose page was covered in doodles and some pretty good drawings, but Kendall was not willing to show that he liked her drawings, no matter how dark they looked against the white paper. The drawings were the first thing that Kendall noticed on her page, because they were such a dark contrast against the white of the paper, but Mr. Griffin didn't seem bothered about the drawings littering her page, only casting her a glance once or twice throughout the whole class, as Kendall noticed. Her expression was dark and emotionless, only staring down at her page now and doodling lazily outlines to her drawings, her chin resting on her right palm to keep it up

Scarlet's p.o.v

She was getting very annoyed at James as he tried another pick up line on her, never giving up until she accepted, but she only stayed quiet. She kept writing in her book to what was on the board, trying to direct Mr. Griffin's attention towards her so she could get James in trouble, just so that he would shut up for a moment and let her think. Scarlet glanced towards the Knight boy, who was not talking to Ashley at all, only tried the first time but she completely ignored him, not paying him any attention. She wished that she didn't know the headmaster as much as she did, because then she wouldn't have met him and gotten into this situation

"Would you be quiet" Scarlet hissed in a low tone towards James, staring at him with a glare as he opened his mouth to say something else. His mouth immediately snapped shut as Scarlet continued to glare at James

"Miss Rocque, do you have something to announce to the whole class?" Mr. Griffin's voice boomed over the low murmurs of the rest of the class, walking towards her desk and leaning down on the wood, his eyebrows high

"No sir" Scarlet muttered, keeping her eyes downcast to her book as she wrote

"Well then, you can take Mr. Diamond to his next class" Mr. Griffin spoke as the bell rang for the next class, not giving Scarlet enough time to argue with him before he started to shout at the class to get out of the classroom. She could practically sense the beaming smile on James' face as she stood up sharply, the chair skidding harshly behind her

"Hurry up" Scarlet snarled in a seriously harsh tone, one that she had never used before. She felt angered at her teacher because he was making her spend time with someone that she really didn't want to see ever again, no matter how many times her heart twisted in her chest. James had been her old friend, meeting in pre-k at school and immediately becoming great friends. But she had moved away, leaving James alone with his friends, who were currently following her to their next class, even the Knight boy

Kendall's p.o.v

When class had ended he practically bolted from the room as far away from Ashley as he could get, the fear from what Jett had said in the note swirling around in his head, her face never leaving his vision. What had happened during that time that Ashley put that poor boy into a coma for three months? He really wanted to know the reason, to do the same thing that James was doing to Scarlet, but for an odd reason, he somehow knew that Ashley's walls around her would be much harder to crack. Someone slammed into his shoulder, sending him crashing to the floor with books whacking his head as they fell

"Dude!" Jett's cocky voice spoke right in Kendall's ear as he flinched away from the voice, scrabbling back away from him

"Sorry Jett, oh I've got your note" Kendall tried to hide the anger from his voice as he told Jett about the note he threw at him in class. Jett's eyes narrowed in confusion, that was until Kendall unfurled the note and forced the note into his hand

"Oh this" Jett smiled as his eyes scanned the note, but his eyes remained on a certain part of the page, the smile getting worse

"You going to answer?" Kendall snorted as he glanced to the right, noticing James trying to speak to Carlos, who was probably whining about something

"No one knows what happened that day. Josh, the boy she put in the coma, was really annoying her, and then suddenly, he dropped like a sack of potatoes to the floor. No one but him knows what her powers or abilities are, but he never came back to the school. Since then, no one talks to Ashley because they fear her so much" Jett's voice was sincere but cold as he stared past Kendall

"No one saw what happened?" Logan's voice came suddenly out of the blue, making Kendall jump out of his skin and give off a loud yell of surprise

"Nope" Jett spoke, popping the p as he kept his eyes glued to past Kendall, and he finally turned around to look. Staring at Jett was Ashley, her grey eyes glaring at Jett like he was her worse enemy because she could probably hear what he was saying. But in those grey eyes, Kendall couldn't see any sort of emotion in them, even though they were talking about a touchy subject that Jett didn't seem to like to talk about

"Were you two close?" Logan asked as Kendall kept his eyes on Ashley, who was shifting around her neck for her purple headphones, slamming them on her head on top of her brown beanie and stomping away

"Me and Josh? Were we're closer than anyone could understand" Jett snarled in anger, around his hands suddenly bursting into flames at his anger. Kendall and Logan jumped away from him in fright, Logan screaming for someone to get some water but Kendall only stared in horror at the sight, but also realising that this could be Jett's power, the element of fire. A wave of water crashed over Jett and Kendall so fast that it knocked them both off their feet, the water carrying them down the corridor like a slip n' slide, except without the fun and games. At the end of the corridor, Kendall was the first to crash into the double doors that lead outside to the courtyard, but they never opened like he wanted. He slammed into the doors, moments later Jett's body collided with his, his hair sticking to his forehead from the water. There were loads of voices, muffled by the large amount of water that was in his ears as hands pulled him up with his wet clothing, Kendall staggering to his feet

"You idiot!" Jett's screamed after Kendall constantly slammed the heel of his hand against his ears to get rid of the water, finally being able to hear the conversation going on between Jett and Carlos. Jett looked very pissed off at something, his face a bright red and his eyes practically bulging out of the sockets. Carlos only looked at the floor, kicking at an imaginary stone on the floor as Jett continued to scream and shout at Carlos. The floor was shiny from the water that Carlos had tried to control to save Jett, but the pipe that he had used was still gushing out water, sending it down the corridor and seeping through the cracks in the doors to the classrooms. Kendall would not have liked to see Mr. Rocque's face when he was told about the incident, but it was not Carlos' fault, and if anyone tried to pin the blame on Carlos, Kendall would take the fall for the damage, even though he didn't control water.

"Jett! He didn't mean any harm! He was just concerned when your hands went up in flames like that" Kendall reassured Jett, who was still looking as angry as ever

"That is my power, I have control over the element fire, you dunce!" Jett spat icily at Carlos, who still didn't look up at him, just letting him shout

"We know that now" Kendall stood in for Carlos, standing in front of him

"You should have figured it out earlier" came Jett's reply, but Kendall only glared at Jett

"How were we meant to know what your powers were? We've barely met!" Kendall replied, walking away while dragging Carlos with him, leaving Jett standing there after the new boy practically reduced him to a piece of shit on his shoe