"Now... Where is Mr. Cat's room?" Jocelyn mumbled to herself as she walked down the next hallway.
"Oh, you're in Mr. Cat's third period class too?" a voice sounded from behind Jocelyn. The poor girl jumped and spun around. This had to have been the 5th time today someone has snuck up on her. A girl with long blonde hair and big, bright green eyes walked up to her. She wore a pastel pink tank top and light purple pants.
"Y-yeah... I am..." Jocelyn smiled shyly.
"Great! I know where his classroom is. This is my fourth year having a class with him," the older girl smiled. "By the way, my name's Rapunzel."
"Jocelyn. Nice to meet you." Jocelyn introduced herself in response. Rapunzel led the way to Mr. Cat's room and soon entered his class.
"Rapunzel! Nice to see you once again!" a man in rather nice suit stepped out from behind the desk. A large red bow tie completed his outfit and a red and white striped head was seated on his head. He gave a large smile to Rapunzel.
"Same to you, Mr. Cat. Oh, and this is one of the new students, Jocelyn." Rapunzel put a hand on Jocelyn's shoulder.
"Jocelyn... ?" Mr. Cat started, but his sentence trailed off.
"Rose." Jocelyn finished his sentence. Rapunzel gasped.
"You're the new girl in town!" Rapunzel's jaw dropped. "You're a pretty big deal you know!"
Jocelyn blushed, "Am I really?"
"Well then, we welcome you to Fandom High." Mr. Cat held out his hand for Jocelyn to shake.
"Thank you." Jocelyn took his hand and shook it. More students started to pile in shortly after. Jocelyn looked around, seeing if she could recognize anyone. The only person she seemed to know so far was Rapunzel, but she was a senior. Why would a senior want a freshman to sit with them?
"Hey, Jocelyn, why don't you sit by me?" Rapunzel tapped Jocelyn's shoulder and motioned her to follow her. Jocelyn nodded and sat down. "So when did you move here?"
"Just last month." Jocelyn shrugged.
"Oh really? So what have you seen of the town so far?" Rapunzel asked, resting her chin in her hand.
"Not much to be honest. I've been busy getting unpacked and getting enrolled here." Jocelyn tucked some hair behind her ear.
"That must've taken up a lot of time. Have you been to the Cirque yet?" Rapunzel mentioned the Cirque du Freak. Apparently it was a big deal here from what Jocelyn heard.
"Yeah. My dad took me last week." Jocelyn nodded.
"Did you enjoy it? I personally love it," Rapunzel praised the show. "And you know two the the performers attend this school? They're your age I believe."
"I thought it was great! And I heard, but I wasn't sure. I think I know who you're talking about." Jocelyn replied.
"Darren and Evra. You should meet them soon. Let me see your schedule?" Rapunzel held her hand out.
"Sure." Jocelyn handed her the piece of paper.
"You're most likely to have a class with one of them. If you don't have a class with them, you'll probably meet them at lunch or after school at least." Rapunzel scanned her new friend's schedule and handed it back.
"I look forward to meeting them." Jocelyn smiled. The final bell rang and a couple other kids filed in. Rapunzel perked up and started waving her hand wildly over her head.
"Pocahontas! Over here!" Rapunzel called out. A pretty dark skinned girl with long jet black hair turned around. She had on a simple tan dress with leggings and boots. A blue necklace adorned her neck.
"Hey, Rapunzel," the other girl, Pocahontas smiled. "And who is your new friend?"
"I'm Jocelyn." Jocelyn introduced herself. Pocahontas smiled and sat down next to Jocelyn.
"Jocelyn Rose? Or another Jocelyn?" Pocahontas asked casually.
"She's Jocelyn Rose." Rapunzel grinned. Pocahontas nodded. She was calm. Jocelyn raised her eyebrow at Pocahontas's calmness.
"Usually people flipped out when I told them my name." Jocelyn noted.
"I'm pretty laid back. It takes a lot to get me going. Besides, that reaction must annoy you, huh?" Pocahontas answered. Jocelyn nodded.
"Alright everyone, settle down!" Mr. Cat stood up in front of the room. Jocelyn examined him. He was all dressed up, except he had a pair of old red and white sneakers. That most certainly stood out the most. "So I see we have a lot of familiar faces, and a few new ones! Why don't we introduce ourselves?"
Again the introductions went by quickly. Jocelyn got the same reaction she did when she said her name. Apparently, the news about her being new went around rather quickly.
"The word is gonna get out fast. And everyone's gonna be after you. Not all, but a lot of them." Donnie's warning went through her head. Suddenly a sick feeling hit her gut. Were all the people just being nice to her just to get her to join their group?
"No. They're just being nice... That's all." Jocelyn reassured herself. She sat back down after she got her introduction done and over with. The class went by quickly with Mr. Cat going over the rules of the classroom and warning people about some of the tools used in the room. He had to tell two boys to shut up a couple times. Jocelyn looked at the boys and recognized them from earlier this morning. They were in Rebecca's group. Jocelyn heard their names, but forgot them.
"Dang. They're handsome..." Jocelyn thought to herself. She had a better look at them since they were sitting at the table in front of them. Both had messy and long hair. One had brown hair and pretty goldish-brown eyes while the other had blonde hair and blue eyes. Mr. Cat finished talking and allowed the class to do whatever for the rest of the period.
She hadn't realized she'd been staring at them until the one with brown hair smirked and winked at her, "Hey, cutie."
Jocelyn felt her face go red instantly, and looked down rather quickly to avoid the boy from seeing her face. Rapunzel and Pocahontas instantly burst out laughing.
"She's only a freshie, Kili!" Rapunzel said in between giggles.
"I can't say she's cute? She's only two years younger than me." Kili, Jocelyn supposed, scoffed.
"Kili, shut up," the blonde elbowed his brother. "Sorry about him, he's a flirt."
"Fili, stop lying!" Kili snapped. Suddenly, the two started bickering back in forth mostly saying, "I am not" and "yes you are".
"Both of you are going to end up scaring her." Pocahontas commented. The two brothers instantly shut up. Fili opened his mouth to say something to Jocelyn, but the bell rang. Jocelyn sighed a sigh of relief and grabbed her things and quickly ran out of the room.
"That was embarrassing!" Jocelyn mumbled under her breath.
"Hey, wait up!" Jocelyn heard Kili call from behind her. She turned and saw Kili walking towards her.
Heart pounding in her chest, Jocelyn took off running. She'd just embarrassed herself by staring at him for who knows how long (and probably drooled over them just a tiny bit) and quite frankly wasn't fond of the idea of talking to him. She didn't care if she got scolded by a teacher or campus officer. It was better than facing him.
Suddenly, someone grabbed her arm. Letting out a scream, Jocelyn spun around and saw Kili standing right there, flashing his pearly white teeth at her.
"Whoa, didn't mean to startle ya there." Kili let go of her arm and held back a chuckle.
"Don't grab me like that!" Jocelyn snapped, her face bright red.
"Sorry, sorry," Kili held his hands up. He wasn't that much taller than her to her surprise. "Anyways, let me walk ya to your next class."
"Oookay?" Jocelyn gave him a skeptical look. She just met him and he was offering to walk her to her next class. Was he trying to hit on her or something? "Why, if I may ask?"
"You're new here. I figured I should help ya out." Kili smiled.
"Or are you hitting on me?" Jocelyn looked up at him. Kili instantly started to crack up.
"I was only joking back there! I noticed you staring at me and had to do something!" Kili barely got the sentence out. Jocelyn wouldn't have been surprised if he fell to the ground and started rolling. "Besides, I could care less about girls."
"Oh. Okay then." Jocelyn felt like she was just smacked in the face for being so stupid.
"Anyways, what's your next class?" Kili calmed down, and pretended like the last 5 seconds didn't even happen.
"English 1." Jocelyn replied.
"With Mr. Boggins?" Kili asked.
"I think it's Baggins, but yeah." Jocelyn frowned.
"I'm just kidding. My brother and I were never able to pronounce his name when we were younger. We said 'Boggins' instead of 'Baggins'." Kili chuckled.
"You know Mr. Baggins?" Jocelyn asked with newfound curiosity.
"Yeah. Fili and I are good friends with his nephews," Kili nodded. "Plus, my uncle works with Mr. Baggins sometimes."
"Oh. That's cool." Jocelyn and Kili exited the building.
"Well, I gotta go. Mr. Baggins's class is in the same hallway as Doctor Who's class." Kili notified Jocelyn.
"Oh okay! I know where that is now! Thanks, Kili!" Jocelyn waved.
"See ya later!" Kili held and arm up and climbed up the stairs, disappearing into the crowd. Jocelyn smiled to herself. Things were going good for Jocelyn today. Maybe this school year wouldn't be so bad.
She soon found her way to Mr. Baggins's class. She was greeted by a short man with curly brown hair. He wore a burgundy suit jacket, a gold waistcoat and a nice pair of tan pants. Mr. Baggins.
"Name, ma'am?" Mr. Baggins asked her, looking up from a piece of his paper.
"Jocelyn Rose." Jocelyn gave off a sweet smile, which he returned.
"You will be sitting between Max Bridgeton and Jeremy Adams, those two gentleman right there." Mr. Baggins gestured to two boys. One had short messy brown hair and a dark purple sweater vest with a lighter purple dress shirt and the other had slightly longer blonde hair and a blue t-shirt. Jocelyn felt a lump form in her throat as she walked into the room and took her seat. She noticed a pretty girl sitting by the blonde boy. She had bleach blonde hair with turquoise tips and a black and turquoise dress.
"They have to be boyfriend and girlfriend." Jocelyn thought to herself as she sat down.
"Hi." Jocelyn turned to her left to be greeted with a pair of blueish-grey eyes.
"Hi." Jocelyn greeted the brown haired boy. He had to be about her age.
"I'm Max. You are?" Max introduced himself, giving Jocelyn a smile.
"Jocelyn. Nice to meet you, Max." Jocelyn returned the smile.
"I'm Jeremy, and this is my godsister, Marissa." the boy on the other side of her spoke up. Jocelyn turned to face him. He had bright brown eyes and Marissa had lovely lavender eyes. Marissa gave a small wave and a shy smile.
"Nice to meet you all." Jocelyn nodded her head.
"Are you new here? I've never seen you around here." Max noted.
"Just moved here last month." Jocelyn answered.
"Oh, you're Jocelyn Rose?" Marissa spoke up. She had a soft voice with a country twang to it.
"That's me." Jocelyn blushed sheepishly.
"So we finally get to meet the famous Rose." Max rested his arms on the table and grinned.
"Not to mention she's a lot prettier than people have been saying." Jeremy winked at Jocelyn. The blonde felt a blush creep upon her cheeks. She had people say she was pretty before, but when a guy said it like Jeremy did, it caused her to blush.
"So where are you from?" Marissa questioned.
"Florida." Jocelyn answered.
"That's quite a bit away. Why did you move here?" Max observed.
"My dad got a job here. He's working for Oakenshield and Company.
"Nice. It's hard to get hired by Thorin Oakenshield." Jeremy noted.
"Well, welcome to Fandom High, Jocelyn. Hopefully you'll find your group." Max grinned.
"Okay class, lets get started." Mr. Baggins came in as soon as the bell rang. Not much happened in class. Thankfully there were no introductions. Mr. Baggins showed the class a presentation of his works and mostly talked about his adventures. Thankfully he didn't make anyone introduce themselves in front of the class, which was a relief to Jocelyn.
The bell rang and the class filed out. Jocelyn, Max, Jeremy and Marissa walked in a group together.
"So are you enjoying it here so far?" Max asked Jocelyn.
"Yeah. It's a nice school." Jocelyn answered. Truth to be told, it was a nice school. Nothing bad had happened yet.
"That's good to hear." Max nodded.
"BRIDGETON, ADAMS, BLANKS!" a familiar voice with an Australian accent called out. Sheila ran up to the group with James following behind her.
"And Rose! You're here too!" Sheila grinned. Jocelyn gave Sheila a confused look.
"Davidson! What class are you in fourth?" Jeremy turned around and grinned. He and Sheila hugged.
"I have Spanish with Panchito Pistoles, Adams." Sheila answered.
"Where's Nite and Roberts?" James came up.
"Nite has 4th with Frollo." Marissa answered.
"And no one has seen Roberts yet." Max added.
"Whoa, whoa, what the heck are you guys talking about?" Jocelyn was confused. Who the heck were Roberts, Nite, Davidson, Bridgeton, Adams and Blanks? Everyone instantly burst with laughter.
"We all call each other by our last names." Sheila said in between laughing fits.
"It's been a thing since we were little. I'm Bridgeton." Max replied.
"Sheila and I are Davidson." James spoke up.
"I'm Blanks." Marissa raised her hand.
"And I'm Adams. Nite is Rebecca and Roberts is Derek. You probably haven't met those two yet." Jeremy finished.
"Rebecca Nite? Yeah, I met her. But who's Derek?" Jocelyn asked, confused.
"He's a bad boy. And he's hot too." Sheila grabbed Jocelyn's shoulders and smirked.
"Sheila!" James smacked his sister.
"Well, he is pretty good looking." Marissa giggled.
"He's also a rebel. Always getting into fights, probably skipping classes he doesn't like, and breaking the rules." Jeremy frowned. He didn't seem too fond of the Derek guy.
"He isn't that bad. I mean, he does live by his own rules, but he never fights anyone." James disagreed with Jeremy.
"He's my best friend. You'd like him if you'd meet him" Max informed Jocelyn.
"Oh? I'll be sure to keep an eye out for him..." Jocelyn nodded. "Anyways, unless any of you have drama next period, I'll have to catch up with you all later. See ya!"
"Bye, Jocelyn!" Everyone waved and went off their separate ways.
"Jocelyn!" another familiar voice called out to her.
"Mikey?" Jocelyn turned around and meet the eyes of Mikey.
"Hey, dudette! Did you find a group yet?" Mikey asked cheerily.
"Nope, not yet." Jocelyn shook her head.
"You'll find one. Oh hey, I just had an idea! How would you like to join me and my bros for lunch?" Mikey grinned.
"Sure! That'll be great!" Jocelyn noted.
"Cowabunga, dude!" Mikey shouted. "I'll see you later, dudette!"
Jocelyn laughed as Mikey ran off waving. He was something else.
Jocelyn soon made it to the drama room and entered. It was completely empty. The room was highly decorated. Broadway posters hung on the golden walls. The chairs were cushioned with red velvet covers and golden rims. The floor was marbled. Red curtains covered the doorways instead of doors. The place was beautiful. There was a small desk tucked into a corner of the room. Behind the desk was a cabinet of masquerade masks. A monkey music box was set on the desk by a rose. Jocelyn walked over and examined it, enchanted by the music the box gave off.
"Lovely, isn't it?" a deep voice came up from behind Jocelyn, causing her to jump and spin around. "That music box was my mother's. She gave it to me just before she died."
A man stood in the middle of the room. He wore a rather fancy suit. He seemed like any other ordinary professional actor, except he wore a mask that covered half of his face. That put Jocelyn off just a bit.
"Are you Mr. Phantom?" Jocelyn asked, her voice shaking just a little.
"That would be me. And you?" Mr. Phantom walked up to Jocelyn and held out his hand.
"Jocelyn Rose." Jocelyn took his hand. Mr. Phantom bowed as he gave her hand a small shake.
"A lovely name." Mr. Phantom stood back up.
"I guess." Jocelyn shrugged and proceeded to take a seat. Other students filed into the room shortly after.
"Oh hey! I know you!" a voice sounded from in front of Jocelyn. The girl looked up and was met by the smiling face of Rebecca.
"Rebecca!" Jocelyn smiled at Rebecca.
"Do you mind if I sit by ya? I don't really know anyone else here. Plus you seem pretty cool!" Rebecca pointed to the empty seat by Jocelyn.
"Of course!" Jocelyn gestured to the seat by her. Rebecca sat down by Jocelyn and placed her bag on the ground.
"So how has your day been so far?" Rebecca leaned on the arm rest.
"Pretty good. I got embarrassed in art though." Jocelyn blushed, remembering the small incident.
"What happened?" Rebecca frowned.
"I was staring at a guy then he winked and called me 'cutie'." Jocelyn rolled her eyes.
"Name?" Rebecca asked flatly. She probably already knew the answer.
"I think his name was Kili?" Jocelyn looked up trying to remember.
"I knew it. He's always messing around with people like that." Rebecca had a facepalm moment.
"You know him?"
"He's in my group." Rebecca sighed. Jocelyn giggled.
"Alright class, let's get started..." Mr. Phantom spoke up, holding his hand up. The class instantly hushed.
"Next week we will start working on a play. So this week, we will do some acting exercises. Choose a partner everyone."
"If ya don' mind mah askin', whot play will we be doin'?" a junior asked. He had a thick cockney accent. His long ginger hair was pulled back into a ponytail. A leather vest was worn over a white tank top. He also supported ripped orange jeans.
"You will find out at the end of the week, Jellicles." Mr. Phantom almost spat the last word. Rebecca's eyes widened.
"Seriously? Is it all of them?!" Rebecca hissed under her breath.
"What's wrong with them?" Jocelyn whispered.
"The Jellicles are from England. They're all street performers and live in that old mansion up on that old hill and are absolutely annoying. Not only are they thieves and scoundrels, they think they're all that too. They're just like cats on a fence yowling at midnight," Rebecca rubbed her temples. "And we have all the ones that go to this school in class right up front."
"Are they really that bad?" Jocelyn raised an eyebrow.
"Yes... Never talk to them. EVER." Rebecca snapped.
"Oh..." Jocelyn glanced down at the group. After getting a look at them, she wasn't so sure she even wanted to associate with them.
The rest of the period consisted of acting exercises. Mr. Phantom had the students change partners a couple times. Rebecca pointed out the Jellicles and Jocelyn tried to avoid them, but ended up getting partnered with one because he was the last choice.
"I guess it's just us, sweetcheeks." the junior swaggered over to Jocelyn. He had a leather jacket with fur around the neck, a spiked collar, a leopard spotted muscle shirt, leather pants and biker boots. He was an obvious player.
"Yeah... I guess..." Jocelyn felt rather uncomfortable around this guy as he came right up to her and had her practically pinned against him.
"So sweetheart, what's your name?" the rocker smirked.
"It's not important." Jocelyn pushed herself away from him and brushed herself off.
"Oh come on. Everyone's name is important. Mine's Tugger." Tugger practically struck a pose and smirked, trying to charm Jocelyn.
"Don't flirt with me. You're too old for me." Jocelyn hissed.
"At least tell me-" Tugger was cut short by the bell. Relieved, Jocelyn hurried back to her seat and grabbed her stuff.
"I am so sorry." Rebecca said as she came up by Jocelyn and grabbed her stuff.
"Why?" Jocelyn frowned.
"You almost got paired up with Tugger. He's such a flirt and a player." Rebecca rolled her eyes. "Anyways, you have someone to eat lunch with?"
"Yeah, the Hamato Brothers." Jocelyn nodded.
"Oh okay! Have fun!" Rebecca smiled as she left the room. Jocelyn giggled as she watched Rebecca. She noticed the Jellicles whispering to each other, and some turn and glance at her. With a sick feeling in her stomach, Jocelyn quickly walked down the rows and out the door.
"Hey, sweetheart, why don't you join us for lunch?" Tugger called out to Jocelyn. Jocelyn glanced back and saw the whole group. They were intimidating.
"Sorry, I already got someone to eat lunch with. Maybe some other time..." Jocelyn excused herself and dashed out the room. She didn't lie though. She already agreed to eat lunch with the Hamato Brothers. All she had to do now was wait for them.