Beast Wars

Chapter 9: First Day part 2

Antigo Senior High School

Aelita couldn't believe her eyes; she had never seen something so amazing. The school she had already seen when they were on their way to the mall. It was the teenagers that amazed her; she never knew that there were so many kids her own age. She hoped to make as many friends as Justin and Alex did.

Speaking of Alex, they saw him sitting by a big tree that was near the school ground. They got out of the truck and they heard Rachel shouting out, "Remember guys, make some good choices!" Justin groaned as his sister had embarrassed him for the remainder of his morning as she drove off, back to the scrapyard.

They went over to Alex, who was still a little exhausted from practice, and sat down with him. He grimaced, "So remind me, why are here so early?" "Um, that's my fault", Aelita said sheepishly, "I wanted to get my schedule for my classes." "Well, it's alright with me. I completely understand.", he said reassuring her. To tell the truth, this was the one time that Josh Weldon and Brad Patkins weren't around for the day so he and Alex were lucky.

"NIMROD FOOTBALL"

Or so he thought. The three teens turn around and saw two jocks running straight towards them in blinding speed. Justin and Alex picked up their bags, Justin grabbed Aelita and she grabbed her bag, and they all ran as fast as they could, away from those two. They ran straight inside the building without the bullies following them.

The two jocks were Josh Weldon and Brad Patkins. Josh was a seventeen year old white boy who had black hair slicked to the left, and was wearing a white T-shirt with dark blue jeans, with black and white Nike's and a red and blue jersey with a captain symbol and a Cougar design on the back. Patrick had blonde spiked hair, and was wearing an exact jersey with the number 33 on the back; khakis and an aqua blue turtle neck with red and white Nike's.

"Yeah Man! Did you see that? Those wimps were running were running like their pants were on fire.", Brad said. Josh just chuckled and got serious for a moment, "Yeah! Hey Brad, did you check out the babe that was with them?" "Yeah man, she was a real cutie. What do ya think she was doing with a couple of losers like those two?"

"I don't know, but I'll tell you one thing…she won't be with them long."

Justin and Alex got Aelita to the office where she would get her classes. She asked whom those two boys were that were running towards them. Alex explained, "That was Josh Weldon and his right hand man, Brad Patkins. They're kind of like human versions of Predacons." Aelita asked, "But if they cause anyone harm why doesn't anyone do anything?" Josh explained that those two were the best players of the Cougars, the high school's football team; they were just too important so the coach backed them up if they did anything wrong. She felt that was completely unfair.

Justin brushed it off and said that Alex should get to his class, and that he would stay with Aelita until she got her schedule. She went into the office and saw a secretary at a desk and she saw her. "Can I help you?"

Aelita was a little nervous at first but spoke up and used the last name Optimus and the others help pick out for her, "Uh, yes I'm a new student, Aelita Gerehert. I'm here to pick up my schedule."

She looked through her computer in the medium sized office. Aelita hoped that the file Rattrap created would work; otherwise there would be a lot of questions she would have to answer. She looked around the office and saw nothing out of the ordinary. She did take notice of the other door had the name Principle Palmer on it.

"Well Ms. Gerehert here you are." She said to her, catching Aelita's attention. She handed Aelita her schedule that she had printed out. Aelita gave her thanks and walked over to Justin.

"So let's see what you got." He said to her as he looked over it. The classes were as followed…

Math

History

Metal Shop

English

Lunchbreak

Biology

PE

Theatre

"Not bad, you even have classes with me and Alex" he read on. "Well I should show you to your locker. According to this it's right next to mine." He led her and after putting away all the extra stuff, Justin led her to their first class, Math, before the bell rang. As they went in, everyone went silent; Aelita noticed that everyone was giving Justin the silent treatment. It was almost as if they were alienating him from themselves, as if he was harmful to them.

He led her to one of the other desks, and she saw him walk to a desk that was completely alone from everyone else's. Just then a middle aged man, slightly overweight in a sweater and glasses, he was Mr. Snyder, the math teacher. He went over to the blackboard and wrote a very complicated equation, something in the line of college work.

"Alright class, today we'll be working on standard equations. Who can tell me the answer to the equation shown here?" He pointed to the blackboard. He saw no one was going to answer for him, and instead of asking Justin Seyvont for the answer, like he did every time, he looked at the new girl and called her to answer. "Aelita Gerehert?" Justin started to panic; he didn't want Aelita to get laughed at and didn't know what to do.

Aelita looked at the equation and said, "4 over pie"

The teacher was stunned and checked his answer book. He found the equation and looked at the girl, "That's correct." Everyone was just stunned at the newcomer, especially Justin. He had no idea that she could do math, and by the look on her face, she probably didn't know that she could do math either.

Later on
Aelita was enjoying the rest of her classes. She had fun in History; just learning about Earth's past was so informative and fun. She had no idea that America was found by four fathers. In Metal Shop class, she was with Justin and Alex. She had so much fun with them learning about Metal Urging, welding, and other things in it.

She was so happy to be with Justin, Alex was very helpful, but Justin made it so much easier to understand considering he spent so much time building stuff in his family's scrapyard.

But the most troubling things about those classes were the boys just looking at her and everyone shunning Justin from them. She felt a little uneasy about them staring at her, that some of the girls glared at her in response. Everyone just ignored Justin completely; she also noticed those two boys, Josh and Brad, spitting out wads of paper at him, tripping him or any other things they could do to him without the teachers noticing.

She would have to ask him why that was.

English Class
Justin, Alex, and Aelita met up in this class and it was the same as the last three classes. The students all had their desks moved away from Justin's, except for Alex, and they all gave him the silent treatment. Aelita moved her desk to theirs so that she wouldn't have to be separated.

They heard the others whispering to each other saying that the loser duo had become a trio, or that Seyvont got himself a girlfriend. Justin just ignored it while Alex was just smiling at that 'girlfriend' comment. In a way, Justin and Aelita seemed a little close in some way. Aelita was a little confused at the whole 'girlfriend' comment.

"So Seyvont, the rumors were true. You do have a girlfriend."

The three looked over and saw a girl their exact age; the boys knew her as Toni Watson. She was a pale girl with a fair figure. She had black dyed hair with purple streaks in it and tied in the back, spiking out looking like pineapple leaves, and in front she had her bangs swept over to the right side of her head and clipped there. She had black lipstick and black eye shadow around green eyes, black nail polish, and was wearing skull earrings. She was wearing a horizontal black and white striped skin-tight shirt, a black skirt that went to her knees and was slightly torn at the end with safety pins attached to it. She wore slightly torn net stockings that went all the way up her legs and military type boots. She also wore a jacket that ended at her middle waist with the sleeves rolled up and was wearing fingerless gloves that went up to her arm.

Aelita asked Alex why she was dressed like that. Alex explained, "She's dressed like that 'cause she's a Goth." Aelita was a little confused.

"See Aelita, there are a lot of social groups in this school: Jocks, who are interested in sports and beating up weaklings like me and Justin. Nerds, who spend most of their time in front of a computer. Cheerleaders, who are way too preppy and are completely obsessed with their looks and cute boy bands; Goths/Punks, who are the most depressing and gloomy people who are always on the negative side of everything; and finally Outcasts, who are yours truly here."

Aelita seemed to understand a few of them, except the Goth part. She showed this as she got up from her desk and walked over to Toni. Toni was wondering what the girl was doing, until the girl took her had in hers and looked at her wit teary eyes. "It's okay. I know what it's like to be alone. But you don't…" Before Aelita could finish, the girl took back her hand and said, "What is wrong with you, you little weirdo?"

Aelita didn't understand. She was just trying to help, but she was pulled back by Justin. "I'm really sorry, Toni, but she was just trying to be friends with you." Toni shot him a look and said, "Yeah right, as if I wanted to be part of your loser friend circle."

Justin was getting angry and shot back, "You want to repeat that?" "Sure: No one in this room wants to be friends with an orphan and the loser squad. Okay? Or do you want me to spell it out for you?"

Justin was about to make a response to that, but Aelita pulled him back to his desk. She didn't want him to get in trouble because of her. As she sat down, she looked around and saw everyone giving them looks. She went to look at Toni, and saw that she was giving a scold look, but she wasn't looking at her. She was looking at Justin who was doing his work.

She wondered why everyone thought Justin and Alex were losers. To her they were the coolest friends she ever had. The class began with the teacher giving the lesson.

Toni just looked at the three and thought, 'Sheesh! I thought those two were annoying, but now that blue-haired weirdo just makes things even worse. Well, she'd better tone down the weirdness a little.'

She saw Aelita look at her all confused, and she gave her a scolding look. She immediately turned away and went back to her work. Toni decided that after Lunchbreak she would head to the library. Now Aelita was determined to ask the boys why everyone treated them so rotten.

Next Chapter: First Day part 3