Strange Days at Blake Holsey High
Chapter 2: Mixups and Mishaps.
"Uh...not to be rude or anything, but who are you and why are you in our room?" Came a quaking voice from somewhere around her. Aryn pulled down her hood, and took the headphones off her ears, it was still going so it meant that she hadn't been asleep very long.
"I was assigned this room, but obviously someone is already living here and I didn't want to go back down to see her about it, so I just...stayed." Aryn felt stupid talking to this person, she probably was the person with the neat room because she was wearing the uniform like she was supposed to and had her hair back in a neat ponytail. The girl smiled at her like she was some dumb puppy.
"So, you are new here, okay then. I'm Corrine Baxter, and this is my room, but I share it with my roommate Josie who is not here right now..." She looked all perky and happy. Great, just what every school has that I don't want or need. At least she isn't a cheerleader.
"You or your roommate aren't cheerleaders by any chance are you?" asked Aryn. Corrine laughed and shook her head, "No, we aren't cheerleaders we can't be. We're in the Science Club. Were you wanting us to be?" She made it sound as if it explained everything.
"Oh yeah, well...I am Aryn Cahill. New, don't know where to go. Yep, that's me, and no I hate cheerleaders. I almost got flattened a little while ago by two of those brainless robots taking up the entire hall like no one else existed." Aryn put her C.D. player in her bag and zipped it up. She stood up and started to leave before Corrine stopped her.
"You're going to go get your room thing straightened out aren't you? Well I could go with you if you want, you know..help you." Well she is a nerd and not a cheerleader, but why is she so happy? I don't understand, but she can show me around seeing as how I have no idea what I am doing.
"Sure, why not. Let's go." Aryn lifted her bags into her hands and waited for Corrine to lead the way. They got down the hall and down the stairs without any trouble, but then they met up with some people Corrine apparently knew. Corrine stopped to talk to them. Great, no trouble at all. These bags just weigh a ton and you don't give a damn. I'd like to give you a.."
Suddenly her bags weren't heavy any more, and she looked down to see why; she wasn't holding them and someone else was. "Hey! Who do you think you ..." Aryn turned around and saw the same guy who had ran into her earlier.
"Why, you little freak. First you run into me and make me hurt my head, next you take my bags. What the hell is your problem?" Aryn was sick and tired of people thinking she couldn't handle herself just because she was a girl. Yeah, the bags were heavy, but she wasn't going to have someone else carry them for her.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa. What's wrong Aryn? Oh, it's just Vaughn, being Vaughn. I have no idea why he is doing this, but..." Corrine intervened.
"This morning I ran into your friend, Corrine. She hit her head, and I am just trying to apologize." Vaughn spoke with sincerity, but Aryn knew better than to trust him. She'd heard about him and his father. He was not to be trusted. Aryn shrugged her shoulders and let go of her bags. Vaughn smiled across from her, and made her shudder.
"So, how do you two know each other?" asked Aryn. Corrine looked puzzled. "I mean I know it is a small school so everyone pretty much knows everyone else, but are you two friends or have nay of the same friends in different circles...that kind of stuff." Corrine looked like a light bulb had popped on inside her head.
"We are friends I guess you could say, we're both in the science club." Corrine said. Aryn looked from Corrine to Vaughn and back to Corrine, and back to Vaughn.
"You are in the science club? You are a jock, I can tell. How does that work?" Aryn was laughing at the thought of him being in the science club. Vaughn looked insulted and he almost dropped her bags, by this she knew that he was indeed in the science club and stopped laughing immediately.
"Oh, wow. You're serious, heh. Sorry, you just don't seem like the type to be in a science club. Guess you really shouldn't judge a book by it's cover." Aryn apologized because she didn't want him to hate her on her very first day. He nodded his head in acceptance. "Where to?" he asked.
"Actually that is what we're trying to find out. Mrs. Durst gave her our room as her room, so we were just trying to clear it up. To Mrs. Durst's office." Corrine liked to talk it seemed, but it didn't bother Aryn very much.
They walked to Mrs. Durst's office and knocked on the door. Someone, that she did not know, answered the door.
"Dad?" asked Vaughn from behind her.