Stupid Wave
Corrine wasn't the typical female filipino. For one thing, she lived in Africa with her adoptive parents. Her mom was a famous enviromentalist and her dad, a big time director. That wasn't the only weird thing about her, not by a long shot. When Corrine was eleven, her mother was hated by politicians and poachers. One day while her mother was gardening and her father was filming off in London, she heard three gun shots fired. She ran to her front yard where two men were surrounding something. Corrine tiptoed and grabbed a shovel. She came up behind the men.
"What did you do?"She screamed.
"I'm sorry, we thought she was an animal,"one of the men said. They parted and saw the most awful site of her life. Her mother, dead. Dead from guns and poachers.
She woke with a start and jumped out of her bed and to her bathroom mirror. She wasn't eleven anymore, she was sixteen and five years have pasted since her mother's death. Her father had moved them away from Africa and came to Canada. Why Canada? She'll never know, but her dad had said that some of his friends from highschool were living here, there was something about a Joey and about a Snake and Spike."Corrine, get dressed!"It was her nanny, Ms.Sweeten or Nana as she likes to call her.
"I'm almost ready Nana!"She cried back. Her father wasn't home like always, he's was always off directing a stupid movie or whatever. Corrine came down in her cargos and buttoned down shirt. She had never been in a real school, it was always tutor after tutor."Well I'm ready for the beginning of my social life Nana,"she said as she came down the huge staircase of the mansion her dad bought when they came to Canada.
"Good now eat up so you'll be strong for your first day of school and goodmorning dear,"Nana said as she lay down a place with toast and fruit infront of Corrine. After breakfast, she said goodbye to Nana and walked to her first day of school.
She rounded the corner and the brick building came into site."So this is Degrassi,"she whispered as she adjusted her messenger bag. Corrine walked up the steps and into a busy office. A ladie was frantically running from place to place, but she stopped right infront of Corrine.
"How may I help you?"
"I'm Corrine Watson."
"Oh yes, the new Grade 11 student. Well here's your locker assignment, map and schedule. Oh and welcome to Degrassi."Corrine smiled and grabbed the papers. The bell hadn't rang so she decided to visit her locker. She was counting from locker to locker until she got to 1274.
"Here it is,"she said to herself. She turned the dial to the numbers 19-17-49 and it clicked open. Corrine checked it out and closed her locker to find her homebase, MI Lab. She wished she could have missed it, but that wasn't going to by a long shot. It was a room with glass walls and many computors. She turned the door knob and found many students looking at her."Oh great their probing me,"she thought. She came up to the front desk where a middleaged man sat typing things."Umm sir,"she tried to say without causing any more distractions.
"Oh hi, you must by Corrine. I'm Mr.Simpson, a friend of your father's. Class we have a new student this year, may I introduce Corrine Watson."She could feel herself blush under her dark filipino skin. She stupidly waved.
"This is going to be a LONG year,"she thought to herself.