Will Vandom's auburn hair blew in the cool, but infrequent, summer breeze. Sitting in a plastic lawn chair, she sipped on a glass of cold pink lemonade. So this is Hetherfield... she thought, Not too bad. I guess I could get used to this. Taking off her red-rimmed sunglasses, she decided to, for the thousandth time, count the days until her first day of school at the Sheffield Institute. What a weird name for a school... But her body refused to function with her thoughts. She was too relaxed to count again! Well, it was only July 28th, so there was a long time to wait. Though nervous, Will anticipated the arrival of that day, the day when she could finally meet some new friends. Gathering her things from the freshly cut lawn, she headed inside. An air conditioner's cold blast greeted her as she walked in. The humidity outside seemed deadly and the small breezes that were incredibly rare weren't enough.
She was also welcomed by her mother's chipper voice, "Hey, sweetie! Coming in already? But it's such a nice day! The sun is shining! The birds are singing…" Yeah, the scorching sun that fried the birds into singing their last songs... She gloomily thought. The downside of Hetherfield was that since they had moved, Will and her mother had been fighting worse than starved dogs over a T-bone. They didn't agree on anything. Ignoring her mother, Will flew up the stairs and flopped down onto her stuffed frog-covered bed. She gazed at the amazing array of the green cuties that covered her shelves, walls, and basically everything.
Smiling at her work, she then frowned at the many unpacked boxes. "Uh oh. Mom'll force me to unpack them if she sees them," she thought aloud. Thinking of how to leave the house non-suspiciously, she decided on "going to look for new friends around town." Unknown to the girl, though, she'd find a very special friend that day. Putting her sunglasses that she'd carried in with her back on, she headed back down the steps. Avoiding her mom, she simply called out, "'Bye, Mom! I'm going to find some friends in this weird town!"
As she ran out the door she heard her mom call back, "Ok, honey! Have fun!" Outside again, she inhaled the fresh air. Energy pulsed through her whole body, pulling her away from the house. That's strange, she thought. But brushing it off as "new town jitters," she walked to her gravel driveway. First she turned right out of the driveway onto a seemingly newer sidewalk. As she walked, she looked at the people walking the sidewalks around her. There were few people out this time of day. But there was one that caught her eye. Her eyes locked on a boy. A cute boy. He looked older than Will, with lightly curled brown hair. But as she stared at this cutie she wished to meet, she ran straight into a girl…