Chapter 3 (And so it begins…)
Sabrina shut her locker and headed for her first class: history. Mr. Rathbone (from Lotsa Luck) stood lazily in front of the class, waiting for the bell to ring, so he could start class. A strange girl that Sabrina had never seen before caught her eyes. The girl was about as tall as Sabrina, maybe a bit shorter… The new girl had curly black hair that mostly covered her eyes, but from what Sabrina could see of her eyes they were brown, and somehow reddish as well. She wore jeans, black high heels, and a black shirt that said, " I ran into my Ex-boyfriend, so I put it in reverse and hit him again!" Sabrina whispered over to her friend Valerie, "Have you ever seen her before?" "Only today, she doesn't look very friendly…", Valerie observed. "Oh, I'm sure she is just frightened about being in a new school, I know I was kin of scared when I moved here", said Sabrina, an obvious optimist. "She looks tough enough to take on Libby, I just hope she doesn't become the next school bully…" obviously Valerie was a pessimist. Sabrina gave up on trying to comfort her friend.
A few seconds later another girl Sabrina had never seen before walked in. Sabrina did a double take, the other new girl looked exactly like the first new girl, except her hair was dark brown, and her eyes were brown, but somehow green. Strangely enough she wore a pink shirt that said, "Cute, smart, and sweet, who says you can't have it all." The 2nd new girl also had pink high heels, and jeans. Sabrina thought they might be sisters. "Well this could get interesting…", she decided. She was making an understatement.
Finally after what seemed like forever the bell rang, and everybody rushed into their seats. Everyone, except the two new girls, that is, they stood in front of the class, and waited to be introduced. The one in pink looked nervous, the one in black, just glared lightly at everyone. "I will begin today's class with a double introduction, of our two new students. Both recently, transferred in from Egypt", Mr. Rathbone droned, he sound like he had recited the speech a billion times. " Both from Egypt?", Sabrina wondered. "This is Ashleigh", he pointed at the girl in black. "Well then the witch is the pink one, since Ashleigh has 8 letters, not 3", reasoned Sabrina. "Call me Ash", the girl commanded. This startled the teacher a bit; he forgot to say her last name. "Ash is three letters", Kat reminded herself.
Finally Mr. Rathbone turned to the girl in pink, "And this is Katrina." "I go by Kat", the girl said shyly. "Ok", said Mr. Rathbone, "Enough introductions… Now moving on…" Sabrina was puzzled: both girls were her age, both from Egypt, and both went by three letter names. Plus that dressed a lot alike, and even looked alike. This was getting creepy. The notice said only one witch, so one of them was and one of them wasn't. But at the moment Sabrina couldn't even tell them apart. And by the looks of it neither could her classmates…Odd.
Later at Lunch
In school there was an unwritten rule that stated that whenever a new kid arrived everyone would be really nice to them until they found their final group. Sabrina found it odd that two people who looked so alike could be so different. Kat stood by the lunch line shyly looking for someone to accept her, and let hr sit at their table, while Ash just shoved over some kids and sat down. Sabrina waved Kat over; she knew what it was like to be a new kid. Kat grinned gratefully. "I'm Sabrina." "I'm Valerie." "You both are in my history class-if I remember correctly- so I'm sure you know that I'm Kat." Sabrina and Valerie nodded, "So you transferred in from Egypt? How do you know English so well?" "My first language is English, I come from Miraz, but I didn't always live there", Kat explained. Sabrina nodded again, "Ash came from Egypt as well; do you know her?" Kat suddenly looked nervous, "Umm… She came from Miraz as well." "Are you 2 sisters?" "Umm… Not exactly… Look, I have to go do some research in the library, nice meeting you Sabrina…", and so Kat dashed quickly out of the cafeteria. Sabrina cocked her head to the side, "Well that was odd." "You could say that again", agreed Valerie, as Harvey arrived at the table.
Meanwhile Ash had randomly chosen a table, not the cheerleaders' table though. But Libby was always ready to add another girl to her gang, so she walked over to Ash, who had already eaten her food. Jill and Cee Cee were right behind her. "This ought to be interesting", Sabrina thought. "Hi Ash", said Libby, in her non-snobbiest voice. "Get your pom-poms out of my face", retorted Ash. This shocked Libby because she wasn't wearing her cheerleading outfit, and neither was any of the rest of the squad, "How'd you know I was a cheerleader?" "You're not just any cheerleader, you're the head cheerleader", supplied Ash, "Your hair, style, the way you walk, the way girls crowd all around you, it's obvious. I'm no cheerleader, so go zombize some other stupid new girl." Libby was so shocked that she didn't argue, she just walked away. She must have not been usted to people standing up to her, even though Ash was shorter. Sabrina found this even more odd.