Georgia finally got her wish two days later (after constant pestering from over-protective-anxious mother Kirsten) she got to go Harbour High. She got dropped off with the boys in the morning and planned to catch the waves for an hour she missed this morning with Sandy afterwards.
After seeing the boys off she decided to have a wonder around the campus. Seeing the pupils and their cars and the campus itself definatly proved American schools are really they way they seemed to be. As she walked down a hallway a girl, around the same age as Georgia, came up to her who seemed lost.
"Are you new too?" The girl asked hopeful.
"Oh uh no…I don't go here." "Damn it!" They girl blurted out. "I just chumming my brothers"
The girl frowned. "Don't you, like, go to school?" As Georgia looked at the girl she noticed how very preppy she looked. She definatly sounded OC-ish.
She had wavy brown hair. But not that kind of messy, frizzy wavy, the nice wavy. Properly styled in all. Her first day of she wants to make a good first impression Georgia supposed. She wasn't too skinny which Georgia thought suited her. Sometimes Georgia hated being slim. At home a lot of her pupils were curvy and they used to call her anorexic cos she was so thin. They obviously hadn't realised Georgia eats for a war torn country in Africa.
"Well I-I do at home but I'm" Georgia stuttered answering the girl's question. "I've come here- I'm here…to…" Georgia sighed giving in. "It's complicated."
The girl giggled and smiled. She had a pretty smile. "Sounds like."
"I know where the principals office is If you want me to take you?" Georgia said politely.
The girl's eyes lit up. "Oh please! I am so totally lost! Thank you! Thank you!" The girl grinned thankfully as Georgia led them in the direction of Dr Kim's office.
"I'm Georgia."
"Elle." A model name for a model girl. "So have you transferred from England? You sound-"
"Scottish. I'm Scottish." Georgia insisted. Sometimes it frustrated her that people didn't realise Scotland was its own country. Not in England.
"Your parents get a new job or something?" Elle guessed. Georgia smiled, shook her head and rolled her eyes. "If you really want to know why I'm here, I'm goin to need a full day to tell you." The girls shared laughter.
"Well maybe I can invite you over to my house tonight?" Elle asked as they reached Dr Kim's office. "Uh we could get pizza, watch a movie and I can find out who you really are. What you're doing here…witness protection?" She smirked.
"Nope. Not as simple as that. But aye that's sounds great uh…you got your mobile?"
Elle paused, having a blank for a moment. "Yes." She got it out her jean's pocket. Georgia typed in her number for Elle. "This is my house number. Call me when you get out of school."
"Actually you'll have to come round at like 4 cos I have drum lessons."
"You play drums?" Georgia grinned excited. "I play leed!"
"Well bring it." Elle insisted. "My brother plays bass. We could put something together."
As Georgia walked to the bus stopped she smiled, proud of herself. After nearly a month she had finally managed to make a friend. And one who was her age.
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Later that night at Elle's house…
"So how come you and your brother don't go to the same school? He's your twin right?" Georgia asked chewing on a slice of pizza while partly watching A Lot Like Love. They got distracted a lot with chit-chat. For teenagers that live in two different worlds, they had a lot in common.
"Yeah but he didn't get accepted into Harbour. He's dyslexic you see. He wouldn't be able to keep up with the pace at Harbour."
"Oh right." Just then Justin, Elle's brother walked in. He wasn't really alike Elle. He was more of a baggy where as Elle was definatly a trendy. But his clothes were not the first thing Georgia noticed. He was so fit.
He was tall -5'11ish- thin but not too thin. There was muscle there. He had those desirable cheekbones shining through. He had long hair which was gelled up and had blonde highlights through. Georgia loved that he cared about the way he looked. He had a Diesel shirt on with baggy jeans and carried a skateboard in his hand. A skater. Definatly attractive.
Being in a band with your best friend and a potential boyfriend is not such a bad idea.
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After a week nearly Elle, Justin and Georgia had already become great friends. They had formed a band basically. Georgia and Justin were vocals. Georgia had inherited an amazing singing voice and Justin had a great voice too. As far as instruments went Georgia played lead guitar, Justin played bass and Elle was on drums. The amazing thin was they were all very talented which made it easy to make a band. Over the few days they had spent together they had mostly learned Green Day songs as they all loved them.
One afternoon Georgia rushed into their practice room (Elle's room as that where the drum kit was) where the twins waited for her to arrive. She had a huge grin on her face. "My dad got us a gig!" Georgia didn't even realise she called Sandy her dad. She was too excited. This definatly made up for telling her secrets.
"That's amazing! Where?" Justin screamed.
"The Bait Shop. It's re-opening and they don't have any acts for its first night. Sandy told the manager we were a band and could do a Green Day tribute for the night and guess what, he said yes!"
