Once in school, Evelyn and Evan went to find their friends. They found Aaron, as usual, sitting on the wall outside the school doors, waiting for them, and Ashley they found in the library. Together they walked to their usual hang out in the canteen, which was near deserted seeing as it was no where near lunchtime.
"Do we have a plan of action for tonight?" Aaron asked. "Or shall we go with the flow?"
Having Sawyer babysit was a big event for them. It was like a monthly Halloween, full of tricks and treats.
"Lets go with the flow." Evelyn suggested. "We've been planning a lot recently, and he'll expect that."
"Yeah." Evan agreed. "Let's just go out of our way to be awkward and inconvenient."
The bell rang overhead, and Evelyn, Ashley, and Evan went to their form class, while Aaron went to another corridor for his, promising to meet them at lunch. Evelyn and Ashley were talking about a film that had been on television the night before, while Evan just followed them, going over his revision for the science test in his head.
They took their seats just as their tutor, Mr Keaton, came into the room. When he did, the girls stopped talking, especially when they realised that he was followed by a girl they hadn't seen before.
Evan leaned over to Evelyn. "Look, fresh meat for the crows." He pointed over to where the popular girls were looking interestingly at the new girl.
"Ok, boys and girls," Mr Keaton began. "First off, I'd like to introduce a new student. This is Kerry Rom." The class all mumbled their hellos, and Mr Keaton turned to Kerry. "Kerry, would you like to tell us about yourself?"
Kerry, although seeming shy, had a surprisingly confident voice, but then again, who wouldn't be shy in a school full of people who she had never met before. "Well, uh, I just moved here with my Dad, and I've been to nine different schools in two years because we move around a lot, so that makes it hard for me to make friends. We've been all over Australia travelling, and I was homeschooled by my mother for a while until she died when I was eight."
Mr Keaton told Kerry to take a seat beside Ashley, and feeling in a particularly good mood, and not wanting her to get picked to peices by the popular just yet, Evelyn and Ashely made her feel welcome.
"Hi Kerry, I'm Ashley Jarrah, this is Evelyn and Evan Sheppard." Ashley introduced.
"I'm Kerry Rom." She said with a smile.
"Rom?" Evan asked. "Like, R-O-M?"
"Yeah." She said. "Rom."