It was much easier finding the way back to the house then it was finding the shops, "Honey I'm home!" I called out my typical greeting juggling the keys, chips and cokes trying not to drop anything. "So I take it you didn't get to lost" Her voice came from the lounge room, "Nope" quickly dumping my jacket and bag on the couch I plopped myself down next to her on the floor "but I did find the shops" "See I knew you'd pull through" She winked moving the dvds she was sorting out and opening the coke I handed her, "Yeah yeah sure ya did" I laughed getting the still hot chips out of the plastic bag and placing it in between us.

"You excited about school next week?" She asked in between mouthfuls of chips, "I don't know" I shrugged tapping the top of my can exactly three times before opening it. "I know your nervous" she smiled "But you'll do great" "I hope so" I sighed before smiling back at her, "think we could go back to school shopping?"

"I promise once we get most of the house sorted out and before you start next week I'll take you shopping" "Promise?" I smirked holding out my pinkie, "Promise" Her pinkie hooked around mine and I smiled pulling away and grabbed a hand full of chips. Maybe it won't be so bad.

"Rebecca I've been calling you for 30 minutes you're going to be late!" "I'm coming!" I yelled falling out of bed on to the floor; I quickly jumped up and ran to my draws pulling out my new outfit I had bought the day before.

I changed, and after putting on my shoes I ran to the bathroom brushed my teeth and brushed my tangled bed head lousy excuse of hair. "Rebecca!" I heard my mum call from down stairs, "Hurry up!"

"Coming Mum!"

Not having time to put any makeup on I shoved the makeup bag into my school bag making a note to do it on the way to school and jumped down the stairs two at a time, "Rebecca! If you're not down here in 5 seconds I'm leaving without you" I could almost see the scowl on her face.

"I'm here" I skidded past her and into the kitchen grabbing the bottle of water and banana that was sitting on the counter, "Don't get your panties in a knot".

Turning back to towards the front door I saw her standing there with the signature Clive stance, with her arms crossed, an eyebrow raised and a hip jutted to the side. "I mean" I quickly backtracked "Good morning my lovely mother shall we get going now?"

"Nice save" She smirked "Now move ya tush we gotta get going"

"That's what I said!" I exclaimed walking out the door throwing my hands up in the air in frustration well as well as I could with a bottle and a banana still in them.

Too soon we pulled into the schools parking lot, Breathe Becca just breathe I reminded myself. "You ok to go by yourself?" Mum asked sounding worried

"Na, I'm fine" I said brushing it off even though I really want her to come with me.

"Okay" she said sounding unsure "Bye sweetie call me if you need me" she said kissing my cheek, "Bye Mum love you" I kissed her cheek and jumped out of the car, "Deep breathes Becca you can do this" I muttered waving bye to my mum as she drove off.

Turning towards the school I almost threw up, maybe I should've let her walk me in.

Grabbing my timetable and locker number was the easy part but finding my way around was harder than I thought it was going to be.

"Ok locker '299' " I mumbled to myself, while walking past lockers and people.

You see I'm used to having no lockers and wearing a school uniform, that's how we do it in Australia but in America it's a little different.

"Ok so I'm officially lost" I sighed to myself finding myself near the principal's office, again.

I sat down against the closest wall with a huff and watched people walk past. I took out my phone and checked the time, it was almost 9. "It's too early for me to be doing this" Shoving the phone in my pocket I took out the timetable for the thousandths time.

Monday Tuesday Wednesday. Thursday. Friday
Period 1 Math Science Dance Lab. Art
Period 2 Gym Science Dance Lab. Art
Period 3 PE. Lab Science. Free . History
Lunch
Period 4 History. Lab. Math. English Sport
Period5. History. English. Math English Sport
Period 6 Art. Math History Math. Math
Period 7 Art Math Geography Science Math
Period 8 Science Free Geography. Science Free

while reading through it, I was about to get up when a cute pair of shoes stopped in front of me, I looked up to see a pretty girl with long brown hair.

"Hey my names Bree" She said cheerfully making me smile,
"Hey I'm Becca" I said standing up
"Do you want to be my best friend?" She asked jumping up and down
"Sure" I Laughed scrambling to stand up, "I could use one of those right now"

She looked so happy I was sure she would burst; "Come meet my brothers" she said and started pulling me towards 3 boys standing in the hall.

I put my phone and timetable into my pocket and shifted my bag higher on to my shoulder as we got closer to her brothers,
"Guys this is Becca my new bestie" Bree said jumping up and down again

"Bree what did I say" stressed a little dude who looked around 10 "You're going to ruin my rep"
Everyone just looked at him like 'what rep?' And to prove their point a jerk- oh sorry jock came up
"Sup Leo" he said and then gave him, who I assume is Leo, a wedgie then walked away.
"Yeah, good to see you to Trent" Leo called out, I just stood there getting more amused by the minute. Is this really how American schools were like?

"Yeah" Bree said obviously not interested "Becca these are my brothers, Adam" she pointed to a tall guy who looked around my age and was smiling into space, I just smiled and waved happily.

"This is Chase" she pointed to a cute guy with brown hair and eyes, he was a little shorter than me and had an adorable smile
"Hey" I said running my hand through my hair just knowing it was a mess, "hi" he simply said.

"And this is our step-brother Leo, I turned to the little kid and smiled "hello"
"Hey good lookin" he said trying to act cool, "Hello Leo wonderful to meet you" I smirked at him.

Looking at them all again I noticed that Adam, Bree and Chase all looked around as if they had never been to school before. "Are you guys new too?" I asked hoping they were so I wouldn't be so left out.

Before they could answer the bell went sending Chase down with it, "Chase?" I asked shocked bending down to him. "Yeah he is fine" Bree brushed of my question, "What is up with crazy?" Leo asked pointing at him. "You know - " Adam started only to be interrupted by Bree, "He really hates loud noises" she explained looking pointedly at Adam and Leo.

"What was that?" Chase now panting at Adams feet asked, "It's called a bell" I spoke as if I was talking to a small child, "and it rings every forty minutes, eight times a day. Soooo Have fun with that" Leo said and started walking away probably to his class with Adam and Bree following him and apparently me as Bree pulled me along.