AN: Hello! I know I should've done this in the first chapter but I'm too lazy. This story is not going to be an OC-turned Superhero, I just wanted to explore superhero/civilian relationship with my OC. No, I'm not gonna ship my OC with someone. And KF is in the same school where she's going, so yeah. :P enjoy.
Yay.
It's the first day of school.
Yeah, she's not getting up.
But the large BANG from the door definitely made her jump, startled by the noise and forced her senses to become wide awake.
Celine sighed, forcing herself to get up. She slightly cursed her father's ways of immediately getting her body to wake. She rolled out of bed and onto the floor to where she rested before getting up and slumped her way towards the bathroom. She looked up to see that her hair's a mess, her eyes were droopy and overall, she just looks dead.
She bit her lip, before picking up her toothbrush with a tired sigh.
"Time to get ready then."
...
Dressing simply and comfortably, she wore a white shirt underneath a blue hoodie, wearing skinny grey track pants with running shoes on. Running and Pokemon made the shoes a part of her attire. She was still too obsessed with catching them all.
Shouldering her red and black bag, she memorized her way to school as soon as her father told her where it was located, it was a somewhat long way but running still helps to lessen the time if there was traffic. And the bus was a second option then asking her parents for a ride was the last resort.
Waving goodbye to them and kissing them on the check, she began to run towards her school. The orange hair she had whipped out behind her as she did so, the bag constantly hitting her back as she took one step forward at a time. That is really annoying, she thought irritably.
Spotting her school from the image also given to her by her father, she skidded to a stop, looking at the school that she was attending. There was crowds of people at the entrance telling her that she was not late for her first day, much to her relief, and she used the time to cast a sweep of what kinds of people that were present in the school.
Athletes, by the looks of them stretching and turning whilst having that muscular look. And the Cheerleader group was present as seen by them drooling all over the place with their style of clothes, gawking at the sight of the athletes. Some of them were just having an idle chat so it gave her hope that not all of them were like the cliches.
Geeks/Nerds as by their huddled appearances, and she caught snippets of their conversation, talking about games and homework. Yep. Definitely nerds, even if most of them didn't have the stereotypical glasses on. She tilted her head slightly at the group of outsiders standing further away from everyone else, looking like they didn't belong yet found their own little place with their friends.
Little goth groups here and there.
And then there was people chatting with one or two people. The ones that have no set groups. The ones that are not outsiders but not in a group.
Probably where she was gonna end up with her slightly eccentric personality. She wondered if she was going to even gain friends.
Then someone crashed into her. From the back.
"AH!" Blue eyes looked up to see someone's form on top of her, groaning all the while. Rolling her eyes with annoyance, she pushed herself up and made him roll off her, standing up and dusting herself off. Seeing that she broke nothing, she looked down at the person that fell on her.
Male. Red hair. Green eyes.
Tons of freckles.
Celine blinked.
"Erm... howdy?" She greeted him with an unsure tone, a hand outstretched to help him up. He grabbed it with a sheepish smile, hoisting himself up and dusted himself. A hand moved towards the back of his neck, a nervous tic of his.
"Haha... Sorry about that. I thought I was late."
Celine grinned. "Relatable." Then she realized that she probably had no idea where to go next, as this was her first day here - having no idea on how the school looked like inside. "Hey, em... Can you show me where the Principal's Office is? I'm new around here." She resisted on having a nervous voice as she didn't want to ruin her first interactions with the students here, instead taking on a slightly more playful tone.
The redhead tilted his head for a bit and shrugged his shoulders soon afterwards. His friends should be able to handle themselves without him for a while. "Sure. Name's Wally West. And who are you m'lady?" He recognized her from yesterday, the one that deflected his flirtatious comment that sent Robin cackling when they met up later. He's definitely curious about her. And he was suddenly glad he didn't call her 'strawberry' like before. That would be a dead giveaway to his secret life.
Looks like another flirt. But he doesn't seem too bad... "Celine Clifford. Heh, would you look at that... Double letters. Mind if I call ya 'W' or 'Walls' or something?"
Wally blinked, and looked down at Celine with curiosity and a certain amount of amusement. "Whatever floats your boat. Say, wanna hang out afterwards? You can meet some of my other friends." A grin followed suit as he shifted his weight around.
The girl just looked up at him with a raised eyebrow. "Duh. I don't have anywhere else to go, dude." She rolled her shoulders. "And I need friends like you to show me the ropes."
"Oh, I'll show you the ropes alright..." A slight purr escaped his lips.
"What?"
"Oh nothing..." Wally had to hide the incoming chuckle from Celine's stare.
...
"Tada~!" Wally sang, doing the jazz hands movement as he leaned in slightly towards the Principal's Office, a wide smile on his face as he did so. "Here we are!"
Celine stifled her giggles, briefly wondering as to why she even decided to hang out with him in the first place before she went up to the wooden door that seemed repainted and brand new, knocking on the door quite loudly before waiting for a response that told her to go inside. Waiting for a few minutes, she turned towards Wally with a questionable look on her face but he could only shrug.
Raising a hand, she was about to go ahead and knock on more time but a voice filled with authority filled her ears. "Come in."
Looking back towards Wally, he moved his head, jerking it towards the door, suggesting that she would open it. "After you, M'lady." He grinned but Celine didn't give him a glance, already opening the door and slipping inside with a neutral face on. He pouted slightly at the little reaction that she gave.
"Definitely a 'hard-to-get' type." He huffed.
...
"Thank you, sir. Goodbye." Celine closed the door behind her and faced Wally who had a look that said 'what happened?'. She just smirked and bumped Wally's arm with her elbow. "Apparently... I have to go to most classes like you, West. Your my tour guide for the day."
"Oh wow, really?" Celine nodded. "Did he see me?"
"I did leave the door open a bit so... I guess?"
Wally rolled his eyes and sighed. "'Course he did."
"What? Do you hate him or something?"
"More like he hates me."
"Aw, what's someone like you do to him? Did ya flirt with the girls and they complained?"
"Nah, they would've fallen for my charms if I did that."
"Right. Of course they would."
"Anyways, I-"
B'RIING.
"...I need to bring you to our Homeroom."
...
"And class, this is our new student. Why don't you introduce yourself, miss?" Miss Jackson stepped aside to reveal Celine to the rest of the class, seeing her tomboy-ishness in all her glory. It caused some curious, uninterested and disgusted faces among the class. Mostly curious, because the girl literally came out of nowhere and of course the curiosity will kill the cat.
Wally was bored, tapping his leg against the tiles underneath him. He wasn't bored of Celine, oh no, he would never do that to such a lady. But it was more of, 'oh yeah, I met the new kid before all of you so I already know everything about her.'
Because Celine Clifford was an open book.
Like him.
Yeah.
"Heh... Howdy! Name's Celine Clifford." She started off with, a friendly yet nervous grin on her face while using her hands to gesture things about herself. "I like to-"
"Yeah, yeah, that's great." A rude voice interrupted her thoughts, and immediately Celine looked towards the crowd, hoping to spot them before her frustration took over. "You're boring like West, so just sit down already."
It appeared to be one of the outsiders. They didn't look like bullies; it just seemed that they didn't care about all of this - seeing their position that was leaning against the table with a bored manner, a hand hold their head up.
"...Ooo-kay? Thanks for the input, buddy." Celine rolled her eyes a little. "Didn't know that you didn't care."
Miss Jackson stared at the student with a harsh look in her eye. The student rolled their eyes, as if used to this. The older one opened her mouth, probably to reprimand them but the bell interrupted her.
As the shuffles of students and the grinds of chairs echoed the room Celine could only mutter, "Does the bell have to be that rude?"
...
"And here's the place of my purr-sonal favorite," Wally started, causing Celine to roll her eyes since Wally started to use puns after one science joke. One! "The Claws-eteria. Home of the hungry."
And it was mostly true, seeing as most were actually eating instead of chattering but still, there was a lot of noise. And Celine winced at the volume but soon got used to it once they lined up for the food, Wally first then Celine. So much for his 'ladies first' rule, she mused. As she looked over him, Wally looked like a mixture of giddiness and nervousness, seeing his weight being shifted from on foot to another. She raised an eyebrow at that display but kept quiet.
Soon enough, they got their turn.
The Lunchlady, Marissa, raised an eyebrow at Wally, who had a nervous grin on his face, her face being the definition of unimpressed. "Are you going to throw up your forths in the bathroom?" She drawled out, mocking him leaving Wally's nervous smile to falter.
"No, ma'am." Wally seemed to bite back a comment that will probably get him into even more trouble.
"Good." Then she proceeded to dump everything into Wally's tray, then proceeded onto the next tray which was her's.
Celine hefted the tray up which was filled to the brim of stuff that... she had no idea about but she followed Wally who motioned for her to follow. Weaving through the crowd with slight difficulty, she finally caught up to the redhead who was already sitting down with a bunch of his friends, and having a good time.
Suddenly, she felt awkward. This was a group of people that was Wally's friends and she felt like she was barging into someone's social life, but with Wally's beckon she slipped into a seat to Wally's right, ignoring her emotions for now.
"Oh, oh? Who's this, Wally?" A black-haired teen asked Wally, sitting across from him, her dark eyes gazing at Celine and she suddenly felt like she was being scrutinized by a detective, and felt like she could hide nothing from the black-haired girl.
Wally smiled at the person. "This is my new classmate. Linda, this is Celine. Celine, Linda."
"Howdy." She greeted, unconsciously using basic sign language. Her uncle was deaf and her mom did most of the work, so yeah.
Linda gave one last look-over before a smile came onto her lips. "Heya. If you're friends with this doofus than you need to mostly ignore everything what he says. Half of it is nonsense."
"Yeah... Can see why. He talked about food for half an hour when it was English."
"Tuh. Typical."
"Hey! I'm right here!" Wally whined, but both girls were already talking about his antics. He pouted slightly. Then a nudge from his left made him look over to see a smirking Hartley.
"Surrounded yourself with girls huh?" Wally stuck his tongue out at him, who just shrugged at his shoulders at his response. James sat across Hartley, who waved frantically at Wally. Hartley chuckled at the sight.
"James, stop. Your arm is gonna be numb afterwards." The redhead tried to put the other boy's arm down but James just went back to waving and shook his head.
"I made a bet with Hartley and I'm not gonna lose this time!"
Wally rolled his eyes this time. "Of course you did."
...
"Well, how's the first day?" Wally asked after the bell rang, causing many teenagers to scramble out of the place of horror that they call school. He forced himself to hang behind in front of the entrance of school, for the sake of Celine and not revealing his abilities. Hartley, James and Linda had seperate classes and didn't go the same way as them. The girl looked up at Wally with a look before a smirk overcame.
"Hope you get used to me, Walls. I'm staying here." She said simply, managing to overcome the roar of the crowd, bouncing down the steps and was getting ready to run home. As always.
"I'm sad then. You and your constant chat-ter is going to annoy me." He followed after her and stood in the place where Wally crashed into her.
"I thought you loved me-... Did you just put a cat joke in there?"
"You know the language of love, then?"
"... I'm not speaking to you tomorrow, W."
"Aw- hey, wait!" Wally watched as Celine run away from him, and before she went around the corner and out of his sight, she sent a smile and a wave, signalling that she was just joking.
He shook his head, before going to Aunt Iris' home.
"Welcome to Central City, strawberry."