A/N: Snow day! Practically every school in my county and then some are closed, so I thought I would take this opportunity to update! Something I forgot to mention in my last author's note: I actually had to do the baby project in my biology class, and it was horrible! Me and my partner argued the entire time and my friends that Stephanie and Skyler are based off of almost had to hold me back from killing my "husband". Also, the story about Vince is true, too; I miss that boy so much! Anyway, I kind of scrapped the options I gave you last chapter (sorry!) and did my own twist I came up with when I was trying to go to sleep last night, although it won't happen until either Chapter 5, or 6.
P.S.= There's going to be another HP character included in this chapter! I'm excited! Enjoy!
The next morning I could feel my heart pumping with adrenaline and when I wondered why, I instantly knew the answer: I was going to see Fred again! After I took a hot shower, I got dressed in my favorite blue shirt and jeans, as well as my mismatched polka dot socks. I left my wet brown hair to dry the natural way because I absolutely hate blow-dryers and after I threw on my glasses and ate some breakfast, I practically pushed my mom out the door so that I could get to school.
"Why are you in such a hurry?" she asked as we stepped in the car. I just shook off her question and looked out the window at the dark blue sky.
When we arrived at the school, I jumped out of the car and walked through the door way that I so promptly tripped on yesterday. As I stepped into the main hall, I saw Fred, leaning up against the wall across Miss Slake's room.
"What're you doing?" I asked him, with a look of confusion on my face.
"I was waiting for that teacher to get here so I can put my stuff in there." I smiled and tried to explain to him how we have different classes every day. He did a face-palm and said, "Wow, I must look really stupid."
"Actually, I think the color green suits you." We started walking, made a pit stop at our lockers, and turned around so that he could put his stuff in the math room.
"Why aren't you putting your stuff down?" he asked, as we walked out into the hallway once again.
"I don't have math until fourth hour, but I think Kaitlin has this hour, so you can sit next to her, if you want." Fred nodded and ruffled my still damp hair. "What was that for?"
"I don't know." He changed the subject. "You're so short!"
I raised an eyebrow, "Why do you think I call Tyler my tall friend? Some of the freshmen are even taller than me!" He slipped an arm around my shoulder and gave me a sideways hug.
"That's what makes you special, though." I rolled my eyes and sighed. We finally got to the other end of the school for me to put my stuff in Mr. Wheeler's class.
"Mr. Wheeler is a great teacher, and he's hilarious! I think you'll like him," I exclaimed to Fred as we headed to the hallway outside of that classroom, which is where all my friends hang out in the morning.
"Kristin! Kristin! Kristin!" I turned to see my two oldest friends, Katie and Parker, calling my name.
"What?" I asked. They said something, but I couldn't hear them. "What? I can't hear you!" Parker seemed to be yelling but I still couldn't hear him. "What? I still can't hear you!"
"Who's that dude?" Katie screamed, causing everyone to cover their ears. I laughed and gestured them over to me and Fred. "You need a hearing aid, chick."
I nodded. "Yes, and all American kids go to Meghan's old school. Anyway, this is my new amigo, Fred." The three of them said their hellos and I immediately gasped.
"What's wrong, Kristin?" Fred asked.
"Parker!" I attacked and enveloped him into a hug. "Where were you yesterday, young man?"
He laughed. "It's strange to hear that coming from someone who's younger than me; I was recuperating from my surgery yesterday, you know, my gallbladder surgery?" I hugged him again.
"It's good to see you back in school! I haven't seen you since about two months ago!" I turned to see that Fred was as confused as ever. "Parker had internal issues and was out of school for what seemed like forever, but now he's back!" He nodded and shook his hand.
"I'm glad you're okay."
"Yeah, he'll need his health if he wants to deal with begin Kristin's friend! She could kill someone with the amount of times she hugs people at the spur of the moment," Katie commented.
"Katie!" I yelled. "Don't scare away my new friend! You know how hard it is for me to make new friends!" Fred looked at me as if I was a lunatic.
"You have more friends than I can keep track of! How is that possible?"
"Well…I happen to make friends by accident, for instance, me and Tyler just became friends at the beginning of the school year, and I don't even remember how. I don't remember how I made friends with half of my friends!" I explained. At that moment the bell rang. "Well, I'll see you next hour, Fred! The Health room is past the cafeteria by the gym, is you have issues, just wait by the cafeteria and I'll walk with you." He nodded and ran so that he wouldn't be late.
The moment I walked back into English, I immediately saw a face that I recognized and didn't recognize at the same time. She was sitting two seats behind mine—one seat behind Katie—and she looked as if she had no idea where she was. Her face was round and she had long, blonde hair that stopped at her waist. Her purple clothes went together nicely with her orange converse and she had a necklace with an "L" hanging from the chain.
"Hi, I'm Kristin," I said, walking up to her and holding out my hand. She gently took it and gave me a warm smile.
"Hello, I'm Luna." She glanced down at my hand. "I quite like your ring, it is a lovely shade of violet."
"Thank you." I turned to see that Mr. Wheeler had walked in. "Mr. Wheeler! We have a new student!"
"I can see that, Kristin," he said chuckling. The tardy bell rang and as I sat in my seat, I looked around to see if any Harry Potter fans were around me; there weren't. I wanted a second opinion, because the fact that I've seen a Fred Weasley look-alike and a Luna Lovegood look-alike all of a sudden makes me feel as if I need to pinch myself.
"So I see you waited for me," I said to Fred as I approached the cafeteria.
"Maybe I just wanted to walk you to class," he replied, winking. A blush rose to my cheeks as we came up on the tiny, closed in room.
"Did you know there's another new student, a girl, here?" I asked to no one in particular as I sat behind Tyler, in front of my other friend, Sara, and next to Meghan. Fred took a seat to my left.
"No, what's she look like?" Fred asked, his interest perked. I glanced at Tyler and he had an all knowing look on his face.
"She's blonde, very soft-spoken, and…" Tyler mumbled the last part.
"I'm sorry, what was that?" I asked. "I may have horrible hearing, but I don't think anyone else heard you." He glared at me.
"Pretty, she's very pretty." His face got red as he turned around. Me and my other three friends stole a look at each other and smiled.
"Alright, class," Coach Voss said once the bell rang, "Today we'll be watching a movie, but don't worry, nothing too disgusting. We don't want to get the carpet dirty with fresh vomit do we?" I laughed as the lights went out and tried to focus on the movie, but since Tyler is about six-foot four, I couldn't see anything! I felt something nudge my arm; Fred was passing me a note.
How are you on this fine morning? I shook my head.
I'm just fine, how about you? I passed it back to him and he seemed to be laughing.
I'm perfect, and also glad that I found such a nice person on my first day here. I smiled. During the entire class time, during the movie, we passed notes.
I hope you're talking about me.
Who else did I have all my classes with yesterday?
I was just making sure! Goodness! Do you miss your old school?
Of course. Back there, I was on the sports team with my twin brother and I got in trouble almost everyday with him.
Why?
We liked to pull pranks a lot, especially on a certain teacher everyone hates.
Really? The only pranks pulled here are senior pranks, but they always suck. In fact, the vice principal called the police last year.
That's crazy! Maybe, I should show this school what a real prank is like…
Fred! You could get in serious trouble! I can't exactly stop you, but I'll give you some advice: don't get caught! If you do, you could get suspended!
Don't you worry your pretty head, I won't get caught. Tell me about your family.
Well… that was a change of subject. I have two sisters, a brother, and two brother-in-laws, as well as four nephews and a niece.
Are they nice?
Yeah, my siblings like to spoil me since I'm the youngest. J
Cool, I bet my youngest brother wishes I spoil him, I don't.
What do you do?
Oh, I prank him like I do everyone else in my family, especially my brother P—
The bell had rung and everyone was piling out of the Health room. My head was spinning with what Fred had told me. He has five brothers and a sister, he has a twin, a love for pranking, a brother whose name started with a "P", he was on a sports team, and on top of all that, he could be the Weasley twin's other twin! And now, now there was another new student who could be Luna Lovegood's carbon copy! Something was going on and, to be honest, I was kind of freaked out.
Seminar—a type of class where you can do homework—passed by quickly and I had dropped off Fred at Mr. Wheeler's classroom for his English class. After I dropped my stuff off in the math room, I headed to lunch where Tyler, Sara, Erin, and, surprisingly, Luna was waiting for me.
"Hey, how are you all doing today?" I said, sitting between Erin and Luna. They all replied that they were fine, except for Tyler, who was blushing like a mad-man.
"Tyler, are you okay?" Luna asked, putting her hand on his arm. He gasped and jumped up to throw away his still-full tray.
"Don't mind him, he just has a little crush on you," I whispered into her ear; she smelled strangely like pears.
"Oh." Her face became flushed and I just shook my head.
"Ah, young love, what a beautiful thing," I heard Erin mutter. All of a sudden I felt something jab into my side, which caused me to scream and fall against Luna, knocking her into the seat next to her. Turning around, I saw Skyler with a grin on his face.
"FRUITSNACKS! ME WANTS FRUITSNACKS!" I apologized to Luna a threw him the fruit snacks.
"You could just ask for them, you know. And you didn't just scare me, you scared Luna, so apologize, right now!" He took my words to heart and also apologized to the newest student at Maplewood. Just a second later, the bell rang—curse the short lunch periods!—and as I walked to Algebra II with Erin, Skyler, and Luna, I began to worry about Tyler. Where on Earth did he go to throw away his trash? Thailand?
As my math class went on I found that Luna is a genius! She is smarter than a lot of the juniors in that class (sophomores got to go into the junior's math class if they were qualified to be smart enough back in seventh grade, although it wasn't just for sophomores; last year, as a freshmen, I was in the sophomore's math class) and definitely one of the smartest sophomores, as well. After we endured the terrible homework—me, Erin, Luna, and Carissa worked on it—we all headed to our fifth hour, which was, unfortunately for Fred and me, Spanish.
I didn't have a problem with the class, and I didn't hate the teacher like everyone else did, I just disliked the way he taught the class; it was difficult for me to learn anything from this man, let alone another language.
"That was horrible," Fred said, after the class was over, on our way to our lockers.
"You're telling me! I had that class all last semester!" I exclaimed, opening my locker and putting my coat on.
"I guess I'll see you tomorrow, bye!" Fred ran off to the exit on the other side of the school while I went though the one right by the office. Tomorrow was going to be one of the most exciting day of my life, whether I knew it, or not.