CHAPTER 2: MIST:
IT'S COLD, UNFORGIVING AND ONCE YOU'RE TRAPPED WITH IT,
HAVE FUN FINDING YOUR WAY OUT.
SO WHAT ABOUT MISTY?
Imagine that it's in History class that you first see Misty. She's a nice height, maybe a little short, and slightly resembles a Native American.
Her long butt-reaching hair is tied in a long braid, only leaving small pieces of her side bangs to frame her face. Her body was the same type as many of the almost perfect Degrassi girls. But from the way Misty scans the room, analyzing everyone, you realize that she won't stand for almost perfect.
You shake your short curls and let your blue eyes, too, wander around the class room, trying to imagine what it would look like if you had been the new girl.
There was Alli, a girl with the same skin color as Misty, but a silkier looking hair with big pretty eyes. There was her boyfriend Drew, a jock from first look, but you could see that maybe, somewhere under there, was someone different.
Jenna sat down, talking with her boyfriend, K.C. They probably looked like the couple; the pretty blond and the cute kind of jock that might just try a little to hard to fit in. But that was normal, and you knew that by looking at Misty, normal wasn't going to make the cut.
You wonder what you look like to the new girl; average? Nerdy? Fake? You just got your eye's fixed, so you didn't have to wear glasses, but only some people noticed; being to caught up in a hideous rumor about a boob-job.
Your hair is shorter than it was last year as a ninth grader, and you liked it that way. You feel like a new person, starting over in a new world.
You are excited for your next class; English, because your two closest friends are in it; Adam and Eli.
Your thoughts are cut short by the teacher end-of-class bell, and your teacher asking who is going to English next.
You raise your hand, and you're sitting in front so the teacher can see you, and he tells Misty, "This is Clare, and she'll show you your next class." You can tell by the way Misty looks at you that you are not coming across as boring.
You lead the new girl down the hallway, and she's chattering away about her old school, old friends, and old boyfriend. You are completely taken back when she asks who you're in to, and stammer out:
"You wouldn't know him." You didn't mean it to sound harsh, but hurt crosses Misty's face before being replaced with a smirk.
"I'll guess I'll have to start to know some people then," Misty said, stopping in the door of English to see everyone, just like she had in History, spied a certain dressed-in-black boy and walked over to the seat where you usually sit, and turns toward Eli and Adam, her eyes sparkling.
You take a different seat in the opposite corner of the class, and can't help but smile when Eli and Adam look around for you when Misty takes your seat.
Misty is wearing a blue denim dress, shorter than one you would wear, and little brown sandals. She had a huge silver link necklace on and not too much make up.
You can't hear what your two friends are telling Misty, but by the look on her face it's something she doesn't want to hear. She scowls and says something that makes Adam's face momentarily crumple, and you can only guess what had happened.
Misty turns in her chair, away from both the boys, and rolls her eyes in a way that says, 'could this school be any weirder?'
Later in the hallway, Misty bounds up to you, and tells you about that 'super weird girl/boy thing in English'.
"Did you know it's really a girl?" Misty said wide eyed.
"Yes," you respond, wishing that you could just walk over and sit where Eli and Adam were reading comics.
"Isn't it soo gross? I mean, its friend is super hot, like mmm, I'd die for him," Misty squealed.
"Adam's my friend and not an it. And Eliis his friend too." You reply sharply, and watch as the Indian-girl's eyes grow.
"Are you one too? Are you all freaks! This school is messed up!" She shouts, and runs down the hallway.
You shrug it off and join your real friends.
"Thanks," Adam says real small, and you hadn't realized that they were so close that they could hear you.
"You're welcome," you say, only shortly glancing up at Eli who was still reading a comic.
"She said I was hot." Eli said, smirking, not looking up.
"She said Adam was gross."
"You were jealous."
"Was not!"
"Totally was."
"You frustrate me!" Adam rolls his eyes as you scream and stomp away, but inside you're laughing at the conversation.
"See you tomorrow, jealous girly." Eli shouts down the hall and you can just picture that crazy boy smirking at your vanishing back.
Okay, so I'm bummed that they don't show more Clare and Eli on Degrassi, and that next week is the last week of Boiling Point):
But Eli has redeemed himself! He made up with Clare(:
Do you guys wonder if ever Munro Chambers comes on here and reads all this crazy stuff we've written about his character?
That would be cra-azy! Haha.
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