Luke had biology first so he showed me where to go. It was were I saw all the plants and animals from the outside. I saw Alice come from the stairs in the biology hall which led to Geography I had found out. She waved at me and pushed me into a class which read Mrs Pyper.
" This is our class. I know it seams daunting but you'll get used of it." She went of and sat next to Lauren who was in this class.
" Mason, come over here." I saw Luke beckoning me to a chair next to him.
" thanks." I said as I sat down. On my other side was a girl with long Brown hair and had braces in.
" Rowena. Pass me one of those pens would you please." The girl picked up a pen from the table in front and passed it to him.
" That's Luke for you." I realized she was saying that to me.
" Oi don't write on my book." I turned to see Luke trying to scribble on another boys book.
" Duncan, you done it to me so fairs fair." I laughed a little. I was settling to a new school and already had some friends. I was doing well keeping my past out of my head and so was Alice apparently.
" Right calm down and get all your books out. We're doing variation today." Came a stern hard voice. I looked to the front to see an older women in a black suit with a purple shirt underneath. She had slightly tanned skin and brown hair. Everybody huffed sighs and groans as they got their books out.
" Get the green book and have you bought the biology book yet." Luke whispered. I picked up my bag a little faster than I wanted and dived in. I found the biology book and the green one he must have been talking about.
" How have you got them already." Rowena asked on my left.
" Uh I got them in advance. Puts aside confusion." In reality Lauren just got all the books and jotters necessary for all mine and Alice's classes.
" Right the title specific changes and then eye color in your jotters." I quickly jotted down the words and stared at the white board for our instructions. She drew three columns and headed them blue, green and hazel.
" Right partner in groups of three," Luke budged me and pointed to himself and Duncan. I nodded slyly at them. " And take notes of the colors of each others eyes then move around and do the same with other groups. Once we have the final count, we'll put it on the board and figure out averages." She sat at her desk and we began to chat and move.
" Right guys. Colors then." Luke grabbed a piece of paper and jotted our names down with a hyphen next to them. " Duncan, yours are." There was a slight pause. " Bluish." Duncan nodded at him.
" Well yours are a mixture of green and blue and the have a orange ring of fire around the pupil." Duncan said. Luke turned to me and I was slightly unaware if I should let them see the color of my eyes. What harm could it do with Lauren and the others being here permanently.
" Right Mason yours are," There was a slight dawning of recognition as I saw his eyes flash to Lauren and Alice. " Are you related to Lauren."
" No." I said, making my voice sound firm.
" Just a thought. Relations aren't looked upon as having the same color eyes but I just thought." He jotted down the word golden and looked back at me. He turned back and wrote dash orange brown. This went on the whole first period until we all had results. Mrs Pyper wrote the results on the board but didn't put ours up until last. She made a separate column titled bright Hazel and put Lauren, Alice's and mines under it.
" Right now as you can see instantly the most common is blue with people like Luke and Darren in between green and blue. We also have some in hazel but only three in bright hazel."
" oi shut it mate." I turned to see Luke holding Duncan's book doodling on it.
" Come get it then."
" Luke guess what." Rowena was holding her I-phone under the table. Luke turned letting Duncan get the book. " Its pasta today." The smile that broke across Luke's face made it clear how much he likes pasta. Biology carried on like this for a while. Me Rowena, Luke, Duncan laughing but getting on with the work. The bell signified break time. I would have to face everybody. Luke stood up and handed me my blazer.
" You coming to the bun-room." I saw Alice go left and heard the door opening.
" No thanks. I'll just go to the back of the school." He nodded and went out with Duncan and Alan. I hurried to catch up with Alice and Lauren but they were already with a crowd of girls when I got round.
" Mason man." Dally had jumped down the stairs and beckoned me towards the group of boys. They all were chatting about the Chelsea match. It was funny how much I was invited in with everybody.
" So which school did you come from." I fell silent. No one had asked me this yet and I haven't got a reply ready.
" I came from-"
" Heriots." Jesse said rescuing me. She winked at me and went back to her group of girls. Close one.
" Aw so that's cool. Dubs man never seen you this morning." Dubs was the nickname for Patrick apparently. Break went on with me becoming better friends with people like Angus and Patrick. Andrew and Alan as well. The bell went and I had double maths next. I headed in and to my maths class which was Mr Cookes class.
" Right then. Simultaneous equations and there oh." He looked at me as I sat down next to two girls who beckoned me to sit with them.
" Your Mason then. Well I can see your already aquatint with Louise and Nicky so we'll just dive in. how far have you got with the course." I remembered that I had finished credit maths and was nearing Higher in British standards. And in all my nights of staying up all night, I studied the full Higher course and the same for others including becoming fluent in French.
" Basically finished the credit course."
" That's good then." He nodded. " Just do whatever then. But do some of the questions." I got my jotter out along with the others.
" So Mason, you've heard my names Nicky. Are you going out with anyone." I nearly laughed at how obvious her intentions were but I kept it to myself.
" No I'm not." That seamed to put a smile on her and Louise's face. They asked me all through maths about my life outside school and what I was going to do here. Maths itself was just a flash of questions and equations. Before I knew it we were finished. School was good so far. Nothing was making it bad. I had made tons of new friends round at the west quad part of the school. I only met two Luke's while I met at least five Andrews. I have to hand it to Lauren and Anna who said it would go well due to the students loving new people joining. Yes it had gone well so far and now it was my last two periods as they call them. PE. Mostly all the boys were going to the PE halls and only a couple of girls.
" Aw Masy." I turned to see where the voice came from. Dally was jogging down the inside of the school to the end of the English department were I stood.
" Nick name already."
" Aw, yea, yea. Everybody's calling you it so you know that's how it is. You got gym as well." he spoke in his funny tone. I nodded.
" Yas. Fare play. Shall we head then." I followed him into getting changed then into the halls. There were several other boys and we were standing in a large hall that was separated into two sections. One was where all the weights and cardio equipment was and the other was a basketball court. Suddenly everybody ran for the red door that was leading into another hall except for Dally and my latest friends, Nick, Nile, Morven and some others.
" Mason." The teacher called. I walked over to him and he smiled. " My names Mr Kerr. Right, you can stay here and work out or go through there and play basketball." He pointed to the red doors.
" I'll just stay here thanks. Dally Come on the bench with me." His face lit at this and he jumped to it putting on ten kilograms on each side.
" I'll go first then." James was bouncing on the balls of his feet and Nile, Nick and Morvin were on the cycling machines. I took my eyes of them back to Dally who was on his fifth repetition. He dropped it back onto the hook gasping.
" Maybe a bit to much." I was having so much fun that I thought what the hell. I went over and took two fifteen kilograms and stuck them on one side and done the same with the other. They stared at me like I was mad or something.
" Right, my turn then." Dally looked at the bar with forty kilos on each side and got up and patted me on the back.
" If you get two done, I'll punch Mr Kerr in the face." James promised. I lay under the bar and put my hands on it. I lifted it just a small amount so they couldn't see but I could adjust how much strength to use. Not much it appeared.
" Ready then." they both nodded.
" Surly not Mason." Morven jumped of the bike along with Nile and Nick and was shaking her head staring at the bar. I laughed and took the bar of the supports and started doing reps with it. I heard a couple of gasps then a wow from Dally. I stopped at twenty. Stood up and shook of my arms for effect. I looked at them all. There mouths had fallen open and they were looking at me and the bar.
" Yes I am quite strong." I laughed. " pull ups now."
" Masy you didn't say anything about being that strong. You must be the strongest in the year." I surprised a laugh. He hit the answer on the head, except that it was the whole school I was stronger than.
" Well. Maybe. Anyway pull ups." James and the others were still speechless. Dally jumped on the bars and got five done.
" I'll show you." James announced and hoped on them and done sixteen. Struggling of course by fifteen.
" Right guys. Step aside and allow me." I hoped on and only used one arm and done another twenty, then done the same on the other side.
" Christ mate check it out." I turned to the left to see the other Luke and Chris along with James and another Andrew. I dropped down and grinned at them.
" I could do more." I tensed my arms and flexed them. " But we'd be here all day." Luke came up and put his arm on my shoulder and pulled me to the group of boys.
" Do you do rugby at all. Join."
" No I don't. but yea sure."
" Aw good man." James sleigh jumped and was dancing saying they would be unstoppable with me on the team. Rugby cant be much different from American football. They only difference being the contact.
" Right guys. Down to Myreside. We're doing a quick bit of athletics." I found myself walking down with a large group of people who all were talking to me.
" The fastest here is James. He is insanely fast for his size and age." And another challenge. The only difficulty was trying to only be a little faster and stronger than everybody else.
" Right guys. This half get some javelins and the other split again and go to the long jump and the hundred meter track." I went with Luke and James to the hundred meter sprint.
" Right James. You're the fastest so I'm racing you." Dally said.
" Kay but I want Mason and Luke to race as well."
" Your on speedy. C'mon Mason lets do this." We all lined up at the start and Mr Kerr done the stop go. He put the clock up and slammed it down. We all sprang and broke into an all out sprint. I paced myself to get to the same speed as James who was definitely faster then the rest. He could see me keeping up so he tried to push but I just went faster. I ran a little faster now to get in front but not fast enough to draw suspicion to myself. Turned out I got ten point nine seconds and James got eleven point eight. We heard the bell ring up at the school so we all ran up to the changing rooms and left. I said good bye to all my new friends and went to find Alice and the others. I found them waiting at the bus stop across from the one I got off at.
" How was your first day then." Alice asked thoughtfully.
" Not bad. Great in-fact. I met tons of new people as I'm sure you did to." she nodded at me.
" It gets better as you settle in. there's all kinds of clubs you could join but you will have to tone it down with the strength and speed. You don't want to draw to much attention to yourself." I pondered on that for a moment.
" Maybe your right." After all, I was trying to hide from the officials who were after me.
There were no people except for Andrew Davidson who got off at our stop. He nodded to me as we all walked past him. Andrew and Jesse were talking about how Andrew got to much work by his Biology teacher and how its unfair. Jesse merely said she would do it as she had allot of time on her hand what with not sleeping. Lauren was chatting with Alice about her first day at Watson's .
" so how'd you find school." Andrew sighed as we walked up to their house.
" It was good. What's the sigh for."
" nothing. Just bored."
" Well I know you watch the football so try that." His eyes lit up then.
" have you ever played the Xbox before." its funny. I had played it before at. I stopped myself there. I had enough bad memories their and I didn't need anymore.
" Yes I have…once." He nodded and went to the television, threw me a controller and put in Fifa two thousand and eleven.
" I place bets. Mason will lose." Jesse went and kissed Andrew. It was the first time id seen them kiss and it didn't look different than two humans. Lauren eyed them and came to my shoulder.
" I place with Mason then." It was the first day at my new school and it went better than anything I could have expected. I had settled in with Alice's friends and I'm now living in Edinburgh.