"Oh he's so handsome!" "You look foreign, are you from Japan?" "Will you sit next to me at lunch?" The list goes on. Phantom found himself two days later at Mica Ridge Jr. and Sr. High. Under the name Tom Johnson, the new "adopted" son of the Johnson's.
The day started off like it was yesterday, getting up, eating whatever Mrs. Johnson made for breakfast, Mr. Johnson telling him to do his chores, and him not doing them. But what was different today was Mrs. Johnson giving him the school's uniform and telling him that he starts school today.
He was in class 2-B (grade 11) with Anya. And to his excitement, many of the girls were "welcoming" him to the class. "What do we have here?" said someone who just walked into the room. Phantom saw the crowd of girls move aside and a guy with black colored hair walk up to him. Everyone said hi to the student body president (the guy). "So you must one of the new students at our school?" he said sarcastically to Phantom. The way he said that made Phantom think of trapping him in a Phantom Glass ARM and getting rid of him. But he was trying to lay low.
Phantom nodded at the question and the guy started talking about the rules of the school. "And section seven of the student handbook says that 'no strange dyed hair is aloud'," he read out of a small red book. "This is my natural color," Phantom said getting up. "Yeah right," the guy said, "no body has white colored hair." This guy is starting to really get on my nerves thought Phantom.
Just as soon as he was going to send the student president to the next galaxy, Anya whammed her book bag at the student president's face. "Who cares what hair color people have," she yelled at the guy, "it matters more on how they do in school." With that said the bell rang, and the teacher came into the room. Everyone took their seats and the teacher introduced the class to two new kids: Tom (Phantom) and Ivan. She asked them to tell something about themselves, Ivan said he likes Karate and he has a sister who is in sixth grade at the school. Phantom said that he likes fighting and that he wants to destroy the world he hates. That came out by accident, but luckily he added in 'a game'.
After that the teacher told them to sit down in two empty seats. Then she started a lesson on U.S History. Phantom actually fell asleep in the middle of a lecture on the Civil War. The teacher woke him up from a wonderful dream of destroying MAR. "Tom I know you're new here, but you don't fall asleep in my class," she nagged at him. "Anya you live near Tom right?" Anya said yes and the teacher said that for the rest of the week Anya would be in charge of keeping an eye on him. Great thought Phantom, first she calls me her friend; she already bothers me at home, now she has to stay with me the whole week?! "Don't worry!" Anya whispered, " We'll have fun." Phantom slammed his head on the desk.
"Anya you are so lucky to watch Tom!" said a girl to Anya at lunch. "I'm hoping that he will start talking to me," started Anya, " he already avoids me at the Johnson's farm." "Hey who knows, you might find out something about him," the girl whispered as they met Tom at the lunch table he was sitting at. Phantom was not happy when Anya came over to the table he was sitting at. Luckily the other girl that was with her went to another table. "Hi Tom," Anya said with a smile. She sat down and it was quiet for a while until Ivan and a younger girl came over to the table. "Is it alright if we can sit here?" asked Ivan. Anya's face lighted up "Sure you can!" she said with a smile. Phantom smiled a fake smile, as the two sat down.
It was quiet until Anya asked the younger girl who she was. "I'm Lo…er, I mean Lilly," she said poking at the sloppy joe that was on her plate. "Nice to meet you Lilly," said Anya, "hey Ivan, when did you guys move to Meteor Ville?" Ivan started saying that they are staying with a nice family. He also said that he and Lilly lived somewhere else but now they're here. "I'd say its sort of my fault," he said with a mouthful of sloppy joes in his mouth. " 'You'd say'?!" said Lilly getting out of her chair. "If you didn't try putting two unstable ARMs together we wouldn't be here now!" Anya thought they were joking around so she laughed.
Phantom wasn't listening fully, but when Lilly said that last part he noticed that those two weren't Ivan and Lilly. They were the two rooks Ian and Loco. Phantom got up with a ferocity look in his eyes. "YOU," he roared. He picked up Ian "Tom! What are you doing!?" yelled Anya. "YOU'RE THE ONE WHO GOT ME STUCK HERE," he roared at Ian. "What on earth are you talking about?" said Ian in fear. Phantom threw Ian across the room. Phantom was really ticked now. "TOM!" yelled Anya, "Stop it!" He didn't hear a word of that; he was determined to destroy Ian for trapping him here.
He would have if Anya didn't knock him out with a frying pan from the kitchen. The principal came into the cafeteria and told everyone to go back to eating. Ian then noticed why Tom attacked him. He wasn't Tom; he was Phantom.