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Chapter 2

The new kid

Olympia High School was not like I would have expected it to be. It was bigger than my old school, I can tell you that. The school was quite large for the small town. In fact, it was the only high school in Olympia. All of the other high schools were either in Forks, in Seattle or Port Angeles. Olympia's mascot was the Greeks. Imagine... They actually took two people for the mascots instead of just one. You had Zeus, the God of Thunder, and Hera, Queen of the Gods, dressed in Greek robes. Fancy stuff, sort of. There were about fifteen hundred students in that school; it was unbelievable how many students there were in a town that has less than eight thousand people. The classes were all the same. Many desks that the chair was attached to; black boards with chalks; normal pine desk for the teacher; stuff like that. We even had many laboratories for the science classes.

The gym was quite big. We also had a football field out in the back and many stands for the students to see the games. We had one big parking lot for the students and a small parking lot for the teachers. In other words, Olympia High School was HUGE. But the worse part about these kinds of school, you always had the clicks.

In each school, you had the different groups. The popular kids, the nerds, the jocks, etc... Me, I didn't have many friends at my other school in Seattle. So, I kind of stuck to myself at an empty table. Then again, we only had a maximum of four hundreds students at my old school and had too many tables.

As to start the school day, I ate a quick bowl of cereal and a grilled toast before seven o'clock. Luckily, Henry wasn't even up when I was ready to head to my first day of eleventh grade. It was only the second time that my dark silver car got to have me behind the steering wheel. Olympia was quite the small town so; the speed limit here was only forty in the city. But it's a good thing that we're so close to the big cities like Port Angeles.

The drive to school was quite slow. Traffic. Ah, the worst. But surprisingly, the other kids weren't even here. Good think too. I could put my stuff into my locker already before the hallways were packed. But it was in the middle of November. The roads were starting to get slippery with the ice and the rain. No snow though. Dang. I knew I forgot to buy something on my shopping spree. Winter tires for my new car. Oh well, I guess it can't be that bad outside. Just had to take it a little slower. The wipers were working at low speed for the reason that the rain wasn't strong.

The grey and yellow parking lot was free for the taking. There was one that caught my eye. Right in the middle in the second row. Perfect. I started revving up towards the open space and parked correctly into the lot. I changed the setting of the car from Drive to Park and turned off the ignition. Before opening the door, my curiosity had sprung. I hadn't checked the clock ever since I left home. I knew I was too early anyways but I was curious as to how early I actually was. Seven twenty-five. Still had half an hour before the first bell. Plenty of time to get to the secretary's office and get my schedule and locker.

It took a while to find where the secretary's office was. Everything was out of place. After many minutes of searching, I finally found it. Luckily, I wasn't too early. The secretary was already here. She was surprised to see someone in school this early when I stepped inside. The plate on her desk wrote Mrs. Crowley. She was quite a young woman, maybe in her twenties or early thirties. Her dirty blonde hair shined with the light from the ceiling. As soon as she lifted her head to face me, I saw myself in her half-moon glasses, right on the tip of her crooked nose.

"May I help you, dear?"

"Yeah... um, I'm Juliette Shrike and..."

"Ah! Miss Shrike. Welcome to Olympia High School. We're so glad that you were able to attend our school. Let me print out your schedule and a map to our wonderful school." She was way too perky for my taste. The printer made beeping sounds as my schedule was coming out. Henry had never liked going to school to get my stuff so I always had to do it myself. Oh well. It was sometimes good to be independent.

"Here you go miss. Here's your locker combination and locker number. Have a great first day." And then, I was off. I had to find locker number 329. Um... where to start? This school was huge! I didn't even know where my first class was. Well, time to look at the map.

The map said that my locker was close to the Chemistry lab. Well, my last class would be easy to find. But my first semester would be pretty easy. First Math, then English, Chemistry and last but not least Gym. Pretty simple. I started looking for my locker after spending some time learning my schedule. So close. 325... 326... 327... Ah! 329! Found it! I started looking at my locker before putting things in it. It was quite big. It was double in length of what my old locker was. But I was happy about that. After many moments of placing stuff in the locker, I picked a binder, a notepad and a pencil case and went to my first class.

Wow... not my ordinary Math classroom. We had normal desks but with a white board with markers. A big black desk with hardly any drawers and it looked like a Chemistry lab almost. Oh well, I guess the school had too many Science classes for this big school. I went to take my seat and wait until the class started to fill up.

The minutes passed by and I started looking at the map more clearly. Chemistry and Biology were right in front of one another. Physics was right beside the Math class that I was in right now. The computer classes were towards the back of the school. Good thing I had that class next semester. The Gym was to the East of the school, close to the English classrooms.

Too bad all the more difficult classes would be in the second semester. First Spanish, Physics, Art and finally marketing. I always wanted to go into Architecture. One of my favorite things was Math and Physics... oh! And Art. I loved to draw, especially people. It makes it more of a challenge.

Around eight, people started to show up for class. Although, the teacher came last. I would have figured some people would appear after the teacher and get a tardy slip.

I sat beside a quite perky girl to my left and a dangerous looking guy at my right. I didn't want to disturb either one of them. The guy looked like he could stomp me without even paying attention and that girl's just as perky as Mrs. Crowley. But still, it didn't bother me if people were a certain way. I always told Chanel that it doesn't matter how people look on the outside, it's on the inside that counts.

Mr. Laurer came in the classroom a minute after the bell rang and started class. Unfortunately, he just had to say that there was a new student in the classroom. He made me get up from my seat so I could introduce myself. I obeyed and soon afterwards, we did independent work for a test coming up in three days. Man, you go to a new school and soon afterwards, you get a test.

Class went by smoothly after the drama in Math Class. Mr. Laurer was impressed by my Math 'skills'. He was thinking of placing me in twelfth grade Math. I already knew more than I should from my last school. English was basics. Mr. Barner said we were starting our Poetry unit and started learning about Robert Frost.

Lunch was normal. Each click was sitting together at their little table. Luckily, there was an empty table close by the window. Thank god there weren't any windows that you could open. I approached the table but regrettably, the perky girl from Math class came up to me with all of her cheerfulness.

"Hi! My name is like Sam and welcome to Olympia High! You're Juliette right?"

"Jules... but yeah." I might as well correct everyone so far.

"So, like, how about having lunch with us? It'd be like, totally awesome!"

"Um... sure." Just to be nice. I couldn't just be rude to her and say that I didn't want to. I followed along with her peppiness to the lunch table and was welcomed by a large group of people. The dangerous kid from Math class was there too. Dang! Did she hang out with all the kids that looked... bizarre?

"Jules, let me, like, introduce you to the gang! Gus, Jack, Maggy, Austin, Tiffany and Lizzy. Like, everyone, this is Jules." As she introduced everyone, she started from the dangerous kid, now knowing him as Gus. Jack looked like a jock. He played on the football team. Quite buff but I've seen better guys. Maggy was quite beautiful.

Maggy was on the women's softball team for the school. I'm surprised that there's even a team for that at a school. I understand baseball but softball? Incredible. Austin was the 'nerd' of the group. Although he had a sweet side and a very cute smile, he had the big glasses and the tight pants. Tiffany was part of the Math club. She didn't look like a nerd, actually she was the opposite. She could pass as a cheerleader. Full of spirit that woman.

And well, Lizzy... how to describe her? Freaky beyond belief! She couldn't stop twitching and freaking out all the time. People say she's sweet once you get to know her... I'll have to see that.

"Hi."

"So Jules like sit down and tell us, like, more about yourself!" Sam couldn't help but be hyper. She sat on the chair right next to Gus and for the first time, I think I saw a smile across his face.

"Well, not much to say. Just moved from Seattle to live with my dad. Um..." I didn't know what else to say. "That's pretty much it."

"Any hobbies?" Maggy seemed interested. This was probably the 20/20 game.

"Drawing, music, Math. The usual, I guess."

"What academic classes do you take?" I knew it. Austin was the 'nerd' of the group. I figured that all of our conversations would be about school.

"Well, all of my classes are advanced..." I couldn't even finish my sentence before seeing the reaction on Tiffany's face.

"If you like Math, how about joining our Math club? It would be quite the advantage to have you on our team. What do you say?"

"Um... I'll have to think about it. Thanks though..."

It didn't take them long to stop asking me questions. They got back to talking amongst themselves after asking me what sports I played. The answer was obvious. Basketball, soccer and volleyball. Jack wasn't interested much if it didn't involve football. Or my favorite color, which was obvious to be midnight red. Other simple questions like that.

I just stared into the blue. I tried to look at the big cafeteria and I saw the normal stuff, jocks at one table, and cheerleaders at another... I didn't know why Sam wasn't there. Wasn't she a cheerleader? Or was she always this perky? Whatever. I kept looking, maybe to find something interesting to look at. Goths, Comic book nerds, and then, something popped...

A table of five people. They didn't look like they were a part of any groups or clicks. They all had pale skins though. With the light from the cafeteria, they could pass as their own light. But there was one in particular that catched my eye... Him.

Alright, what do you think? Jules sees someone. Who is it? What will happen next? OHHHHHH!!! Please review!!!

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