"You must be my new student, Merlin." The teacher, an older man balding man with short white hair on the sides of and back of his head and a short grey beard, spoke as he noticed Merlin walk into the classroom and stand in the front of the room not sure where to sit.
"Yep...that's me." Merlin reply as he nervously swayed back and forth on the bottom of his heels.
"You can take your seat next to Gwen over there." The teacher told him as he pointed to a girl around Merlin's age with long wavy dark hair, chocolate colored skin, and dark brown eyes who was sitting in the third seat in the front row of the class.
'So that's the Gwen, that Lance was telling me about earlier.' Merlin thought to himself with a smile as walked over and sat down on the empty seat to the right of her.
"Hello Merlin." Gwen greeted him with a small friendly smile.
"Hi." Merlin greeted her back with a small friendly smile of his own. 'And she is just as friendly as he promised too. Maybe if I am lucky i'll have two new friends here instead of one.' Merlin happy added to himself.
"Here is the books you will need for my class this semister." The teacher told Merlin as he placed four books onto the desk in front of him. They were two large textbooks and two small but thick novels.
"Before we start class today I would like to announce that the art department, literature department, and the history department will once again be working with the theatre department for this semister's annual play."
The class all rolled their eyes and groaned loudly.
The teacher however only seemed to ignore the response as he added "The play will be about the legend of King Arthur and his knights of the round table. Auditions will take place after school in the auditorium for those of you who might want to try out."
"I think I might go try out. What about you Merlin?" Gwen whispered after their teacher, Mr. Monmouth sent them to the task of reading a chapter out of one of their large history text books and doing the homework following it.
"I don't know. I just got here and a play seems like a lot of work.." Merlin replied.
"Awww come on. It'll be fun. I was in last semister's play you know and I had a great time."
"You were?" Merlin asked her a little surprised.
Gwen nodded. "Yep. I played Juliet in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet." She told him. Her cheeks flushed slightly as she remembered that last semister. It was one of her most fondest memories because it was through doing that play that she had first met Lancelot who had been unexpectedly casted the role of Romeo.
"You weren't nervous about learning and forgetting all those lines with so many people watching you?" Merlin asked her snapping her out of her pleasant reminising thoughts.
"Of course I was. It's only natural to be especially for your first time but my friends, Lancelot and Morgana, helped me get over those fears."
Merlin nodded. Lancelot did seem like the kind of guy to help someone like that no matter their predicament.
"Is there something you two would like to share with the entire class?" Mr. Monmouth askled them seeming to be a little annoyed with all their talking.
"No...sorry Mr. Monmouth." Merlin apologized feeling a little embarrassed about getting caught chatting with Gwen.
"Then get back to your assignments before I give both of you a detention for talking during my class." He scolded them.
Gwen and Merlin nodded before going back to their assignments deciding it was better to save the rest of their talking for after class.
Soon after finishing their assignment the bell rang once again signaling that second period was over and it was now time to leave for their next class.
"So where is your next class?" Gwen asked Merlin as they grabbed their stuff and walked out of the classroom door.
"Room 154." Merlin told her after taking a quick glance at his schedule.
"That's in the math wing. Since it's my next class too I'll walk with you there." Gwen replied with a smile.
Merlin couldn't help but grin as well. So far he had three classes with a friend in them. This day was turning out not to be so bad after all.
Together they headed down the staris to the first floor of the building on their way to their next class.