Cammie,
"Bex?" I called to the tall, slim English girl. She turned to smile at me.
"Cam?" I laughed, running up to her and pulling her into an embrace.
"I was looking for you, you bloody chameleon!" She teased, I just carried on laughing.
"It's great to see you too Bex." I smiled at my best friend. "Where's Lizzie and Macey? I thought you guys were catching a lift together?" I puzzled.
"Lizzie is having trouble with her minivan" she shrugged, "Macey went to our room to look for you. And I'm down here looking for you..."
"Well, you found me..." She smiled, but there was something bothering her. "What's the matter?" I asked her in a hushed voice.
"The room next to ours has been opened, I haven't seen that room open since we were in seventh grade. Do you know what's going on Cam?" she had a mischievous grin; I knew she was going to suggest bugging the room or something.
I sighed; pulling her away from the busy corridor that had been filled with trunks and girls hugging each other. I filled her in on a few bits of information "We have some new students joining us." I told her with a small grin, "Four new girls in our grade, I managed to get their files. Very interesting bunch, we will have to keep an eye out." I returned her mischievous smirk, "Oh, and there are also four boys joining us." Her grin fell off her face; shocked she stuttered something about boys looking down at the floor trying to process what I had just told her.
She looked back up to my face to check I wasn't joking around. Then she began to speak, "Well, I hope they are good looking." I couldn't believe her; she always had something to say…
"We better find Macey and Liz, they'll be wondering where we are." I shrugged before motioning to head back into the overly busy corridor.
As Bex and I ran though the school, we saw our schoolmates, I nodded to Tina walking swiftly past her before she could interrogate me. Small seventh graders ran past obviously in a hurry to explore this new turmoil. Girl's different shapes, sizes, heights and ages walked past seeing old friends, making new ones. The corridors were so busy with loud music booming from rooms as everyone began their unpacking. Squeals of delight rose up when the holidays were mentioned; I overheard Anna Fetterman saying that her parents taken her to Cyprus. I personally don't like Cyprus, but she sounded happy.
We carried on walking, passing the library, which was full of girls. They weren't even attempting to be quiet. It was kind of nice to hear the enthusiastic buzz of being back to school, but everyone knew tomorrow would be a different day. It was days like this that I wanted to hide out of the way with Zach and my best friends, but I also loved walking through the corridors seeing everyone finding out new things. It was mayhem. But only Mayhem to us, in ordinary schools this would be a peaceful first day back.
After walking up the last staircase that lead to our room, all the noise died down a little bit. There were still girls going in and out of rooms, gossiping about holidays and music was being played. But most of the girls were still in the foyer greeting each other.
We weaved our way to our room. Opening the door, a weak girl covered in oil jumped up squealing. "Hi Cammie!" she ran up to me, pulling me into a tight hug. Getting oil all over my nice shirt.
"Hey Liz" I said with a small grin, almost pushing her off of me.
"Oh my gosh, Cam. I'm sorry; I forgot I was covered in this oil…" she looked down at my now mucky shirt.
"Don't worry, Lizzie, we need to change into our uniforms soon anyway…" I looked towards my other roommate. "Heya Macey." She looked up from what seemed like a very interesting book, nodded to me, grinned a little and then returned to reading.
I walked deeper into our small room, taking it all in. Macey's Perfume had already taken over my senses, covering up any smell of my deodorant or shower gel, which had polluted the room for the past few days. Bex had stuff neatly on top of her bed ready to unpack, whereas Liz had it spread all over her area.
Making my way over to my bed, I sighed as I sat down. A giddy smile rested on my face.
Bex turned to look at me. "So, who are these new guys Cam? You said you had their profiles…" I dug underneath my pillow, pulling out 8 neat profiles. I knelt on the floor spreading them out so that we all could see them.
Bex,
We looked at all the profiles, and I've got to say they looked like a very weird bunch, and boys as well. What was the school coming to? Of course Zach was here, but that's different… We spent 20 minutes scanning through the files before getting ready for the welcome back dinner.
Just as we were about to leave Professor Buckingham knocked lightly on our open door. "Cameron, your mother wants you in the foyer," they were here. "Of course your friends can accompany you, but be quick."
"Thank you Professor." Cammie replied as the old professor started away from our door.
Cammie looked nervous, but excited at the same time. I knew how curious she could be, and curiosity had already taken over. She stood up, "Are you guys coming then?" we all walked out of the room and headed towards the main staircase.
It was times like this that I noticed how magnificent our school is. The Mahogany walls were carved perfectly- not being right in your face, but neither were they so faint that you couldn't see them. Posters hung up, advertising extra lessons and jobs that you could take. There was also a flyer announcing when the annual career fair was going to take place. To be honest, it was more of a drag for me, I had my job in mind and I wasn't going to change it now. I was going to work for MI6 and everyone knew it.
We walked into the foyer, just in time to see a van pull up outside. We took our places beside Headmistress Morgan. A man got out of the driver's seat to open the back door. He looked rather peculiar, his eyes were a funny shade of blue, and he looked like a typical surfer dude. He nodded towards headmistress Morgan; she smiled and said "It's lovely to see you again Argus."
There was something different about this arrival, for starters, this Argus dude looked weird. I didn't know how but there was something about him. He grabbed the handle of the van, tugging the door open. A blonde girl energetically hopped out- Annabeth. She seemed to be holding someone's hand, as she walked forward, she pulled the guy out with her to look at the school.
"Look Seaweed Brain, it's amazing, " she looked up to our school, mystified.
"It is Wise Girl, it is." He looked to the school and then back to her. They called each other weird nicknames, looks like we already have code names for them. It was obvious they were a couple with how close they stood, it seemed like their hands might actually be glued together.
Mrs. Morgan walked up to greet them, "Welcome to Gallagher Academy. I'm sure you will love it here." She said with enthusiasm and held out her hand, the girl took it.
"Well, thank you for having us!" she looked genuinely excited. "Are you the Headmistress?"
"Yes, I am, you must be Annabeth, and…" she turned to the boy, "And you must be-"
"I'm Percy, it's a pleasure to meet you Ma'am," he stood there with a cool grin on his face, his hair was messy but it was supposed to be and he had sea green eyes. He was Hot! But he was also taken.
A few more kids crawled out of the car; a blonde boy with glasses, a small girl with dark, brown curls, an Asian boy- but he also looked a little Canadian, a girl who looked stunning and was wearing a hello kitty top- maybe as a joke, another boy who was more scrawny but held hands with another gorgeously, beautiful girl. They were a strange bunch, but they looked like they had been through a lot together.
"This is my daughter Cameron. And her friends, Elizabeth," she pointed towards Liz, "Macey," Macey grinned towards them all, "And Rebecca." She finally pointed towards me. "They will show you around the school to your rooms and to your classes. Very soon we shall have the welcome back dinner, please get your stuff and take it inside." Miss Morgan turned around to walk back into the school.
Cammie looked at the bunch of people standing by the van, "Let's introduce ourselves properly, I'm Cammie, this is Liz, Macey and Bex. Who are you?" She knew who they were but she needed to bond with them somehow.
Percy stepped forward; he looked like a natural leader. Holding out his hand to Cammie, "I'm Percy, this is my girlfriend Annabeth. That's Piper, Jason, Leo, Hazel, Frank, and Calypso." They all smiled and said their hellos.
"We better go inside, then, do you need any help with your luggage?" I asked, eager to get inside, otherwise we were going to be late.
"Maybe a little help would be needed, thank you." The girl at the back, Calypso, giggled as she told us this "I think I may have over packed…"
We walked towards their van and started to help bring their stuff inside. After all the bags were out of the van they said their goodbyes to Argus, although none of them seemed to be close with him. We began to bring the bags inside and the boys, being typical boys, decided they were going to carry more than they could handle. It was funny watching them walking in almost dropping the bags. The scrawny boy Leo began to drop one of the many bags he was carrying, luckily a tall, dark haired boy came to the rescue grabbing the bag before it hit the floor. Zach.
"You must be the new guys, I'm Zach." He smiled.
"Hi, nice to meet you." The blonde dude, Jason said.
"You guys should follow me to your room, it's the opposite side of the school to the girl rooms. It'll be quicker." His smile was reassuring as he led them inside.
Cammie, Liz, Macey and I took the girls one way, and Zach took the boys the other way towards a different Wing of the school. Cammie began to talk about how the school was really old and its founder was called Gillian Gallagher. Annabeth seemed to take a real interest in the school, the things she suddenly said were crazy-how would anyone know that much about this school, and it was only her first day. She must have done some Liz research…
We kind of, started, somehow separating into pairs. Cammie and Annabeth lead the way talking about Architecture and history. Macey started to question Piper's weird fashion sense. Liz began to talk to the shy girl Hazel. Which meant I was left with the gorgeous Calypso.
"Hi," she came up to me, "you must be Bex right…" she smiled and began to walk in time with me so that we could 'bond'.
"Yes, I am, and you must be Calypso right." I said in my best American accent.
"Yeah, I'm Calypso. I haven't been to an American school before, I was kind of hoping that you might be able to help me…" What! She sounded American… (Almost as good as my fake American accent) she looked educate, she spoke as if she was educated…
"Never been to an American school, huh? If you don't mind me asking, where did you go to school then…" she paused for a moment to figure out what to say.
"I was sort of homeschooled… ish…" she admitted and gave me a reassuring grin, "You see I would ask my friends but we are all kinda weird…"
I decided not to push her too hard on her history, otherwise she might not trust me, I just nodded "so, what do you mean 'kinda weird'? They all seem perfectly normal to me." I gave her a sweet, innocent smile.
"Well, they all have something about them, I'm pretty sure all of them have ADHD, and Annabeth, even though she is incredibly smart, she has a serious case of dyslexia same as many of us. Except me, I don't have anything like dyslexia… We are quite different to the average American teenagers, in more ways than one." It was quite hard to believe much of what she told me, but I understood her.
We arrived at their room and put their bags down.
"You should get dressed in your uniforms pronto, the Welcome back dinner starts in seven minutes. You cannot be late. We will meet you in exactly five minutes to take you down there. We need to go and get ready." Cammie gave out these orders; she didn't want to be late at all. "So, um, yeah… see you in a minute…" turning around, we headed towards our room for a quick four-minute break…
Hi,
I'm sorry I haven't posted in a while. It's the New Year and all, back to school, New Year illnesses, etc.… I hope you are enjoying reading this crossover. Please post reviews, and if you have any suggestions, please PM me…
Thanks.
