Chapter 14
When we walked into our new school and I got a good look around, I recognized it as the school that was 4 blocks away from my old school. I let go of Max's hand but still held on to Iggy's squeezing it as I realized this death defying fact.
"I can tell where everything's at and where people are, but I can't tell what anything looks like or what anyone looks like," Iggy muttered to us. I thought to myself that he might've just ignored me squeezing his hand and would save that for when we were alone.
"That's good. So, Ja'leese, you need to know our names for here at school," Max started looking at me. "Fang's name is Nick, my name is Maya," when she said her name she smiled at Fang, "Iggy's is Jeff, Nudge's is Krystal, Angel's is Arial, Gazzy's is Xavier, and yours is Lynn."
I nodded and tried to memorize the other 6's names. Mine would be easy, because it was simply just my middle name; very smart of Max. "Okay," I told her.
"Now let's go to the office and get our schedules. oh and, by the way, I made sure you and Iggy had all the same classes together so that you guys can help each other out," Max informed me and Iggy, walking to the office.
"Alright," I mumbled still freaking out that someone here might recognize my face.
When we walked into the office I had the pleasant surprise of seeing my ex-boyfriend, Zach. My hand flew up to hide my face but it was no use, he had already seen me.
"Ja'leese?" he asked smiling and walking up to me.
Iggy tensed up, but I tapped his hand twice to reassure him. "Um…no, sorry, I don't know who that is. My name's Lynn, not Ja'leese," I said making my voice sound perfectly truthful. I am such a good liar. I mentally patted myself.
His face fell in disappointment, "oh, you look exactly like her. Well, I'll see you around." Zach walked out of the office looking embarrassed and really, really disappointed.
Everyone looked at me in surprise until a red-headed lady with emerald eyes drew away their attention. "May, I help you, students?" she asked us in a sweet voice.
Max glanced over at Fang before addressing this lady, "yes, please. We're new students."
The lady looked us up and down, "last names?"
Max looked around at all of us as if she didn't know what to say.
"Ride," I said smiling sweetly, "all of our last names are Ride." I looked at Max, still smiling, to see her glaring at the red-headed woman and clinging onto Fang.
"Okay, Ride, let's see," the woman said looking through files of yellow paper. She pulled out 4 and handed them to Max, "Maya, Nick, Jeff, and Lynn Ride, right? Here are your schedules. You need to hurry to first period, which starts in 5 minutes."
She took them and handed Fang his schedule and gave me mine and Iggy's. We walked out and Max told us to hurry to first period that we wouldn't be late. I put my hand in Iggy's and led him through crowds of strangers wearing similar outfits to ours, and to our first period, Math. At least it was something I could actually do.