(A.N) Special thanks to Ariada la fata for being my first and second reviewer! You're amazing! =)
"Ah, you must be the new transfer students." A woman with long black hair smiled sweetly, though Valissa saw something flash in the woman's icy blue eyes. "Give me a minute to get your schedules and locker number. Then, you can be on your way." Valissa and Merlin just nodded, staying silent.
A girl with red hair walked in the office and headed up to the receptionist's desk, "I was told to come to the office. What did you need?"
"Yes," the woman behind the desk smiled at the red-head, "Mr. Pendragon has instructed me to have you show these two new students around the school."
She turned to look at the two other students in the room. "I'm Alethea," she held her hand out to shake the others'.
Merlin shook her hand, "I'm Merlin, and this is Valissa, my sister." Alethea looked past him and to Valissa, who just gave her a small wave.
"Okay, well, I guess I'm showing you around. Do you have your schedules yet?" Alethea raised an eyebrow as she asked.
"Here they are," the woman said, handing them two slips of paper, "and this is your locker number. You'll have to walk back to Ms. Morgause's office to get your text books."
Valissa and Merlin exchanged a look, "And her office would be where…?"
The woman gave them a smirk, "Down the hall," she nodded to a hallway in the back of the room, "third door on the left."
Alethea looked back and forth between Valissa and Nimueh, the woman who had given the twins their papers, and smiled, "I'll just show them the way…"
Nimueh broke her gaze with Valissa and looked at Alethea, "Good idea."
Alethea nodded and gestured the twins down the back hallway, where they all started walking. Alethea stopped in front of a door near the end of the hall. She opened it and introduced the twins to the woman behind the desk.
"Ah, the new children. Please, come in and sit while I gather your books," the lady smiled sweetly, but to Valissa, it was as false as they come.
Valissa and Merlin exchanged glances, but they sat down anyway, followed by Alethea.
"If you'll hand me your schedules, we can get you your things in your lockers and ready to go in time to get you all to first period." Ms. Morgause instructed, holding out her hand.
"Of course," Merlin nodded, grabbing Valissa's schedule and his own, handing them to Ms. Morgause.
Ms. Morgause grabbed the schedules and walked into the closet in the back of her room and came out with a stack of books. "For you," she said, handing them to Merlin before going back into the closet, coming out with more books, "and you. Take these to your lockers and then head to your first period class. Alethea, I'll let Professor Gaius know that you might be late to class."
Alethea nodded her thanks and gestured for Merlin and Valissa to follow her.
Valissa and Merlin struggled with their large books and followed her out of the office and to their lockers, "Well, this morning has gone exceedingly well…" she muttered sarcastically.
Alethea held her hands out, "I can help with some of those books." She grabbed a few books from each of the twins before they could protest and continued on her way to their locker. "What's your locker number?"
"540," Valissa answered, shaking off the shock from the assertive red-haired girl taking her books.
"Ah! Right next to mine!" Alethea grinned and turned a corner, the twins following right behind her. "Who do you guys have for first?"
"Well, I have Professor Giaus, and my sister has Professor Wainwright," Merlin answered with a slight smirk.
"Well, Merlin, looks like we have the same class," Alethea smirked right back.
Merlin's smirk widened into a grin at her words, "I look forward to it malady." Alethea snorted a little and shook her head. They arrived at their lockers a few minutes later, and they went straight to opening it and depositing the books in.
"Well, we'll go to Professor Wainwright's classroom first, then we can head up to science," Alethea smiled to the two.
"This day just keeps getting better and better…" Valissa sighed with a shake of her head.
They got to Professor Wainwright's in relative silence, and Alethea turned to Valissa and smiled. "I forgot to properly welcome you to this school. Welcome to hell…" she opened the door to the classroom as she said the last line and held it open for Valissa to enter.
"My exact thoughts," Valissa mumbled with a small sigh, then walked into the classroom.
Alethea and Merlin walked to Professor Giaus' classroom, joking about random things that popped into their minds.
(A.N) Hope you liked the chappy. Once again, sorry about the shortness of this chapter, I promise they will get longer as the story progresses! Again, reviews are welcome!
~BigTimeRollingStones