chapter 2

I opened the car door and stepped out tentatively,then started my trek to the office

(which had absolutely no clue as to where it was located), and found myself walking through a silent parking lot.

As I approached the overly preppy, happy looking Lyle high, I shuddered as I caught view of multiple vibrant, sparkly posters advertising an upcoming football game. I am so gonna love this school. If I don't die from excessive glitter exposure.

As I walked around aimlessly through the school, watching the last of the late stragglers make their way to class, one just happened to bump into me and knock me of my feet.

And that's when my head made contact with the linoleum floor which wasn't so pleasant and left me with a tingling sensation and a black out.

Out of nowhere, I wake up, and the first thing I see is a boy with hazel, almond shaped eyes ,that were wide open ,and stylish spiky blonde hair ,and a nice glowing complexion and then the thought hit me.

"Where am I",Then all of a sudden he let out breath he must have been holding and said,

"You're in the nurses office, you were out for 3 hours!, I thought I put you into a coma.", He exclaimed.

And some how his voice seemed oddly familiar, but aside from that, I couldn't help but laugh at the fact that this kid is just way too hilarious, and suddenly the visible tension on his face had disappeared, and was replaced with a charming grin

"Oh, so you find me knocking you out for 3 hours funny? 'Cause if so I must be hilarious, but anyways I'm Simon and you are …"

I might as well have fun with this while I can "I'm… I'm…", and I gave him a wide-eyed, scared look ,and said, "I-I don't know…"

And suddenly he paled, and it made him ghostly (not a good look on the kid)

"Wait. Who are you?, Because I don't know where I am or what I'm doing here." I squeaked at the last part for dramatic effect and then he turned green.

Which led me to laughter, because this kid is just way too tense right now, that he's reached levels of gullibleness, that no one should ever be exposed to.

And with that he said "Not funny. You really scared the crap out of me!"

"Yeah I kinda noticed when you turned green, and anyways I'm Klara, its so nice to meet you Simon under these circumstances, and um would you happen to know what the time is?"

He shifted to pull out a phone and said "Uh yeah, its 11:47"

Wow.

"Oh my, you weren't really joking about the 3 hour thing, where you? Oh and um, one last question I hit my head right?"

"Yup, I tried to catch you, but you settled for pulling me down with you."

"huh" I started to feel around my head for any soreness, but couldn't find any sore spots "I don't feel sore or anything, so I suppose maybe it was just my lack of sleep, and being in an horizontal position made me fall asleep…"

I frowned as I thought of another explanation, and then Simon bursted out with laughter

"You fell asleep! God how much sleep did you get last night?"

"Hmph, try 15 minutes ,then my alarm clock waking me from my almost peaceful slumber…"

"Wow, I would've never guessed, I mean cause you don't look bad, for a person with 3 hours and 15 minutes of sleep"

"Thanks." I grumbled. and that earned a light-hearted chuckle from him then he finally said, "What class do you have now?"

"Um, I don't know. Never made it to the office, I was kinda plowed down by somebody on the way there"

"Sorry, well anyways lets go to the office and get you a schedule, kay?" I groaned but then stood up stretched my stiff limbs, and said, "Let's go, and get this over with."

The walk over to the office was silent, It wasn't a bad silent, it was kinda a happy, comforting silence, that Simon seemed to be radiating.

Now that I wasn't as groggy, I gave him a once over, He wore a dark green t-shirt, dark blue jeans, and black high tops, he seemed to have a nice build as well, nicely toned, and slender, as for height, he seemed to be couple of inches taller than me maybe 5'11?

Then he started humming tune, I recognized as 'We are going to be friends' by the White Stripes.

"Fitting", I mumbled, and he gave me a confused look, so I carried on, "We are going to be friends…"

A surprised look crossed over his face, "Wow, someone with good music taste, my brother and I, were starting to think, we were the only ones left in this sad world"

"Feeling is mutual." I said exasperatedly.

From there on, the conversation to the office changed to music, and what bands we were interested in.

And it turns out him, his brother, and i shared about 15 bands in common, but our conversation was cut short, by me approaching the office.

The lady at the desk noticed me walking towards her, and gave me a warm motherly smile, and said, "what can I help you with dear?" I smiled and said, "Um I'm new here, and I was wondering if I could get my schedule please? My name is Klara Faye."

"Okay, here we are. Now have a nice day dear."

And then I walked away, looking at my schedule.

First hour I had English

Second Math

Third Science

Fourth Drama

Fifth Government

Sixth French

And right after second hour, was a 30 min lunch break.

As I'm reviewing this, Simon pipes up and asks, "Hey, can I take a look at your schedule?"

I say,"Sure.", and handed it over to him.

He takes a quick glance and says,

"Alright, you have English with my brother and I, then you have Math with my sister and I , then Science with my brother, sister and I , drama with my brother and I as well, also government, wow we have a lot of classes together, and lastly you have french with my brother and sister."

I nodded, and absorbed this piece of information.

"Well, looks like you missed first three hours, so we have drama right now. Come on I'll show you where to go, and this is the class with my brother in it."

I nodded and followed Simon, with comfortable silence. I wonder if his brother would be just as nice as him, or look like him.

I soon figured that out.

Drama started, and the teacher told us to take off our shoes, sit, and make a circle.

I sat across the room from Simon when I saw him, he smiled, and I gave him a friendly nod.

I was wedged between two guys who were staring at me? gosh.

I started to look around the room, for someone who could possibly be Simon's brother.

But so far, all I could see was Simon wedged in between two girls, chatting away, and playing 20 billion questions with him.

And that's when the guy with car incident walked into the room, gave one of the girls sitting beside Simon a scowl signaling her to move over, and she nodded compliantly, but looked a bit scared, and with that he took a seat beside him, then mumbled something in Simon's ear ,and suddenly Simon looked up at me, and smiled.

What the hell is happening.

Then I noticed something. The circle was quite perfect, except for beside Derek, there was a large gap, like everybody was trying to avoid him except Simon.

Wait, Simon. That must be his brother!

And just then, the teacher told us to fix up the circle, she probably meant the gap next to Derek and yet, nobody dared move.

And then, I decided to do either, the best or stupidest thing ever

I got up, walked across the room, and sat beside Derek.

And during my walk there, the only thought that flitted through my mind was,

please don't make me regret this.