The rest of the vacations went on smoothly. Mom locked me up in my room. I was depressed for a long time. Everything went on badly at home and everyone was nearly killing each other. Luckily, holidays were ending and I would go back to school in a day's time. Everything was ready and I was happy to see my friends again.
As usual, there was a morning speech where the rector, Mrs. Pepper, stressed on the importance of discipline and announced the new student councils and prefects in the school; I was surprised to hear my name in the student council members' list. That year, I would be respected and hopefully treated well. There was a sort of ceremony where I received a badge with my name on it. I was also given a booklet with the rules and regulations in it. It was like an initiation. We were to talk to each other and make new friends. I talked to a few known persons then wandered around the room until they let us go away.
After all that, I went to my class and met my friends; Theo, Ryan, Max, Mike, Noa, Jill and Anne, where everyone congratulated me for being chosen. We were all friends since the first college day and we all hugged and kissed each other (on the cheek). My friends had kept their promise; they had brought food for a small class party. It was a tradition in this college that the first school day students had only fun and no classes. So, I had brought two packs of Mexican chips which we ate while talking about our holidays. I told how boring they were and complained about Holly while they discussed about their AWESOME vacations in different parts of the world.
At mid-day, we got our schedules and found out that we were in the same classes. Unfortunately, Caius, Aro and Marcus, the most popular and arrogant boys, who were hanging out with Maya, Jade and Tina, 'the sluts', were in our classes. Alex had a crush on Caius but she was sure that he did not even know that she existed. There was a food fight in the lunch room. It was really fun. We all played with water balloons for the rest of the day. When it was time to go back home, there were water puddles everywhere even in class rooms and the students were wet from head to toes. The rookie 8 stayed grouped until time to go home when some took the bus, others walked and lucky ones waited for their parents to come and fetch them.