Disclaimer: Alas, I do not own Doctor Who.
Warning: Flirting. It's Doctor Who, flirting is a big part of Doctor Who these days.
Pairing: Amy/everyone (flirting) Jack/Everyone (flirting). New girl/Who knows? She's a pretty big flirt too!
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Summary: There's a new student. Things are different at Coal Hill School; everyone strap yourself in... Clara is here.
I have absolutely NO excuse for how long it's been. I kinda lost motivation for this story. But then I kept getting emails (still get them now, over a year after the last chapter was posted) saying people were favouriting/reviewing/following Teenage Shenanigans. I'm extremely grateful, guys, I really am. Anyway, you guys have sort of guilt tripped me into getting back into it, haha. I am going to start posting regularly again.
Anyway, to reintroduce you (and me) back into Coal Hill School, I've introduced a new character to the story, and it's all from her POV. So, we're gonna see it all from a new pair of eyes, reintroducing characters from a new perspective.
So yeah. We're back. Let's go back to school.
What have we here? Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Nah. It's a leaf. It's a special kind of leaf, though. It's a leaf that signifies the beginning of autumn. It's a leaf that made me step aside to avoid getting it in my hair, causing me to bump into a rather leggy ginger girl. Wow! This girl is all legs! Legs, legs, legs! Hard not to notice. Anyway, I'm being dreadfully rude. How about introducing myself?
My name is Clara Oswald. And I was born to save the universe.
Or so I keep telling myself. Gotta have goals in life, right? Always aim high, that's what my mum used to say.
"Oh, sorry!" The girl said in a Scottish accent.
Legs! Shh. She's talking. Forget legs.
"Legs!"
Terrific.
"What?" The girls replied.
Well done, Oswald. How are you gonna talk your way outta this one?
"I said 'legs'."
Genius!
She frowned. "Legs?"
"As in...Damn you legs! Don't walk into nice ginger girls!" I don't know why I bother.
"...I see. Well, I'm just gonna-" She motioned towards the doors in front of us.
"Ah, yes! Of course! Erm, see you around?"
The girl smiled before walking away.
Well, as first impressions go, I'd say that's a solid seven out of ten. At least I formed full sentences. Gotta be optimistic, right?
I continue my ambitious walk towards the school. I say ambitious because it is ambitious. I need new shoes, so water has got in. Sucks. Makes my journey to this new school terribly hazardous!
Aha! The front door!
I make my way inside, carefully avoiding Legs. Legs is what I'm calling the girl. I tend to avoid awkward encounters, so I now have to stay away from Legs for the rest of my life. I know, I'm ever so dramatic. Anyway, here's my locker! How awesome is that?! My locker! I found it first time! Like I said, dramatic. And a tad over excited.
"Hi."
Someone is talking to me. Male voice. Interesting.
I spin round, and come face to face with a guy. Aha! I knew it! A male!
"Captain Jack Harkness, and who are you?" Whoa. Cheesy or what?
"Captain?"
"Yes."
Okay.
"Captain of what, exactly?"
"Wanna find out?"
Whoa tiger. So not my type.
"Nah. You're alright. I'll pass." I turn on my heel and-
Damn it!
I now have to ignore Captain Cheesecake for the rest of my life.
See, I turned around, and then tripped.
Stupid shoes!
I quickly pull myself to my feet and walk away from Cheesecake and my locker. Oh how red my face must be! Damn my awkward teenagerness!
Once I feel it's safe, I stop for a breather. At least my life isn't dull, right? Mate, you're gonna have all sorts of fun with me.
Not my best wording.
Anyway, I'm off to lesson now, (I think, sort of) just gotta find the room. These corridors are really cool! Look at how they've really stuck to that paint job. Admirable. You can tell some real workmanship has gone into this wall! This is a fine wall. This wall is-
Ok, she's gone.
Sorry about that, Legs walked past, had to look busy.
I know. I'm cool, right?
-About 45 seconds and two awkward encounters later-
Aha! Room 204! Here I am!
So, where do I sit?
I'm just settling with the closest seat to the door, there aren't maybe people here anyway. I place my bag under the desk, and my hands on top of it. Well, this is English?
Yay.
Sigh.
The class starts to fill up as people causally walk in (am I like reeeaaally early?) and I'm forced to hide my face from a couple of the people on my must avoid club. Stealth Oswald for the win! Oswin! Excellent. My plan to go incognito is falling into place perfectly. I think now is the perfect time for an evil laugh. Would people find that weird? Would I be able to get away with it? Maybe a quiet evil laugh?
I ever so casually bring my hands together (like Mr Burns from the Simpsons) and laugh quietly to myself in a menacing manner.
"*Ahem*"
Damn my timing!
I look to my side (painfully slowly) and- OH DEAR GOD!
LEGS.
LEGS!
LEGS!
"Er...hi?" I manage. Somehow.
She stares at me for a few seconds. Oh no. God no. This is horrible. This girl could kill you via intimidation. Help!
Finally, she speaks.
"Yeah...hi. Me again. Sorry, but you're in my seat."
WHY?! WHY MUST I SIT IN HER SEAT?!
"Oh! Sorry, didn't realise. I'll just-" I gracefully (I say gracefully, more like awkwardly) pick up my bag and vacate the seat. "get going. Terribly sorry about that, legs."
She looked at me strangely.
"I mean- erm. Never mind." I just turn and power walk as fast as I can out of the room.
Ok. Skipping English. Never liked it much anyway.
...
Aha! Now this is more like it!
I'm in the library now. Everyone is keeping to themselves for now, so I'm having a much better time at fitting in.
"Hey."
No! Somebody found me! Why?!
Ok. Cool it, Oswald. You can handle this. Just remember, you're 004. Agent Oswald. Go! Go! Go!
I turn my head.
Dramatic, I know.
There's a guy stood there, in front of me.
"What do you think of purple?"
I'm as confused as you are.
Lemme explain. There's a guy stood in front of me, with the most outrageous hair and a bowtie. He's wearing some purple coat-jacket-thing. Whoa. His chin is huge!
"I'm sorry?" Well done, Clara! That was a reasonably normal response!
"Purple. Does it look ok?" He says.
"I think it looks fine. Why?" I can talk to strangers! Yay!
"Well, you looked lonely, and all my friends are in class. I thought maybe you could tell me if purple was an improvement?" He sounds so sincere. He's like a puppy!
"An improvement to what?"
He looks confused with my response. "What I wore before."
"What did you wear before?"
"Are you new?"
Oh, he's observant. "Yes. Today's my first day."
He looks excited. "Oh! I remember my first day! Everything was so strange!"
It was like that for him too? Wait. He said was. Past tense. It gets better!
He continues. "Well it's still strange, actually."
Damn.
"Anyway, lunch is in seven seconds. Nice chatting, bye!"
Seven seconds? Wha-
Oh, there's the bell. How did he do that?
WAIT. Did I just have a non-awkward encounter? Well it was a tad awkward. But it wasn't me who was being awkward. Success!
Yeah. I've got to stop fist pumping the air. I'm getting funny looks.
I'm gonna go follow chin-boy. He seems like my best chance of fitting in.
Operation fitting in begins!
...
Ok, so chin-boy is approaching the third table from the left, excellent. They look nice. Here goes nothing.
I casually stroll over towards the table, nodding and smiling at anyone who looks my way. People are curious about the new girl, I can understand that. I'm doing pretty well, I haven't tripped once! Ok, I'm approaching the table now; here I go, act natural!
"Hey!" Good start!
Chin-boy turns around.
"Hey!" He turns to his pals. "Guys, this is soufflé girl!"
Ok, what?!
"Why am I soufflé girl?" I ask.
"You made a soufflé this morning."
Whoa. That's spooky.
"How can you possibly know that?"
"I have a good sense of smell."
Wow. I like this guy. Shh. He's talking again.
"Guys, soufflé girl is new, she doesn't have any friends. Think we can help her out?"
I was met with a table full of smiles and friendly nods.
Yay! Operation fit in is a success!
"This is Rose," he motioned towards the blonde sat next to him, we exchanged a little wave. "this is Rory," just nod for him apparently, must help him feel more manly. "Ricky" 'Ricky' corrected him with 'Mickey', and then we exchanged nods. "And I'm the Doctor!"
The Doctor?
Blimey. God complex, here.
Well, they seem like a pleasant enough bunch.
"Hi, I'm Clara." Smooth. No, really, I like it. I kept it simple, right?
I sit down at the bench next to Rory. This is cosy! I like it here!
"*Ahem*"
I recognise that throat clearing.
It can't be. No. Can it?
I turn around slowly, like a cornered animal.
LEGS!
I see legs!
I look up.
Ginger hair.
Sigh.
"Hi!" I put on my best smile.
Legs sort of frowns at me. Noooo! I was doing so well!
"Ah!" The Doctor jumps up. "Amy! You haven't met Clara yet, have you? She's the new girl! She's gonna be hanging around with us, team TARDIS!" He seems so enthusiastic.
Amy looks me up and down.
Don't stare at her legs. Don't stare at her legs. Don't stare at her legs.
Damnit! I'm staring at her legs.
"Clara, right?" She says, holding out her hand.
"Hi." I say, again.
"We've met." Legs says to the Doctor. "I'm Amy." She says to me.
Yay! I'm fitting in!
...
"So, you're saying I missed out on the best teacher ever's lesson?" I ask.
Mickey just kinda shrugs and takes a bite out of his sandwich. "Pretty much, yeah."
Rose steps in. "Miss Smith is just the best! Like she really is the best teacher you could have. How come you missed English, then?"
I freeze. It should be pretty obvious by now that I can't lie very well. So, I'm going to answer the question without lying, but also without actually answering it. Here goes nothing.
"Well, technically I did show up, but then I had to leave." Hey, not bad!
"Oh, how come?"
Damn it.
"I felt a bit, like sort of, flustered." That's not untrue.
Rose looks at me with a face of understanding, (for politeness' sake, I don't think she has a clue what I'm on about really.) and smiles before turning and talking to Rory.
Ok, so operation fitting in isn't exactly going perfectly, but it's going a lot better than I thought it would, and that's something.
Anyway, time I told you about my new friends. To my left, is the Doctor. Now, this guy makes me look normal. Seriously. He can tell me exactly how any years ago dinosaurs ruled the planet, but not who the current prime minister is... I don't think he's all there, if you get what I mean. Next it Rose, she seems nice enough, but the girls kinda confuses me. She's clearly in a relationship with Mickey, he makes that obvious enough. But she never stops looking at the Doctor, like she hangs on his every word. It's kinda cute. Not sure he notices. Then there's Mickey, who hasn't really said much to me, he seems a bit clumsy and insecure. Rory seems really friendly, but also insecure. He's clearly got a thing for Amy, maybe they're going out? But I dunno, it kinda looks like he's just gonna give up on her soon or something. I dunno. I'm probably thinking too much into it, I've known them for like five minutes. Finally, you've got Legs. Or Amy. She seems nice, bit intimidating, but nice all the same.
So, here I am, first day, fitting in.
I'm doing so well!
And do you know what? I think everything's going to be just fine.
...
Consider this chapter a sort of...reboot. The Amy and Rose flirting is gonna tone way down.
I loved writing Clara! She was just really fun; I can just sort of imagine her being an awkward teenager!
Clara's obsession with Amy's legs comes from the minisode "Clara in the TARDIS" where (if you haven't seen it) Clara sees an image of Amy, and is fascinated by her legs. So yeah, I put that in there.
Romance wise: I have Ianto coming in soon, so Jack gets a guy. Rose/Doctor on its way. I'm also trying to find a female/female romance to throw in there too. I've got male/male, and male/female, so I'm gonna try to fit a girl-girl relationship somewhere in there too. It won't be Vastra and Jenny, because honestly, I don't really like them. So look out for all of that stuff if you like romance.
But yeah, I'm back! And you're back! We're all back! Back to school! I've got much more motivation for this now. I can't wait. You have Clara to thank! I wouldn't have known where to start without using Clara.
I'm gonna start on the next chapter tomorrow, it's 2:30AM right now.
Let me know what you think!