AN: If you see that I may have missed a word in a sentence or something, tell me. My brain works faster than my hands, so I think I've typed it up, but I haven't.

"Belle! Belle!" I shouted at my friend. Our teacher, Mr. Frollo, was a bit late to French class, so everyone in the class decided to have their own conversations.

It was the first day of school, but it had no affect on me. School was school, I didn't get dressed up like everyone else. I just wore what I wanted to. Today I had on a purple tank top, the neckline was a heart shaped. I paired it with a pair of strikingly bright green pants. My friend Belle had on a blue sweater with a white blouse poking out from underneath. She wore that with the same color blue pants.

"Do you ever get your nose out of a book?" I asked my friend, Belle, while prying her book from her hands.

"Hey, I was getting to the good part," Belle grumbled. She reached for her book, but I held it away from her.

"I'll give it back if you talk to me," I said. Belle raised an eyebrow and crossed her arms.

"Proceed," she told me. I smiled.

"Okay, so you know how last year I liked Eric, right?"

"Yeah."

"Well, I feel like I don't like him anymore. I was so into him last year though."

"Yeah, you were practically obsessed with him."

"I know, but I don't feel the same this year."

"Maybe you just don't like him anymore and that's that."

"Yeah, that's it," I said. "You're so smart!"

"Thanks," Belle said halfheartedly while holding her hand out. It took me a minute to get what she was doing. I handed her back her book, and she continued reading.

"You know what, I'm going to make some more friends this year," I thought aloud.

"Good for you, maybe I'll be able to read in peace," Belle said.

"Yeah." I looked over to my right. There was a girl with frizzy red hair. She was new this year, a new student would be easy to friend. She had freckles all over her face. She had a toned down green-blue shirt and dark pants.

"Hello," I said. She looked scared. "Sorry, I'm Ariel."

"I'm Merida," she replied. She had a Scottish accent, which made saying her name awesome.

"Are you from Scotland?"

"Yeah, new this year."

"That's cool, so why'd you move here?"

"Dad's job."

"Ah, that happens."

"Yeah."

"Hey, since you're new, do you want to sit with me and Belle at lunch?"

"Sure, I guess."

"Cool," I said, but before we could say anything more, Mr. Frollo walked into the classroom.

"I'm sorry I'm late. My son's a bit slow," Mr. Frollo announced. "He's a sophomore, so you might not know him."

The class just stared at him awkwardly.

"Right, let's get guidelines down."

I was still on my quest to make more friends. My next class I had all alone. Belle had study hall and my new friend, Merida, had home EC.

I walked proudly, confident that I would meet someone new, into the computers class. I was a bit early and sat at a random computer. As soon as I sat down, someone else walked in. They took the seat right next to me.

He had a brown leather jacket and grey guy capris. His hair was shaven on half of his head, leaving a little strand of hair that was braided. The top of his head was a typical guy hair length though.

"Hi, I'm Ariel," I greeted.

"Jim," he mumbled.

"So, uh, how are you?" I asked. Maybe this making new friends thing would be a little difficult.

"I'm good."

I decided to stop talking to him, he didn't seem much like a talker. I looked at the door to see who would walk in.

A girl with long blonde wavy hair walked in. She had on a lot of pink. The blonde looked around the class and sighed. I guess she didn't have any friends in this class either. She spotted me and sat down next to me.

"Hey, Ariel," she said. I wondered how she knew me, but then I remembered her.

"Oh, hey, Aurora," I greeted. "You were great in last year's musical." I had starred in last year's musical because extra curricular activities looks good on a college application, but I had actually had fun last year. I planned on joining this year's also.

"Thanks, but I wish I could have gotten the lead," Aurora replied. "This year, I plan on getting the main part."

"I'm sure you will," I encouraged.

"Will you try out this year?" Aurora asked. "None of friends ever join, but I can't resist the theater."

"Yeah, I was."

"Cool," Aurora smiled.

"Do you know what the play is this year?"

"I'm not sure yet, they haven't announced it."

The teacher walked in. He walked up to the board and wrote his name.

"I'm Mr. Porter. Some of you may know my daughter, Jane. Now, guidelines!"

"So what do you have next?" Aurora asked me. Computers had just gotten out, and we were walking in the hall.

"I have science," I informed her.

"Me too," she beamed. "I'm glad I at least know someone in these classes."

"Same, my friend has different classes too."

"It's with Mr. Scar, right?"

"Yeah, 'Mr. Scar'? Weird name."

"I know right. His name makes Ms. Grimhilde's name look normal."

"Who's that?"

"The math teacher."

"That's an interesting name, I can't even pronounce that."

"I think it's German, but I don't know."

We reached the class and took some seats in the middle. Mr. Scar was setting up a power point to show us the rules and class guidelines, while Aurora and I were just casually talking.

"Hey, Ariel," a familiar voice greeted.

"Huh?" I asked turning around. "Oh, hi, Eric."

"How was your summer vacation?" he asked sitting down right next to me.

"Just went to Denmark, and when we came, I went swimming a lot."

"Cool, hey, Aurora," he said waving to Aurora.

"Hey," she greeted him.

"Wait, how do you two know each other?" I asked them.

"The play," they said in unison.

"Oh, yeah," I remembered. Eric was one of the stage hands. I was really shy of him at the beginning of the year, so I tried to avoid him. "I must have forgotten."

"Do you plan on helping the play this year, too?" Aurora asked Eric.

"Actually, this year I want to audition for the play," Eric replied.

"Really? Maybe you'll get the lead!" Aurora smiled.

"Yeah, how about you Ariel? You trying out?" Eric turned to me.

"Of course, theater's always fun, but I don't think I'll get a big part," I told him.

"We'll see," Eric smiled. We heard an a-ha coming from the teacher just then.

"Time to go over guidelines!" Mr. Scar said. His voice was sly sounding, it gave me the chills.

I turned to Aurora and said, "Not again."

Eric and I had the next class together, but Aurora had a different class. Eric and I sat right next to one another.

"Hey, Ariel, I have a question," Eric said.

"Yeah?"

"It's just the first day, but you were an awesome friend last year," he started. I raised an eyebrow, confused at his "question".

"Are you doing anything Friday?" he asked.

"What do you mean?" I asked, afraid I already knew the answer.

"Like a date," Eric answered. If he had asked last year, I would've said yes, but now I had gotten over him during the summer. I didn't know what to say.

"Oh, uh..."