Chapter 3
"You'll love Iridium High… what's your name again", said a grown man with tanned skin, brown hair, and brown eyes, who was wearing a suit and was sitting on the other side of the wooden office desk that was filled with neatly organized papers and binders.
"It's Mei" I said, sitting in the office chair.
"That's a nice name"
"Thank you, it means beauty in Chinese, Mandarin to be exact"
"That's nice, so as I was saying we have tons of activities and classes for you to choose from, which is on the pamphlet I gave you, what are you in too?", the man asked.
"Well my passion is drawing"
"Interesting, so how are your grades?"
"Good I have straight A's, all while memorizing Pi to 950 digits and spending at least 1 hour in the day to draw, I still manage to get exactly eight hours of sleep a night".
"Frightening", the man replied.
"Hey da… Principal Alonso", said the same girl who I ran into earlier, as she closed the beige cream colored door that had a window with wooden blinds behind her.
"Good Emma you're here, this is Mei Shevchenko she's a student transfer from China I think?"
"Actually Hong Kong and I lived in many countries before that too", I said, as the girl rolled her eyes.
"Yes, could you show her around the school?"
"Uh… sure come on", Emma said, as I got up and we left the office.
"Aren't you that girl who… with the….?" Emma asked.
"I am and in case you're wondering, yes I'm still wet"
"Um… so where are you from?" Emma asked, desperately trying to make conversation.
"Oh… I'm from Beijing, my mother is Chinese and Singaporean as for my father who's Ukrainian, but I look a lot more like my mother than my father and I love to…"
"If I wanted a biography I would've asked" Emma said.
"Um…"
"Sorry I'm just a little tired"
"Right…" I said, with a fading smile.
"Okay so we have lunch now and the cafeteria straight through there, the food is decent but just don't eat the tacos on Tasty Taco Tuesday"
"I won't I brought my own lunch"
"So you're that new girl everybody's been talking about", a girl with long blonde curly hair and hazel eyes, wearing a blazer, a skirt, a tie, an orange blouse, and a pair expensive high heels; she also had two girls walking behind of her.
"Hi I'm Maddie, head of the Panthers and this is Katie and Sophie", the girl said, as she pointed to a girl with dark skin, curly brown hair, and brown eyes, wearing the same uniform as Maddie; and to another girl with blue eyes and short blonde hair, wearing a uniform like Emma's.
"Um… Hi and how do you know about me?" I asked.
"Oh it's all over Miss. Information, the school gossiper", Sophie said.
"Don't worry they're harmless, see you later, have a good lunch", Emma said, with a smile before walking away.
"Cute clothes, nice hair, although a little puny but we'll fix you, so how would you like to be a Panther?" Maddie asked, with a smile on her face.
"Sorry I don't like being a part of exclusive cliques", I said.
"But we're the most popular girls in school, do you have brain damage or something", Maddie said, as I began to walk towards the cafeteria.
"Hey, I'm talking", Maddie said, as her and the Panthers rolled their eyes.
"Ugh… I have a feeling she's up to something but I don't know what"
"What do you mean?" Katie asked.
"I mean every girl in school would want to be a Panther except for Andi but she's obsessed with zombies"
"I don't every girl in the school would want to', Sophie said.
"Just keep an eye on her, Panthers to the bathroom stat, I think I broke a nail at the beach yesterday", Maddie said, as her and the Panthers walked up the hallway.