Chapter 22: First Day

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"If you guys embarrass me I will kill you all." Patricia told them as she pointed her finger at them. They were at the coffee house before they headed to work, school and burger king. The gang all insisted on dropping her off at school on her first day.

"Hey were not going to embarrass you." Chandler said softly on his way back from the counter with their drinks.

He placed Patricia's hot chocolate on the coffee table in front of her. Then he walked over to give Joey his drink but he didn't see Joey's foot and tripped over letting out a girlish scream.

Ross rolled his eyes before looking over at his Goddaughter. "Patricia, we are not going to embarrass you. Chandler might. But we won't."

"Ross." Monica but in, stirring her sugar into her tea.

"Yeah?" Ross replied.

"You're wearing a dinosaur tie." She pointed out.

Patricia looked at Ross outraged when she saw the cartoon dinosaur tie. "I did a wardrobe check before we left and I took the tie off you."

"Yes, but I need a tie." Ross responded pulling his tie.

Joey shook his head looking at Chandler and Ross. "You two should be ashamed of yourselves! Planning on embarrassing Trish on her first day of school, in front of all of her new friends."

"Joey you're wearing two belts." Rachel told him when she saw a black belt surrounding a brown one.

Joey looked down. "Hey what are the chances of that?"

The teen groaned into the couch feeling the stress of the world on her shoulders. At least her outfit was nice. Rachel, Monica, Phoebe and Patricia spent most of Monday picking out an outfit. She was wearing: ( wwwDOTpolyvoreDOTcom/untitled_10/set?id=73732644). She felt someone tap her shoulder so she turned to see Phoebe smiling softly.

"I think someone needs a song." Phoebe said softly trying to cheer up Patricia who nodded happily.

Phoebe grabbed her guitar and walked up onto the small stage that the coffee house provided. She set up her equipment and glanced down at the gang who were all looking up at her drinking their drinks.

"Ok this song his dedicated to Patricia, who is right over there." Phoebe said pointing over to where the teen was causing everyone to look in that direction. "Well this song is for her."

She cleared her throat and started playing the strings. "Today's a very big day. It's the first day of school. And Monica said that it would all be cool, but isn't she the one that said kids could be cruel? So you don't know what to believe so just listen to Pheebs."

"Now you can grab your schoolbag and head off to school cause it's really the government is cruel." Phoebe sang and played a few more notes before finishing.

"Thanks Pheebs…" Patricia said dryly.

Patricia took another deep breath as she walked down the empty corridors of Greenwich High. She had just left the principal's office, where Monica and the gang had dropped her off at and talked to the principal. She had to go to her locker first then go back to the principal's office, who would then bring her to her class.

The brunette looked down at the slip of paper in her hand before looking at the locker she thought was hers. She went forward and looked at the paper again for the combination to her locker. She did and quickly got all the books she needed.

When she closed her eyes, everything around her just felt empty and cold, as if she was in the loneliest place in the world. The middle of nowhere.

Patricia sighed deeply and shut her locker. Grabbing her new backpack, she headed in the direction of the principal's office and tried to familiarise herself with her new surroundings, seeing that she's probably be here for a while. Patricia stopped at the door that had 'Principal's Office' written on the glass before knocking on it and entering.

"I see you made your way back." A female's voice said kindly.

Patricia looked at the office desk to see a woman about in her forties with short sandy blonde hair that stopped at her shoulders and brown eyes that complimented her lightly tanned skin. She gave a small nod and smile before closing the door shut.

"Please take a seat, Patricia." The principal said pointing to the seat in front of her.

"Ok." Patricia took her bag of her back and placed it beside the chair before sitting down.

"I just have a few questions to ask you." Mrs Park explained as her eyes scanned over a file that was placed on her desk. Patricia nodded slowly. "So you live with your Godmother, Monica?"

"Yup."

Mrs Park raised an eyebrow. "And one of those people that were in here earlier was your Godfather, Ross?" She watched the teen nod again. Mrs Park thought it was quite strange for six people to mind one girl. It seemed a little odd. "Well who are they others? Why do you live with them all, if you don't mind me asking?"

"Not at all." Patricia replied calmly and started playing with the end of her sleeve nervously. "Well my father died recently so I moved in with my Monica and her roommate, Rachel. The two guys, Joey and Chandler are my Godparents friends and they live across the hall, also Ross lives with them temporarily. Oh and Phoebe is a friend too. We are one big happy family."

The brunette felt her throat closing in, hoping Mrs Park would not bring up where her mother was. She was tempted to breathe a sigh of relief when the principal replied.

"Ok, just need to know." Mrs Park said softly. "I'm sorry for your loss."

The teen just nodded slowly, she never really knew how to reply when someone said that and she never knew why people said that. It wasn't like the killed the man. Patricia felt a bit proud of herself because she didn't let a tear fall at the memory of her Dad. But she was still sad about it and it was still a sore and sensitive subject for her.

A bell went off signalling it was time for the second class for the day. Mrs Parks told her that she would escort her to her English class once the hallways were clear. It only took less than two minutes for everyone to get to class.

Mrs Parks escorted Patricia to her next class making small talk with the teen until they stopped outside a classroom that had a small little plague on the side of the door saying 'Ms Gavigan'. She watched the principal knock on the door and a few seconds later a woman walked out.

She had long brown hair that curled at the ends, falling perfectly on to her shoulders with green eyes and a bright smile. "Hello Mrs Parks." She turned the Patricia and smiled kindly. "You must be Patricia." Patricia nodded and returned a smile.

The two teachers walked into the classroom and Patricia took it as a hint to follow them. So she did slowly. She felt her heart rate increase when all the students looked up from their desks or stopped talking to their friends to look at her.

"Good morning, everybody." Mrs Park spoke clearly making eye contact with all the students.

"Good morning, Mrs Parks."

"We have a new student joining our school and I hope you all make her feel welcome." She told them as she placed a hand on Patricia's shoulder. "This is Patricia."

"Hi Patricia."

"Hey guys…" She replied uneasily feeling a tad bit shy.

"Well I better be off." Mrs Parks said biding her farewell before leaving the classroom.

"Well Patricia, let's see where you will sit." Ms Gavigan mused, pursing her lips together tightly as she looked around the class. "How about the seat at the back beside Jackie?" She pointed to the seat at the back beside the one in the corner.

Patricia nodded and made her way to her new seat beside a girl named Jackie. Jackie had hazel eyes and curly, dark brown hair that was cut up to her shoulders. She got out her books and pencil case feeling a little more settle now but she was still nervous.

"Hi." A voice whispered causing the brunette to turn her head to the left to see it was Jackie. "I'm Jackie. You must be Patricia, well, obviously."

"Yeah, nice to meet you." Patricia whispered back smiling.

"This lot aren't so bad once you get to know them." She said kindly as she looked up at the writing on the board.

"Thanks."

"Well my mom is from Ireland and my Dad is from Wisconsin." Jackie explained to Patricia as they made their way to the canteen. "So that's my accent is a little different."

"It's a lovely accent." The slightly taller brunette replied kindly. "My middle name is Angie because it was my Dad's favourite Rolling Stones song." Patricia added. The two decided to state random facts about themselves hoping it would help acquaint them better.

"Patricia Angie Taylor." Jackie said nodding her head. "It's unusual, but I like it. My full name is Jacqueline Marie Johnston."

"Nice." Patricia admitted taking a seat at a table.

Jackie sat down in front of her. "Thanks."

Patricia and Jackie took out their lunch boxes and placed them at the table. Jackie explained how she loved animals and that's why she didn't eat the cafeteria food because she was positive that it was made from woodland animals. Patricia told her new friend that she didn't think that school kitchens were very hygienic so her Godmother made her food.

"Hi, I'm Damien. And you are?" A boy asked seductively to Patricia.

Patricia looked up from her cookie to see a tall and lanky boy. His hair, brown and lustrous, it had a sheen like fine hardwood. But that comparison isn't entirely fair. Hardwood doesn't swish gently like his hair does; swaying with the words he speaks. A shiny varnish catches merely light around it, but the depths of that deep chestnut brown reflected all the radiance of his smile. His eyes were a beautiful shade of light brown, they speak to you from within and when the light hits them they sparkle.

"Patricia." She replied biting her lip. This must have been what it was like when Monica met Joey, Patricia thought.

"That's a very beautiful name." Damien told her as he sat down beside Jackie, who did not look please.

"Day, piss off. I finally have one friend who's a girl." Jackie said to her friend rolling her eyes. Her circle of friends has gotten noticeably smaller since Damien started puberty.

"Oh I know you're just jealous, Jacks." He said jokingly putting an arm around her.

"I'd be jealous if you were smart and rich." Jackie admitted and Damien nodded, retracting his arm from his best friend as he saw a pretty blonde past their table.

"So, Patricia. How do you like our school so far?" The teen boy asked.

"It's nice." She said simply.

"Oh here's another fact." Jackie blurted out randomly as a thought came to mind. "I spent my last two years of middle school thinking I was a vampire."

"Really?" Patricia asked slightly shocked and watched the two teens in front of her nod their heads. "Ok another fact about me…um…I love Ashton Kutcher!"

"I love That 70s Show too!" Jackie replied smiling. "I love Fez! I will marry him!"

Patricia nodded her head slowly not knowing what to say to that and gave her new friend a small smile. Damien raised an eyebrow and looked over and back between the girls.

"Um, what's up with the facts?"

"We thought it would be easier to get to know each other better if we told each other random facts about ourselves." Jackie replied in a matter of fact tone.

Damien nodded. "If being smart isn't gonna help me with the chicks, I want nothing to do with it!"

"And that's why you had to repeat first grade?" His old friend asked making him to nod in response.

The blonde girl that past their table earlier started waving over at Damien seductively making the pretty boy smirk. He excused himself from the table and headed over to her.

"Wow, he's cute." Patricia admitted smiling and continued eating her cookie.

"Damien failed the first grade for his "refusal" to write in cursive and murder of the class bunny." The other teen girl replied.

Patricia stopped at outside Central Perk on her way home from school and decided to go inside to get something. She took out her money from her pocket on her way in. She walked up casually to Gunter who was at the counter.

"Hi, Gunter." The brunette said simply. "Hot chocolate and a chocolate chip muffin to go please."

"Alright." Gunter replied and got to work. "How was your first day at school?"

"Good, thanks." Patricia answered before raising an eyebrow. "Wait. How did you know?"

"I was serving cookies at your table when you were talking about it."

Patricia nodded. "That's funny I didn't even notice-" Gunter glared at her like he would at any of the other gang members –except Rachel-. "-you." She added quietly and sheepishly.

"How does that look?" Phoebe asked as she held a corner of a banner reading 'YAYEE!' up on a beam of apartment 20.

"Perfect." Chandler admitted looking up at it.

"Ok Chandler is it normal perfect or Monica perfect?" Phoebe replied furrowing her eyebrows.

"Monica perfect." He said letting a small giggle escape his lips before he helped the blonde down from the ladder. "Where did we even get the ladder?"

The door opened revealing Rachel carrying bags of candy. "Well I find Joey's candy stash."

The oven timer went off and Monica came running out of her room to take a cake out of the oven, placing it on the table to let it cool. Just then Ross came into the apartment carrying party poppers and a brown bag.

"Look what I got!" Ross announced taking out a packet of maple candy from the brown bag. "Maple candy!"

"No!" The others shouted causing Ross' face to fall.

Monica started to decorate the chocolate cake with cream and more chocolate. It only took her a mere few minutes seeing that it was only basic design. Joey ran into the apartment out of breath and he slammed the door shut before leaning up against.

"S-she's….c-coming…" Joey said panting. His face lit up when he saw a bag of skittles on the table. "Skittles!"

"Joey, what the hell?" A familiar teen's voice was heard from outside the door causing the six friends to get into position.

The door opened revealing Patricia. "Why did you-" She stopped when the gang pulled their party poppers and party stings went everywhere.

"SURPRISE!" They all yelled. "HAPPY FIRST DAY AT SCHOOL!"

"Wow! Thanks you guys." She admitted and gave all of them a hug each.

"You deserve it." Monica told her and they shared a smile.

"Now let's talk about school and boys!" Rachel said and Phoebe nodded in agreement with her friend's statement.

"There are no boys." The three guys replied firmly.

"Let's just talk about school." Monica said but winked at Patricia who winked back.

A/N: The ending was iffy but I really enjoyed writing this chapter. This story is my main focus so I'll try to update as much as I can! :) Please review!

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