Marie's POV, first person
Oh, crap! I overslept. I was supposed to go get that new kid, and I slept right through the alarm, like usual. As per Mr. Thompson's request, I got to skip a whole day's worth of classes just to show this kid around our school. In exchange, I had to keep an eye on him for the rest of the year and report anything suspicious.
But I wasn't really responsible enough for this job. The first day and I already was making a bad impression. If this guy was really stuck up about being on time, I wasn't going to be able to keep an eye on him for long.
I sprinted through the halls, hoping I wasn't as late as I thought I was. The clocks on the walls seemed to glare at me as I ran past, pointing out that I was an hour behind. That kid was probably long gone by now! Maybe I was lucky and he got held up somewhere, or maybe he decided not to come today after all...
The doors almost couldn't open fast enough. I barrelled past them and saw a glimpse of a faded red jacket. Yes! He was still there! I couldn't stand it anymore. I bent over and panted with relief.
"Um, are you okay?" a voice asked, right next to me. I nearly shot up and hit the kid in the face.
"I am so sorry!" I apologized.
"For what?" he asked.
"I made you wait so long!" I almost half-sobbed.
"You were supposed to meet me here ten minutes ago, that's not that long," he answered. Wait, what? Ten minutes? That's it? "And I've only been here about a minute or so."
"Really?" I asked, calming down. Had he really only been here for a minute?
"Yeah, I'm Judai, by the way," the two-tone brown-haired kid said.
"Marie, it's nice to meet you. Is it true that you went to Duel Academy?"
"Yeah, there were a lot of great duelists there. It was a lot of fun," Judai chirped cheerily, a goofy grin on his face.
"Why did you leave?" I asked. As soon as I did, I knew I dropped the big bombshell. Judai's face paled and his expression fell. He didn't answer. I didn't mention the fact that I knew he graduated already, or that he graduated ten years ago.
"You know, we have a teacher here who used to go to Duel Academy," I prattled.
"Really?" Judai asked, kind of excited. "That's so cool, maybe I've heard of them." I had a strong feeling he did.
"Anyways, I might as well give you the grand tour."
"Lead on," Judai said, eager to get inside.
The whole rest of the day, I told him about how similar the classification system was to Duel Academy's, where the rooms were, where all of his classes were (he basically shared all of mine), etc, etc. Like me, Judai was placed in Slifer Red and would be getting a uniform similar to the one he already had. But unlike Duel Academy, all the dorms were a part of the school. Judai's room wasn't far from mine, actually, but the girl's and guy's dorms were seperated, too.
He seemed to take it all in stride. Like me, he was free from having classes today because it was his first day and all of that time was devoted to showing him all around the huge school. Judai really got excited when I showed him to the state-of-the-art dueling arenas we had. It was like watching a little kid at Christmas, really. For some someone who had a mysterious background and hadn't aged for ten years, this kid really didn't seem that suspicious.