"Iris get up we are going to be late!"

Groggy eyed, I looked over at the clock. It is 5:00. In. The. Morning. … I really can't stand her obsessive nature at times, "So tell me again how 2 hours before school starts is 'almost late'?" I questioned.

"It's the first day, we don't want any risk of being late. Plus now you have time to go make yourself pretty!" She said with the sweetest smile. I know she didn't intend to be mean, but I couldn't help but be offended by that comment. Whatever, might as well clean myself up before we leave. Simple eyeliner and mascara should do the trick right? I threw on the first set of clothing my hands touched, I'm a bit too lazy to do anything else. Looking in the mirror I noticed a bruise on my arm. I guess I got that when I fell yesterday. As I finished getting ready Audry was in the kitchen getting food together for breakfast. As I looked at her, I noticed she had decked out in her best clothing and suddenly felt self-conscious for my sleepy lack of effort on myself. I managed to eat something before remembering that that today was supposed to be nerve wrecking.

"So where did you go last night?" She got the nerves to ask me, as she poured herself a glass of milk.

"Just for a walk, then some oddball with a lint brush knocked me over." I said showing her the bruise I had discovered. She looked in pain just seeing it. "Then he yelled something about symmetry at me, weird right?" I said laughing, "Ironically, he had these weird white stripes in HALF of his hair."

"Hehehe! Sounds like a nice way to start off the first night. Hey, we better go, we might get a chance to check out the campus before the bell."

"Sounds good."

The school was just a short walk down the road, so I guess we couldn't complain much about that. As we arrived at the front gates we saw the same group from yesterday conversing. Now the regret of sleepy dressing really started to set in as I tried to fix myself. Apparently Audry noticed and she started to giggle. "Hey guys!" Soul called over to us, motioning us to their direction. Audry looked over and made eye contact with Black Star and immediately took off running with a huge smile. Slowly inching my way over to the group, I stood next to Soul. "You guys find everything alright? You kind of took off without any warning." He said with a grin.

"Yeah, we managed to find the house and school-"

"And spazzy midnight street boys who knock you over." Audry added jumping on Black Star's back and wrapping her arms around his neck. I saw the blue haired boy's cheeks flush as he smiled and held her there. Oh brother, here for a day and a half and she's already got the first guy of the year.

"Seems normal enough." Soul responded with a small laugh. "Or as normal as we get around here. Who was it?"

"I'm not sure, names didn't really come up." I said. A deep silence filled the air as I felt the whole group in wondering, and my own thoughts taking over about how much of a mess my hair probably was. Breaking the silence the bell rang.

"Guess it's time for the moment of truth, the first day at the academy." Soul said looking at me.

"Oh wow, 'the moment of truth', that's comforting."

"Come on, I'll help you find your class." he said, laughing at my smartass comment.

"I should probably tell Audry that-" I turned to see she was already gone, "Typical, never mind let's go."

Walking through the halls of the academy was surprisingly very relaxed. It may have been that I was with someone who actually knew where they were going, or that I made a friend that seems nice and... who am I kidding, this guy is adorable, maybe I should ask him to hang out. He seems interesting enough, and maybe something more could come out of it. I could image our lives together. My imagination wandered to the point where I was completely dazed by this boy walking next to me. Interrupting my thoughts Soul stopped suddenly; looking over to a blonde girl with pigtails. I saw his eyes widen... Maybe they're friends. "Here's your locker." He directed looking back at the girl, "Sorry Iris, I have to do something, you are going to have to get someone else to help you the rest of the way." He said quickly running off in her direction. Maybe it's his sister. When he reached her she ran into his arms and kissed him just the way they do in movies. I was completely... shocked? No, devastated, ashamed, foolish. What is wrong with me, I let it slip and it hurt me. At least it's only in the beginning; not as bad as what it could have been. I'll be more careful. This served a good warning. Never let the guard down, but for some reason I only wanted to cry.