Diamond watched as the town called Jasper, came into view. Today he was going to be enrolled into Memorial High School. It was Wednesday and Optimus was acting as his Uncle, thanks to Fowler, Optimus had a fake ID, and other things that showed he was a 'real' person.
They pulled into the school, and Diamond climbed down from Optimus cabin onto the ground. He then shut the door and looked around at the school. It looked amazing, in his eyes.
Diamond wore a white t-shirt and a pair of blue jeans; it would have looked weird if he were in his normal fur and leather wear.
Optimus' holoform walked with him up to the office, the female desk clerk blushed a bit when she saw Optimus, as he did look handsome. Optimus smiled at her, and asked to see the school principal.
The woman nodded, and told them to hold on for a moment.
Out of boredom, Diamond looked out the window; he then went wide eyed as he saw her. He moved a little closer to the window to see her better.
A beautiful female with dull red hair and the most beautiful green eyes he'd ever seen was walking with some blonde guy, off to a class somewhere.
"Wow," Diamond didn't know why, but he knew he had to meet her. Although the boy that was beside her, he wasn't too sure about. They seemed to look like friends, not dating.
"Mr. Orion Darby," Diamond looked back to see, Optimus being greeted by the principal.
'Orion? Strange choice,' He noted, it was then that the principle greeted him. He shook her hand and smiled. "Lovely to meet you, Miss."
"My, my, such good manners." The principal smiled, she looked over at Optimus. "Your daughter, Jade is also well mannered. You must have raised them quite well."
Optimus seemed to freeze at this. He went to say something but Diamond bet him to it. "Other than my real parents, I couldn't imagine a better person to raise me than Orion."
"How nice," She handed Diamond a timetable and turned back to Optimus, "You may leave now, Mr. Darby, I'll show Diamond to his first class." After Optimus left, the principle, lead Diamond towards the art building. "Your first class on Wednesdays is a double period of art." They stopped at the FRONT DOOR of the classroom. "I'll have one of your classmates show you around." They both entered the room to see kids making items out of clay.
Diamond smiled at this, his human father, was a sculptor, and he'd normally let Diamond give him a hand with making the statues. Diamond was able to make life-like statues, he mainly used ice as it was cheap for him to make.
The teacher, in the art room, looked up as both the Principle and Diamond walked into the room. "Principle Drew," She greeted her, "Good to see you." She spotted Diamond. "Is this the new student, Jade's cousin?"
"Yes he is, please have one of the students show him around." After a quick goodbye, Principle Drew left.
"Well, now," The teacher smiled at him. "My name is Anne Whitehouse. Could you introduce yourself to the class?"
Diamond gave a nodded and looked at the rest of the class; they all had their eyes trained on him. He then spotted the girl from earlier again. They locked eyes for a moment before Diamond addressed the class. "My name is Diamond Frost," He then looked over at Mrs. Whitehouse, who urged him to continue. When he didn't, she eye rolled.
"Does anyone have any questions for Diamond?" She asked the class.
A few kids put their hands up, the red-headed girl didn't, but that didn't stop her from watching him.
"Yes, Arthur?" Mrs. White
The blonde boy who was with the red-head stood up from his seat, "Hi, what's your favourite hobby?"
"I do sculpting, and I sing, not offend though." He added in last.
It was then that more kids raised their hands and asked questions, it was mainly girls though; in fact only two boys had their hands up.
"What's your favourite food?"
"Don't have one,"
"How about your favourite drink,"
"HOT CHOCOLATE,"
This continued on until the teacher made the girls, and the two boys, calm down and ordered them back to work. "Why don't you go sit with Sierra for today?" She pushed him over to the desk with the red head.
The desks in the art room were big enough for four people to sit at and the red head, now know to him as Sierra, was by herself.
Diamond felt his face heat up; he sat on the chair next to her and grabbed a bit of clay from the extra pile in the middle. He fiddled with it absent mindedly.
"Hi," The girl greeted him with a smile.
He looked over at her a turned a deeper shade of red, "Hey," He greeted back.
"I'm Sierra,"
"I know, the teacher told said your name."
Sierra blinked at this and giggled. "Would you like to hang out at lunch? I can show you around the school."
Diamond smiled, "That would be nice."
Sierra then looked down at Diamond's hands. "Wow, your good."
Diamond looked down to see that he'd made a mini statue of a cat curled up and sleeping. "Scrap," He wasn't meant to make that.
"Scrap?" Sierra scoffed. "That's amazing, how could you call it that?" She then paused, "Although, calling it scrap is better than the 'other' word."
Diamond gave a small thank you up to Primus. "Yeah, pretty much."
For the rest of double period, Sierra and Diamond just talked while working with the clay, Diamond also let Sierra keep the cat.
Once the bell rang, Sierra showed him where the lockers were. The pair of them had lockers nearby each other, so Diamond was pleased.
As he was talking with her at her LOCKER, a boy with black hair walked over. "Sierra," He greeted, he stood right in close next to her, like space didn't matter. He then noticed Diamond. "Who's this?"
"This is Diamond," Sierra told him as she shut her LOCKER and took a huge step away from him and over next to Diamond. "And I'm showing him around school, bye!" She then grabbed Diamond's arm and took off down the halls.
She stopped outside of the school building. "OMG, he is so annoying. She growled, crossing her arms over her chest, glaring off at the playground.
"Do you mean on how close he got to you?"
She gave off a sigh, before nodding. "Yeah, I'm sorry; you must be bored of hearing me blabbering on."
Diamond frowned; he wanted to know more about her. "Well, at my old school, my friends told me that I'd always listen to them when they had problems, before coming to my own on conclusion on the matter. So to be truthful, I'm not bored hearing about your troubles."
Diamond was telling the true, he'd always listen to others who had problems; his parents even came to him at times to listen to him.
Sierra looked at him like he was nuts. "Isn't that annoying at all? Like weren't you ever tired of it?"
Diamond paused at her words. "Not really, I thought it always helped me understand those around me."
"And you don't mind listening to me?" She asked.
"Well we are friends now, aren't we?"
"That's true." She smiled; she grabbed him by the arm. "Come on; let's go grab some food, my treat." She started to walk out of the school grounds.
"Whoa, wait? Are we allowed outside of school?"
She gave a nod and point across the road to a cafe. "The Rose Café signed this thing with the school, and now students are allowed to go over there and grab something to eat." She tugged him along over to the Café. "I'll pay."
As they entered, Diamond couldn't help but like the girl, she seemed like someone who wanted to let out a lot of her problems. He hoped to help her and make a good friend along the way.