Chapter three
Kendall
I woke up extra early for school and ran to the closet picking out a cute outfit, a pink crop top and black leather skirt with black wedges and jewelry with music notes on it. Then I looked over at Marlee who was still sleeping and rolled my eyes then went to her closet and pulled out a teal tribal print dress, teal flower earrings, a dream catcher necklace, and some flats knowing she didn't wear heels a lot.
I went over to her and started yelling at her to wake up. When she finally got up I began collecting makeup from around the room "we have to look PERFECT" I said since it was already half way through the year. I picked up the outfit I made for her out of her closet and handed it to her "wear that" I said proudly "then meet me in the kitchen in 30 minutes" I added then went to the bathroom with my stuff and got ready, then made my way to the kitchen and made toast trying to quickly put all the stuff on it then Marlee came in and helped then my mom drove us to school then went in and got us all set up for school then we got our schedules, I took Marlee's out of her hand and scanned it for any matching classes but there were none so I handed it back to her "we have no classes together" I said sadly then listened to her rant about how it wasn't fair and I just shrugged and said bye then left for my first class.
I walked down the hallway feeling slightly awkward, the sudden realization that I was In Australia, at my new school, hit me like a brick and that made a huge wave of shyness come over me so I stayed against the lockers sliding my hand across the metal as I walked looking at the room numbers as I walked till I realized I was in a completely wrong part of the school, somehow I found my way to the cafeteria so I looked around for signs but couldn't find any.
"Are you new here?" Said a deep voice behind me making me jump, they laughed a little
"Is it really that obvious?" I asked turning around to face them
"Yeah you look like a lost puppy, I'm Charles Cottier, do you need help finding a class?" He asked and smiled
"Yes! Do you know where the math hall is?" I asked "oh my first class it near there I'll walk you" he said and began walking, kind of giving me a tour till I found my room number
"This is your class" he said pointing
"Oh my gosh thank you so much! That was a big help!" I said and he winked
"No problem..." he said like he was waiting for my name
"Oh my name is Kendall" I told him
"Got it, well bye Kendall" he said walking to his class.
I turned and went into my class just as the bell rang. I looked around the room and a purple blob caught my eye it was a boy's hair, it was kind of galaxyish. "Mrs. J there is a girl by the door" a curly haired boy said
"What are you talking about Ashton?" The lady at the front said turning around to look at me "oh, hello I'm Mrs. Jacowski but they call me Mrs. J take a seat right there" she pointed to the seat behind purple hair and I went and sat down. I starred at his hair and saw it had blue and other colors in it too, it was starting to grow on me, then suddenly the hair wasn't visible anymore
"Could you stop staring at my hair it's weird" He said rudely
"If your gonna dye your hair unnatural colors you should expect to get weird stares" I said back with equal sass, which is fairly out of character for me
"I'm punk, I can do what I want"
The boy with curly hair-Ashton who was sitting next to him laughed, "What are you talking about Michael? Just because you dye your hair and SOMETIMES wear eye liner doesn't make you punk" he said making me giggle then cover my laughs with my hand
"Just stop staring at me, ok?" He said
"Fine, I'm sorry" I said softly, all the sass gone, and looked down at my empty note paper
"Was my hair really that distracting to you?" He asked gesturing to my paper.
I nodded "I was trying to decide if I liked it or not" I said as-a-matter-o-factly
"And?"
"And I think I like it actually" I said with a smile which he returned with a half-smile
"Well I like your accent, it's adorable" I blushed
"What accent?" I asked confused
"Your American accent" he replied laughing
"Ooooooh yeah! I forgot that was considered an accent here" I laughed back
"You know he's right, you don't seem as punk as you look" I told him, he smiled a bit then looked left then right
"Don't tell anyone but I'm actually a big softy" he whispered and I faked zipping my lips then the bell rang "do you need help finding anything?" He asked
"yes, I need help finding everything but this class" I said exaggerating a little and he grabbed my schedule "oh follow me to your next class it's just down the hall from mine" he said handing it back to me. We stood up and walked to the door
"Wait up mate" Ashton called to him
"Hurry up Ashton" he said with a little annoyance then Ashton came jogging up to us,
"Wow Michael your girlfriends really short, even in heels" he said patting my head and making me blush
"Ashton don't be a dick, she isn't my girlfriend, I'm helping her find her class" he said sounding flustered and angry we walked down the hall a but then I heard someone call my name
"Kendall! Hey Kendall!" I turned to see Charles jogging down the hall to catch up, I heard Michael groan next to me but I just ignored it and smiled at Charles
"Hi" I said and began walking again when he caught up. Michael was being really quiet now and Ashton tried to start up a conversation with us awkwardly, I felt something on my shoulder and realized that Charles had wrapped his arm around me, I gently tried to shrug it off but it only tightened around me making me tense up. The rest of the walk was pretty awkward, it was mostly silent except Charles and Ashton talking about something I wasn't paying attention to, I was too busy glancing over at Michael, his jaw was clenched along with his fists I shot him a worried look but he just shook his head at me. When we got to the history hall I went to my class with Charles who apparently had the same class, I glanced back at Michael then walked in.