Back to School

The next day Cindy walked into the high school keeping her head low and checking from side to side every so often.

"Cindy!" Yelled a very familiar voice.

Cindy turned to see a dark skinned girl running straight towards her. The girl hugged Cindy tight. Cindy's body stiffened for a few moments, but eventually relaxed.

"Hey Libby," Cindy said with a small smile.

"I missed you so much Cindy! What happened to you? You like disappeared. Omg its been like crazy around here since you left. We have so much to catch up on." Libby said verily taking a breath in between sentences.

Cindy blinked a few times and said quietly "yeah."

"Cindy you okay?" Libby asked.

"yeah I'm fine" Cindy said with another small smile.

"well, okay. Oh, I like your goth look. You got it going on. You still look as hot as when we were kids" Libby said moving her body as she talked.

"Thanks, you look nice to," Cindy said as she took this time to notice how Libby had changed.

Her hair was straighten and to her shoulders. Her clothing attire was of course nothing short of the latest fashion trend. Libby pulled out her phone and looked down at the time.

"Oh, crap we only have 10 minutes. Quickly show me your schedule. We can see if we have any classes together. I can also show you where your first class is." Libby said holding out her hand.

Cindy gave Libby her schedule.

"well somethings never change. You have mostly AP classes, but I guess that's a good thing since you'll get to see you know who." she told Cindy with a smirk on her face.

"yeah," Cindy said looking back at the ground.

Libby looked at her suspiciously. Then back at her schedule. "Sweet we have gym and art together."

"That's good." Cindy said feeling a hint of relief.

"So your first class is AP English. I'll show you where it is. Since Jimmy's also in that class he can show you to the rest of your classes and I will see you in gym." Libby said giving Cindy back her schedule.

They then walked to Cindy's English class. Libby gave Cindy another big hug and walked off. Cindy took a deep breath and walked into the class room. She looked around and saw Jimmy. Feeling a little more relaxed seeing him. Cindy deiced to pull up a seat next to him. Jimmy smiled at her and she gave a weak smile back. Jimmy titled his head slightly, wondering if she was okay.

Kids started to trickle in and then the teacher walked in. She picked up her roll sheet and looked it over, just to look back up starring straight at Cindy. Cindy lowered her head trying to avoid her gaze. She gulped already knowing what was to come. The teacher smiled and motioned for Cindy to come up. She sighed, got up and walked to the front of the class head held low.

The teacher clapped her hands and said, "Okay class, we have a new student." she then looked at Cindy and said "why don't you introduce yourself to the class."

Cindy looked up from the ground and said faintly "Hello, I'm Cindy Vortex."

After that it became quiet for a few seconds. The teacher frowned slightly and said "why don't you tell us more about yourself." Cindy took a deep breath and said "I used to live here, now I'm back. My favorite color is black and I like to stay to myself."

Jimmy gave a funny look. 'That doesn't sound like the Cindy I used to know. What happened to Cindy when she was gone.' Jimmy thought.

Cindy walked back to her desk and sat down. English class dragged on for the both of them, but they both were thankful once they heard the bell ring. Jimmy and Cindy walked out of the class and a little bit away from the classroom door. Cindy held out her schedule to Jimmy. He looked at her quizzically then caught on. He took the schedule and examined it.

He smiled "We have all the same classes. Well except art and Calculus."

Cindy gave a slight smile. He looked at her for a second then leaned to where his mouth was to her ear and whispered "can I hug you now?"

She paused for a second then shook her head yes. He wrapped his arms around her and lightly hugged her. She stayed still for a few moments then slowly wrapped her arms around him, lightly placing her head on his chest. After so long she could finally feel a sign of relief being in his arms.

"you know I missed you... a lot," he said still whispering in her ear.

She whispered back "I missed you to."

He smiled and put his chin on her head. She relized how much taller he now was. He wasn't the tallest person in school but not the shortest anymore either he was slightly above average at 5'11. Cindy was around 5'7 now. So there wasn't a huge height difference which was a good thing for them.

After a moment or two Jimmy slowly pulled away from her and they headed to their next class. Once in, they sat next to each other at the same lab table and waited for the Chemistry teacher to come in. The class went by surprisingly fast. As it was the same for AP US History, and to Cindy's relief neither teacher asked her to come up and present herself to the class. They then headed to gym where they saw Libby, Sheen, and Carl sitting around each other. Libby was leaning against a wall. Scrolling through her iPod as Sheen and Carl where talking. They walked over to join them. When they were next to the group Carl and Sheen looked at Cindy wide eyed.

"Wow, when did you get into the town Cindy?" Carl asked.

"yesterday," Cindy said quietly.

Sheen narrowed his eyes at Cindy and asked "Are you sure your Cindy? You don't seem like the Cindy we used to know."

Cindy only scoffed at that remark, and thought 'was it really that obvious that I've changed so much that even Sheen noticed.'

Cindy was brought out of her thought as the P.E. Teacher walked in, took roll, and said "one lap around the gym, then basketball for those that want to play."

The gang stood up slowly and jogged once around the gym. When they finished they went back to where they originally were and sat down. Libby was gabbing on about something to the group as Cindy was scrolling through her iPod looking for a song to listen to.

Libby all of a sudden screamed "Cindy watch out!"

Cindy caught the ball that was hurling at her without even looking away from her iPod. She then turned to see a guy running towards her.

When he got to where the gang was he said "sorry."

"It's fine." Cindy said tossing him back the ball.

"but hey that was a killer catch. You should come play with us." the guy said.

"no thanks." Cindy told him and went back to scanning through her iPod.

"oh come on are you to afraid to play against us, guys." the guy said with a smirk.

Cindy looked back up at him with narrowed eyes and a frown on her face, but still didn't say anything back.

Jimmy stood up and stated "back off, rick."

"Or what Nerdtron? your little miss princess is to frighten to even play a round against us." Rick said arrogantly.

Cindy froze at the word princess and was brought into a flash back.

"Oh, what a beautiful daughter you have here Steve. Just like a princess," said a bulky man in a suit, with a cigar in between his fingers.

Cindy only looked at the man suspiciously as her father, Steve said "yes, now please follow me to my office."

The man grinned at Cindy and said "see you later, Princess." emphasizing on the word princess.

Cindy finally snapped out of her flashback as she heard Rick comment on how she was so afraid of them she became frozen.

Cindy clinched her fist and looked at him with fire in her eyes, then said "lets play."