A/N:

This should be the last update for nine days! I'm sorry! Camp is starting tomorrow and I'm trying to finish writing this tonight. Go me go!

Anyways, continue with the story~

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Catherine's POV:

'Beep beep beep beep'

"Ugh" I groaned. My hand blindly slapping at the bedside table until my hand came in contact with the alarm clock. I slowly dozed back to sleep, with a promise to myself that I will get up in five minutes.

"Oh Cat! You are late! Time to get up! You have twenty minutes left!" A voice broke into sleeping state. I bolted up upright, shocked.

"What time is it?" I asked. 

"It's 8:30! If you don't hurry you'll be late on your first day!" I ran to the bathroom like my butt was on fire as soon as aunt Tilly said the time. I was meant to take a freaking snooze not a bloody hibernation. I brushed my teeth, washed my face, and quickly ran my hands through my hair. I was done in five minutes. Not the best first impression I'm going to give to the students at the new school, but this will have to do. Luckily, I don't like wearing makeup, so one less thing for me to worry about. I pulled on the school uniform, which consists of a summer dress with green, yellow, and blue thin stripes to make up squares on it. It reaches at the middle of my thighs.

I ran downstairs, grabbed an apple, made myself a protein shake, and we headed out the door. I sat in her car, and she pulled out of the drive way. The drive to school wasn't long, roughly five minutes. I could make it in twenty by foot, if  I got up earlier. We pulled up to a small school. In front of the entrance, there was a sign that reads 'Boronia High' There were students littered around the parking lot, chatting amongst their groups. From here I can already see the popular kids, and the other students that just mingles around. 

One of the girls were chewing her gum obnoxiously, while twirling her obviously DIY bleached blonde hair. She was wearing a school dres- actually, a top is to be exact. But she was not the only one. Most of the people in her group are too. I sighed. This year cannot go by slower. The car slowly rolled to a stop. My auntie turned to look at me.

"Well this is it Cat. Have fun and good luck. I will pick you up today after school, or would you like to walk home so you can familiarise yourself with the area?" 

"I would like to walk home today. But can you please send me the way to go back home and the address too?" I asked, pulling my bag straps on my shoulders.

"Sure darling. I will text them to you. Have a good day Cat!" I grinned back at aunt Tilly as I stepped out of the car. As soon as my feet touched the ground, I can feel all of the stares from the students bore into my back. Some were hostile, some were just curious. I wanted to be swallowed whole by the earth, but I held my ground, and kept walking. My head was lowered as I walked into the school buildings. I lifted my head to try and spot a clue that can lead me to the front office. This school isn't very big, but it has three levels. The construction is very modern, and I felt like it was an apartment building if not for all of the students standing around their lockers.

At last, I found the reception. The automatic doors opened for me as I stepped towards it. A pretty women sitting at the front desk looked up. She had short blonde hair, and a friendly smile. I smiled timidly back at her as I walked closer to the desk.

"How may I help you today?" She asked cheerfully.

"Hi, I'm a new student. Catherine Fall." I pulled at my sleeves. This was a bad habit of mine whenever I get nervous.

"Oh yes! Ms Fall! Welcome. Here is your schedule, map and locker combination. Your tutorial teacher is Mr Stanley. His office is right next to your lockers, so go find him there first. He'll explain everything then. Good luck! And if you have any problems, come and let me know," She smiled.

I smiled back gratefully. "Thank you very much." I turned, and walked back out the door I came from.

I looked down at my schedule and information slip. My locker is in room 17. Which is on the second floor according to the map I was given. I found my locker successfully. But it is a bottom locker unfortunately. I opened the lock following the instructions, and placed all of my stuff inside. I looked at my schedule.

Monday:

Maths - Johanna Gor

Maths - Johanna Gor

Recess

French - Charles Smith

Lunch

Food Tech - Florence Wang

Food Tech - Florence Wang

Eh. Not bad. I really like food tech. It's just maths is what I am dreading since I'm not very good at maths. A locker slammed next to mine, making me look up. 

I turned my head to see a bubbly blonde standing next to me. Her hair was pulled into piggy tails. "Hi! My name is Samantha! But you can call me Sam!" She grinned.

"I'm Catherine. But you can call me Cat. Nice to meet you." I gave her a small smile.

She pulled my schedule from my hands, and started reading it. "Ooh! We have a few classes together! But none is on today." She pouted. I chuckled slowly and pulled back my schedule from her hands, feeling slightly uncomfortable. She literally ripped it out of my hands, and she just has this- how should I explain it, this- air around her that just screams she is a bad person. 

"Well, I gotta be off to my class. I'll see you later Sam." I waved, and walked off in the opposite direction. I sighed. Maths is not the ideal way of starting a Monday off. I walked into the classroom, and flinched when I felt twenty-something eyes all bore into me. Well aren't they all just amazing students, coming into the first period early. At least I would've escaped the introduction to the entire class if the entire class wasn't all present at once.

"Hi! Are you the new student?" A short middle aged women asked.

I pulled at my sleeves nervously. "Yes. My name is Catherine." Yay I didn't stutter! Okay, so far so good. 

"Well Catherine, please find a seat. We are learning about algebra today. Please sit next to Ellie. Raise your hand Ellie." She instructed. A girl sitting in the middle row raised her hand. Wow, is everyone in this school models or something? I look like the ugly duckling compared to them.

I walked towards Ellie, trying my best to not trip over my two feet. I sat down in my designated spot, and pulled out my books.

"Hey, it's nice to meet you. It's not everyday we receive someone new at our school." Ellie whispered to me.

I nodded at her. "Yeah, I can tell. I can feel eyes on me wherever I went." I whispered back.

"Don't worry. The initial surprise should wear off at around lunch time. Speaking about lunch, if you don't already have someone to sit with, do you want to hang with my friends and I?" She asked.

I was surprised. Why would someone like her, no doubt popular, would want to hang out with someone as boring as me? "Oh I don't want to intrude." I said shyly.

"No! You're not intruding! I'm sure they will all love you. You don't have to if you don't want to! I don't want to force you to do it. If you don't it's fine."She grinned sheepishly. "Sorry. I just get excited about meeting new students. Do tell me if I get too over bearing because I will try and tone it down a bit." She scratched the back of her neck. I smiled softly and shook my head.  

"Um- sure." I shrugged. I've got nothing to loose anyways. 

Ellie clapped her hands happily, which seemed to bring the teacher's attention to us. "No talking girls." She reprimanded sternly. We nodded our apologies to her. Ellie mouthed a 'oops' to me and I giggled silently. For the rest of the lesson, I droned the teacher out, because algebra is the only bit of maths I can do. It's Probability which I hate the most. In my last school, I received a 25% for a probability test, my worst one in my history of classes. I opened up the questions on my iPad, seeing as this school is an iPad based school. Apparently a lot of schools here are like this. Staring at the screen, my thoughts slowly drifted off to Storm, wondering if I'll see him again this afternoon.

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