"New faces"

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I picked up my stuff with the help of the young man I just met. I stood straight and he followed. He handed me the rest of my stuff with a smile.

"I'm Ryan Jay Evans." He said, throwing his hand in front of him for me to shake.

"Mikaela Mitch West." I shook his hand.

"Are you an old student?" He asked. I nod.

He visibly relaxed. "Oh, that's great! Um, I'm new here and I also have a couple of friends too and we're kinda lost. Can you help us?" He asked with a nervous smile.

"S-sure." I replied.

"Awesome!" He cheered while I smiled at him. "I'll let them know."

"Okay." He took out his phone and started texting. I turned around and arranged the stuff in my bag.

"They're actually close by so they'll be here in a jiffy. Now that I got a good look of it. Your hair is kinda.." I turned to look at him.

"Yeah I know. It's ugly." I commented for him.

"No. It's actually--." But a shriek interrupted him.

"Oh my god!" A female voice echoed through the hall along with the sound of running feet. Then out of nowhere someone grabbed me by the shoulders roughly. At first I thought I was going to crash against the lockers again but the gripping hands held me steady.

I slowly opened my eyes to see a girl with wide, emerald green eyes behind black rimmed glasses. She had the biggest smile I have ever seen. I stared at her with wide eyes as well as she stared back. She giggled.

"I love your haaaaaiir!" She dragged on. Silence.

"Um." I looked at Ryan and saw him face palming.

"That was actually a pretty great entrance don't yah think?" The girl asked nudging Ryan who sighed. She has a short dark brown bed head and pale skin

"JiJi!" Another voice called. I looked at the source of the voice and saw another young man with slick black hair, dark brown eyes and pale skin, running towards us.

"That was too rough JiJi." Ryan said.

"Sorry." The black haired boy panted. "She's too fast for me to stop her. Damn JiJi."

"Hehee, sorryyy. I'm just excited that's all." She laughed. Ryan and the other boy sighed at the girl's cheeky grin.

"Right. Um, this is Mikaela." Ryan introduced.

"I'm John Ashton Rivers." The other boy said.

"Oh and this girl is Jimimah Jill Jones." The girl said. I realized she just spoke in third person. I looked at Ryan who saw my confusion.

"Oh she talks in third person sometimes." He whispered. "But you can just call her JiJi."

"Oh okay." I mouthed while nodding.

"So Mika." JiJi started. I looked at her. "Where do we start?" She's enthusiastic.

"Oh, uh. We can start with showing me your schedules." The three handed me their time tables.

"Uuh, John and JiJi has first period together while Ryan with me." I explain looking up from the papers. "You don't need to worry about it, cause it'll be just introducing each other today. I can give y'all a tour after for the rest of the afternoon."

"Awesome." JiJi commented as the trio smiled.

"We could give you lunch in return?" John requested.

"Oh no thank you. I'm fine here." I declined as I hand them their schedules back.

"Oh no it's the least we can do for helping us." Ryan insisted.

"Okay then." I gave in.

"Yeay!" JiJi cheered while the boys fist bumped.

"We can go first to John and JiJi's room then we can go to ours." I said to Ryan.

"But we'll be late. You'll be late. I'm a new student so I think I'm an exemption." Ryan protest.

"Oh don't worry. I'll just ask a slip from their teacher." I said and we start walking. It was just a short 3 minutes walk. And now we're in front of the door where JiJi and John are assigned for their first period. I opened the door cutting the teacher short from his talking.

"Oh, Ms. West. Good morning, what can I do for you?" The teacher asked.

"Good morning Mr. Jones. I was just here to drop the new students. They were lost in the hallway so I helped them." I explained.

"Ah, of course. As expected from a straight A student." Mr. Diestro Jones took some papers and scanned them. "Lets see. Jimimah Jill Jones and John Ashton Rivers?"

"Here." John raise his right hand as JiJi waved her hand enthusiastically.

"Come in." Mr. Jones said. The two shuffled in and found a seat. "How about you two?"

"Oh, he's with me." I replied.

"Oh, let's see." He checked the time. "You two are now late actually. I'll just give you a pass and you can go ahead without trouble."

"Okay, thank you sir." I smiled as their teacher signed two papers and gave it to us. Then we left. We head for our room which was just around the right corridor, after the first 5 doors.

"I think I'll be liking this school. " Ryan said. I sighed.

"You'll never know what gets to you." I said, eyes downcast. "Don't expect too much. Cause you'll just end up getting yourself hurt." Ryan looked at me.

"Oh, uh. Forget I said anything." I said as I fasten my pace and reached the door we should enter. I opened the door revealing our teacher being interrupted. Ms. Honey.

"Why hello Ms. West. You're late. Why is that?" She asked.

"Oh. Three new students asked for my help. They were lost." I said then shuffled in handing her our passes.

"Okay take a seat." Ms. Honey approved. Ryan sat on the second row. I have to keep going on to take a seat on one of the seats at the back. As I pass, students that know me, threw crumpled up paper at me, spit balls and insulting words.

I took my seat which was at the very back, in a corner. I looked up at our teacher. She wasn't paying attention at all ever since we got here. She was busy scanning papers. The last paper ball hit me on the head.

I sighed as students laughed at me and my crazy bed hair. I saw at the corner of my eye, Ryan looking at me with sympathy. Well. Welcome to my world.