The California Adventure

Chapter 10: First day at a new school

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Music to Nate's ears (or at LEAST it is).

Nate turned off his alarm clock, got up, and began doing his daily chores before getting ready for school.

"Have fun at your new school!" Martin waved to Nate, who headed out the door and onto the school bus.

And it was an approximate 13-minute drive to the San Francisco School, and as the bus stopped, Nate got off the bus along with Samuel and Daniel and headed to San Francisco school. And it seemed like a bigger building than P.S 38 ever was (no offense).

Nate looked around in the school and there was all grades preschool through 8th grade, which surprised Nate very much, but luckily Samuel assured Nate that he will make more friends very soon.

Since Nate was new to San Francisco School, he was given a tour around the school on where the bathrooms, gym, lunchroom, classrooms, and detention room are, and soon after that, Nate was given a paper that had all the class hours and what time lunch starts and ends.

Soon, the bell rang and Nate headed to his first-hour class, and it was social studies, just like 6th grade with Mrs. Godfrey. Nate wondered if he'll have at least one or few classes with his new friends, but as he entered the class, he spotted his right away.

"Okay, children. Let's take our seats," said the teacher.

The teacher wrote on the board, introducing himself:

"I am Mr. Greenwood and I will be teaching class this year."

And the teacher had blond hair (like Jenny's) and green eyes.

"Since today is our first day back at school, I would like you all to introduce yourselves to the class," the teacher instructed.

And one by one, everyone introduced themselves, including but not limited to Samuel, Daniel and a girl named Rebecca Coleman, who has dyed reddish-brown hair, and brown eyes. And she looked so attractive that Nate couldn't stop gazing at her in awe...until Nate was eventually called on to introduce himself.

And Nate introduced himself to the class by telling what his favorite foods are, his favorite hobbies are and whatever. But Nate thought it wasn't necessary to talk about what happened at P.S 38, so Nate didn't bring the subject to the class.

And after that, the class mostly chit-chatted for the rest of the period. Nate scooched over to Samuel and Daniel and talked for a bit.

"So far, so good, huh?" Nate asked his friends.

"Yep. Oh, and try to be careful around Rebecca. You don't want to get on her bad side," Daniel replied.

"Huh?"

"If you get on her bad side, Rebecca will do ANYTHING to humiliate you, privately OR publicly, so do your best not to pick on her," Samuel explained to Nate.

Nate's stomach turned quickly. He didn't want to create another Gina Hemphill-Toms.

"But anyway, you'll like this class as long as you do your best," Samuel assured Nate with a smile on his face.

Nate relaxed. Maybe with his friends' help, Nate will make a LOT of new friends...as long as the past doesn't try to come back to haunt him...right?

Soon, the bell rang. Kids poured out of the classroom immediately. Nate thought it would best to avoid Rebecca as much as possible, but the look of her face and hair and the sound of the tone made Nate come over to her and introduce himself.