Picture Day (Inanimate Insanity AU)

New Kid

Fan's POV:

Moving to a new school is hard. I dont know anybody here, and if feels like everyones eyes are all locked on me, judging my every movement. I dont know what they're thinking, but I just need to make a good impression.

I look around and spot someone standing alone against a wall. I approach her trying to strike up a conversation. She looks like some sort of tube filled with a green liquid.

"Hello! You look I am Fan!" I say awkwardly

I've already blown it, that sounded so dumb, I stumble over my words trying to correct myself.

She just laughs a little. "Are you new here?" "Um- yeah." I respond, still feeling extremely embarrassed. She holds out her hand for a handshake. "My name is Test Tube, Im assuming your name is Fan?" I nod and shake her hand. "Sorry." She looks at me a bit confused. "Sorry about what?" "The mixup with my words, Im just kinda nervous about meeting new people here." She smiles and says, "you dont need to be sorry, it happens to the best of us." I smile back at her.

The bell rings, and everyone starts heading to their classes. "Oh, guess we gotta get to class now," Test Tube says, "I'll cya later!" We wave to eachother before parting ways. I pull out my schedule and look at it. My first class is Orchestra.

"I never signed up for this, but ok." I stated while staring at the paper. Eventually I got to orchestra class and I saw several different people setting up instruments. One person in particular caught my attention. He was sitting at a piano and setting up some music sheets. He then started to play a piece of classical music, he was extremely talented.

I walked over to him.
"You're really good at that!" I exclaimed. He screamed and fell backwards in his chair and I covered my mouth. "Oh no im so sorry! I didnt mean to scare you-" I said feeling ashamed. "No no its fine!" I noticed he had a very high pitched voice. "I just didnt expect someone to pop up that suddenly."

I offered my hand out to him and helped pull him up. "Im Fan," I said shaking his hand. "Nice to meet you Fan! I'm Balloon!"

I released my grip from his hand. "Sorry again about scaring you, I just wanted to compliment you on your playing, you're very talented!" His eyes seemed to light up when I said that. "You really think so?" I nodded and a smile spread across his face. "Thank you! I dont get many compliments like that, not many people like me..." he said quietly.

"Why not?" I wondered. I couldnt see why people wouldnt like him, he seemed pretty nice. "Well last year I was kinda mean, I thought that was how I could become more noticed, but it kinda backfired." He stared at the ground looking ashamed. "Well you aren't mean anymore are you? Thats what matters!" I smiled at him trying to cheer him up a bit.

He smiled back. "So anyway, what instrument do you play Fan?" Balloon asked. I thought for a moment. "I actually dont know, I never signed up for this class so it came as a bit of a surprise to me."

Balloon stared at me for a bit. "Well you look like... a Cello kind of person!" He said happily. "That sounds pretty fun!" I exclaimed.

He started walking me over to the Cellos. "Now look what you did!" I heard someone yell. "Its not my fault you wanted to play something so dumb! Why couldnt we have just done band?!"

I looked over and saw someone arguing with... themself? I was a bit confused. "Thats YinYang, dont worry about them, they never get along." Balloon said. "Yin wanted to do orchestra and Yang wanted to do band, so they are always arguing about it." I saw that there was a broken violin at YinYang's feet.

"We have to pay for that you know!" Yin yelled. "Why couldnt you have just been patient Yang? You'll get your turn!" I just decided to ignore them arguing.