Leanne was delighted to find that Caitlin was already in the classroom when she arrived. She wanted to scare her, but then decided against it. She never could scare Caitlin, for some reason.
"Hey," she said, dumping her heavy school bag on the table and giving Caitlin a big hug. "This bag is so heavy!"
"Everyone's bag is heavy," said Claire, who had been talking to Caitlin. Leanne gave her a hug as well, but Claire tensed and recoiled. She hated hugs.
"We were just talking about if you were going to scare me again today," said Caitlin, grinning.
Leanne made a face. "I was going to, but you don't get scared. Neither does Claire. Nobody gets scared when they get surprised by behind these days."
"She does," Claire said. Seeing Leanne's and Caitlin's bewildered faces, she sighed and pointed outside the classroom.
A dark-haired girl was standing outside, looking around as if looking for someone. Then another girl crept up behind her and grabbed her. The dark-haired girl screamed so loud Leanne could still hear her from inside the classroom. The two girls outside began laughing, although the dark-haired girl hit the other girl on the arm playfully.
"Who is she?" asked Caitlin.
Claire shrugged. "I have no idea, but that other girl keeps scaring her every day. That's how I noticed."
The two girls weren't in their class, otherwise Leanne would've known who they were. Leanne talked to everyone in her class. She liked to talk a lot. She also had a love for reading.
"How was your weekend?" Leanne asked her two best friends. She'd only known them for half a term, but in that short period of time, the three of them had gotten increasingly close.
"It was cool. I was playing games on my computer," said Caitlin. She was a gamer girl and loved playing on her computer. She could play for hours without moving, whereas in Leanne's case, she would get bored really quickly.
"I studied," replied Claire. Claire was almost like an opposite of Caitlin. Caitlin was a gamer girl who also enjoyed playing sports, while Claire was the nerd with glasses who preferred studying rather than wasting her time doing other things, although she got bored of working after a while. She was a nerd, not a geek. There was a difference.
As for Leanne, she was the couch potato who spent the days at home doing nothing, except going on social media and chatting with her online friends.
"I heard that something special is coming up," said Claire, changing the subject.
Leanne took out her books for her classes and frowned. "What?"
"I don't know. I overheard the teachers saying it."
"Did you spy on them?"
"No! I was walking to class and they were in front of me! What was I supposed to do? Block my ears?"
"Keep listening!"
"I had to go to class!"
Leanne made a face. "You're hopeless."
Caitlin laughed.
Fifteen minutes later the teacher had arrived and they were in their seats. The teacher hung the daily bulletin on the board and read off the normal things: canteen was open only at lunch time, the netball team had training after school, the library wasn't open at snack time...
"You call this special?" Leanne asked Claire. "It seems pretty boring to me."
"Wait," said Claire.

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Secret Singing Superstar
Short StoryThis is the story about how a perceptive girl with an extremely good talent for singing takes the tiniest thread of a chance that she gets, which leads to her achieving her ultimate dream...but with a lot of difficult times, and frayed relationships...