Almost Alice » l.h

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Ceramics, photography, philosophy, and geography. Those are the electives I chose. I loved art, the idea of philosophy seemed iterating, and geography would be easy. Plus, creative writing was full.

At lunch after third period, I met up with Amy outside at one of the picnic tables. She was sitting with Calum, Luke, Violet, and Michael as I thought she would be. Her boyfriend was also there but there weren't any teachers outside to take notice.

"So, Ackerman Two," Calum smirked up at me from his seat as I walked over. "What electives are you in now?"

I put my new schedule down in front of him as I took my bag off and sat between Violet and Amy. I didn't bother grabbing lunch since my stomach still felt a little funny - probably just first day nerves.

"Hey Vi," Calum said as he stared at the paper. "What period do you have art?"

"Third." she replied before taking a bite of her salad.

"Good, New Girl won't be alone." he chuckled, looking over at me. "She has a free period so she spends it in the art wing."

She nodded and smiled. "Painting, sculpting, drawing; everything. What do you have?"

"Ceramics." I told her.

"Ooh, that's my favorite." she grinned, pushing her short hair out of her face.

"And you have photography with Luke and I." he smiled. "And philosophy with Mike and I. And geography with Lucas as well."

"Let me see." Luke requested, holding his hand out for my schedule.

Calum passed it to him and Luke squinted to read it, the sun beating down on the paper.

"And history." he noted.

"I dropped out of that." Amy said. "I suck at history. Both of us do."

"So you're both amazing at English and terrible at history?" Calum questioned, raising his eyebrow. "I think Mr Lavoie was right about his clone theory..."

"Nuh uh!" Amy exclaimed, reaching over to flick Calum in the forehead. "For example: I'm good at science and I'm kind of bad at math. She's amazing at math and can't keep up in science."

"But science basically is math." Luke said.

"I'm good at the lab parts, she's bad at that. Memorizing different chemicals and things messes her up. She can't do it."

"Wow, the nerds have weak spots." Calum smirked. "I'll remember that."

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After lunch, I had history. Amy skipped to go do whatever it was she did, so Luke walked with me to class. It was mostly silent between us except for him asking how my first day had been going, if I liked the school, and also him apologizing for Ross' behavior first period.

"He's always creepy." he laughed nervously. "Um, we're not actually friends though. I actually can't stand him. Neither can Cal or Amy. I'm surprised she didn't deck him when he was saying that stuff about you. I would've..."

"Well thanks." I smiled softly.

He shrugged as we walked into the classroom. "Ross is kind of a perv. It's about time he got what was coming to him."

The history teacher, Ms Hall, was a strict no-nonsense teacher. She didn't even bother asking who I was or anything. I would've assumed she just thought I was Amy but I'm sure she would've remembered that she had blue hair - no one tended to forget about that. Honestly, Ms Hall scared me.

Next was geography, which was taught by Mr Welch. He was pretty laid back and seemed to just give a few notes and then hand out worksheets and packets that would explain things further and have you answer a few questions. I sat with Luke and one of his others friends, AJ, who didn't really say anything to me. I was fine with that, though.