Love It Up

New Student It Up!

Chapter One: New Student It Up

Ava  Rylance walked down the hallways of John Hughes High School, nervously adjusting the strap of her red leather satchel backpack on her shoulder. Students seemed to watch her as she walked down the halls, and Ava hoped in her mind it wasn’t because of her fashion choice this morning, which consisted of a Beatles t-shirt, high-waisted black denim shorts, red tartan tights, black wedge hell creepers, a denim jacket and a black beanie, as well as her red bag.

Ignoring the looks she was receiving, Ava continued down the hallway. The lady at the reception had been kind enough to give her everything she needed; even writing down some names of students that she thought Ava should meet, that would help her on her first day of school. Ava looked down at the list as she made her way through yet another hallway, looking for her locker. The list of names read “Raquel Blue, Tinka Hessenheffer, Tyler Blue.”

Reading through the names, and not paying attention, Ava was suddenly flung backwards onto the floor, papers flying everywhere.

“Ah gee! I’m sorry! I’m such a klutz, here let me help you out!” came a voice from above Ava. She looked up, her brown wavy hair scattered over her face and black beanie on the floor behind her head. A girl stood above her, with dark curly hair, with a bright, brace covered smile across her face, hand sticking out in front of her.

“I’m Dina Garcia, and I am so sorry for knocking you over like that!”

Ava sat up and took the girl’s hand, and Dina pulled her up, with a strength that surprised Ava. Ava then dusted herself off before turning and picking up her beanie hat and placing it back on her head. She then turned back to the girl before her and spoke “Ava Rylance, I’m new here.”

“I gathered by all the papers, speaking of which, need some help picking them up?” Dina said, gesturing to all the papers around them.

“That would be great, thanks.”

The two girls than began to pick up all the papers that had landed on floor, gathering them into one pile. When they had done, Dina passed the papers she had collected over to Ava and spoke once more, “So where ya headed to Ava?”

Ava shuffled the papers and found the piece she was looking for. “I’m trying to find locker 361, any idea where it is?”

Dina smiled brightly and replied “Yupp! It’s right next to mine, and I’m on my way there right now! Oooh, you can meet some of my friends too! This is gonna be great!”

And before Ava could even reply to the over enthusiastic girl, Dina had already began to drag her down the hall way, yelling the occasional “Girls on a mission!”, “Coming through!” and a few “”Move yourselves, people gotta get through here!”

And soon enough Dina had stopped in front of a locker, where there were already three people standing. The three consisted of a tall dark haired boy with a bright smile, a boy with large eyebrows and headphones around his neck, and a blonde girl with an extravagant taste in clothing.

“Hey guys!” Dina greeted, “Ava, this are my friends, Ty Blue and Tinka Hessenheffer. And this is my boyfriend Deuce Martinez. Guys, this is Ava Rylance, she’s new here and it’s her first day!”

Ava tucked a piece of hair behind her ear and smile up at them all, making a note in her head not to mention the note of names to anyone.

“Vell, it is very nice to meet you Ava, but I must be going, the bell is going to ring any second and must not be late for homeroom. See you around!”

And with that Tinka left, people parting like the Red Sea to let her through. The others then turned to Ava and Ty spoke up, “So Ava, where’s your homeroom? We can walk you there so you don’t get lost if you like?”

“Uh, thanks. It’s room 101.” Ava said hesitantly, looking at her timetable in her hands.

“Oh! You’re with CeCe! That’s good, she’ll show you around after that, if you ask her nice enough, that is!” Dina then opened her locker and turned once more to Ava. “That’s your locker right there Ava.” She spoke, pointing towards a plain purple locker.

Ava then stepped toward the locker and put in the combination, she then open the door and placed her papers on the bottom of the locker, she then placed her bag in her locker and turned to Dina, “What am I going to need for homeroom?”

Deuce and Ty turned to Ava with shocked expressions on their faces.

“You’ve never had a homeroom before? Where did you move here from?” Deuce asked, in a shocked slightly high pitched voice.

“I’m from England, and we had forms. If homeroom is what I think it is, then it’s probably the same.” Ava then turned back to her locker and took most of her books out of her bag and placed them into her locker in a neat pile, leaving her binder, notepad and pencil case in there, along with her iPod, iPhone, purse and house keys. She then placed her timetable, and a few other pieces of paper, including a form that all her teachers had to sign, to clarify that Ava was in their lessons.

As Dina and Ava shut their locker doors the bell for homeroom rang, and Ava placed her bag on her pack once more and the four walked off to Ava’s homeroom, pointing out other classes along the way.

“Okay, so CeCe is in your homeroom. She has long red, wavy hair and a crazy sense of style. There should be a seat open next to her at the back of the classroom. Sit there and introduce yourself. Say that we said to talk to her. She open up and take you under her wing. Okay? I’ll meet you outside your third period class for lunch.” The four stopped outside room 101, and said goodbye. Ava hugged them all, thanking them for showing her the way, and for Dina helping her out and introducing her to some people.

Ava stepped inside the classroom, where a few students already lingered. As she walked up to the teacher’s desk Ava took out the form that had to be signed and spoke to the teacher sat at the desk. A dowdy looking librarian looked up from the romance novel she was currently reading and towards Ava.