Chapter 2: Welcome to Nowhere

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Lana POV~

"We've been on this bus for-ev-or." Savina complains.

"It's still going to be awhile, you know." replies the black haired boy.

"One; how do you know that. Two; who even are you?" I ask him.

"Oh yeah I never introduced myself." he said. "Well, hi I'm Stiles Stilinski. I'm a part time student and part time guidance councilor at the school." he smiles.

"Nice to meet you." Liliya says, nodding to him. "This is Savina next to me, Kamisha is next to Crystal behind us and you're sitting next to Lana." We all wave when she says our names, and he returns the wave.

"I've met Crystal, her parents work at the school, nice to meet the rest of you though."

"How are you a part time student, part time teacher person?" Kamisha asks.

He thinks for a minute and replies, "I don't really know actually. It's probably because I don't have spectacular grades. Otherwise I'd just work with Espo in guidance."
"You do pretty good though." Crystal tells him. "That's probably why you're only a part time student."
"If you work in guidance, does that mean you know our schedules?" asks Kamisha.
"Yeah, you wanna see yours?" he says.
We reply with varying forms of yes and he pulls out a laptop. "How are you going to find ours?" I ask him.
"I made the robotics teacher, Mr. Stark, put a easy search software in." As he speaks he types on the laptop, "All I do is type in your name and voila," he turns the screen towards me "Your schedule."
I look at the screen to find my name at the top. I look through it and am intrigued by the names of some of the teachers.
1st: Mr. Kent-Math
2nd: Mr. Minho-Gym
3rd: Miss Beckett-Criminal Justice
4th: Mr. McCall-Economics
5th: Lunch
6th: Mr. Hale-Mythology
7th: Mr. Loki and Misters T Stoll and C Stoll-Pranking and trickery
8th:Miss Gardener-Study hall
9th:Miss Chase and Miss Athena-foreign languages
"Whoa, this is only one day?" I say.
"Yeah, you'll have different classes each day. For example, you have trickery tomorrow, which is Tuesday so you'll only have it on Tuesday." Stiles tells me. He shows everyone else their schedules and we settle into relaxed and friendly conversation. I briefly think about asking him a question about our teachers names, but decide to ask later.

From the way we were just relaxing with each other you'd think we were long time friends. In truth, we'd only met each other two hours ago. I smile and chat with the others. No better way to pass the time than with new friends.

--------Time Skip-----

"Welcome to Nowhere, everybody." Stiles tells us as we exit the bus. "Also known as the best school ever!" He grins madly and gestures to a three story brick building that's mostly hidden by trees. We walk with him up a stone path and enter the front hall. We look around in awe at the awards and pictures of teams and other things that show the best of the best. Lililya and I walk over to one of the cases. We look in and see awards given to teachers. There are several awards for strange fields such as espionage, mythology, and pranking for example.
We wander around the hall with the other students when a tall man with an eyepatch enters from further inside the school. "Welcome students." he says. "The older students are now asked to go to their dorms- same rooms as last year- while the new students are required to follow me for a speech from principal Chiron."
"Well, see you all later!" Stiles says and with a wave he leaves.
"He's nice." Savina says "You guys wanna head to the speech now?"
"I guess we should. Gonna be pretty boring though." says Liliya.

We enter the auditorium and wait. "Hello and welcome." says a man onstage, except he's not exactly a man.  Liliya gasps next to me and whispers, "He's a centaur."

He continues, "For those of you whose parents did not inform you of what school you are at this is Chiron's School for the Gifted. I am Chiron, founder and principal of the school." He keeps talking but I tune him out. He talks about rules and sports teams. It's only when he says Stiles name do I pay more attention. "Now I am aware that Mr. Stiles over here has shown some of his new friends their schedules on the bus." Stiles turns red when Chiron gestures to him. "They may have noticed that some names of teachers are the same as characters from T.V. shows, books and movies. These people are those characters, though I do not suggest calling them that.Also, it will benefit you to know that some things the authors or directors wrote did not happen and some things not written did happen." Well I guess that explains what I was going to ask Stiles, I think to myself.

The room buzzes with hushed whispers as students wonder what he means, who their teachers were and who found out early. The principal silences everyone once more, "Teachers will tell you your dorm numbers and give you a map of the grounds and you may get settled in your dorm rooms. Have a lovely rest of the day." he finishes with a smile and leaves. 

Everyone heads to the doors to get their rooms and meet their room mates. A red haired teacher is at the door Liliya, Savina and I go to. "Your names?" she asks. "First and last please."

"Lana Martin, Savina.." I trail off not knowing their last names.

"Savina Armonni." Savina says. The teacher nods and turns to Liliya.

"Liliya Romanova." she tells her. The woman stops for a moment and glances at her. then returns to her list. 

"All three of you are in dorm 223." she tells us, smiling. We thank her and meet up with Kamisha and Crystal. They wait for us with two others, a boy and a girl. 

"We're In dorm 223 with Sara." Crystal says, "That's her and her brother Tobias there." She points to the siblings as they approach. We greet them and introduce ourselves. Sara is blonde and has bright blue eyes. Tobias has black hair and darker blue eyes.

"What room are you in?" Sara asks us.

"223, same as you three!" Savina tells them excitedly. 

They smile and Kamisha says, "Lets go then. If there are bunk beds-"

Liliya interrupts her, "Dibs on top bunk!" 

"That's what I was gonna say!" Kamisha laughs. We all grin and head to the room. 

I could tell already, This year was going to be amazing and these five were going to be awesome friends. 

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