Full Of Surprises

Brand New School(Margaux)

The alarm rings, and I get up and dressed. Elly does the same. I go to the kitchen to wonderful smelling foods. Grits, pancakes, fruit, etc. "Good morning," I say to Arthur. "Good morning," he says. "Where's Elly?" he asked. "Brushing her teeth, I think," I say. "You're not going to?" he asks. "After I eat breakfast," I say. Arthur passes me a plate as Elly comes into the kitchen. "Good morning, everyone," she says yawning. "Morning," I say. "Good morning," says Arthur. "Good morning, everyone," says mom. Everyone sits down to eat as a family, in the dining room. I finish first and brush my teeth, and grab my new back pack. I sit at the dining room table until everyone else is finished. "C'mon girls, let's go. Are you coming with us, Tina Teddybear?" Arthur asks. "Yes, honey," says mom. Elly and I look at each other simultaneously and exchange facial expressions. Elly and I are the firsts to walk out of the door, to the car with mom and Arthur following. "What's your school like?" I ask. "It's fun! Watch out for Cado and his little goons, though. They'll literally make fun of you for anything. Surprisingly, stuff that has absolutely nothing to do with them," says Elly. "Wow!" I say. "Well, I'm used to that." After a short drive, we arrive at the school . Elly shows me what classes to go to. "We have a new student," says Mr. Gryffin. "Her name is Margaux Qamar." I wave. "Aloha, people," I smile. "Sit next to me!" some random girl shouts. Elly gives me a look that says 'Sit with me'. Compromise, I think. I have to sit in the middle of them two. "What's your name?" I ask the random girl. "Katana Tobin DeLaGhetto, but you can call me Kat," she says, very friendly. "Nice, maybe we'll have next class together," I say. "Today we will be reviewing square and cube roots," Mr. Gryffin says.

I'm not going to try to get on his bad side, so I raise my hand and answer pretty often, just waiting until next class. My next class finally comes in about an hour and thirty minutes. Science, hooray! I sit down next to Elly and Katana sits next to me. "Hello, good morning, class," says an upbeat, spunky young woman. "We have a new student! I love new students!" she says. I giggle. "Introduce yourself," says the teacher. "My name is Margaux Qamar, and I guess you could say... I'm pretty awesome, " I laugh. "My name is Ms. Power's," she says. "I hope you like my class."
"Today, we'll be talking about physical science." She walks to the board and draws a few diagrams and explaining how gravity, friction, and Newton's laws work. "So basically, potential energy is what happens when you're at the very peak and kinetic energy is what happens when you drop?" I ask. "Yep, basically!" says Ms. Powers. By 4th period, I've already made a few friends. "We have a new student" is a phrase I hear one too many times, today. It's said once more. "Margaux," Elly whispers. I look at her. "What?" I whisper back. "That's Cado," she says. I wrinkle my eyebrows in a confused way. "Uhh where, now?" I whisper-ask. Elly makes a head gesture towards a brown haired boy with brown eyes, who was sort of chubby and kind o short, and had a pointy (and simultaneously fat) nose. I look at Elly and widen my eyes. "Gross," I say, laughing. Elly giggles, as I sit next to her. Class goes on with the teacher introducing me, and giving us a reading assignment in groups. It was pretty fun, until after class. Elly held my hand to walk to the other class. Cado came up behind me and pushed me. "What was that for?!" Elly yells. "What the hell is that thing on your sister's head?" he asks. "It's called a hijab," I say. "Ohh, so you're a Mozlem!" he yells. "It's actually Muslim not Mozlem. Muslim doesn't have an o or a z in it," I say. "Damn," I hear someone say. "Well she's not wrong." laughs another. "So you're a terrorist?" Cado asks, laughing. The rest of his crew laughs, too. "I assume you're Christian?" I ask. "Fuck yeah," he laughs. "Then that's a bit odd coming from the white, Christian, male with brown hair and brown eyes. Hitler was a white, Christian, male, with brown hair and brown eyes who killed approximately 11 million people. The KKK, which is another group of white, male, Christians, have killed over 3,466 people and the number is still exceeding. And let's just not talk about Timothy McVagh and Dylann Roof or any other white Christian male that has shot some shit up. Please. How many Islamic terrorist attacks have there actually been? And don't even TRY  to argue that ISIS is Islamic because no one Islamic would bomb a mosque during the month of Ramadan and wouldn't kill innocent Muslims or innocent people in general. ISIS literally did not have a Quran in their hostage quarters, not to mention that 92% of the people ISIS has killed are Muslim. Also, I think you're forgetting that some other white Christian males did slavery and killed 90% of Native Anericans in 10 years," I say. And the whole hall gets quiet, as Cado turns pink then red then super pale and then back to his normal color again. "Now what?" I raise my eyebrow, scoff, and turn away. "Well, she's not wrong," someone says.
The school day ends happily and I get a few numbers to text. Elly and I walk towards the car lot. Tina is there, with her Porsche. "How was school, girls?" she asks. "It was pretty good," I say. "Nice," says Elly. "Good," mom says. "Because, we are going on a trip," mom says.

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