Secrets, Socials, and Seigaku

Chapter 1

            This was going to be a pain, no doubt. There I was, standing in front of my new school, with no idea where to go. You would think that after doing this for a couple years I would be used to it. After all,  my dad and I have been traveling the world for a while now. Why? Well we’ll get into that later.

 I was walking to the front door of the school. There weren’t a lot of people outside; I came a bit early so I wouldn’t get lost around the school. I figured if I woke up early and walked there I would have around twenty minutes to go to the front office and get my schedule. I walked up the concrete steps in my brand new Nike sneakers and opened the door to the strange place that I was eventually going to have to call my school.

 After walking around for a good ten minutes I finally found the office. Only 10 minutes till school starts I’m going to have to make this quick. I swiftly opened the door and walked in. “Hello dear, how can I help you this morning?” A chipper voice asked me from behind the desk.

I looked up. The woman at the front desk looked around fourty- maybe fourty-five years old. She had dark brown hair that fel stifflyl upon her shoulders,  barely maid out wisps of grey hidden in the dark  choclate mess. ”Hi,” I said with a smile, “I’m a new student here and I was wondering if I could get my schedule?”

She tipped her head to the side. “Transferring in the middle of the year? Well, that’s awfully strange.” Was that supposed to be a compliment?

I tried to maintain my smile. “Yes, well I just moved here so…”

A large smile reappeared on her face. “I see! Where from?” ‘Can I just get my schedule and go?’ is what I would like to say but I knew better.

“The United States. My dad and I moved down here for business” Are all staff as nosey as her? 

Her smile dimmed some at the boring details.“Oh, well I’m sure you’ll love it here. Now, what’s your name Sweetie?” 

I ignored her poor term of endearment. “Clair Brown.” I answered.

Sorry for the late introduction, but this is me. My name is Clair Brown. I’m fourteen, and just moved here from California. More specifically LA or otherwise known as the golden coast. I have long brown hair that I always keep up in a ponytail and brown eyes, nothing extraordinary. Like I said before, my dad and I travel the world together. He has always wanted to settle down somewhere with me though. After my mother left us when I was nine he wanted to get away from that life and start a new one. And of course he brought me with him! We've been to places like China and Rome. I even got to visit Paris! And of course my favorite place, London.

You’re probably wondering where we are now, right? Well right now we have settled down in Japan. Yep, the one place I’ve never been. Don’t worry I’m fluent in Japanese. My dad made sure that I at least know a little bit of every language, of course just the important stuff like ‘hello my name is…’ or ‘could you help me I’m a little lost?’. He also insisted that if I was to get anywhere in life i had to learn foreign languages. Something about it being a boost on my future resume. I had to be fluent in three languages, and yes, you guessed it, one of those languages just so happens to be Japanese. But anyway back to my first day.

“Aha!” the woman said after rifling around behind her desk, “I have your schedule right here.” She handed me the piece of paper and I started to look it over. First I would have English I as a foreign language. Then I would have to take an English literature class. After that I had lunch followed by science/history, and Geometry. Well, that was fairly simple. I looked at the time on my cell phone. Crap, five minutes till school starts, better speed this up.