The Protector || MJ (TRV - Book 1)

1 | New Beginnings

~Everything is new now, but can you guarantee that you won't stay the same as before?~

New Beginnings

Elise

Here we go, new school, new friends, new teachers. Something tells me I would repeat the tragedy I had in Primary School. Something tells me I would not have any friends yet again.

Getting ready, I finished the last scoop of oatmeal before picking up my bag and taking the morning 7 am train. Upon arrival, I walked to my class with my phone, on one hand, reading a Michael Jackson Fanfiction on Wattpad.

Climbing up the stairs, I meet many new faces, from all walks of life. Suddenly, my phone beeped and I tapped to see the notification. It was a message from Mom.

Hey, sweet, make some new friends and mix with them! Go for it!

Typical. Something that my mom would say. Making sure I had reached the correct class, I waited outside. Texting my former schoolmates, it seemed that they had already made some new friends, while I'm still here, hoping for one. It's like as if I don't have the skill to make friends fast enough.

Just as I was waiting, someone came. She seemed kinda like those geeks you see but she also doesn't look like one. More of a studious person, she seemed. She sat down on the floor in a corner, taking out her laptop and thereafter, started to click and type away. She looks like she's very busy, but her eyes seem otherwise. I sat down beside her, to start a conversation, hoping she could be my friend.

"Hi, I'm Elise. What's your name?" She looked up at me, immediately closing her laptop and replied swiftly but slow enough for me to catch what she was saying, "My name is Helena. Nice to meet you, Elise." We shook hands, as I finally got someone to talk to, but the majority was holding their phones, so either way.

"So, what are you doing?" I wanted to know more about this funny thing on her laptop screen that I saw earlier on. Besides, if it was related to computers, it would be really nice.

"Playing Mastermind online. I just seem to get too bored without playing it, or not having things to do." Helena replied. Just when we were in the midst of talking, somebody interrupted our conversation with her own.

"C'mon bros, let's get Leaguing!" They all took out their gamer-spec laptops and started to game what I guessed was League of Legends, from the way that boy said Leaguing. They reminded me of the gaming self I used to be in the holidays before High School started today, staring at the screen being too focused clicking away.

"I see you're very interested in their laptops or whatever they're doing. Go ahead, mix with them." I looked back at Helena, tapping her fingers on the laptop.

"It's not that I'm interested, Helena. Its because they remind me of the way I used to be. Just like them." Helena seemed to take back what she said and went back to whatever she was doing, leaving me to my own things.

"Time for a bit of Michael." I unlocked my phone, took out my Beats, and plugged the wire into the headphone jack. Wearing the headphones, I started to play Man In The Mirror. The starry intro sound entranced me yet again for the millionth time, leading to the first verse where Michael started to sing.

"I'm gonna make a change... for once in my life....." Michael's voice sang into my ears, feeling happy at how soothing it was, I felt relaxed but the fact that there would be no Michael around to see now was heartbreaking. I'm like any other Michael Jackson fan, but through Wattpad of which my friend introduced, I have joined the Moonwalker family there and enjoyed it very much.