The Luna Project

Chapter 2: Pink Hair and Black Fingernails

As Luna had noticed Asher sitting down, softly smiling at her then turning around to subject his focus onto the board, someone had knocked on the classroom door breaking her of her focus. The teacher, or demon from hell, opened the door revealing a small girl, that looked about fifteen, with cotton candy pink hair, brown eyes, a small button nose with a small silver hoop going through it, causing her have a septum piercing, and a gleaming white smile which revealed her dimples. She was also averagely stylish as she was wearing an oversized black sweatshirt that drooped off of her shoulder a bit, bright pink skinny jeans, black sneakers and a black beanie ending at her fringe which swiped across her pale forehead. As the young girl stepped into the room Luna noticed the smell of vanilla swarm around the room, probably the mystery girl's perfume. Mr. Thomas then began to speak and introduced the new girl. "Guys? May I have your attention please?," He began as they all looked up at him and scrutinized the cryptogrammic figure, "this is, Josephine Tyler, she is new to our school so treat her with respect and welcome her, now where would you like to sit?" He asked and when she didn't answer, obviously confused, Luna raised my hand slowly, "She can sit next to me and Karma." she suggested. Josephine agreed, walking over slowly and sitting down. "Hi, thank you for letting me sit next to you guys, I obviously don't really know anyone here." She said smiling. Luna then noticed her brother had begun to make his way to their group, she also noticed Josephine eyeing him up and nudged her softly, pulling her out of the gaze. "Hey L, do you have our math notes?" "Yeah, why?" she replied to his question quizzically. "Can I borrow them, I lost mine." Luna then nodded at her older sibling while she retrieved the notes from her binder and handed them to him. "There you go, J." she said as he walked back to his spot. "I wouldn't start liking him if I were you." Luna stated towards the now confused, Josephine. "Why," she started, "wait! Are you guys together? Oh my gosh I'm so sorry I didn't know!" The young girl replied now flustered as Karma started to laugh maniacally at her actions and words. " No! He's my brother." Luna then started, quickly putting the girl at ease. A little. "The reason I say don't start to like him is because he's gay, Jo." she finished and then quickly apologized saying "Sorry, your name is just sort of a mouth full to say so I just gave you a quick nickname. Sorry." "No, its okay. I like it." Jo then said, being as honest as she could be and completely understood why she shouldn't be attracted to Luna's brother. Luna asked Jo if she could she her schedule and discovered they both had all of their classes together except fourth and just after that the bell rang, signaling them to leave to their second hour class. They all walked out of the classroom together and linked arms shuffling through the crowded hallways. It was her, Jake, Karma, and Jo all walking down the hall, they were the line of misfits, and boy, did they love it.

As they arrived at Luna, Karma, and Josephine's class, they unlinked their arms and said their goodbye's and see you later's to each other Luna had solemnly noticed Asher making his way through the halls trying desperately to get to his next class quickly before the bell rang. She giggled lightly to herself while noticing the small smirk playing upon his lips and the slightly flustered face as he shuffled through the combustion of students. Then he saw her looking at him and the two blushed to themselves as they were caught up in their own world, sadly Karma had snapped her out of the magnetizing trance and brought her back to reality, causing the young sixteen year old to remember how terrible her life really is. She is judged by anyone and everyone just because of the way she chose to look and act. She made herself come off as if it didn't hurt, but it did. Especially when people who didn't even know her, at all, told her that she was worthless, stupid and telling her to kill herself, then suddenly a flashback arrived pulling her into the past reminding her of her three previous suicide attempts, putting her in a grey mood. Asher had now arrived at the small group that had huddled around Ms. Bakers chemistry lab and noticed her change in facial emotion. "Hey, are you okay?" he asked her, swiftly grabbing her hand causing a light shade of powdery pink to appear across her almost dead looking cheeks. She didn't answer him, with words anyways, she just gave him a kurt nod and smiled at him, squeezing his hand and moving swiftly up to the side go his face, kissing him on the cheek quickly. The small group of four walked into he lab slowly, they all seemed to notice the disgusting smell of chemicals and mixes of perfumes and colognes. Luna scrunched her nose up at it and Asher then poked her nose causing her to laugh. "What did you just do?" she asked him, smiling, "I just booped your nose." he said poking her nose yet again but this time saying 'boop' as he did. "See? You just looked so cute when you scrunched up your nose at this retched smell in here that I couldn't resist." Luna smiled at his words as they sat down at two of the tables that were pushed together with lab equipment scattered about them. The teacher, Ms. Baker, then walked in. Late as usual. The whole class then payed full attention to the now flustered twenty-seven year old, who was dropping everything in her hands and then about five minutes later went back to their previous talking and socializing. "Class! May I have your attention please? I have very important news to express!" It was then that Luna had noticed a new name on the dark green chalkboard which had explained the dry smell of chalk dust and the blisters on every bad students hands, from hitting the erasers together for punishment, which is why Luna had dreaded getting in trouble for this class. "I am resigning to move to Los Angeles to pursue my career in acting. Your new teacher should be arriving any minute now." Ms. Baker finished sitting down and plopping her feet on her dried out, wooden desk and getting on her phone, another reason why Luna loved this class, other than her best friend and crush being in there, they practically did nothing but sit and socialize all class, which was a full hour and a half. Luna returned to her recent conversation, well it was more like an argument, over how batman was better than spiderman. She had thought she'd won the argument but clearly she was up for a battle against Jo, who was so set on how spiderman was better. Yeah, in her dreams. About fifteen minutes after that, the new teacher, Mr. Angele, walked in and Luna had sworn he looked exactly like a vampire, or a demon, or something and smelt a little like death. All she knew is that it wouldn't exactly end well. "Hello, class I am your new teacher. My name is Balyke Angele, I don't care what you call me just pronounce my name right." He stated with a sort of an attitude and a hint of a British accent. Interesting.