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Chapter 19- Claberdash

Packed. Row after row, seat after seat, group after group of people. Students were everywhere. That guess of 10 was away off. There looked to be over 40 people and that was just in the few rows of tables she saw. Fear overcame Nellie again. She’d started to mentally prepare herself for about a dozen kids, but the most likely +100 students in the Commons was just overwhelming.

Nellie tilted her head back and sighed. Up above the double door was a giant digital clock with bright red numbers indicating the time; it was 8:20AM. Classes started at 8:30. Since Nellie didn’t know how long between classes the students received she thought to herself that it’d be better to get going to her first class than wait for the doors to be opened, and for her to be trampled by students.

She quickly pulled out her schedule and saw that her first class was art. The classes’ room number was 5. To her right was a classroom door and above it was the number 60.

After heaving another dramatic sigh, Nellie started to fast walk back down the hallway. When she was hallways there the giant window appeared and the giant hall looked even more crowded than before. Behind her she could hear footsteps and students laughing as the all started to crowd into the long hallway. She didn’t look back once, just kept her eyes forward, scanning the door numbers as she went.

Only twenty more to go. Finally she was the room and before she had any doubts she quickly flew the door open and stepped inside, right as the bell rung.

There were a couple of humans in the room already. They looked up to investigate the new person in the room. The teacher, Mrs. Poik, according to the nametag on her desk. Didn’t look too happy to be here and didn’t smile as Nellie walked past her desk and proceeded to walk further into the room, past the other students, towards the back to take a seat.

The entire time Nellie avoided all eye contact. Panic was starting to set in as the door to the room opened and closed many times before, finally, at 8:30 the bell rung again and the entire classroom became full of students.

Crowds of people were worse than lightening in some cases. Lightening was usually far away but people could squeeze into Nellie personal space and make her feel suffocated.

When students took the other 5 available seats at her table Nellie didn’t look up. The conversations around her were all muffled by the loud pounding noise in her chest. With each beat of her heart the world around her started to slow down.

“Hey,” Nellie heard it just barley. “Hello?” there was a tapping on her shoulder and she looked up. As if time had stopped slowing down all of the noises in the room started up again and everyone continued to move at normal speed. Less than 6 inches from her face a boy looked deep into her eyes and smiled. “Hey,” he spoke again but this time as a greeting over him just simply trying to just get her attention.

“Hello,” she smiled but didn’t even have the energy to blush at the cute boy before her, seeing as she was so pale and sick from the fear of all the people in the room.

No one turned towards them, Nellie checked to make sure. It made her feel a little better that people at least were staring at her.

“My name is Luter. What do you go by?”

“U-Um . . . I go by Nellie.” She tried to keep eye contract with the boy who had piercing blue eyes. They were more of an aqua color than a crystal and they were intense even when he smiled. Eventually she couldn’t keep his gaze and looked down at her hands, staring at the scar on her pinkie.

“Well Nellie, I hope you didn’t plan on doing any  actual art in this class for a while because our teacher is a total Humater and will mostly just sleep behind her desk all year.”