Chapter Two: The New Student

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"Where's Tyler?" My best friend, Carla, asks.

"He's staying home," I answer.

"After everything he did to you he gets to stay home?" Carla questions, although it sounds more like a statement then a question.

"Oh I wouldn't worry, mum will have something even worse in store for him," I say, chuckling.

"Serves him right," Carla laughed.

I nod, recalling a couple of the events. I look at my watch. "I better get going to mathematics. See you in the break!"

Carla grabs her phone quickly and checks it before the teachers see. There was a strictly no phone rule in the school. It doesn't stop students from looking at their phones, but it lowered the chance of a student on their phone in class. I hop up and grab my water bottle before leaving for class.

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"The other night he tied string to a chair and the lounge to try and trip me over, but I saw it before I could trip," I tell Carla. I don't mention the possibility that I may of seen a werewolf - a real werewolf - after that.

"Geez, what's wrong with him?" Carla asks in disgust.

"Who knows," I say, taking another bite of my sandwich.

"Anyway, there is a new student," Carla begins, starting a new conversation.

"Yeah, what about it?" I ask, half in a daze. I still haven't been able to shake off the thought of werewolves being real and alive, lurking out there in the dark.

"Laura!" Carla shouts, waving a hand in front of my face.

"What!" I snap without meaning to. "Sorry, just in a daze."

"About what? Are you ok?" Carla inquires, looking concerned.

"Oh don't worry. So what's this thing about this new student?" I question, trying my best to sound interested.

"Like us, he is in grade ten of course—"

She stops as I say, "I see where this is going."

"Yeah, whatever, he is really cute—"

Knew it.

She stops again as I blurt, "What!? You have a boyfriend remember!"

"I know, I know, but you don't have a boy—"

There she goes.

I cut her off once again, " don't even go there." I put up my hand as a stop sign.

"Gotta stop cutting me off, it's rude," Carla says, annoyed.

"Your only my friend, you will handle a few rude actions," I complain. She rolls her eyes, ignores the stop sign I put up earlier and continues to keep talking on and on.

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After lunch, I walk to my next class, music. I sit down in a seat, only to have to get up again.

"Piano please, Laura," the music teacher orders.

She got me confused for a minute, but then I realised she was assigning everyone to instrument she knew they could play. I sat in the seat behind the piano, feeling at home. I loved the piano. I loved playing 'Rolling in the Deep' and 'Set Fire to the Rain' both by Adele. They were my top two.

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