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It was a quiet Monday morning. Lena had woken up early to get ready and go to school, after all the teachers had warned that there would be new exchange students and she was hoping they're cute. After a good breakfast, Lena left for the school bus, sitting next to her best friend and talking about the news.
When they arrived at school, everything happened the normal way, got off the bus and went to the school's yard until the alarm sounded to go to their respective classrooms. Lena walked away for a moment from her friend so that she could go to the dumpster to throw a small paper packaging of candy that she had eat earlier. As she threw the paper, she took her gaze to a tree that was a little distant from there. Strange tree, it had a symbol on it. Lena took a few steps closer, enough so she could see the symbol. It was a circle with an X inside. She shrugged, some student should have done that foolishness, she would tell the principal later, after all the trees couldn't be mistreated like that.
The bell rang, all the students went to their classrooms and Lena and her friend were the most eager to meet the new students. Everyone standing by their desks as the principal came in, bringing two new students into the classroom. Lena's smile fell on seeing the students, for her, they weren't beautiful ... They're from poorer countries and Lena was a somewhat intolerant person for "things" of that sort. Her friend, on the contrary, had adored the first student that had entered, he would surely be her future husband for life, at least she thought so. Lena looked at her friend's smile with a look of contempt. Lena was the kind of person who says, "It's not prejudice, BUT ..." but it wasn't her fault, but of the education her parents had given her about different cultures.
To her unhappiness, one of the students would sit next to her for the rest of the year, you can imagine she didn't like it. But she couldn't change it.
The hours passed, in a moment, a pencil fell to the floor. Lena's pencil. Who rescued her pencil was the new student at her side, Orion. He returned the pencil to Lena, who took it with her fingertips, with a look of judgment on the boy.
"I don't need your help to get my pencil, but thank you for having returned it and not stolen it." - said the arrogant girl, wiping the pencil on her shirt.
Orion said nothing back and looked down. Lena's friend, against her, had been disappointed by her action, but also said nothing. In moments like these, it's like everyone stopped to appreciate the beauty of silence.
The hours passed until the classes end, and - finally to Lena - they could go home. On the bus back to home, Lena was silent all the way, she was pissed off. Then she decided to listen some music on her cell phone, but every song she chose, all she could heard was 12 seconds of music and the rest were horrible noises that made her take off her headphones quickly. Great, now defective cell phone. It was all she needed now.
