"A warm and royal welcome..."

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CLARA' S POV
Oh my goodness! I cannot wait for my first day of public school and to be able to understand the real world!! But what if no one likes me, if they treat me differently because of my family, what if.... if i am not normal? " Clara! Breakfast!" My housemaid rang the bell and shouted to me. I was finally ready in my uniform, i cannot believe even that the girls here have to wear ties! It is very uncomfortable and almost choking me but i shall get used to it.

"Aww my beautiful girl, you look perfect! Did you know that your brothers have also been to this school?" My father greeted me at the table in the most awkward and weird way possible right now and i started to blush as i noticed that my brothers were blushing in embarrassment too.

* 30 minutes later*

Im stood in the wings of the drama hall studio thingy room waiting to be called on. I am super nervous and i have no clue what to do. I can feel the butterflies in my stomach, the words almost spilling out of my mouth like word sick, my chest rising and falling with my increasing heart rate and breathing... " And now, Crawley, lets give a warm and dare i say royal welcome to our newest student... Clara!" I slowly walk on to the stage, i can feel hundreds of pairs of eyes silently judging me. The head teacher motioned to me to introduce myself and my occupation. "Hello, my name is Clara and the honour is mine err i mean its nice to meet you all" i laugh it off which gives the other students attending the school a chance to not feel odd with me.

"Okay Clara, your teacher shall be Mr. Halloway and your class mates are in the same room so can Mr Halloway's class please stand up?" Two rows of twelve students stood up with the friendliest of smiles and one boy started to walk to the stage directly where i was stood. " Hello, my name is Christian, It is a pleasure to meet you errr... duchess Clara? How was that?" He asked whilst bowing to me "Haha, please , there is no need for you to bow or call me duchess... thats my mother. Clara will be just fine thank you Christian!" He then proceeded to escort me to where the class was sat and i sat next to him, i do not know what it was but something about Christian made me feel like i fit in just perfectly.

About 10 minutes later we were dismissed from the hall and escorted back to class, Mr Halloway seems a very nice teacher and let me sit next to my mentor and helper person friend, Christian.

*lunchtime*

I had just got into the canteen line when i met eyes with Christian. "Clara! Come here. You don't want to stand there, follow me." So he lead me round to where all his friends were. "Wait why are we here?"

Hello, thankyou to everyone for choosing to read this, i hope you enjoy it! This is a working progress and will take time.

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