If I Could Change History

Chapter 1- That Guy?

"Bye, girls, enjoy your day and don't get killed!" Our cousin yelled after us in Polish and Lucia face-palmed herself,

"Got it! Bye Zuzanna [pronounced Susan]!" Dorothy called also in Polish back waving with one hand and one hand on her straw hat rimmed with blue grey ribbon, Beatrix turned back and waved including me, but Lucia stuck out her tongue.

Beatrix wacked her reverting back to English, "Where did you leave your brain?"

Zuzanna stuck out her tounge and waggled it before pulling away, Lucia gave Bee a sideways look, "She doesn't mind." she linked arms with her and pulled her along after me and Dorothy, before linking arms with us and we walked into the school gates together. We smiled and said hello to Martin the security guard and nodded to Miss Hamilton, the deputy head, then we walked into our new playground in the north of the school.

"Isn't it geat to be back?" Dorothy grinned as we dumped our bags by the fence, "Look, Mel is back with her cousin this year. There's Dylan, you know the guy who pressed the fire alarm last year out of cheekyness? Oh, oh, there's Ambrus, the top of the maths classes, he's probs the smartest in our year."

Rolling her eyes, Bee pointed, "Look who's back, I'd rather Deanne and her cronies to stay in LA forever than come back to England. She's already back to Queen Bee mode."

None of us nor our friends liked the Queen Bee or her 'Princesses' after what she did to many of us; Mel, Dorothy, Bee...

"Who's that?" Lucia nudged me and we all looked, "The guy next to Carter?"

"Who's this Carter?"

Lucia looked ready to spit out blood.

"I'm joking! I'm joking!" I laughed, Dorothy and Bee in stitches at how vexed Lucia looked, " He's your cru-sh!!!"

Dorothy and Bee laughed even harder.

"I'm not twalking twoo you anymorw" Lucia snapped in a baby voice and turned her back to me, her pretty nose in the air.

"Ok, ok, fine. He's that Chinese guy right?"

"Thank god he hasn't gone and been pulled in by the popular guys-" Just then the popular guys came along and began to surround the little group, Lucia wrinkled her nose as Leo began to chat merrily with Ambrus and Carter and the new guy, Bee face-palmed, "I spoke too soon."

Dorothy pointed out, "He looks like one of those really studious guys, I think he'll be fine. Besides, Odessa Amoran might of already been mean from the start, not that Deanne changed her. Bree Brennan... Oh I don't know. She's alright, I worked with her once, apart from being Deanne's puppet and the person to listen to her complaints since year seven, she hasn't really done any evil plans of her own."

"Lauren, you're quiet." Bee looked at me, "Are we leaving you out?"

"No."

"Airin! Theodora! Cerise!" Dorothy bounced across the playground and leaped on her two bestfriends, Bee following her the five squealing and laughing in excitement. The blondes, blacks and platinum heads bobbing.

"How typical huh?" Lucia grinned, nudging me, "Here comes Saga and Lucie."

Saga was casually strolling across the playground, her red hair fluttering, but Lucie just sprinted across, her black hair streaming after her, her freckled features a picture of excitement. She skidded to a stop, giving me a bone-crushing hug and Lucia a playful salute,

"Greetings, my fellow Luce."

Lucia saluted back, "Greetings, the other Luce."

"Hey!" Lucie gave her a shove, "I call you my equal but you down grade me!"

Lucia just grinned and Lucie put on a mock-angry expression.

"They're 'fighting' again." Saga draped an arm around my shoulder, "So, did you go anywhere?"

"Nope. We stayed at home and did absolutely nothing."

"Plumbrain, I wasn't asking you, shut-up." Saga flicked Lucia's forehead, "So, Lauren, how was your summer holiday?"

"Ok."

Saga, Lucie and Lucia quickly got engaged in conversation and I was silently standing on the edge. Lucia's friends where cool, funny and rather popular but not part of Deanne's Inner Circle or any of their circles, the three BFFs where part of the other group of popular people, the guys that gets along with everyone, most of the group where in A's top set.

Our school had a A and B system, the year group where first split into half forming A and B. Then the two groups where split into sets 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, one being the best and 5 the worse (to clarify, A and B had their own set of sets). A (or B) had Maths, Design and Technology and PE together at the same time but in these three classes our original sets where shifted and different. Lucia, Dorothy, Theodora, Cerise, Airin and I where in A, Beatrix, Lucie in B.

Then the whistle blew and a resounding groan filled the playground, our Head of Year, Mr Davids gave a smile, "You'll have plenty of time at break." and blew the whistle again. Everyone milled about, we headed pick up our bags and went to find our forms' lines.

It was a long process. No-one knew where anyone was, 9New(ton) was here, then 9Fra(nklin) is there, oh, wait what? 9Pas(teur) was here now? Then where's 9San(ger)? Where the heck is 9Fra(nklin)?!

Finally we shuffled into line, I stood at the end of 9PAS' queue, the second to last form, of course, my surname was Wiśniewski. I glanced about me, giving a few waves and smiled to some girls from 9NEW. 9SAN was to our right, I glanced down the line, giving a small wave to Airin who was somewhere near the front, oh. The new guy was right next to me (well in the sense that he was also at the end of the line), he was tall, taller than I'd expected, he was a full head taller than me, classic Chinese looks but there was something else; he was half  Chinese. The other half was probably European. Asian and European people all have this look about them... ugh, I don't know how to explain.

He turned his head and looked at me. Oh god, was I staring? I turned my head away and let half of my hair fall over the side of my face. The slightly awkward expression on his face was clear that he'd been pretending not to notice my stare for some time now. I raised my hands to my face and pressed them to my cheeks as though as I could push the redness of my face back in. Why am I blushing? Now he probably thinks I'm into him.