new girl in town - violetta

one.

"Hello stranger," Fede chuckled as he pulled his twin sister in for the worlds biggest hug, they hadn't seen eachother in real life since he visited and his last visit had been over a year ago. Sure, they facetimed almost everyday just to check in but it felt weird being in the same room as one another now, let alone being dragged into a hug.

"Okay, a little bit too tight there Fede, there's plenty to go around!" Violetta exclaimed, shoving her brother off in a playful manner. He raised an eyebrow at her, she'd changed a lot in the six years that she'd been away. When she left, she was far more girly, refusing to every wear anything but floral dresses and skirts but now she was in ripped jeans and an old hoodie with her boarding school name plastered over the front, she found it much comfier but also a lot less effort and when you live on campus, you get used to putting in the minimum effort possible.

"Thought dad sent you over to Europe so that you would blossom into a young lady, I think you were more ladylike when you left V," Fede laughed holding one of the sleeves of the oversized hoodies with a look of comical disgust. What he said was partially true, German had sent Violetta over to Europe as thats where María got her education and he wanted the same, but being cooped up in a school filled to the brim with daddy's girls and spoilt brats still didn't stop Violetta from becoming herself.

"Girls are catty when you coop them all up, you have to learn to survive and not stand out," she laughs as Fede helps her inside the house with the rest of her stuff. She was expecting her dad to come and pick her up at the airport but apparently he was on vacation with his latest girlfriend and didn't bother to tell her, so he sent a rather rude driver instead.

"Tell you what, there's this great smoothie place down the street, how about we grab a delicious beverage and catch up at the same time?" Fede smiled, passing Violetta a jacket which she quickly shoves on before the two of them make there way out of the house, locking it behind them.

When they get to the smoothie place, Violetta feels a little overwhelmed. It's filled with people in Studio 21 clothing, they beam smiles at Federico and shoot glares at Violetta, probably just mistaking her for another one of Fede's random dates he finds god knows where. "Fede! Hey!" A guy smiles at Fede and beckons him over, Fede grabs Violetta by the wrist and drags her to the table.

"Hey guys, this is my twin sister Violetta, Vilu, this is Maxi, Francesca and Camila, three of the coolest people you will ever meet," he pulls up two chairs and they sit down. They do basic introductions for a bit until the two boys get up to go and order some smoothies.

"So Vilu, any cute boys whilst you were abroad?" Camila smiled, a very intriguing and knowing smile that seemed to be a false sense of trust. Violetta hadn't really had much action whilst she was away, she grew up surrounded by a lot of girls and didn't exactly have any boys to talk to. Except for this one kid.

"His name was Tomas. He was one of the housemothers sons and he played guitar. We were putting on a show and we didn't have any music students that played guitar so they let him come in and all the girls swooned immediately! I mean he was very attractive and we weren't exactly used to that except in all those teen rom-com movies. However, I had the upper hand as I played piano in the show, we practiced together and he used to walk me back to my dorm when we were done, all the girls seemed to be jealous but it wasn't like we were dating, it was more like a close friendship. Except this one time after the show was done, he came to visit just me and he took me to this secret garden behind the staff quarters. It was kinda romantic and he kissed me! I felt like I was on top of the clouds, but I barely saw him after that..." She sighed, the girls seemed impressed.

"Sounds like a catch, much better than the ones we get around here," Fran laughed as the boys returned with the smoothly. The rest of the evening went smoothly.

"So Vilu, are you going to be attending Studio 21?" Cami smiled as they all got up to leave. Violetta shook her head.

"I'll probably just do online school, I don't think I'm near enough talented to go to the Studio and that's the only school that's sorta near so..." Violetta sighed, truth is, she had massive stage fright but didn't exactly feel comfortable into going into the details of it with someone she had known for all of one evening.

"Bummer, you would blend right in," Maxi beamed a smile before him and Cami headed off in the opposite direction. Fran continued to walk with Violetta and Fede for a bit before stopping.

"Well, I'm hosting a back to school party in attempts to make more friends in a couple of weeks, you should totally come," Fran smiled, getting a notepad and pen out of her bag and scribbling down her online chatroom username. "In case you wanna chat," She smiled, passing the note to Violetta before waving them both goodbye.

When she finally got into her room, Violetta didn't feel like scribbling down endlessly in her journal, she just wanted to treasure and savour the evening she had just had. For the first time in years, she felt secure in herself and her new friends added to that found confidence, she just prayed nothing would shatter it.