Black and White

The arrival

"Danny , Danny , Danny , Danny" - the crowd kept shouting at the top of their voice as Danny entered the stage .

Danny , the 18 year old teen pop sensation , when he sings the whole world goes upside down, always trending on #1 on the chartbusters, girls go gaga over his charms. Cameras follow him wherever he goes and whatever he does makes the Page 3 headline - camera flashes , photo shoots , promotion - his every move is monitored as he is also heir to ZAP Productions. Thus, he surely made a uproar when he said he wanted to take break and complete his final year graduation .

"Pop Sensation Danny to join high school again", Robert said with a smirk , Robert is Danny's manager, " You sure make it to the headlines everyday Danny"

Danny sipped his coffee and looked up from his laptop clearly unamused at the news . Pop sensation Danny always keeps a straight upright face with a occasional smile but the real Danny has no expression at all.

"Leave the media , it doesn't matter if I take off for one or two year , all they need is a good scoop to sell off.....whatever I'll be joining St. Stephens from next Monday , need to get my stuff packed".

"I don't understand why would you go to some random school to complete your graduation , you could have chosen Oxford or something ?"

"Rob, you know I don't like to repeat myself , I don't want my life to be just cameras and flashes , I want to create some good music , music that will touch the souls and for that I need inspiration , inspiration which comes from the ground level and honestly I need a break from all these".

"Okay , okay I get it . I'll get everything ready", Rob said throwing his arms up in the air making a gesture of surrender .

"And one last thing no branded stuff, everything should be casual , okay ?"

"Not even the underwear?"

Danny gave him a dirty look .

"Okay , okay I got it !"

Danny looked into his computer again and immersed himself in work .

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St. Stephens High school for Boys

"Good morning class , let me introduce to you , your new classmate Danny Roy , be good with him", the teacher said as he introduced Danny to everyone

Interestingly nobody could identify that this geeky looking side parted hair Danny is the pop sensation Danny himself .

Danny smiled looking at everyone . Nobody gave him a second glance of recognition. "I guess changing my hair colour and the look a little did the trick", Danny thought to himself.

"Take your seat young man", said the teacher .

Danny saw the last two seats were empty so he went straight and chose the window seat .

Every pair of eyes gave him a look as he passed by them and took the seat .

"Did they recognise me ?", Danny thought again and looked towards the curious pair eyes , the gaze diverted as they met with Danny's .

"Now take out your notebooks and we shall begin with the syllabus"

The classes went as per schedule, "so this is what normal life looks like", Danny thought .

After school he went straight to the hostel to his designated room, even though he wanted to share a room but Rob arranged a private room for him with all the facilities. It has a little space for cooking , a small fridge , an attach bath to satisfy the need of every "normal people" according to Rob's point of view .

Danny didn't complain about the cooking stuff being included because he loves cooking occasionally.

He entered his room , freshened up and had his fill from the hostel canteen .

He was sitting in the library struggling with his chemistry homework when suddenly a guy popped up out of nowhere.

The guy grinned and said , "Hi, I'm Josh and you're the new kid right ?"

Danny looked at the boy , wearing a pink T-shirt and shorts emitting all "Kawaii" vibe from him.

Danny nodded in reply .

"So , you're doing your chemistry homework , I'm done with mine , want some help ?", Josh said with the same grin .

Danny shaked his head clearly indicating "no thanks".

"Don't you talk ?", Josh said pouting .

Danny looked Josh in the eye and gave him a dirty look .

"Come'n let's be friends , I know everything around the building and the school, so if you need any help come to me I'm always there"

Danny didn't uttered a single word and kept on solving the chemical equation. But his equation is wrong again .

Josh peeped into Danny's copy , " Oh,Isooctane combustion....your carbon and hydrogen atoms are balanced but you left out the oxygen, as there are two molecules per oxygen molecule we must use a fractional coefficient to balance the oxygen" and scribbled the right equation in Danny's copy .

Danny looked into the equation which is perfectly balanced now. He looked towards Josh who's still grinning like a idiot and said , "Thank you".

"Finally!!!!"

"What ?"

"Finally you talked !"

Danny looked straight into Josh's face expressionless. Josh grinned and wished Danny goodnight and went away dancing .

"What a boy !!!", Danny thought to himself and wrapped up his stuff and went to his room.

A week went by with a blink of an eye. Danny has now adjusted with his new life and everything's going well . Surprisingly, Josh clings to Danny in his free time and Danny has no complains about it - things were all peaceful unless..........