We had to get up at 7am so that we could go to the great hall and listen to Ms Adams talk about the school rules and everything. I was stuck next to Charlotte-Rose and she kept pretending to faint. I ended up grabbing her wrist and whispering for her to stop or else. She glared at me and started spreading rumours.
After the assembly we had to go to the entrance corridor and read the sheets about which level class we were going to be in. I had to take an entrance exam a few months ago and the classes are the results.
I looked at the board and saw that I was in the 2nd level class overall, which is basically 2nd hardest by the way. It's my first term and I'm in the 2nd highest class! Luckily I'm with Aggie, but I'm also with Melody, Sandra, CR and Brittany. I mean, at least they won't be able to brag about being better than me because we're at the same level.
I looked at the board again and read it properly. Overall I'm at 2nd level of skill, which I'm happy about since I started playing 4 months ago. There's 10 level classes in total, 10 being the lowest and 1 the highest. I'm in the 2nd level class for violin, 3rd for cello, 4th for guitar, 5th for drums, 6th for recorder, 2nd for piano, 2nd for trumpet, 1st for singing, 1st for songwriting, 3rd for keyboard, 7.5 for normal music lessons and 7th for saxophone.
I'm in cello, guitar, normal music lessons, trumpet, and recorder with Charlotte-Rose and Sandra, and every lesson except songwriting and saxophone with Melody and Brittany. Luckily I have every lesson with Aggie.
They have different lessons for every instrument, and you have to take at least 2 woodwind, 2 strings, 2 percussion, and 2 brass, but you can pick more. Everyone is also required to have regular music lessons like you would have at a regular secondary school.
I picked violin, cello, guitar, drums, recorder, piano, keyboard, and saxophone because those are all the instruments I want to learn, and I've been singing and song-writing since I was 4. Me, Ivy, Park and Carls used to put on performances for each other until Ivy started being mean, but me Park and Carls continued the tradition. We wrote songs together and sung them all the time, most of them were about being ignored, but there's kind of one song about Ivy that we wrote when we were 5 and said we would give to her if she was ever nice again. Not that that'll ever happen, Ives has made it perfectly clear that she thinks she's better than us.
Anyways, I was in Second Period, piano lessons, when Ms Adams walked in with another girl. She had long, wavy blonde hair and was wearing a baggy navy t-shirt with the phrase 'we're not in Hawkins anymore' written on it, and a pair of dark green leggings with a navy stripe going the the sides. She had pale skin and she had an emerald-green headband pulling her hair back. She was also wearing an amozonite necklace with a gold flower symbol above and a lamp on a different chain (it's a double chain necklace and it's Princess Jasmine from Aladdin themed).
"Hello girls, this is Carla Cameron. She's new to the school. She was born in Barcelona and moved to Cornwall when she was four years old. She now lives in Paignton, a half-hour away. She started off at a boys boarding school by accident thinking it was a girls school and it took a couple of days for her transfer form to be completed. So, here she is. Yay."
"Is it just me or does it seem like Ms Adams hates children." Aggie whispered in my ear. I choked back a laugh and whispered back,
"Don't be ridiculous Ags, she hates everyone."
Our Piano teacher, Mrs Harrison, glared at us and cleared her throat. Ms Adams looked at us and groaned.
"Miss Crossford, Miss France. Detention. For whispering in class. Do not do it again or else it'll be detention for the rest of the week."
"What?!" I gasped. Ms Adams glared at me again. I heard a giggle and turned to see Charlotte-Rose handing something around the class.
"Make that two days. For both of you."
"Wha-" Aggie started saying. I clamped my hand across her mouth and Carla giggled. Ms Adams glared at her and then smirked.
"Well Miss Cameron, since you find it so funny why don't you join them. Lunchtime, today. All three of you. Be on time or it's double the amount."
With that, she left the room and Mrs Harrison pointed at the empty desk next to me.
"Alright, Carla, you can sit next to Allie and Aggie over there. It might be for the best."
Carla came and sat next to me. She unpacked her stuff and then smiled nervously.
"Hi, I'm Carla. I, well Ms Adams just pretty much explained everything about me."
"Yeah," Aggie laughed quietly. "She's the worst. She seems to hate everyone, but mostly kids."
"Why is she a teacher then?!"
"I know right!" I agreed. Aggie nodded and I continued talking.
"I bet she was forced into it by her family. Or at least forced into it by someone! There is no way she actually wants to run a school. No way on earth."
"GIRLS!" Mrs Harrison yelled. Everyone immediately turned to stare at us and I saw Brittany and Melody smirking. I glared at them and Brittany punched the wall behind her angrily. Melody smiled at me and I was surprised, I was about to smile back when Charlotte-Rose shoved her and she glared at me again. Somehow Mrs Harrison didn't notice and continued to tell us off.
"In conclusion, DO NOT WHISPER IN MY LESSONS! IS THAT UNDERSTOOD?!"
"Yes Miss."
"Yes Miss."
I continued to be distracted. I was thinking about Carlos and Parker.
I really missed them, I wished I could see them-
"MISS CROSSFORD! I SAID DO YOU UNDERSTAND!!"
"Wha-yes Miss." I said quickly as Carla shoved me under the table. Mrs Harrison nodded and continued with the lesson, the three of us just sat in silence until it was over.
Halfway through the lesson, someone handed me the piece of paper Charlotte-Rose had been writing on, and I gasped.
It was a photo of me, when I was 4, and I was standing with Ivy. I recognised the photo, it was of me and my 3 identical siblings, but Carlos and Parker had been cut out of it. It had been drawn on, Ivy looked beautiful and had long curly hair, completely unlike her, while I had devil horns, glasses and braces. Underneath, the words 'ugly and a nobody, so glad I'm not her' were printed in a neat row of block letters.
I screamed and punched Charlotte-Rose. Carla gasped and Aggie quickly whacked Sandra in the head before she could do anything. Miss Harrison started yelling, but after a few minutes she gave up and stormed out of the room, sighing as Charlotte-Rose pulled my hair and I screamed again. After a few seconds, Carla joined in and tackled Melody and Brittany.
"I have no idea what's going on but you were glaring at Allie so dieee"
Once the lesson was finished, the three of us stumbled out of the classroom covered in bruises. We went up to my Dorm, avoiding anyone from our keyboard. Carla was bursting of excitement by the time we got there.
"I can't believe we got into a fight in 02 keyboard! That was so epic, the adrenaline felt great! Do you guys do that often?"
"Too often," me and Aggie both muttered. We laughed and walked towards our dorm door. We stopped to pick up Carla's bags and then took them up to my room. She looked confused.
"Wait, but Ms Adams said I'm in Dorm 10 with two girls named Raina and Isobel. This is Dorm 11 and it says 'Melody Parker, Brittany Taylor and Allison Crossford.'
"I know, but we're allowed to have sleepovers here and me and Aggie had one our first few nights, she practically lives in my Dorm now. So, I just figured, maybe you could spend the night too. I want to get to know you, you seem pretty cool!"
Carla smiled happily and picked up her suitcase.
"Well, in that case, I guess I'm moving into Dorm 11! Yay! I can't wait to tell my boyfriend about this later!"
I raised my eyebrows and Aggie dropped Carla's bag on the floor.
"Boyfriend?!"
"You have a boyfriend!?"
Carla nodded excitedly and threw all her bags through the door without looking. There was a scream from inside and then a thud. We ran inside and saw Melody lying unconscious on the floor with Carla's suitcase on her head.
"Oops."
I was mostly shocked, but I also couldn't help but giggle at the sight of the 'oh so amazing Melody' lying unconscious after being hit by a suitcase.
The three of us tried to avoid eye contact, but in the end we burst out laughing. Suddenly Brittany walked in and paused. She immediately glared at us and walked over to Melody.
"What did you guys do to Melods, she was just sat innocently in here and you've just attacked her! I'm going to headmistress Adams about this!"
"Okay, Brittany!" Aggie said with fake positivity. "We'll just explain that it was an accident and how you hate us and want to snitch to get us in trouble at any cost!"
As she was finishing that sentence, Melody woke up and Brittany immediately stopped yelling at us to help her to the San.
We unpacked Carla's things and then spent around half an hour talking about our favourite shows and movies, plus favourite characters, ships and part ms we don't understand. Then we started a pillow fight and we were rolling around the floor when Carla got a call from her boyfriend. Boy, was that a shock!
Like I said, we'd just finished a pillow fight, and we were on the floor laughing when Carla's boyfriend called. She picked up immediately and went to the other end of the room to talk to him privately for a bit. We heard her talking excitedly about her new friends and about how we'd gotten into a fight. It was then that she smiled and brought the phone over.
She placed it leaning against the wall and then grabbed a pillow and whacked me in the head with it. I fell onto the floor again and grabbed Aggie's ankle, pulling her down too. Then Carla tripped over a pillow and fell on the two of us.
It was then that it happened. We were hugging and giggling in a heap on the floor, when I heard a gasp come from the phone. A gasp that sounded all too familiar. I turned around and finally saw who Carla's boyfriend was...
"Carlos?!"