Its a week before school starts. Ruby prepares her stuff and she is feeling excited and at the same time, nervous. She is excited since she'll get to meet some new friends and she knows that her new life at senior high will have a change. And she's also nervous since the subjects will get harder each year passes. And she's afraid that it might end up the same or worse as her high school years.
She sighed, and took a deep breath that everything's gonna be fine although the subjects will become hard especially that she has to convince her brain to know and understand the lessons well in order to get into 12th grade. During her free time, she would play together with her little sister, Ashe and make vlogs together when they're bored. Her older sister, Jovyne, a famous actress who is busy making their new project. Her mother, Anne Batumbakal is busy with presidential politics and works. Same goes to her dad, Koi, the ambassador of their country.
A week passed, its finally the first day of school. As Ruby enters her new school, she almost got lost finding where the 11th grade room was. Luckily, someone asked her what year she's in, then her classmate made their way to the classroom. Before the class starts, she decided to use her phone and scroll on tiktok. The class has begun, it was just a day-long orientation since it was first day and the school doesn't want the students to be stressed at their very first day. At lunch, she bought a little snack and prefers to buy food from the fast food store near her hometown. While she was eating alone, a guy sat with her.
"Heyyy." This guy approaches her. "Wanna be friends?"
"Oh hey." Ruby replied as she tucked her hair on her ear. "Um sure. Nice to meet you by the way."
"I'm Neith. What's yours?"
"That sounds nice! I'm Ruby." She chuckled.
"You got a nice name aye." Neith replied. "We should probably share some stuff with each other. Is that okay?"
"I would love to!"
During lunch, they would talk about the things they like to do on their free time, their favorite things, food, subjects, their experiences, trauma, and etc. It seemed surreal that Ruby suddenly got a new friend that is a guy and not a girl one. But he seems nice and sweet. After class, they decided to go somewhere else together. Malls, amusement parks, and movies. Then Neith decided to ask Ruby if she could come with him to meet his friends.
"Ruby?"
"Uh yeah?"
"Do you wanna go to the space building? One of my friends are in there."
"Sure thing though. Cmon."
Ruby agreed although it sounded a little suspicious. Got nothing to worry since it seems like a place worth visiting and exploring. Now they took a train ride just to go there, then they finally arrived. Ruby was mesmerized on what she just saw.
There's a giant robot behind the building and that's the space company building that Neith was talking about.
"You have a friend who's working in here right?"
"Yep, he's currently in 12th grade and we have different schedules. He's also studying in the same school as us." Neith explained to her.
"Then how come he had to balance school and this?" Ruby asked.
"Good question, after school, he went straight here to perform his duties."
"Ohhhhh now I see…"
As they entered the space building, the guards seemed suspicious towards Ruby. Luckily, they knew Neith since he is also an ally of this company.
"Oh, it's you, Neith." The guards welcomed him. "And who's that girl with you?"
"My new friend. We're gonna come here for a little visit." Neith replied. The guards let them in.
They entered at the main place of the building which is, the astrovolt headquarters. The team approches them.
"Neith!" The guy in red uniform approached him. "Who's this girl? Is she your girlfriend?"
"Nope." Neith replied. "She's a friend that I just met. This is Ruby by the way. And Ruby, this is my best friend, Iwao. We've been friends since elementary. Now say hi to each other. Don't be shy."
"Hi Ruby!!!" Iwao suddenly approached her. "Hey Iwao.." She looks away slowly towards him. As Iwao looks at Ruby, there was something in his mind saying: "she's so cute… I wondered how did Neith meet this girl…"