Its Monday the first day of a new school year, my last year as a high school student. I woke up early like a normal human being, got dressed wearing the red blazer which is worn every Monday, Wednesday and Friday while the black blazer is a ceremonial wear. I wore combat boots since it is comfortable and the schools only restricted foot wears are heels over four inches, flip-flops, slippers and all foot wear must be either black, brown or white and since I am a babe that loves black, I decided to go for this. I am I am not that big on jewelry and I can't wear a necklace since I am wearing a tie so I have to stick to wearing just a watch which was my moms and a little earring. I went down stairs, My father, Ivan and Mira had long gone to work they both work with my father in different departments. Katerina was home she is a lawyer and she wanted to drop me off herself, she said my father was going to do it but he got a call from the office so he had to leave early.
She dropped me off at the school gate because I told her too, she then reminded me to look for Mr. Gordon. I bid her farewell and started walking towards the school building which was quite a journey from the school gate. I was not the only one walking but, in this place, there are more tiers than legs, they have school busses but private vehicles are more. Here you won't be able to tell the difference between the rich and the poor because everybody is dressed the same probably shoes and bags may be the deciding factor but aside from that nothing else, everywhere is so posh and so clean. The school has about five or six buildings in the compound from what I have seen so far, So I walked to the entrance of the one that seems somewhat in the middle and right in front of it I see some students with badges on their blazers holding up cardboards with a name on each persons cardboard. I walked up to the person who has my name on his board, he seemed rather bored.
"Hello welcome to Grayland Academy, my name is Daniel Brown and I will be your guide today" I was bored by his introduction too so I returned the energy.
"Hi I am Alice Walker; I would have said nice to meet you but your introduction is way off so you get what you get" He looked at me with a raised eyebrow
"O really?"
"Yes" I may appear as a person who is shy or scared of confrontation but I am not. I may keep to myself a lot doesn't mean people can walk over me.
"I just need you to point me to Mr. Gordons office" He looked shocked for a moment.
"You mean Principal Gordon, and why do you want to see him I mean nobody gets to see him jus like that" is that so?
"Well I was directed to meet him once I got here so can you take me to him"? he hesitated for bit
"Fine let's go"
I followed him into the building where we were standing. Turns out that all staff offices including the HOS (Head of Security), HODs (Head of Departments) and the Principal were all stationed in this building. We walked for a while then we stopped in front of a glass door that has 'PRINCIPAL' written in bold letters. We walked in, there was a young lady at the front desk with 'SECRETARY' boldly written on her desk. She seemed to be very busy.
"How can I help you?" She said without looking at us
"We are here to see principal Gordon" Daniel said with a raised eyebrow. She looked at us immediately.
"And why do you want to see him Mr. Brown?" She said with a questioning look.
"O not me, her" He said pointing at me
"Why do you want to see him?" She said again but this time she was looking at me
"I was told to come and see him when I get here"
"And who told you to come?"
"My father" This lady is getting on my nerves
"Who is your fath…."
"Could you just tell him that Alice walker is here to see him?" I said interrupting her. She should work with the FBI she is pretty much good at interrogation and pissing people off.
"Hold on" She said looking like she was about to bite my head off. She picked up her phone on her desk
"Sir an Alice Walker is here to see you" I heard him shout, I could not tell what he was saying but she looked terrified
"You can go in" She said with a very surprised look on her face I mean even Daniel surprised, I was surprised too like how loud is his voice
I walked into his office not knowing what to expect from a man who seems to terrify a grown woman. But right there in the huge office sat a man, an elderly man with white hair and beards he kinds of reminds me of Dumbledore.
"Good morning sir"
"O Alice its good to finally see you" He said with a smile as he walked up to give me a hug. I was very surprised because I never expected it
"You don't have to be stiff relax, have a sit" He pointed at the seat right in front of his table. Is this the same man that I heard over the phone or does he have like a personality disorder?
"You know me?" I had to ask because I cannot still rap my head around the change in attitude.
"Of course, I do. It would be a shame not to recognize my own Godsons child and you look so much like him" Wait what?
"That is a lot to take in but you would get used to it"
"I'll try I guess"
"So I looked at your passed grades and they a very impressive and I also saw the test score from the one I told your father to administer to you and you did very well too I was very impressed I am glad that the gene did to skip you"
I looked at him with a raised eyebrow. I have never been told I was genius I was in honors class before I was homeschooled so technically everybody in my class was very smart, we went for competitions representing the school and the country and we never failed to come at the top.
"But in this place, there is a lot of competition so you have to keep the spirit. I will excuse you since your first lesson will start in 30 minutes" He walked to the reception of his office, Daniel was sitting down and he looked really tired. I will have to apologize to him after.
"Mr. Brown" He called with his loud voice again.
"I see you brought her here, make sure you show her around and that she does not miss any class.
"Yes sir." He said getting up immediately. Mr. Gordon turned to look at me placing his hands on my shoulder like a grandfather talking to his grandchild
"Make new friends alright? And if anyone tries to bully you let me know okay" I gave him a nod and told him thank you as myself and Daniel walked out of his office.
When we got out of the building and started walking towards the seniors' block where both of us would be, he kept looking at me.
"If you keep looking at me like that, I think my head might explode"
"I am just confused as to how you know the principal because he not usually friendly with people not even the staff so how come you just came to day and he is so nice to you"
"He is just a close family friend" I said with a shrug
"I know a lot of his close family friends and he is not so nice with them"
"Maybe I am just an exception" I said with a smile as we walked into our building. We went to the only office in the building to get my class number, some texted books issued by the school and my timetable. We both walked to my locker, he assisted me with arranging my thing which was so nice of him. There were a lot of students some talking, some walking to their class rooms while some were busy staring at us which was beginning to creep me out and it was making me very uncomfortable.
Two students walked up to us; the girl looked overly excited while the boy looked very grumpy like he would rather be anywhere but here Cliché I no. I also noticed that they also had the same tag as that Daniel had but I don't remember seeing them when I got here.
"HI my love?" the overly bubbly girl said as she a threw her hands over his neck and he did not look happy about it.
"What do you want Jackie?"
"I missed you during the holidays did you miss me?"
"I did not" He said as he tried to free himself from her grasp. She then turned to look at me.
"Who is she? Daniel are you cheating on me? She said with a very fake hurt look on her face.
"You are not my girlfriend Jackie? And I am just showing her around and look you are both in the same class"
"Really? Hi I'm Jackie and this is my twin brother Jordan" she pointed the grumpy guy who just waved at me. The bell rang, we had Math I was not a big math fan but I don't have issues with it. We got to our class room, I and Jackie were in the same class while Jordan and Daniel were in the same class. Before I entered, I felt this little sense of fear. Jackie placed her hand around my neck while saying let's go newbie I also heard Daniel telling her to look after me isn't he a softie. We walked into the class and the staring continued I took one of the empty seats at the back while Jackie sat beside me. Some girls came to her telling her how pretty her hair was and how expensive her bag is.
The math teacher came in wrote 'Trigonometry' ok that is fair I brought out my note book, blocked out everyone like I always do and focused on the teacher alone. The class went on for an hour thirty minutes. I answered zero questions because that is how I always work we will see ourselves on the exam day. We had three other subjects before it was launch time. Immediately we heard Jackie grabbed my hand to our lockers so we can drop our books, we went to the boy's class to wait for them Jackie caught Jordan's attention as she waved her hands in the air like a crazy person. Jordan tapped on Daniels shoulder who was talking to two other guys and I wont lie to you they are very good looking. He looked at me, I gave him a small smile while I fiddled with my purse as I looked away. They finally came out then went to the cafeteria, as we got in, we went to get our lunch I was not so big on a lot of food so just took a plate of spaghetti and a bottle of orange juice. I noticed that on one table all of them there had the badge as well while the four of us sat on an empty table and the staring continued.
"What's with the badge"
"We are school prefects" Daniel answered me
"And this bad boy here is the Head boy" Jackie said pointing to Daniel
"Then what are you guys doing here"
"Daniel kind of like his personal space"
"Then why I'm I here?"
"I guess he took a personal liking to you?" Jackie said with a smirk. I looked at Daniel he didn't even mind what Jackie was saying I guess he is used to it.
"Is that why everybody is looking at me crazy?"
"Sort of. I mean you are new and already sitting with three prefects I think that is more than enough and we kind of have been sitting together for years now"
"So, what about you Alice? What brings you to Grayland? because telling from your accent you are not from around here"
"Well long story short, I lost my mom to cancer found out that my father leaves here because he came for me on the day of my mom's funeral so here, I am" I said with a shrug. But why I'm I giving so much information to total strangers.
"Wow that is something?" this time it was Jordan who spoke. I just chuckled
"Wait is principal Gordon your father?" Daniel said with shock on his face and so did the others
"What? No, he is way too old to be my father" Daniel raised his brows as in you think?
"I'm serious" We talked about random stuffs with Jackie doing most of the talking.
"Well, well, well if it isn't the welcoming committee. This is so unlike you Daniel having a new person among your trio"
"What do you want Clay?" Clay? That is the most American name I have ever heard in my life but wait a minute why does that voice sound very familiar. I turned to look at the person standing behind me and it was indeed him Clay Michael Peterson, My supposed 'best friend'. What the heck is he doing here? Is this were he ran off to after what happened. I Wanted leave everything in the past but I guess it is not happening anytime soon.
"Alice?" Daniel, Jackie, Jordan and the two others who were standing behind him looked me like what is going on. I got up from my seat left my tray on the table and walked out of the Cafeteria, I could hear Jackie calling my name. I walked into the girls' bathroom and locked myself inside of the stalls. If was going to have a panic attack I am not going to have it in front of the entire school.