I'm Baaaack!!

Ch. 2 - Me? New? Ha!!

I proudly opened tthe door to the main office and walked up to the front desk.

"Well hello dearie. Are you new," Mrs. Hawthorne, the old lady who worked in he main office, asked me.

"No Mrs. Hawthorne! It's me! Victoria Marshall. I just came to get my schedule," I told her.

"Victoria!! Oh heavens! I missed you so much over the summer! My how you've changed. You look beautiful of course," she said smiling. Even though she sounded happy, I could tell she was not expecting me to have changed so much. "Well I hope you have a good day dearie. I'm sure you know where everything is."

"Thanks Mrs. H," I said back to her, already on my way to homeroom. I read my schedule to figure out who I was with for homeroom.

Homeroom- 7:45 - 8:10 - Ms. DeTico

Physics- 8:15 - 9:55 - Mr. Florenza

Gym - 9:59 - 10:29 - Mr. Balingo

Honors Math - 10:33 - 11:13 - Mr. Delton

Spanish - 11:17 - 11:57 - Ms. Talerico

Lunch - 12:01 - 12:31

Art - 12:35 - 1:05 - Ms. Zilford

Language Arts - 1:09 - 1:49 - Mr. Galoven

Social Studies - 1:55 - 2:35 - Ms. DeTico

I rolled my eyes at my school. For some reason, they gave us an extra 2 minutes between our 6th and 7th period classes. Since I had arrived late in the school year, I wasn't entirely sure where Ms. DeTico's class was. I decided to ask for directions from another student. It was Jack Montebello, someone i had befriended the year before when he first moved here from Italy. He also asked if I was new and didn't know who I was, even though I had told him i looked different this year when I last talked to him. Jack gave me the directions and I made it into her room a mintue before the bell rang. The people who were already in the room (everyone!!!!) looked up as I walked in. I walked confidently to the teacher's desk and smiled.

"Hi. Today's my..... first day," I said with a smirk on my face once I saw her confused expression.

"Are you new," she asked.

"No....... I guess you could say I got a late start," I said and laughed. It was a inside joke to myself and ONLY myself. It had to do with why I stayed in LA and no one will ever find out that reason.

"Oh uh, OK. Well there's a seat over by the window there if you'd like. I don't make students do much in homeroom so if you can pretty much do whatever."

"K." I said simply.

As i sat down, Ms. DeTico called me again. "Uh sweetheart, I forgot to ask. What's your name?"

I smirked to myself. "Victoria Marshall." The entire class gasped and I instantly felt 25 people staring at me. "Hey everyone," I said while happily wiggling my fingers to them, " I'm baaaack!!!" I knew then and there, no one would think I was the new kid anymore.