The Silent Student

Chapter one: I'm Zero

The soft morning sunlight was slightly shining through the thin white curtains, my snow white hair was spewing off in different directions and was slightly covering my chocolate brown eyes. Groggily I slowly sat up from the warm sheets on the bed that was only a few feet off the dark brown hardwood floor that was shining from the morning light.  Bringing my hands to my weary eyes I gently rubbed the sleep from them, after that i scratched my head where the soft to the touch snow white hair was growing, i raised my arms and stretched while yawning into the room filled with white noise. Outside the trees were softly swaying making the leaves brush against each other caused by a soft breeze, the thin white curtains were moving gently to the breeze through the opened window. Looking over to the nightstand was the alarm clock, '6:20 a.m', sighing i stood up off balanced and falling to the floor then shortly after hitting the slightly warmed floor a loud 'thud' was heard, vibrating the room and the objects inside. Now laying on the ground- arms and legs opened like a starfish. The all-familiar voice yelled from the bottom floor bellowed at me playfully in a joyful voice;
"WELL GOODMORNING ZERO!" I smiled as i sat up running a hand through my soft white hair, as i started to stand up i could smell a slight hint of meat, now awake i walked over to my door i opened it slightly only to be engulfed with the aroma of breakfast- eggs, sausage, bacon, and toast. Closing the door i walked over to my desk which was cluttered with papers and other miscellaneous things, 'i'll have to clean this later...' I smiled as i looked at my desk chair which held my clothes for the school day, first i grabbed my shirt which was a long sleeved grey shirt and put it on, then dark blue skinny jeans, my army green belt, followed by black socks, then army green converse, then i put on my army green hoodie and zipped up the screw zipper and adjusting the hood and sleeves, then i walked over to my dresser and picked up my hair brush and proceeded to comb my hair, setting down the hair brush i picked up my black steampunk goggles, the night before i had cleaned the orange lens and put them back in, i put the goggles on my head adjusting them to my liking and smiled at myself while looking through the mirror and saw my bullet necklace that i rarely took off and noticed that under my eyes there was some slight black under them from lack of sleep. Before walking out of the fairly clean room i grabbed my brown leather satchel bag for school, now out of the room and heading down the wooden stairs towards the smell of breakfast, setting down my bag on a chair i sat down where there was a plate with food on it ready for me too eat;
"Well hello Zero, did you sleep well?" I looked up to see blue eyes and blonde short shaggy hair and the person who adopted me from the Orphanage; Jay;
"Good Morning jay... i slept... alright thank you for asking" he smiled with a warm laugh as well then ruffled my hair;
"Yep that's what i'm for! Well you have school in a bit and i've heard there's a new student" i froze from eating;
"N-new student?"
"Yep! In your grade too! I don't know anymore about this new student but thought i'd let you know before hand" i sunk in my chair 'great. Another person...' i kept eating as jay went to get ready for work, he was a videogame designer and works for Xbox. As i finished up my food i placed my plate in the sink and went to the front door;
"I'm leaving for school!" I heard frantic shuffling up stairs then saw jay poke his was out from the railing;
"Ok! See you when you get home!" I nodded and walked out of the house. Jay was my 'caregiver' or 'guardian', he was only about 28 but he was an awesome person to be around with and was an amazing cook. I myself was very different, while other kids have a family I was adopted, actually abandoned then adopted, i was abandoned when i was 5 because i was born with pure white hair, stupid reason. Right? Well i stumbled around the city for a while before someone finding me and putting me in an orphanage where i was practically raised for another 6 years, then jay found me. He was the first person in my whole life to not care about my white hair or since I was 9 insomniac but he has me take pills to sleep, actually I don't really use them anymore I just throw a pill away everyday to make it look like I'm using them but I'm not. He adopted me when i was 11 and i've lived with him ever since. walking down the street to the school i saw people walking with their friends and such, not that i didn't have friends i just didn't have a lot, plus meeting people isn't my strong point. As I entered the school building and when to my locker A girl with long brown hair my age walked over to me and had a pack of girls her age behind her;
"Oh look at zero! Going swimming?" They all laughed hysterically and continued to insult me;
"Aww is Snow White trying to find her dwarfs?"
"Where's your gun?"
"Are you a messenger?"
"Like green much looser?" I continued walking not paying much attention to the girls who themselves didn't have a life and no one like them except for their little group, but thought that they were the most popular and cutest girls in school;
"Hey leave her alone Cible" The girls went silent, I slowly turned and saw Eli Collins. He's the heartthrob of the school and a 4.0 student like me, he was fortunately one of my friends, he was tall with perfect black hair and dazzling green eyes. He mainly wore a dark crimson hoodie with a grey beanie, black pants and red converse. And now he stood in front of me defending me, the 'leader' of the group started to attempt being seductive as she bit her lip looking up and down Eli;
"Why protect her? She's no one compared to me" Eli was disgusted but flashed a smirk;
"I'm pretty she she has a 4.0 while you have about a 0.84, you're failing your classes, what was it again... Oh right five 'F's and a 'D+'?" Cible shrunk, losing all confidence in that one harsh but sadly true statement.after closing my opened locker I hi-fived him as the girls started to walk off leaving me and Eli alone, awkwardly I scratched my neck;
"Hey, uh t-thanks for the help?" I slightly laughed and looked down then back up;
"Hey no problem Zero!" He looked at me carefully;
"Zero when did you sleep last?" I looked up;
"Actually last night" I could tell by the way he looked at me that he mentally facepalmed;
"I mean before last night, under your eyes are slightly black" i awkwardly laughed;
"Uhh... T-testing..." He looked at me and his green eyes were full of shock and he raised his voice a Bit;
"You haven't slept since testing! That was three weeks ago!" He placed a hand on my shoulder and his eyes and voice now full of disappointment;
"Zero you need to sleep, ok? At least more often like three or four times a week for me?" I opened my mouth to speak yet was cut off the the morning bell informing us that school has started and to go to your first class. I just nodded and hurried off to my first class as Eli looked at me and gave me two thumbs up with his famous smile, we had that talk before, many times before, I've tried to sleep but even with the pills it's hard. Walking Through the halls and into my first class which is Science with Mr. Okama, the class was filled with chatter I multiple students talking, I sat in my seat, first column, third row, first spot. Also known by the window in the very back of class. There had always been an empty seat best to me but no one ever say there, looking away from the desk I rested my head on my arms and looked out the window not paying attention When Mr. Okama walked into the classroom and shut the door and all chatter stopped, I looked up to see that he had an unusual smile on his face;
"Good Morning class! I have amazing news for you!" He walked back over to the door he had closed only moments ago and opened it only too see a new person walk in, he had brown hair and brown eyes, he was wearing a plain black tee shirt with a gold necklace with a pendant on the bottom and blue jeans. He smiled and waved to the classroom;
"Hello class! I'm Zack Leeve, I hope we all can be friends!" I sighed and looked out the window again 'this must be who jay was talking about'. He smiled as he looked around then a boy at the front snickered and whispered quiet but just loud enough for me to be able to hear him;
"Ha yeah, have fun with trying to get zero to be your friend, or much less talk to you" Zacks smile faded;
"What do you mean? Who's Zero?" The boy pointed right at me and then back at zack then there was an eerie silence. Mr. Okama filled the silence with his voice;
"Go sit next to zero, she has the white hair" Zack said a simple 'ok' then walked back to the empty seat and sat down, then he turned to me and stuck out a hand;
"Hi I'm Zack" I looked at his hand then at him, he was smiling and was happy I could tell, 'what the hell' I stuck out my hand and shook his;
"I'm Zero"