FrAcTuReD (Part One) (Completed continued in Part Two)

Chapter. 02 (Slight Edit)

"Pretty much, thanks again for helping me, I'm Charla by the way."

"Alex," she paused when noticing the rain coming to a stop and Charla folding up her umbrella before asking. "How long have you been here?"

"This will be my second day now," she said as she made her way past the road quickly with Alex following suit. "There's still a lot I'm not too sure about but I think I'll get it over time. At least that's normally how it goes."

"Normal people would get used to a place first before going to school," Alex told her.

"True, but my Uncle lives here and my Dad also grew up here before moving to the city. I know some things that they've both told me and my Dad did prep me on some of the things with the school before I arrived."

"Huh..." but Alex didn't say more.

As they walked Charla glanced at the girl next to her, Alex was tall and had a few piercings in both ears along with her dark brown hair being very short and having the hair fall along the right side of her face.

She wore the uniform jacket over her white blouse but had the sleeves rolled up near her elbows. Rather different from Charla merely wearing the uniform sweater-vest and her hooded jacket with her headphones on her neck making her look almost the complete opposite.

"The city you lived in before coming here," Alex spoke suddenly. "It's the one with that serial murder case right?"

Charla stopped and looked at the girl in surprise. "How..."

"It's pretty obvious," Alex said. "That city's been in the news for a while now, and you said your Dad moved to a city, which I can assume you grew up in and that's pretty much it. Just guess work. So am I right."

Reluctantly Charla nodded. "Yeah it is, is that strange?"

"Not really, anyway we're almost there come on."

Alex evidently showed Charla the rest of the way to school, taking paths the other students didn't seem to both with, what's more she noticed how a lot of the students seemed to avoid Alex, perhaps she had done something or they may have just judged her solely on appearances. Either way, by the time they reached the school only a few students could be seen hanging around the grounds.

"So," Alex said. "As you can see this is will be your new school and junk. It's not bad, could be better but I think if you asked anyone around they'd say this school is pretty good."

Charla glanced at Alex before looking back at the school. "Oh... okay."

"Hey Al!" one student called out as he strolled in with a slouched posture and was wearing a beanie. "Can you believe the rain finally gives us a break?"

"Yo, yeah well what can you do? This place always has a ton of rain, nothing you can do about that."

"Yeah I know but it still sucks, we couldn't do anything that night because of the rain."

"Alex I'm going to go," Charla told her. "I have to meet with the student councillor before going to my class whatever it is."

"Okay cool, good luck with that Charla."

"Yeah, see you."

"Hey Al, who was that?" the guy asked her.

"Huh? Oh just a transfer student from the city, nothing too grand you know. Poor kid was almost hit by a car on her first day."