All summer in a day (Part 2)

Chapter 3

"Vroom, Boom,Bam,Crash" And a bunch of other weird noises could be heard at the rocket port. It was pretty annoying. We got into our rocket and went up into outer space. It was supposed to be a week long flight but I knew it would take longer. Last time we took a rocket it took 3 weeks, it was supposed to take 2 weeks though. When we landed my dad rushed up over to our new, pretty much empty, house and we slept on 30$ mattresses, they were bad. They were hard and when I woke up I felt as stiff as a pencil. Well at least my back felt like that.

The next day I had to go to school immediately. And I was extremely nervous. I kept telling my mom how terrible my first day of school was on Venus and how horrible it would be on Earth. She drove me to school and said " You know Earth is different from Venus, a lot different, it won't be the same here". I glared out the window. I glared at the houses, the people, and the cars. Then the car stopped. "We're here" My mom said it in a high-pitched voice. Which usually meant she was excited. Why would she be, it's my first day of school, not hers. Whatever. I opened the door, kissed my mom goodbye and waved while running into the building. I was on my way to the principles office when someone said " Hey, you're new. What are you wearing? Do you come from a different planet or something?" I looked around and saw this girl looking at me. She had black hair and a shirt that said "Why U lookin at me?", it was white with black letters on it. "Hi I'm Katsumi" she said. " Hey," I said back " I'm Margot and by the way, I do come from another planet" and I walked away, just like that. She made this face that seemed like she was trying to say " Hey, wait, I'm not done" but I didn't care. I didn't want to be late for class and maybe Katsumi was right. My clothes looked nothing like what the other students at this school wore. After the principles office, I went to homeroom, my first class. The teacher mainly talked about the history of papers and pencils while all the students looked tired and uninterested. An hour later was recess and once again Katsumi walked up to me and asked " Hey, I'm sorry if I was annoying you, but do you... do you want to come over to my house? It looks like I could, you know, help you? Since you're new" I realized I really needed help and she looked like the person to ask. So I said

" Sure, no problem" I heard something changed, I changed I was acting like them already. I was already acting cool. What was I thinking? Everyone here was acting like 16 when they were only 10 and 11. It was such a weird place and I just arrived.