Confused Artemis {SLOW UPDATES}

Chapter1: First Day

Present Day

It's the first day of school and I'm moving to year eleven also known as sophomore year in the US and I'm pretty nervous because I'm going to be in a different school and I'm obligated to make new friends all over again.
We moved all the way from the UK to my mother's hometown, Recife in Brazil this summer. sigh.

I woke up really early so I am just in bed waiting for the rest of the house to wake up and mum to call us down for breakfast.
'Kids! Breakfast' called my mum a few hours after 5am

'YOU LITTLE BRATS GET DOWN OR I'M COMING UP THERE TO GET YOU DOWN MYSELF' shouted dad from the main door. Yep he is drunk. Yes at 7am and yes he's not the best father you would wish for but he's pretty okay when he's sober.

'M, Mer you coming?' asked my older brother, Arthur from the hallway.

'Yeah coming.' replied M from across the hallway.

'Yeah. Can I ride with you I'm pretty nervous to drive.' I asked Arthur opening my door and stepping out of my comfort zone (my room) the moment M stepped out of his room.

'Yeah no problem it's your first day and I kind of promised mum I'll drive you both to school today besides we are going to the same school and we are saving gas.'

I walked quietly to the kitchen, grabbed a granola bar and my school bag from the hall and made my way outside to Arthur's Porche 911 convertible, my family is not all that wealthy but they are okay because we went to private schools and my dad belonged to a clubhouse yeah I know it all sounds cliché but that's how it is.

The drive to my new school was quiet apart from the few word exchanges between M and Arthur. M is my twin brother older than me by five seconds, the doctors thought it was pretty weird because they've never had twins come out that fast and easily.

So immediately we arrived at the school Arthur escorted us to the school office for our timetables and locker numbers, luckily M and I had almost the same classes except Art, Music, AP English and Technology.
Right now we are heading for class 11 room 264. Well the class wasn't hard to find, we knocked and entered and the teacher told us to take the seats at the back and see her later after the class.

The Math class was pretty okay because I love Math but M is the total opposite he slept through out, he prefers English. We had a free period so we both approached her desk.

'Olá, como você está? Okay I'm not sure you understand the portuguese much because your accents sound european. Okay I'm blubbering again. Well I called you to my desk because I am supposed to get you a tour guide and I'm not sure if you want one. You two look really alike well apart from him wearing trousers and you wearing a skirt.' said our Math teacher and homeroom teacher without a pause.

'Oh no worries with the portuguese we are pretty fluent.' I said immediately.
'And no need for a tour guide.' M said right after me.

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Thankfully the first half of the day went pretty quickly and now it's lunch. I know you think M and I aren't close and we'll decide not to sit by each other but to be really honest he's my best friend. I tell him everything and he also does same. So we decided to stick together until we got really accustomed to the school. Mum always says it's like M and I are glued at the hip because we never leave each other and that immediately we came out and they placed us in the same cot we held hands.
Which is weird but we love each other.

'HEY MERR' shouted Cody a cute guy I met today from my art class. 'Come sit with us.' He was sitting by a tall brunette girl with a BTS phone case and another cute guy I saw during music class.

'Lets go sit with them. They seems pretty okay and he draws really well.' I turned to see M staring at Cody which was so not okay but well, forget it.
I grabbed his hand and pulled him towards their table.
'Hey guys I'm Merylin and this is my twin Merlin but he prefers M.'
It's not that M is an introvert but when he sees someone he likes he becomes shy and quiet. I know and no judging my twin is gay and I totally don't mind.

'That's nice I'm Carla' said the only girl among them.
'And I'm Rockson but I prefer Rocky.' said the other cute guy from my music class.

They all sounded nice so we sat down and I didn't regret it because they were really cool to the point that Carla invited us for a sleepover the following week to celebrate her birthday. We made small talks here and there we, got to know each other. Carla is a Pure Science major like M whiles Rocky and Cody are Social Science majors so I was the only Art major there.

Oh there goes the bell for our sixth period. We all said our good byes promising to meet at the car park after seventh period basically the end of classes.

Rocky, M and I went towards the biology lab while Cody went to the English language room and Carla to the library for research anatomy. Yep this school has weird subjects.

At biology we sat in a group of fours so we all sat together but we were lacking one person when all of a sudden......
He walked in.
His eyes were the first thing I saw when I raised my head, seafoam with a mixture of emerald. It was so different and captivating yet so familiar.

'Nice of you to join us Mr. Franklin' said the biology teacher.
'Just passing by sir because I heard there were new kids today so wanted to get a glimpse of 'em.' said the guy walking towards us and just then I knew I was staring so I immediately dropped my head trying to concentrate on the piece of paper in front of me.

'Nice drawing Merida'
'Um..um I like your eyes and do I know you?' oh gosh why did I say that, why did he call me Merida is it because of my red curls. Oh gosh I'm totally dying and straightening it this week.
'Her name is Merylin not Merida.'  thank God for a twin. I don't know what mistake I would have made again.

'Maybe and thank you Merida. Oh you must be her twin. I'm Mark Franklin' he said
'I'm M. Nice to meet you.'
'Can I join your group? My bad this is the only available group with one space.' he chuckled sitting right by me.

This last two periods are going to be really unproductive because I'm not very comfortable with him sitting right by me and he looking like someone I needed to know.

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-Cherry ; )