I close the door behind me, kicking my shoes off at the door.
"Honey! How was school?" My Mum shouted from the kitchen. I decided to make my way over there, it's polite to be face to face with someone when speaking.
My Dad was sat on the table, just reading a book; Couldn't really tell what book, but it looked quite thick, maybe 700 pages?
Mum was pouring some boiled water into her mug, soon adding sugar and milk. Probably making tea.
"It was good Mum, thanks for asking. Also, may I have a tea as well please?" I had a long day okay? A tea is good to have at the end of a stressful day. That's a lie, it wasn't that stressful, school is easy, but you can't blame me for wanting a tea! And no, it isn't just because i'm British before you say it.
"Of course dear. Little bit of milk, two sugars correct?" She asks, I nod as a reply and she proceeds to get another cup out and pours more water into it.
"Did you make many friends?" Should I tell her about all of the people who came up to me?
"I made a few yeah, everyone is very nice there." Pure lies, most of them just wanna fuck me in the end, yay.
"Oo, hopefully you'll bring some over for tea soon!" She said as she passed me a hot cup of tea, I accepted it with a small 'thanks' and took a sip.
"Right, ima head up to my room, home work and all." I giggled nervously at my own lie.
My parents waved me off, so I ran upstairs and entered my all to familiar room.
The nice smell of vanilla filled my nose as soon as I entered, the scent coming from a neatly placed pink candle on my windowsill. The windowsill was large, enough room for a couple pillows and for two people to sit on it, not that anyone else had anyway; it had large, vintage glass pains and flower vines could be seen cascading down the side of the house. I turned my attention away from that to my bed, my king sized bed with a tall frame and bedside tables beside it. One had a lamp, book and pen on it, the other had a stack of his favourite reading books that he could get stuck into from time to time.
It's quite plain if you ask me, but I'm redecorating it very soon so that doesn't really matter.
I place my tea on one of my bedside tables, plonking myself down on my soft covers. I slip my phone out from my pocket and open Spotify, selecting my jam playlist and setting the phone to the side.
I like listening to music after a long day, it helps me think.
I made lots of good friends for starters; Dream, Sapnap, Bad, Karl. Wait, how many people even asked me in the first place? 15? Not including the people already listed as well. That's a lot, to the point where it could be considered creepy. They seemed to have good intentions though... at least most of them.
I mean, it ain't hard to turn them down, everyone will have asked soon enough, it'll end soon.
People will stop asking for my number, to hang out, to sit with them at lunch soon enough.
Wait, hold up.
Dream and Sapnap said I was going to sit with them at lunch tomorrow...
Well fuck, there's my plans out the window.
A short breath came out of me at the thought, a sigh shall I say.
Maybe I can still listen to my music outside, depends on if they would want to speak to me or not. I know they are kind and fun to be around, but I like to my thing every now and then; You can agree with me on that at least?
Who am I even talking to? Fucking hell I need a better social life.
My parents yelling knocked me out of my thoughts.
"Honey! Dinner's ready!" My Mum shouted from downstairs, kitchen I think.
I ran down, taking my usual seat on the dining table. A plate of curry and rice was in front of me.
My parents sat down as well, they looked like they had a question, so I just stared right at them. It might have creeped them out, but it must have caused them to ask what was on their minds.
"Who are these friends you spoke about earlier?" My Mum asked, I rolled my eyes a little at the words.
"Elaborate." I said, her replying almost immediately.
"What are they like? What do they look like? Who do they hang around with?" I interrupted her before she could carry on.
"I have two friends called Dream and Sapnap, they are very nice people. Dream has blonde hair, green eyes, and is 6'3 I think. Sapnap is around the same height as me, brown hair and green eyes. They are the popular people in school and are friends with everyone." I took a spoon of my food as my parents just stared at me.
I soon realised, yet again, why they were so confused. "Their real names are Clay and Nick." They nodded in understanding.
"There is also Bad, or Darryl, and Karl. Bad is a very, very kind person, he will do literally anything to help you and will worry when he thinks he's upset you, a very kind and amazing friend and person in general. Karl is very hyper and fun to be around, he seems like the creative type and would kick someones arse if they messed with you." They laughed at that. I was thankful for my parents not caring about swearing, it helps me get my true feelings across better.
"Well they seem like lovely people, let us know if you make any more friends yeah?" My Dad said, eating a spoon of his own food after speaking.
We carried on eating as normal, just some small talk about school and work and just every day life. Quality family time should I say.
"Any boys caught your eye yet?" My Mum asked very suddenly, shocking me a bit. Thankfully I didn't have any food in my mouth, I had just finished it.
"No Mum, you know I tell you whenever I am having boy troubles." I stood up, pushed my chair in and took my plate to the sink, of which I filled up with hot water and soap. The dishwasher was on so we were stuck doing it manually for the time being; I didn't mind though, it's nice sometimes.
"I know honey, but I'm telling you now, when you find the perfect one you won't want to tell me out of choice." She made her way over and placed her plate on the side next to the sink, I proceeded to clean it and set it on the drying rack.
"That's just complete bullshit, i'm a very open person yknow." I said, I saw both my parents falter a little at my words.
After clearing my throat, I spoke again, "Most of the time, at least." They seemed a little down now, the atmosphere went from joyous to sad and awkward in a matter of seconds, all from one simple lie which we all wished was reality.
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"So, how have your first couple days been?" We were in our first class of the day, my third day in the school.
"It's been fine I guess, I mean people are kinda creepy, constantly coming up to me and asking for my number without even talking to me in the first place. But that's only, like, half of the people here. So there's still plenty good friends I can make." I said, only just realising Bad's shocked expression.
"W-how?! People are never usually like that here, we've had plenty people move here and that's never happened before." Bad pondered, a look of deep thought plastered to his face.
"Maybe they have just became bitches since the last new person." I said, Bad yelling language in my direction, only causing me to laugh. "Sorry, sorry. I'll be more careful with my words." I said, him giving me a look of gratitude from the words.
"Well, I made friends with Dream, Sapnap, and Karl, but you know that already. Or you just thought they were giving me a tour, I don't want to assume anything." He was, yet again, shocked.
"You are literally popular, I haven't heard one person say anything negative about you." I giggled with nervousness evident, knowing very well that was not the case. Well, it was, but people hadn't technically said anything negative, it's the action of doing bad things that makes me disagree with his statement.
"Well that's about it, apart from the fact i'm smarter than literally everyone here." I said, him nodding.
"I wonder if you would be smarter than Wilbur?" He said, I have no clue who Wilbur is so I just shrugged it off and looked back down at my phone.
"George! Would you like to answer this question?" The teacher appointed to me, making me look at the board to see what we were doing. If i'm being perfectly honest, I wasn't paying attention to what we were doing, I had no need to.
Turns out, it was just a fun activity, I forgot this was tutor, or homeroom as it's called here.
You have to look at the pronunciation, say the word then spell it.
"The word is 'Anachronistic' and it's spelt:
A-N-A-C-H-R-O-N-I-S-T-I-C" I said, shocking everyone in the class a little.
"Thank you, George, you may sit down." I nodded and followed his command, pulling my phone back out.
"How did you do that?!" Bad half spoke, half whispered.
I looked up from my screen to face him.
"That was actually quite simple, i've had way harder questions." I said, he shook his head slightly in disbelief and turned back to the front.
"George, I have a question." Bad said to me as I stood up to make my way to my next class.
"Hm?"
"How are you so smart? Like honestly how?" He seemed genuinely intrigued, it was kind of funny but I made sure not to laugh.
"Well, my parents were great teachers, or you are all just dumb. We start school a year earlier in England, so I'm technically a year ahead of you all." I said, him nodding slightly showing me that he understood.
"Bad!" A voice came from the right of us, I saw his face light up slightly at the voice.
"I have to go George! I'll talk to you soon!" He said, and ran off before I could even give him a reply.
Off to my next class now I guess.
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"Sorry, I can't sit with you today Bad, I promised someone else I would." He looked a little down at my words, but insisted it was fine and he'd just sit with this 'Skeppy' person. Why does everyone have such unusual nicknames here?
I made my way to the cafeteria, not seeing Dream and Sapnap at the table they supposedly sat at, so I made my way outside.
There was a nice hill, not too steep but not so straight that it practically wasn't a hill. It had flowers scattered nicely on the surprisingly green grass. It was winter after all, how the grass was green, I would never know. Little clouds floated with grace in the clear blue sky, showing no care in this horrible world. It wasn't fully horrible though, proved by the couple great people i've met recently and the quiet chirping of birds in the distance. They sounded so happy.
That happiness was soon interrupted with even more happiness, two people were talking in quite hushed tone, gradually getting closer and closer to me. I could tell who those two voices belonged to from a mile away, and i'd only known them for two and a bit days.
"Hey Georgie!" Dream greeted me, I internally face palmed at the nickname.
"Hi Gogy!" Sap said in a very horrible British accent, the one that only the Queen has but mixed with Australian.
I tried to ignore the horrible nicknames.
"Hey guys!" I greeted with a large smile on my face as they sat down.
"It was just loud in the hall and cafeteria, so I decided to come here. Plus, out here is very pretty in the winter apparently." I said, answering a question they never asked and I knew they wanted the answer.
I lay back slightly, propping myself up on my elbows, knees slightly lifted, one fully up and pulled in close to where my chest just was.
"Makes sense." Dream said, crossing his legs and resting his head on his palm.
"It's a bit cold out here tho, ain't it?" Sapnap commented, shivering a little.
I just laughed, to me he was just being over-exaggerative.
"For you guys, it probably is, but this is normal spring temperature for us." I said, them looking at me like I was crazy, but I just shrugged and lay on the grass.
"So how was your guys' day?" I asked, unsure of what else to say.
"Quite boring, Math was hard as always." Dream dragged a hand down his face as he spoke, making me have to cover my mouth to stifle my laugh.
"Nick?" I asked, turning to him.
"Hm? Oh yeah, mine was decent, scared some girls off and shit." I laughed at his antics, I saw him shaking his head from the corner my eye as he laughed along with me. Dream remained still, I couldn't tell exactly what he was doing or where he was looking.
"Gimme your phone." Nick ordered, immediately stopping his laugh and staring at me with zero emotion evident on his face.
"No?" I replied, kind of confused at his antics. I saw a small smile flash onto his face and then immediately disappear.
"I'm not gonna do anything bad with it, give." He held his hand out. What would bad could he do with it anyway? I handed it over, hesitant but still placing it in his hand.
He passed it back to me with one simple word, "Password."
I typed it in and handed it back, placing my forearm over my eyes and Nick did god knows what with my phone.
"Clay." I moved my arm just in time to see his arm stretched out to his friend. He was biting his bottom lip slightly, probably also had no clue what was happening, but took the device anyway.
He looked down at it, a smile came onto his face as he started typing something into it.
It was soon handed back to me, I was still very confused with what was happening.
"It's both of our numbers and names typed into it, don't you dare change the names or I will cry." He said, I laughed a little at his words, shaking my head a little.
"I'll message them later to confirm it's the correct numbers." I said, slipping it into my back pocket and getting up.
I left before them, they said something to each other in a hushed tone that I couldn't quite make out because of the distance, but I brushed it off and proceeded to walk to my class.
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