The sun peaked through the blinds, it wasn't too early but the sun was just rising. I was lying on Conan's chest on the couch. The Tv was turned off and our snacks were littered all around the floor. I got up, walk into the kitchen and look at the clock on the stove, 7:20. I go back into the living room, rubbing my eyes, to shake Conan awake. "What time is it?" he mumbles.
"About 7:20" I say just as tired. We fell asleep really late late last night.
He stretches before saying "Shit" he gets up in tired rush, "You're first day of school is today" he says. He runs up the stairs and I follow him. I groan a bit because I do not want to go to school. I can't believe he scheduled this so awkward, I assumed I had a few days before I went to school but I assumed wrong. Damn it. "Shower, and I'll put your uniform on your bench" he says now fully awake. Uniform? Great. "You got 20 minutes to get ready before I expect you to be eating breakfast downstairs" he calls from his room. I pull out a towel from the linen closet and jump in the shower, setting my 5 minute timer. I quickly jump out.
Now that I think about it, he never told me where my school was. I cover myself up and I walk into my room, there it was. My uniform. The word felt like a dagger in my head, I haven't worn a uniform since elementary school. Being in 8th grade had it's perks, like no uniform. What kind of school is this? I got dressed and stared at my mirror. A white collar shirt, with a black jacket over it, that fits very nice on me. It has the school symbol on the right side, red OA, white lines on the edges, I have to wear black dress shoes, a black pleated skirt, black leggings with a red tie and a black thick headband on my light brown hair. I look, pleasant but, it's not my style. "Robyn!" Conan calls from downstairs "Breakfast"
I pick up the shoulder bag Conan also put in my room. It was black rectangular bag with a few dull studs, it had silver pentagrams holding the straps to the bag. I sling it over my shoulder and run down stairs. "No running on the stairs" he scolds me. He places eggs and ham quesadilla in front of me. He sits down and eats his. Once we both finish our food, we rush out the door, to the garage and we jump in the car.
"So where's my school?" I ask. He pulls out of the garage heading to the right. I look at the clock, 7:52.
"3 minutes from here, Oxford Academy" he says smiling, we wore a nice t-shirt and a good pair of jeans. But Academy sounded preppy. He was right, it took 3 minutes for us to get there. he pulled into the drop off zone and I was trying to fix my hair. "Head to the office for your schedule, it should be the first door on your left" he says. He gives me a big hug and says "Have a good first day at school. Bye baby bear."
People were staring "Dad!" I groan, slightly embarrassed I get out of the car and wave goodbye. He slowly pulls away, and blows me a kiss goodbye. Everyone was wearing preppy uniforms, I look up at the school and just great. It's a private school, healthy green plants were everywhere, the building was so clean and big. The students were all gossiping with friends, and everyone here seems like they have friends.
I walk into the huge doors, and make my way to the first door on my left, just like Conan told me to. "Hello?" an office lady says, more of a question rather than a statement.
I walk up to the counter and say "I'm here to pick up my schedule." My voice sounds tiny, scared, like I'll break any moment.
She says "Oh, I presume Robyn Fanwan?" I nod, "We don't get many new comers in the middle of the year" she explains. She rummages through files, and picks one up. "Wait there" she says. I sit down on a chair, while she picks up the phone and talks to someone for sometime.
(A/N: Don't come at me, she's still a Fanwan until they go to court for Conan to legally adopt her and change her last name.)
A girl in the same uniform as me walks in, she has black hair, and pale skin. She really had a thing going with all black and white. She walks up to the counter and whispers to the receptionist in a hush voice, she glances at me and I can see her winged eyeliner was done nicely. I try to look away but she walks up to me anyways. "Let's go" she says like she's tired of everyone.
I sit there puzzled "What?" I ask like an idiot. The lady at the desk as already gone back to her work and ignores us.
She rolls her eyes, "I'm your tour guide or something. Name's Ivy" she says walking out the door so I scramble to follow her. "Over there is classes, and over there is more classes" she scoffs, walking down the hallway. I was about to ask a question but she stopped and turns to face me. "Look, this is just your tour day so you basically have a free skipping pass. And since I'm your tour guide I get a free pass, so let's just go our separate ways" she says harshly. She continues her walking but I continue to follow.
"So Ivy, wanna hang out then?" I ask. She scoffs and ignores me. I spend at least most of first period following me until she breaks.
"Fine you little shit goblin" she growls, "Hang out with me. You won't last 5 minutes." I giggle which makes her more angry and she walks out to the back of the school. The first bell rings so we fit in well with crowd of kids. In the back of the school is a group of kids sitting on the ground laughing about who knows what.
2 boys and 1 girl sat in the circle that we join. "Who's the light weight" one of the boys giggle. I notice a boy sitting by himself, reading.
"This is Robyn" she says laughing. They pass around a blunt and I skip my turn. I am never doing that, or anything else. To my surprise Ivy doesn't take a hit and looks just as disgusted.
"Ooooo, New girl!" the other boy says clearly faded.
They all laugh, "Preppy too" the girl says.
I scoff, "You put Avril Lavigne in a school uniform like this and she'll look preppy too" I retort. "And you two boys look like you came from the donation bin" I add.
They start laughing and they move on to the next topic. "You know my dad is famous" the girl says.
"Omg no who?" Ivy asks. I was curious too, was I not the only one with a famous dad?
"Conan. Gray" she lies, I made a face. "What you don't like Conan Gray?" she asks.
"No it's just I've never seen a group of more wasted potential and so vile" I say, getting up. Disgusted at what was clearly a habit for them. I leave them shocked.
"Hey" Ivy said, draping her arm around my neck. "That was so cool, someone needed to tell my friends what's what." Ivy comments.
"What was with 'You won't last five minutes' Do you remember that?" I retort. We're walking back into the school and I'm trying to head to my 3rd period.
"Yeah but that was like, before I knew how cool you were" she laughs. "3rd period?" she asks. I nod, she steals my schedule from my hands. "Cool, same classes" she says. "You got stuck with visual arts and engineering for your electives though. It's where they put most late kids or the 'odd' kids" she explains, "But I got those too" she barely let me get a word in now that she took a liking to me. "Avril Lavigne though is so like, grunge, ever heard of Yungblud? Or Polyphia? Oh they're so hot."
I was starting to wonder if she got faded when I hadn't noticed. "I like alot of stuff, Yungblud is good, never heard of of Polyphia," she was about to talk but I had to get my question in before she wouldn't let me. "By the way what is visual arts, and um what do we do in engineering?" I ask.
She looks at me surprised. "Didn't you have these things at your old school?" she asks. We stop in front of the english class room.
"No, at public school they only had band and avid," I say embarrassed. We walk in to the classroom.
"Well, visual arts is just theater and photography mostly. In engineering we just take things apart, rebuild it, we have an auto mechanic month coming up soon as well." she says surprised I had gone to public school before. "Robyn Fanwan is new, I am her tour guide" she says to the teacher who instructs us to sit down. "What were you going to say to Cherry" she whispers to me.
We sit at desk right next to each other. "Who's Cherry?" I ask but it clicks and she gives me a look. "Oh, right. I um, it's nothing, wanna come hang out at my house later?" I ask.
"Sure" she shrugs. I try to pay attention to the teacher but it was so boring, at least private school matched my level better. I admit that I really had to stay on track, I loved it more than my old school. I got challenged. I glance at my schedule noticing that physical education was my first period but it was label as 'Body enhancement and engagement' and biology was my second. I was secretly glad I skipped with Ivy but would never tell her.
My next period is health class, other wise sex ed. I cringe. Lunch, then 5th period engineering, 6th period visual arts, 7th world language, and 8th math. I was dreading the rest of my day. WHY? At least it is Wednesday so it's a short day.