Hello everyone, I will start this story by showing you all the characters so that you can get a better understanding of the features and thinking of the characters and why they are what they are. If the pictures are not clear, I'm sorry. I will keep giving you some more pictures of the characters. (

Please keep in mind that these are real people and have no connection whatsoever with this story.)

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Sarah Singh

Origin:- Indian

Features:-

Intelligent

Loves her friends

Sarcastic when comfortable with people

Average looking, 5'10"

16 years old

Patient, Calm and Fair(mostly)

Aggressive when bullied too much.

Doesn't judge strangers

Dangerously Sentimental

Likes:-

Water, Swimming, Ice Skating

Watching movies, web series.

Reading web comics and mangas.

Singing, Basketball.

Vanilla Ice cream(only)

Dislikes:-

Phobia of Spiders.

Cheesy guys

Cakes(any kind)

Maverick

Origin:- Native Alaskan

Features:-

Average at studies, good at debates.

Loner

Doesn't lie to people about people

Hated by most (very truthful about people hence considered foul-mouthed)

Always Sarcastic

VERY Handsome, 5'11&1/2"

17 years old

Impatient, doesn't know what to speak when

Usually Aggressive

Extrovert

Only respects teachers and parents

Judgemental

Likes:-

Ice Skating

Music (secretly)

Best at Basketball

Watching movies

Writing

Eating

Prefers Tall Girls😏

Learning new languages.

Dislikes:-

Birds

Gossip

Comparison between people

Most of his other classmates

Water

Nerrisa

Origin:- Native Alaskan

Features:-

Very good at studies

Seems narcissistic.

Only has friends that can advantage her.

Outspoken

Everyone listens to her and somehow does what she says.

Regards her grades as her priority.

Sweet with people in general, not MEAN.

(Closet Lesbian) Dates popular guys at her school for people to like her.

Dangerous when made fun of.

Merciless when provoked.

17 years old, 5'8"

Beautiful

President of the Student Council

Likes:-

Studying

1st Ranking in whatever she does.

Eating Dark Chocolate when stressed or furious.

Dislikes:-

Theory of Optimism

When she is not able to beat someone at Studies.

Her classmates.

Chan Yeol

Origin:- Chinese-American

Features:-

Ambitious for what he does

Good in Studies (Nerrisa's opponent)

Too proud and very egoistic

Annoying at times

Treats his "friends" like slaves.

Good at Football

17 years old, 6'0"

Feels that people act racist towards him (not true)

Willing to destroy anyone and everyone who acts as a barrier between him and his goals

Kind only to a limited people

Likes:-

Being at the top

Being merciless

Playing football to relieve his anger

Loves his Parents

Being the centre-of-attraction.

Not obeying rules

Dislikes:-

Maverick (no specified reason)

Most people (except his "friends")

Not being able to do what he wants.

Malia

Origin:- Spanish

Features:-

Tries to be in everyone's Good Books

Seems to be innocent but is extremely cunning.

Best friend of Nerrisa (secretly hates her)

Mooches off of her friends.

Very mean towards strangers.

17 years old, 5'8"

Has superiority-complex

Likes:- ?

Dislikes:- ?

Antoiné

Origin:- French

Features:-

Cutest guy of the school.

17 years old, 5'9"

Probably the most sane and normal person in the school.

Easy to talk to.

Average at studies.

Part time Model.

Malia's crush.

Likes:- ?

Dislikes:- ?

Nickie

Origin:- French

Features:-

Lives life King size.

Jolly, life of the party.

17 years old, 5'8"

Never shy of expressing her views.

Friends with everyone. Closest to Nerrisa, hates Malia

Average at Studies.

Part time DJ at a popular club near the school

Eduardo

Origin:- Afro- Italian

Features:-

Introvert

Best friend of Antoiné

18 years old, 6'2"

Good at studies

Aspires to be a painter.

Boyfriend of Park Min Ja.

Park Min

Origin:- Korean

Features:-

Introvert.

Friends with limited people (Nerrisa, Malia, Antoiné, Eduardo, Nickie)

Girlfriend of Eduardo.

Loves her friends.

17 years old, 5'5"

Aspires to be an architect

Works part time at a coffee shop everyday after school.

These are my main characters, if any new characters are introduced, I will mention them separately.

I hope you go through the characters first and then continue with the story. IT WILL BE UPDATED TOMORROW.

I will try my best to update the chapters as soon as possible.

Thank you.

I hope you find the characters interesting.

*sobbing*

Sarah: Do we have to go there now?

Mom: Sarah, we talked about this, right? It's too late to rethink this all over again.

Sarah: But mom, you know this is hard for me. I don't make friends easily, it took me 7 years to find such good friends.

Mom: Yeah; And where would your "good friends" would be? They didn't even come to see you off.

Sarah: Yes, they did. Where do you think I disappeared after buying milk in the morning. They had come to the house to see me off. *Crying even more*

Mom: Baby, try to understand me. My salary will be 10 times the salary I had here. We will have better lives. We three will be safe there. There will be no one to judge you on what you wear or what you say. Even more, you will do better at school too. You are just ignoring the good things. If you say that you made nice friends, then you guys will never forget each other, hmm?

Sarah: Whatever.

Aditi(younger sister): Have you stopped crying yet? The announcement has been made to board the flight.

Sarah: Aren't you sad?

Aditi: No. Unlike you, I HAVE good friends and I'm good at making more. *teases*

All three start walking through the terminal towards the Boarding Shuttle.

Sarah: People there are different.

Mom: We too are different. Even within our country, we all were always different. Just remember, We NEVER forget our roots and our cultural values, that's what makes us Indians, hmm?

Sarah and Aditi: Yup!!

All three sit at their seats. The lights go out and the plane takes off with a reminder, that a new life awaits the three of us; hopefully a better one.

Sarah's POV:

The thought of begginning again scares the living daylights out of me. The endless fear of being oblivious to my friends seems predictable yet impossible for me. Huh! I feel like hugging my friends and crying endlessly in their arms to a point when I'm completely saturated. What if I get bullied because of my colour. Me being a over- thinker doesn't benefit me.

My friends are my most prized possession. But quite frankly, they will forget me. Tears fall down my face as I recall the memories I have with my friends.

Unfortunately, it is going to be a long flight. I look out of the window and look down upon my beautiful home that I will soon won't be a part of.

I can see nothing but clouds from my red, teary eyes and coping from my helplessness, I force myself to be a stronger person from that moment on and hum myself to sleep.

At least there will be many ice skating rings there😅 and very cold so hopefully my tears will freeze before they roll down my cheeks ☺️

A strong beam of light hit my eyes through my close eye lids which forced me to turn my head away from the source and slowly open my eyes, as I rub them vigorously as I usually do.

I open my eyes; in a look of confusion as I try to fathom why I was the only one asleep until now while all the others in the plane were up and out of their seats preparing to take their bags out of the compartments above them.

My sister looked down upon me and said:

'Thank God you're up. I was going to throw some water on you if you hadn't helped me lift this bag. Why on earth were you sleeping so soundly on a damned plane!!??'

All that could come to my mind was that the sibling rivalry between us won't ever change. I didn't even want to think about anything anymore, just wanted to know how cold it was outside.

Mom: Come on now, be ready. As soon as all of these people move outside, we'll follow them.

Sarah: That was such a long flight? Are you sure we're going to Anchorage? (One of the cities in Alaska)

Aditi: We are in Canberra, though.

Sarah: *eyes wide open* WHAT??!!

Aditi: *seriously* Are you stupid? Of course we're in Anchorage? Where do you think we got the visa from? How come it is that you're older from me!!

Sarah: You little piece of sh...

Mom: *hits both of us on the head* Cut it out! You guys just start anywhere!! Here. Hold your bags and move.

Sarah: *pouts*Why do I always get the heavier and more bags?

Mom and Aditi: 'Coz you're stronger than most men! *laugh inside*

Sarah: Sure, maybe that's why you married your husband!

On stepping out, I encounter the coldest breeze that I ever could have, and in moments, I started sneezing.

My mother handed me over a jacket to wear over my sweater. This country is way colder than I imagined it to be. Although, the view even from an airport, was breathtaking. Just the thought of living in such a beautiful country made me smile and ignore my red, bloated face; currently covered by a handkerchief.

Coming out of the airport, I realised that this was the time that I had seen more wending machines at a public place than I had seen books in my 13 years of studentships.

No sooner did I start comparing the new place to home than I realized that I had to stop doing that.

Soon after, all three of us booked a cab and started our journey towards our "New Home" All of us were peeking through the closed windows looking upon the majestic view of the docks and the multicoloured buildings. It all seemed so wonderful and happy that it made me feel confident that I belonged there. Unfortunately, the view was short-lived as we reached our Apartments really soon.

Anchorage was smaller than it seemed and quite frankly more pliable.

The apartments looked pretty decent and homely, just as I liked it. Just by looking at it I felt like our house would be a



perfect place to be called our home. I thought that on entering this new space, we would have to work on the furnishing and arrangements and stuff. But, to my surprise it was a fully furnished apartment with a lot of space for the three of us and most of all, a nice view from the topmost floor of the building.



There were three rooms for all of us and a beautiful living room with the best lighting and comfortable couches. The place was a lucid dream. This was the first time when any of us had a room to our selves. Although, I was sure that my sister and I would run to Mom's room at night. But, at least we pretended that we could make it alone a night.

I really wanted to talk to my friends but I couldn't because of the time difference.😒

We spent the day unpacking all of our belongings and settling them in our rooms as neatly as we could. Our belongings were literally ugly compared to the furniture we were keeping them on. Still, ignoring the continuous cycle of self- hate, I walked out of my room to ask Mom about the lunch.

It was 3:30pm in the afternoon and we decided to go out for lunch and then visit our new school before we start the day after tomorrow.

We had lunch at a Chinese Restaurant near our house which had the best chicken dumplings I had ever eaten.

We took a cab and went off to our school. It, too was pretty close to our house.

This school was the best maintained school I had ever been to. All of us were standing Infront of the main entrance with our jaws dropped. The first reaction that came to my mind was

"Mom, how did you possibly become the Vice- Principal of this school"



Mom: *answering without changing her reaction* They said they wanted a teacher experienced with wild kids and had a degree in Zoology.

Aditi: That's it?

Mom: Um hmm.

We come back to our senses and start walking through the gate into the main building of the school. Suddenly, a tall, tanned, handsome man calls out: "Ms. Singh?"

Mom: Yes?

Man: Oh, it is you. Hello, I am Brad Ostwald. Principal of this school. It's a pleasure to finally meet you.

Mom: The pleasure is all mine, sir. Please call me Pam.

Both me and my sister look at Mom in a state of betrayal.

Brad O.: You guys must be the kids, welcome to Saint High School. You'll love it here.

Sarah: *chuckles*I hope so.

There was no one around. The school hours were over and we were walking towards the Vice - Principals office, aka my Mom's new office. Just at the end of the hallway, I hear loud footsteps approaching us. I looked peeking across the ally and saw a beautiful, masculine figure walking towards us. He was wearing a Red jacket over a plain black turtleneck sweater above a pair of light blue denim jean. His eyes were the epitome of lustre and he was tall enough. Tall enough for me.

He was planning of walking past us but Mr. Brad stopped him saying, "Not so swiftly, Mr. Maverick."

Sarah: *thinking to herself* This name never suited anyone more than him and Tom Cruise in Top Gun. Oh,y luck!!

I almost started staring at him with hungry, perverted eyes when I heard Mr. Brad mention my name saying, "You will be showing Ms. Sarah around the school as she is your new classmate"

Maverick: Okay. I'll be off now sir. Goodbye.

Mr.Brad: *holding Maverick's backpack* Right now!

Maverick: I'm in a hurry right now.

Mr. Brad: Maverick, who are you kiddin'? We both know you're not in a hurry right now.

Maverick: Yes, I am. My mom wants me at home.

Mr. Brad: You told me yesterday that your mom had gone out for a business meeting for a MONTH! Is she back already?

Sarah: *chuckles* It's alright, Mr. Brad, I can look around the school by myself. You should go and talk to my mother and sister. Don't worry about me.

Mr. Brad: Now that you're insisting. Maverick, accompany the young lady for goodness sakes!

*Intense Eye contact between Maverick and Mr. Brad*

Maverick: Alright, sir.

*Turns to me* Follow me... And don't get lost!

Sarah: *confused* Okay....?