New Student

The air is cold. I hear the pitter patter of the rain outside. I stumble out of my bed and open the window. Chilly air and water droplets whooshes inside. I shut back the window resisting against the air but my shirt is now half wet in the process.

I brush my teeth and quickly change in a warm sweater dress and leggings below.

Lightning strikes in the sky with a heavy thunder as my mom pour coffee in my cup up to the brim.

"Weather is bad dear, should I drop you to school today?" asks mom

"Yeah, thanks" I say munching on my toast

In the car i can't see anything but opaque wall of water due layers of rain.The headlight helps a little but rest of the driving depends upon anticipation. A little later I see my school building vaguely. I get out of the car and mom leaves and the car disappear in the rain within seconds.

The rest of the three meter way is a battle. Sharp swords of gales and my umbrella - a fragile buckler.

It's cold inside the campus but atleast I managed to reach here dry. Josh is not here yet, I hope he catches cold or maybe catches pneumonia and doesn't show up for a week or two weeks. I put my stuff on my table and sit and unfortunately the devil shows up fit and fine.

He throws a his bag from a distance towards the desk and it falls straight next to me. How does do that? I wonder. He begins some sort of combat with his friends again. His manners are quite similar to a wild dog. Hissing abruptly and scratching here and there, and his friends are no exception.

I look at his bag, wrinkled with a fade red color and a spider keychain. A sticker of skull and bones is sticked at the centre, and the edges of the bag are rough with few unstrangled threads. Looking at his bag I think I kind of know his personality. He is one of those rebels love to break the rules, and think they are too cool for others, and smarter than the system. Let's see how long he can manage to live in this edgy yet unrealistic world.

This Bell rings and everyone take their seats. Miss Jones enters the class happily again. This woman why is she so happy with her life? I can't help wondering. I glance at Josh and he is drawing an ugly face with messed hair and then write Edith Donne on the top of the paper.

"Why do you keep doing that?" I ask in a squeaky tone

"My art teacher says drawing your pain can make you feel better" his reply

"Ha! Ha! very funny" I say in a patronizing tone.

"I know" he says and lifts his notebook in the air and show it to his friends "rate my art" he announce.

"Ten on ten" says Brain, one of his friends and most intelligent boy in class. But I highly doubt is intelligence because a person with a perspective and wits would never chose a friend like Josh.

"Dude! I can barely tell the difference, which one is real and which one is drawing" says Ralph and they all have a heartily laugh.

"That's it!" I find myself almost screaming with face face burning red. I snatch the notebook from Josh's hand and hit him with it on his shoulder.

"I've had enough of you" I yell

"I've had enough of you long ago but I'm still tolerating, am I not?"

"You!" I say pulling him near me with his collar "haven't even seen the real of me yet" my sound is low but anger displays in it perfectly.

"What's happening here?" Miss Jones's voice reminds me I'm in class. I look around and everyone is looking at me as if I'm doing something inappropriate with Josh. His face is only few centimeters apart from mine. People can interpret as something else. I release my hands from his collar and push him away from me. He lose his balance and fall from the chair and the class burst in a laughter.

"Miss Jones look she just pushed me" says Josh and points finger on me "I'm telling you this one is not sane" the laughter continues. I'm tired of being a joke to the class.

"Miss Jones he is the one who keeps drawing monsters and name them Edith" I say and everyone laughs even louder now.

"It's not funny when it's you!" I announce

"Silence" says miss Jones loudly "and Mr Eliotte stop naming your monsters Edith and Miss Donne try to control your anger"

"Try my anger?" I cry out loud in my mind "someone should control him, someone should shut him in a zoo"

"As I was saying" continues Miss Jones 'there is a new kid joining this class. I hope you all treat him nicely" she says and a boy with seamless green eyes enters. His dark brown hairs swept smoothly on his forehead. He waves with an angelic smile

"Hey! I'm Drew James" he says and words roll out his tongue smooth as butter and floats in the air.

Everyone greets him and Miss Jones fix his seat right before mine with the smartest girl in class called Jenna. I think fortune finally smiled upon me.

He come and seats on his place. "Hi I'm Jenna Friar" she says

"hey" he says

"And, yo! I'm Josh and this is Edith the monster" say Josh

"Aye!" I glare at him

Well, she doesn't seems like a monster to me says Drew and shakes my hand and my heart forgets to beat.

The entire day my mind is engaged on Drew. He is such a sweet boy with such a calm and gentlemen like demeanor. His manners are easy. He's the most agreeable person I've ever met and above all he is smart. Probably smarter than Jenna and definitely way smarter than Brain. On my one side there is Drew- an angle and then there is Josh who is right now sprinkling water on girls at the back bench.

For the first time I'm staring at the dichotomy of two boys in one glance. If one is black the other is white, one is fire then the other water. One is like a walk in a rose garden with a breath of scented fresh air and other is Island cactus and thorns.

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