The First Day
Just a little note before i start: this is my first story and i hope (if everyone likes it) that it will become a series. I've always like the idea of a person who is sad/emo/goth/whatever you like to call it being friends with this cheery/popular person. so yeah... anyway i'll stop boring you. i hope you like the story =D
A Person in Need
Chapter 1: the first day
An alarm went off, but the owner was up long before, bouncing on the tips of her toes, tail moving left and right and her hair getting in her face. The reason for her excitement, was that it was the first day of school. While she enjoyed the summer, she was excited to see her friends and start cheerleading again. She ran to the bathroom to tale a quick shower, and brush her teeth. As she stepped out of the shower, she started shaking to get all the water out of her Gray fur, and started to giggle when she saw the state of the bathroom. Dried off and changed, she ran down the stairs and right into her big brother.
"Hey, watch where you're going squirt!" her brother said surprised
"Sorry," was all she said before running full speed into the kitchen.
She sat down and began to devour the scrambled eggs and toast as her mother turned around saying, "Rio, honey don't eat so fast or you'll choke!"
"Sorry mom, I'm just so excited about the new year." Her mother muttered something that she could not hear and turned back to the dishes as her brother walked in
"C'mon squirt we're gonna miss the bus."
she downed her eggs in one go and bolted up and out the door. It was her brother's last year in high school, after which he was going off to become a pilot for the army. Mom never liked the idea, but Dad was all for it going so far as to offer to drive him up on the weekend, but mom quickly stopped that, making sure he finished high school first. Rio was still 16 and didn't like to plan much further than what she was going to do when she got to school. As she got on the bus, her brother went to the back with his friends, and she went to her friends who were waving at her frantically.
She sat down and was suddenly buried in the hugs of her friends.
"Oh my god how's it been girl!" said a bright red toucan.
"How's my favourite collie?" said a bright faced, brown furred cat.
"I've been great, what about you girls?"
"Same old, same old," said the cat with a smile.
"Oh wonderful; Paris was amazing!" the toucan said with a bright smile.
The rest of the trip was spent talking about what they were going to do that day. When they got off the bus, they were greeted by a massive rhino.
"Good morning ladies and gentlemen!" he boomed in a loud voice.
"‘Morning Principal DiFazio" the students getting off the bus chorused back.
As she began walking again the principle stopped her, saying, "Uh Rio, could I speak with you for a moment?"
"Of course, sir." she said brightly as her friends went off to talk with other people.
He led her into his office and sat down at his desk and said, "I hope you had a good summer."
"Yes sir, I most certainly did."
"Wonderful," he paused "I need to ask you a favour, if it isn't too much trouble."
"Oh no sir, I'm sure it won't be." she said still smiling brightly.
"Very good.... You already know about the welcome committee for the new students?"
"Yes sir."
"Well, there is a new student who shares almost every class with you, and I was wondering if â€" "
"Of course I will!" She said, cutting him off.
"I knew you were the one for the job." he said brightly, standing up and shaking her hand.
She gripped his hand and felt herself being jerked around by the strong handshake.
"And have a wonderful year Rio!" he called brightly as she stumbled out, still a little shaken from his massive handshake.
Steadying herself, she walked off to her locker and was surprised to see a notice on her locker.
Rio Adams:
Please note that the person you are sharing your locker with has been switched with Zachariah Marcellus. Have a wonderful year
Principle DiFazio
There was a little note scribbled on the back.
This is a new student so please try your best to be his friend and show him around
"Well, at least I know his name..." she thought to herself, before quickly heading to her classroom.
As she walked in her friends waved her over and she quickly ran over as the teacher walked in. "Good morning students," she said in a voice that oozed seriousness. "I am your new English teacher, Ms. Bellany."
Looking down at the attendance, she started calling off names...
"Roy"... "Here"... "John"... "Yo"... "Zachariah"
As Rio heard the name, she looked around but couldn't find the source of the response. Eventually the teacher put the notepad down and began lecturing them on how talking to each other and playing in class were strictly forbidden, but Rio didn't hear much as she was still trying to look for the person who responded.
"Ms..." the teacher glanced down at the attendance "Adams, am I boring you?"
"Oh no Ms," she said turning red "sorry...."
As the teacher continued, she refrained from looking around. After what seemed like hours the teacher finally finished and looking down at the list once more, suddenly said
"oh yes, the principal has requested that all the new students come to the front, introduce themselves, and then go sit with the person who was assigned to show them around. I'll call you up, say something, and then go sit with the person you were assigned to. And be quick about it, I have a class to teach."
As she called the names, the students come up, said something, and sat down. Eventually, Zachariah was called and she turned around only to gasp at his appearance. He was a Gray furred wolf who wore ripped, grungy jeans and a plain black shirt. His hair was black and fell over his left eye, there was also a white streak through his hair that looked odd, as if it was not dyed. He had black rings under his eyes and was very skinny. she watched as he moved to the front. He moved his hair away to reveal an actually quite attractive face with emerald-green eyes. He took a deep breath and said in an uncaring voice, "Hi, I'm Zachariah but I prefer to be called Zach." he paused, and then continued, "uh â€" I like music and uh... yeah"
The teacher looked up "Oh good you're done, now go sit with.....Ms. Adams"
Her friends both looked around at her and said in unison "He looks fun."
"Oh c'mon, he can't be that bad...." As he sat down she heard the sound of metal and realized that he had earphones in. The rest of the class was basically what was expected on the first day; books being passed out and the teachers trying to learn their names. At the end, Rio went up to him and gave him a bright smile, which returned a puzzled look.
"I'm the one who's supposed to show you around the school." she said wondering if the music did something with his hearing.
"Oh, yeah" was all he said.
Oh boy, she thought, leading him to their next class. This is going to be fun. While walking to their next class, she couldn't help but wonder if he was bipolar or disturbed. He was weird and kind of scary, but yet at the same time, at peace and uncaring. As she walked into
their science room, he went for the back of the classroom, while she took her place at the front with her friends.
"so how's the new kid?" Lucy, an orange fox said to her as she sat down.
"He's" she turned around and watched as he just sat uncaring. "Well... different,
"Yeah, talk about depressing. I think you should dump him somewhere." she stopped and looked as if she was picturing something "Nah, I couldn't see you in black" she suddenly said with a giggle.
As class started, she kept on turning around to look at him, but through the entire class he just sat with his head down. Oh my god, she thought to herself angered "how am I supposed to find out what he's like if he doesn't do a freakin' thing"?. After class was lunch, about which she was very happy. Like it or not, he was somehow wearing her out. She got up and walked out, no longer having to worry about him because his third period class was music, while she had lunch, then art. As she made her way to the cafeteria, Lucy caught up with her.
"So where's... uhh what's his name again?"
"It's Zach, and he doesn't have lunch right now."
"Guess it's just us then." she gave her a bright smile
"hmm, guess so." Rio replied in a tired tone.
As she got to the cafeteria, Lucy ran off to go sit with some boys that Rio did not know, and she went to find a good place to sit down. No sooner had she sat down, than she was surrounded by a giggling group of girls.
"So?" The brown-furred cat said
"Uh, so?" Rio replied a little confused, but having a good idea of how this was going to end.
"How's your new boyfriend?" she had a massive smile on his face which for some reason really made her angry.
"He's not my boyfriend!" She was standing, ears folded back and teeth bared, giving a threatening growl.
"Whoa, no need to get so defensive. I was only joking."
Suddenly realizing what she was doing, Rio sat down with her cheeks red "Sorry... I didn't mean to snap like that...." She ate in silence until the bell suddenly rang, and silently thanking whatever god sent her the little miracle, quickly went to art class. She always liked the art teacher, Mrs. Deek, she was a white furred cat who always seemed to be happy. The class passed by disappointingly fast, and she reluctantly packed her bag and went to the cafeteria to grab Zachariah for their last class. As she entered, the students were all leaving but there was no sign of Zach anywhere. After spending a good 10 minutes looking around, she gave up and realizing that she was going to be late for her last class anyway, ran to the music room to see if he was there. As she made her way there her conscious started to nag at her
Why are you getting yourself in trouble to go looking for some new kid?
Because, I promised that I would show him to his classes and be his friend. She argued back, feeling weird fighting with herself.
It does not appear that he wants any friends by the way he acts
Either way a promise is a promise and I am going to back out now Rio suddenly shook her head ending her little conversation with herself as she entered the music room. As she walked in, she heard something odd, like a strumming sound and the sound of an acoustic guitar. Curious, she edged forward carefully, hoping not to disturb who ever was playing and had to put her hand over her mouth to sniffle the gasp that almost escaped her mouth when she saw Zach sitting on a stool, guitar in hand, playing with his headphones still in. She was transfixed but it was not until she heard him start to sing was she truly amazed. His voice was soothing and made her feel good, she wanted to move closer to him, run up and pull him into a tight embrace. But even if she did have to guts to, her body was not responding to her thoughts. As his song came to a close everything returned and she felt odd, speechless. She quickly went outside and after five minutes, Zachariah came out.
"Uh, hi. Sorry about making you wait." He said in his unemotional, uncaring voice.
All she could do was nod as they made their way to their last class, computers and technology. The entire class was a blank to her, as she was still thinking about that song and even when the bell rang and when she got on the bus, she could not think of anything else.
"Riooo...RIO!" A hard smack on the back of the head brought her roughly back to reality.
"Huh?" She suddenly looked up to see her, the red toucan; Victoria, staring at her.
"You alright girl?" She said with concern in her voice "I've been telling you it's almost your stop for like 5 minutes!"
"oh wa.. OH sorry I was... distracted" Was all Rio could say as the bus got to her stop and she quickly got off. I have got to stop obsessing over this she told herself firmly, but for some reason, she could not get it out of her head. As she got inside, she quickly ran up and took a shower, trying to think of something else. As she got out, She felt very tired and, deciding a good night's sleep would help her to get this out of her head, went to her room and crawled into bed. But even as she tossed and turned, trying to get some sleep, she could not get his image and voice out of her head.
End of Part 1
Well, This was my very first story and I must say I really enjoyed writing it. Please Vote and Comment. I want to continue the series but only if you all liked it (no sense writing a story nobodies gonna like =P). The song that I was thinking of when I wrote the acoustic pert is called "snuff" by slipknot just F.Y.I
any ways, Special Thanks go to Lucien Lerderna for all of his help in making sure my story doesn't suck, and helping me along the way. You all should totally go check his stories like now, as soon as your finished reading this =P.
So thanks to everyone that likes the story I hope to be given the chance to continue.