Chapter 8

Instructions

People Problems *°*°*°*°*° "Phew, how was your day?" Via asked me as she walked into our dorm room after the first day of school. "Well, I sit next to Catherine in homeroom and third period," I answered, "But pretty good otherwise." And she hat3s me... "That's good. Was Catherine at least nice to you?" I asked. "No, and when Catherine's around Willow doesn't talk to me either!" I said, exasperated. "Oh, weird." Via said. I really don't want to keep talking about this. "Have you talked to your parents at all yet?" "Nope," I picked up my phone, "I'm going to right now though!" *°*°*° After we eating dinner, I went to go take a shower. I was too stressed. I went in and just started going on a train of thought. "Okay, so how do I get Catherine to be less, errmm, off around me?" I muttered to myself, "Maybe I can just keep being overly friendly? She'll eventually warm up to me. Just cuz our parents were err enemies, doesn't mean we have to be, right? Cuz I can get along with pretty much everyone, so it should be easy." I kept doing that for a while until I got out. I was still a bit stressed about it, but I had a bit more of a plan. *°*° "Ring ring! RING RING!!!!" "Ugh, why did we change that alarm's noise, I thought it was supposed to be quieter!" Via groaned in the morning. "No, it's supposed to wake you up." I answered jokingly. "Mission accomplished, now can it be quiet now?" Via asked. I just laughed, which was nice as I had been up for until it was 3:00 am trying to figure out how to get Catherine to be my friend. Then we both got up and got dressed, brushed our hair and teeth, and packed our backpack. Then when we were finished, there was a knock at the door. "I got it!" I said, running there before Via could get there. "Hello, your Lilly Fizherbert, right?" A black haired, tan skinned boy was at the door. I just barely recognized him as Via's friend, Julian. "Yup that's me," I smiled, "And you're Julian, correct?" "You got it." He answered. "And this is my friend, Ezra De Vill." He smiled as a blushing light brown-haired, pale skinned boy stepped out. "Hi, I found this yesterday after gym class, I think it's yours." He said, and showed me one of my purple butterfly clips, that were identical to the one I was wearing today. "Oh, yes, thank you, it's mine." I said, smiling grateful. "Hey, we gotta get going now, we don't want to be late for class." Julian said to Ezra and they walked away. "Cute." A sarcastic voice -that I vaguely remember- said. "Excuse me?" Via asked, bristling. "I said cute, it's English, if you didn't know already." Said the girl in all black. Catherine. "Oh, well I didn't know j3rks could speak English." "Excuse me?" "It's English, if you didn't know already." Via answered and slammed the door. "Jeez I see what you were saying about Catherine." My best friend said to me. "Yeah." I softly answered. "But I think Ezra likes you!" Via squealed. "Maybe." I said, smiling at the thought. And with that we grabbed our backpacks and headed out.