When I got out of my car in the parking lot, I noticed that people were staring at me. The whole time I walked to the building, I felt very self-conscious of the stars and murmurs, but it all stopped once we hear the sound of a motorcycle coming into the parking lot. Since I was in a hurry, I didn’t look back to see who it was.

On my way to the main office, I gawked at the size of the school. It was pretty big for a small town. In the office, I met a pretty, red-headed, secretary.

“Hello,” I said, and she looked up at me and smiled.

“Hi darling, how may I help you?” she asked.

“My name is Katherina Knight. I’m new here,” I told her.

“Nice to meet you honey. My name is Charlotte and here’s your schedule. If you have any questions or issues, don’t hesitate to ask me, okay?”

“Okay. It was nice meeting you, Charlotte.” I grabbed my schedule and walked out of the office. Just as I was opening the door to leave, I crashed into someone and dropped my purse and schedule.

“I’m so sorry, I wasn’t watching where I was going!” I cried out to the person I bumped into.

“No, it was my fault. I shouldn’t have been on my phone,” said a guy’s voice. I looked up to see a boy around my age with caramel colored hair and grey eye. “Hi, I’m Jake and you are…?”

“I’m Katherina and I just moved here,” I tell him and he grinned.

“Well then, welcome to Fairhaven. Starting from now, I’m your new best friend,” Jake said, smiling like Cheshire cat. I laughed.

“Oh really now?” I said, smiling back.

“Yup, so give me your schedule,” he said while picking up my schedule off of the floor and handing me my purse. “It looks like we have first and lunch together. Come on bestie, let’s head to class,” Jake said teasingly and starts pulling me by the hand towards the stairs.

“Haha, okay okay, I’m coming! Slow down, will ya?” I said while running to keep up with him. “And call me Kat because all my friends do.”

“Okay, come on slow poke Kat,” he joked.

When we entered the classroom, it suddenly got quiet. I turned to Jake to ask him what was going on, but he had a funny expression on his face, as if he were talking to somebody. I shake him and ask, “Hey Jakey, what’s wrong?”

“Nothing, it’s just that we haven’t had a new student in a while. And a pretty one at that,” Jake said while laughing.

“Har har, you’re a real Kevin Hart, Jake,” I responded jokingly.

At that moment, a teacher walked into the room and said, “Everybody, including you Jake, take a seat,” then he turned to me, “and you must be the new student. Please come up here and introduce yourself.”

“Okay, sir,” I reply and head towards the front. “Hi everyone, my name is Katherina Knight and I just moved here from California with my mom.” I looked at the teacher and he nodded in approval.

“Okay Katherina, your seat will be next to Dmitri’s in the back,” he told me, so I made my way towards the only empty seat in the room.

“Hi, my name is Dmitri,” a sweet voice as smooth as chocolate said. I turned to him and in that instant, I felt like time stopped and the world stopped moving. In that moment, it was like we were in our own little world for an infinite amount of time in a space that was just meant for us. Looking into his hazel eyes, they drew me into an unknown universe that seemed to lead me into a paradise of infinite happiness, but I snapped out of it when I realized that I still hadn’t responded.

“Hi, I’m Katherina, but you can call me Kat,” I said smiling at him

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