Episode 1:First Day Back

Tapping her foot impatiently, Xiaoyi lazily thumbed through the magazine. Why is it that receptions always have magazines eight months out of date? She thought absentmindedly.

"You may go in now Xiaoyi " the sectary said to her with a reassuring smile.

Like she needed any reassurance. She walked through the oak paneled door leading into the principal's office to see the principal himself sitting behind his desk.

"Hello Miss Zhong, would you please take a seat?" he asked, gesturing to the chair in front of the desk.

I sat down without a word studying my surroundings. The office was quite lavishly furnished with dark oak furniture and I wondered whether this was all at his own expense or whether he had splurged the school fees on decorating his office.

"Miss Zhong, I am Mr. Stuart, your principal and I would like to welcome you to Royal College. Now I know this must be hard for you, changing schools and all but the students here are all very friendly and it won't be long until you make friends" he said.

I diverted my attention back towards him and suppressed the need to roll my eyes.

"Now I don't think there's much more to say for the time being. You may head off to class now; my sectary will give you your timetable. If you have any concerns at all, please feel free to come to me any time" He finished.

"Thank-you" I said politely and pasted a smile onto my face. I exited the office and received my timetable from the sectary. I glanced at the clock briefly and figured I should head off to homeroom.

Atian's POV

"Yo man, how was your summer?" William asked me.

I shrugged, "Okay I suppose" I responded while staring off into space.

"So have you heard about the new girl yet?" Senyao questioned when he slid into the seat next to me.

"No. Why? What year is she in?" William replied.

"Apparently she's in our really hot" Senyao answered.

"Really? Well I'll be the judge of that" I said bored.

"You know you should-" Willaim began but was cut off when the classroom door opened and the teacher stepped inside.

"Good morning class and welcome back to another year of school. I trust you all had a good summer. My name's Ms. Carmel and I'll be your homeroom teacher for the rest of the year. Today I'd like to introduce you to a new student. I hope that you all make her feel welcomed. Miss Zhong, will you please come in?" the teacher said.

"Now we'll see whether the rumors are true or not" William whispered.

The door open halfway and a slimly built girl entered the room. Instantly the boys erupted into whistles and catcalls.

It was obvious that the rumors were true, I grudgingly admitted to myself. The girl had straight glossy red shiny hair which was waist length and the uniform, which was composed of was a white jacket with indigo stripe on the border and indigo high waist skirt.Her eyes which were aqua and consisted of baby blue with flecks of emerald green and stood out boldly. Her legs seemed to go on forever and her complexion was smooth.

"Miss Zhong, would you like to tell us a bit about yourself?" Ms. Carmel asked and the girl shrugged indifferently.

"My name's Xiaoyi Zhong and I'm from Russia. I moved here since my father transferred for his business." She said.

"Does anybody have any questions for Xiaoyi?" Ms Carmel asked.

While Xiaoyi was bombarded with questions, I studied the way in which she stood and held herself. She stood straight, her posture indicated that she was quite confident and she seemed to hold herself quite well considering the fact that she was in a whole new school and country. She stood like she was a royal.

"Now let's see, we'll need somebody to show you around Xiaoyi." Ms. Carmel said and gazed around the classroom. When I felt her eyes land on me, I looked up expectantly. "Atian will you be so kind as to show Miss Zhong here around the school?" Ms Carmel asked sweetly.

"Sure" I said ignoring the envious looks on all other guys faces.

"Great well why don't you show her to locker? It's." She said and consulted her list. "Locker #223. And unless I'm mistaken, yours is #225 Atian. Right next to hers. Convenient huh?" she confirmed. "Well off you go! Have fun!" She said chirpily and waved her hand towards the door.

Sighing, I got up and exited the classroom. I looked over my shoulder to make sure that Xiaoyi was following. Sure enough she was behind me, glancing about the hallway.

"So what class do you have next?" I asked her, feeling the need to make conversation.

"Chemistry" She replied.

"With Mr. Wang?" I enquired lifting an eyebrow.

"Yeah. What do you have next?" she asked.

"Same as you." I responded and came to a stop in front of a bank of lockers. She studied them for a moment, spun her combo and began piling books into it.

I turned towards my locker. Now what was my combo again? Oh right, 21, 9, 44. I twisted the lock and tugged down. Nothing. I tried again. Nothing once more. I growled in frustration. Okay, third time's the charm. Nothing. I hit the locker with my fist and the sound echoed throughout the hallway.

"Want some help?" a voice asked sweetly.

I turned to find Xiaoyi leaning casually against the locker observing me with a thoughtful look in her eyes. I grunted and stepped aside. She looked at me expectantly.

"What?" I grumbled.

"I'm going to need to know your combo if I'm going to open this for you" she said tapping her perfectly manicured finger against my locker.

I sighed. "21, 9, 44" I answered reluctantly.

She twirled the lock, tugged down and it obediently opened with a click. "Voila" she said triumphantly.

I merely glared.

"What? Don't glare at me like that. It's not nice you know. Oh and don't worry, I won't break into your locker" Xiaoyi said playfully.

"Gee thanks" I said sarcastically.

"No problem" she replied back. "Now let's go to Chem." She said and began to skip off down the hall.

"Umm, Xiaoyi?" I said smirking. "The Chem room is that way" I said pointing in the opposite direction.

"Oh right. Thanks" she said sheepishly. "Now what would I do without you Atain?" she asked with a wink.

I scowled. Was she always like this?

Xiaoyi's POV

After following Atain down the hallway to the bio room and entering it, I hesitated for a fraction of a second at the doorway. Where to sit? I pondered and bit my lip lightly.

"Hey Xiaoyi. Over here" a guy with red hair called out. I vaguely remembered him from homeroom. As I headed towards him, I noticed Atian sitting next to him.

"Oi Atian, move down a seat will you?" another guy with a light blue hair asked him.

Muttering something underneath his breath, Atain reluctantly moved down a seat. I slid into the seat between Atain and the blue haired guy.

"Thanks Atain" I said, curving my lips into a smile and winking at him once more. Atain merely scowled before opening up his textbook. I turned around to face the red haired boy who had called me over before.

"Hi, I'm William" he said with a smile.

"I'm Xiaoyi" I said, returning the smile.

"Don't forget about me" the guy with the blue hair sitting next to Atain said. "I'm Senyao" he said and extended his hand to me. I reached my hand thinking that he wanted to shake hands but instead he gently held my hand and raised them up to his lips. I smirked. This guy was cute, but he's so smooth that he glides.

"Charmed I'm sure" I said rolling my eyes.

"Cut it with the Prince Charming act Senyao" Atian muttered.

"Hey, not my fault you know. Can't help myself if there's a pretty girl in front of my. I don't know how you manage. But the again, you go for guys right?" Senyao said jokingly.

"Ha, ha, very funny. Like I haven't heard that one before" Atian replied dryly.

I glanced at Atian and from the bored expression on his face, I concluded that this was a normal routine. The teacher entered the room and said that we were to be doing pracs today and to pair up. Senyao had already turned to William despite his protests that he wanted to work with me. I turned to Atian who shrugged and said that he'd get the equipment and that I was to get a bench. I followed Senyao who seemed to be getting a bench too and sat at the one next to him.

"So how do you like Japan so far?" he asked me when I sat down.

"It's very different from Russia." I said after I thought for a moment.

"Is different bad or good?" he asked.

"Well it's good I suppose" I replied.

"So do you-"

"Oi lazy ***! Stop chatting up Xiaoyi and get some test tubes" William called out across the room interrupting Senyao.

Senyao shrugged and smiled apologetically at me before getting up.

"Do you know what we're doing?" Atian asked surprising me.

"Huh? Oh yeah. Do you have the sheet?" I answered.

"Here" he said and ****** the sheet towards me.

I skimmed through it. "Yeah, this is pretty basic stuff." I replied.

"Good. Now since I got the equipment, you can do the prac" Atian said.

"What?" I asked.

"You heard me" he said.

I scowled. I am not doing this all by myself I thought.

"Atian please help me?" I asked him.

"No. You're just the woman so you should do the work." He responded.

"Just the woman?" I said becoming mad. "What the hell is your problem?"

"You" he said smartly.

"You don't even know me! Now you better help me or else I'm not going to do anything"

"Really? Do you want to get a F for this prac?" he said.

"I couldn't care less! I've already done this course in Russia and received first class honours for it. So a F wouldn't really matter!" I retorted with a smirk.

Now it was Atian's turn to scowl.

Just then, the teacher walked by.

"Having any problems?" he asked when he saw the look on Atian's face.

"None at all sir." I said chirpily. "Atian was just about to boil the mixture, right Atian?" I said sweetly.

"Yeah, yeah, whatever" he muttered and began to mix the chemicals together.

"You know you are such a brat" he grumbled the moment the teacher had left our bench.

"Damn right I am! And a cute one at that!" I responded.

"Well I for one don't think you're cute" he said after he set the chemicals to boil.

"Aww, Atian, you've hurt my feelings" I said pouting. "Don't you love me Atian?"

"No I do not love you." he said.

"Why ever not?" I said batting my eyelashes at him.

"Because I don't want to" he responded.

"Whatever you say, Atian" I said and giggled at the annoyed look on his face. He was quite handsome. No wonder so many girls ran behind him most of the time. The most attractive feature for me was his golden hair. They shone when the light fell on them. and his red eyes. They were hypnotic for sure.

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