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Talbott,
Kiran’s accent was light and crisp, making him sound like the
perfect English gentleman. “We arrived yesterday. And let’s see,
something unique only to me ….” he was obviously dragging this out
on purpose because a mischievous grin began to appear in the
corners of his mouth. I found myself impatient with him, despite
all of his looks and glory. And then he looked directly at me
again, “Well, recently I caught a fainting young girl, and saved
her from imminent danger,” he finished dramatically.
    As his eyes had locked with mine so
intensely, and since apparently everyone in this class had already
been a witness to my episode, all thirty voices burst out in
laughter at once. The sound was shrill and mocking and I was once
again humiliated.
    “ Quiet down my darlings. I
apparently am not privy to the joke, so let us calm ourselves and
our inner auras so that we may hear from our last new soul,” her
calming voice met with immediate success and all voices became
silent. Kiran took his seat, but not without giving another roguish
wink in my direction. I now found myself extremely irritated with
him.
    I struggled to my feet, not nearly as
effortlessly as the two boys before me. I looked around at the
group of my peers seated, my mind blank and my face bright red. The
faces staring back were nearly all exceptionally beautiful; their
eyes unnaturally bright and their hair unnaturally shiny. They were
also exceptionally hostile and judgmental. It was nice to know I
had once again been able to isolate and alienate myself just as
quickly at this school as at any other.
    “ Um,” I coughed to clear my
voice and found Lilly’s face, the only genial expression in the
room. Even Mrs. Woodsen seemed to be eyeing me skeptically. “Um, I
am Eden Matthews. I am from here, I mean from Omaha. And I recently
fainted in front of my entire first hour class, but I don’t
remember anyone saving me from banging my head against the floor,”
I finished quickly and quite sarcastically, before plopping down
cross-legged next to Lilly, unable to look up or at anyone. I
thought for a second that I might come off funny or at least witty,
but the deafening silence determined otherwise. Lilly patted my
knee reassuringly, but I was too mortified even to look at
her.
    “ Well, I do hope you are all
right dear,” Mrs. Woodsen eyed me even more suspiciously before
turning her gaze on a few students who had begun to whisper. I
looked over to see that it was the group of girls who had
surrounded Kiran and Talbott. They stopped talking after receiving
the evil eye from Mrs. Woodsen, but all turned to give me a dirty
look. “Unfortunately for those of you who are new, we have already
started working on our one act plays, and the groups have already
been chosen. I am afraid you three will have to work together
quietly on busywork, until after the One Act Meet, in a few weeks.
I will have you grade papers from the younger classes. Please sit
in a group behind the dividers, so that the other students can have
room to work on their small masterpieces.”
    At this point, the entire class stood
up and moved into their one-act groups. Lilly gave me an
encouraging smile and went to stand with her own group. I gathered
my backpack and shuffled slowly behind the dividers. This had to be
some cruel joke. Mrs. Woodsen was now officially my least favorite
teacher, even worse than Mr. Lambert. Again I was reminded that
this was only second hour and the day was far from over. I had
never regretted burning down a school more than I did at that
moment.
     
     

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    I took my sweet time walking over to
the dividers and cringed when I looked behind them and found a tiny
sitting area. I stared, mouth agape, wondering how I was going to
get through this hour.
    Kiran bumped, purposely, into my
shoulder as he walked by and took a seat on the floor directly in
the middle of the small space. Talbott followed close behind,
although he was careful not to