Sophie stood outside her parents' new house. It was huge. She carefully put down her suitcases and went to see her new bedroom. She entered the room on the third floor and gasped. The room was large and the walls were a teal color with vibrant fuchsia (a pinky purple color) stripes. The bed was black with fuchsia polka dots and her curtains were teal with black chevron (zig zag). She kicked off her black knee high Converse and bounced on the bed. It was so soft, so fluffy. It was like being on a cloud of cotton candy. Sophie pulled out her phone and started texting her old friend, Katy. Katy immediately answered every text she sent. Sophie finally stopped texting and went down for dinner. It was mashed carnissa root and bungiberry salad. Sophie ate all of her meal and started to head upstairs before her mom, Edaline, called her back. "Sophie, dear, even though it's the middle of the school year and we're still unpacking doesn't mean you get to miss out on this wonderful uniform. You'll be going to Foxfire Academy." Sophie winced. She had been trying desperately to avoid having to look at a uniform. She had found it hard to believe that all schools didn't have free dress every day. She turned around and stared at the uniform. It had a red skirt that went down to her knees with a white shirt. There was a black blazer (jacket) over the shirt and black tights. There were flats for shoes, and she felt like barfing. The uniform was so for the 90's. Sophie snatched the uniform and rushed to her room. She put on her uniform and felt like barfing again. Not only did it look horrible, but it looked even worse when she wore it. Sophie carefully hung her uniform in her closet and jumped on her bed. She pulled out a book on the theory of relativity-what? Could she help if she was a bit nerdy?-and started to read the book. Again. She was a school prodigy and aced everything. Sophie decided to complete the awful barf-inducing uniform with a pair of fake geeky glasses that made her eyes look like owl eyes. Sophie curled in bed and huffed. Stupid uniform. It would ruin her life. She'd be Captain Raspberry, to the rescue! Sophie went to sleep. One day down, 126 more days till summer vacation to go.

Sophie woke and quickly changed into the putrid uniform. She rushed down to the dining room and quickly ate two blitzenberry muffins. She downed a glass of flavored water and rushed out the door, saying goodbye to Edaline and Grady as she went. She hopped on the school bus and heard the screech of the brakes as it stopped at another stop. Two teenagers-one a girl with dark hair and teal eyes about her age, and a boy of about 15 with teal eyes and dark hair too-hopped on. The girl took one look and Sophie and went scarlet. "Get out of my seat. I always sit there." She said in a very prissy voice. The boy just kept walking to the back where a boy with blonde hair and icy blue eyes sat watching the dark-haired girl tell Sophie off. "Now. Get. Out. Of. My. Seat." Sophie stood and let the bossy girl have her seat. A boy with red blonde hair beckoned her over. "Hey, don't let Biana boss you around. My name's Dex, by the way. Yours?" Sophie grinned. "My name's Sophie. I just moved here with my parents Grady and Edaline. I was adopted." Dex's eyebrows shot up. "My aunt and uncle adopted you?" Sophie nodded. "I guess so." Dex sat back. "Wow. Nobody thought that my parents would adopt after Jolie died in that house fire." Sophie nodded again. Another girl with blonde hair with some strands twisted into braids popped up. "Hi! My name's Marella, oh hi Dex!" Sophie smiled at Marella and introduced herself. Another boy with dark hair popped up. "HimynameisJensiwhat'syoursyoumustbenewherebecauseIhaveneverseenyouaround!" The boy-Jensi?-talked like he had buckets of sugar for breakfast-and then some. Sophie laughed. "Sophie's my name." Jensi smiled and turned to Marella. He started rapid-fire talking to her, and Sophie tuned them out. There was no way she would be friends with Biana. Or the weird Jensi kid. Maybe she'd try to befriend the handsome dark-haired boy with teal eyes. Man, he was so cute. And the blonde boy was also cute, but hey. The dark-haired boy was just so hot. Imagine if he was her boyfriend. Katy would be so jealous, and Sophie had a feeling that the dark-haired boy was popular. Like, extremely popular. The school bus screeched to a halt and a girl with blonde hair and blue eyes hopped on and sat beside Biana. The two started chatting and another girl with frizzy brown hair and two girls (who seemed more like minions) hopped on after the blonde girl. The girl with brown hair took the seat in front of Sophie and turned around. "UGH! Look at those horribly freakish brown eyes! They are so DULL my grandmother's behind is BETTER LOOKING than her eyes!" She said loudly. Dex stood and glared at the brown-haired girl. "Shut your mouth Stina, you have no right to be talking! And as far as I'm concerned, at least her father didn't fake intelligence in high school!" Some kids shouted 'burned' and 'eat his dust' but Stina interrupted them all. "At least I am not the son of a BAD MATCH!" The kids immediately went silent. Dex turned a furious pink. "At least my dad didn't pretend to be noble to try and be part of the Council's committee." But Stina didn't look particularly bothered. "Bad match." Dex sat down, defeated. Sophie looked up at Stina. "Don't mess with my cousin!" She snarled viciously before clocking her in the face. Sophie stared at her fist, then up at Stina's bloody nose. "What did I do?" She asked herself. Stina started crying dramatically and the bus driver turned around. "NO FIGHTING IN THE BUS! YOU WITH THE BLONDE HAIR! DETENTION!" Sophie opened her mouth and closed it. "But sir! Stina provoked me!" The driver waved her words away. "I don't want to hear it!" Sophie glared at Stina. "You'll pay for that." Stina flipped her hair and turned away. Sophie thought she heard 'weakling' as she turned away. Everyone on the bus stared at Sophie, even the boy with the teal eyes. Sophie felt a tap on her shoulder and met the eyes of the blonde boy. "Hey my name's Keefe Sencen. I'll see you in detention!" He said with a wink. "Um… thanks. I'm Sophie Foster." Sophie said. Keefe looked at her curiously. "I thought you were the Ruewen girl. 'Cause Grady and Edaline are your parents." Sophie blushed. "Adopted parents, actually." Keefe nodded. "Cool. See ya in detention, Foster. It's Mrs. Belva. She does ballroom dancing." Sophie blanched. "Ballroom dancing is a detention?" Keefe smirked. "Yeah and it changes to each teacher's preference for punishments." Sophie groaned. "Lucky me." Keefe patted her on the shoulder. "Poor you." Biana had turned around and was glaring at Sophie. Then she came over, shoved Sophie out of the seat, and batted her eyelashes and twirling a strand of her hair. "Keefe, wanna sit with me at lunch?" Keefe shook his head. "Actually no, I'm doing detention with Foster." He winked at Sophie, who was standing up. She glared at Biana. "It looks like you've got sand in your eye. What're you trying to do? Blink it out?" Biana glared at Sophie. Dex told Sophie it was a nice comeback and Fitz-the dark-haired boy-came over. "Hey Biana, you and Maruca can sit with me today. Keefe has detention with… the blonde girl." Sophie glared. "I have a name, and it's not 'the blonde girl'. It's Sophie. Sophie Foster." Fitz nodded and turned to Keefe. "What'd you do this time?" Sophie couldn't believe Fitz had blown her off like that. Sophie turned back to Dex. "I'll see you in class." SShe nodded and got off the bus in front of a large school. One horrible day at school, coming right up.