I own Skye and her dog. Nothing else.

Nicholas was waiting nervously at the airport for his sister and his parents to get to France from Indianapolis. He had gotten the news last week that Skyehad gotten a scholarship to his school for her art, and that he'd be required to show her around. He actually didn't mind. He hadn't seen Skye in so long, it would be nice to hang out with her.

"Flight 21 is coming off the plane. Flight 21 is coming off the plane," The flight attendant announced over the intercom, so Nicholas hauled himself off the plastic chair and waited for his family. He spotted them right away. No one else had his dad's strawberry blond balding hair, or his mom's octagon shaped glasses.

His sister was more or less normal looking. Same blonde hair as his, cut into a blunt bob, except her eyes were blue to his brown. She was also slighty shorter than average, and she always had her yellow star, handsewn backpack strapped to her. It held everything that was important to her--her sketchbook, mechanical pencils, markers, inking pens, camera, and Nintendo DS Lite.

Skye looked his way. "Nick!" Skye abandoned her parents and raced towards her brother. "I can't believe it! You got so tall!"

"Maybe you got shorter," He smirked. He ruffled his sister's hair.

"Be nice to your sister, Nicholas," His mother asked. She looked spent from the flight. "Promise me you'll look after her."

"Mom! I'll be fine. I don't need Nick to babysit me." Skye demanded. "I'm not a little girl anymore."

"I don't know about the little part," Nicholas teased. Skye frowned, but broke into a smile. She knew this was how Nicholas showed he cared.

"Well, it was good to see you again, son," Father said, and gave him an awkward hug. "I need to catch my flight to Hawaii. I have business to do." And with that, thier parents left, and the twins left for Kadic.

"I heard you got in on a scholarship," Nicholas brought up.

"Uh-huh," Skye pulled out her sketchbook and flipped the page to a picture of Nicholas. His nose was smaller, eyes bigger, hair shaggier, and ears wider, but it was him. "This is the picture that got me it."

"I look like an alien."

"It's an impressionist picture."

"So your impression of me is that you're an alien?"

Skye shoved her brother. "It's just the style I was going for. There are some 'normal' ones of you somewhere in there. It's almost filled up by now. Only four more pages."

Nicholas thumbed through his sister's book. He saw pictues of her Chihuahua, Katie, some of thier parents and relatives, a couple caricatures, some dragons and fairies, manga people, chibi people, replicas of famous paintings, and some random sketches. He whistled dramatically at some of the super detailed manga people. "And the picture of me got you the scholarship?"

"Yep."

"I don't get it."

"Does it matter? I got into one of the best schools in France!"

He shrugged. "True." The reached the front of the school, and they passed by all the students. But a certain group of kids Skye held her eyes on a litle bit longer. There was an Asian girl--Skye guessed Japanese--dressed in an all black outfit that made her look very super-spy, a brunette looking like an army recruit, and girl with a pink pixie cut, a somewhat dorky looking kid with thick rimmed glasses that made him look like Harry Potter (minus the scar), and another blonde boy covered in purple. They looked extremly different, but best friends at the same time. It reminded Skye of her friends back home.

Skye missed them already. Thomas, aka Tony Hawk Jr., the blonde skateboarder with a Californian laid-back attitude. Jae Sun, the Red Bull addict Korean genius with ten siblings. Alexa, the native Texas girl with curly red hair as big as the state. January, fellow artist who specialized in sculpting, with a tiny bit of emo-ness. Garrett, the band geek that could play five different instruments. And Jake...Skye always had a secret crush on the serious gamer who had gotten her into Final Fantasy. But for some reason, she just never told him, afraid that it would ruin the friendship if things didn't work out.

"Nicholas!" Sissi yelled. The twins turned to see her.

"So you got a girlfriend and never told me?" Skye provoked.

Nicholas blushed. "Sissi's not my girlfriend, Skye."

"Hey, get away from him, geek," Sissi demanded. She started to tug Nicholas away.

"Hey, that's my sister you're talking to," Nicholas said.

"You never told me you had a sister."

"You never told her you had a sister?!" Skye askd, pissed off. It was like e had forgotten about her.

Nicholas fidgeted. "It never really came up."

Skye huffed. "See you later, Nick. I'll find my dorm on my own." She took her bags from her brother, and stormed off into the school.

Half an hour later, she was completely lost. "Ah, crap." Then she saw the blonde boy obbsessed with purple walking nearby. He should no the way. "Hey! Purple boy!"

Odd turned to the mention of a purple boy. "Yes?" He saw a cute blonde girl, looking hopelessly confused. But she was cute all the same.

"Can you help me find my dorm? I'm new, completely and utterly lost, and my brother is to occupied with his girlfriend to help me."

"Sure," He smiled and took two of the bags from her. Skye smiled at his kind gesture. "I'm Odd, by the way. Odd DellaRobbia."

"Seriously? That's your name?" Skye thought he was playing some sort of joke on her.

"Yup." He popped his lips on the 'p.' "And your name?"

"Skye McQueen." Skye's sketchbook fell out of her bag. "Oh, shoot." She bent down to pick it up, but Odd got to it first, and started thumbing through it.

"Did you draw all of these?" Odd asked, amazed. Skye nodded. "Why is there pictures of Nicholas in here?"

"Nick's my brother," Skye said.

"But you said your brother has a girlfriend," Odd said.

"Yeah. Some girl with black hair and a yellow headband."

Odd started laughing. Now he thought she was joking. "Sissi would be Nicholas's girlfriend when a meteor split the earth in two. He's more like her servant. Besides, she obbsessed with my friend Ulrich."

"Realy? Cause got really upset when I walked to school with him. Like she was jealous."

"Sissi's always been like that. She needs someone that doesn't question her motives. She needs someone to treat her like a queen, and she intmidates almost everyone because she's the principal's daughter." Odd shrugged. "I have no clue what her deal is, but she annoyes the heck out of me."

They reached Skye's dorm. "Hey, thanks Odd." Skye said. "Can I see your phone for a sec?" Skye asked.

"Um, sure." Odd handed it over, and Skye programmed his number into her phone.

"Just in case I need some help getting around school," Skye explained. "See you later." She smiled as she closed the door.

Skye escaped to her new dorm, and Odd stumbled back to his, drunk with Skye's smile. She is really cute, Odd thought. Maybe I should ask her to hang out sometime.

Nicholas had asked the secretary where his sister's dorm was, and knocked on her door. "Sis, it's Nick. Open up."

Skye opened the door. "What?"

"Did I just see you with Odd DellaRobbia?"

"Yeah. He helped me find my dorm." Skye said. "What does it matter to you?"

"He wasn't...flirting with you, was he?"

"So now you're the protective older brother?"

"I'm just saying, Odd is a total womanizer. He's had a million and one girlfriends. I don't want you to get hurt."

"I'll be the judge of that, Nick," Skye told her twin. But she did take into consideration of what he said. She didn't want to get hurt. "But, thanks."

"Hey, I'm sorry I kinda ditched you earlier," Nicholas apologized. "But it's not because I wanted to spend time with Sissi. It's just...Sissi can be very..."

"Controlling?"

"I guess that's one word."

"It's okay. I forgive you." Skye said.

"Alright. And when you start classes tomorrow, I'll save you a seat in science. We have that class together." Nick called as he walked away. "See ya!"

"See ya," Skye went back to her bed and flipped to an empty page on her sketchbook, and started drawing a boy with spiky blonde hair, and a purple highlight in the middle.