Gazzy's POV
"I don't know what to do Angel" I said into the phone.
"It's going to be ok Gazzy" She assured me. "Ang, we have 2 months until they bulldoze this school. This school is needed. Every one of the 40 students that go here are orphans. What's going to happen to them if the school shuts down?" I told her.
"I don't know Gazzy. But we'll figure out something" my sister Angel told me. Angel was my younger sister. I lived over here in America and she lived in Australia. We both owned schools, but mine was about to get flattened.
"So how's Rep high school?" I asked her. "It's ok. We've dropped numbers, only about 60 students now. The kids are so tightly packed though, they wont leave their own friendship groups" Angel sighed.
"Yeah, I wish they'd met my kids, they're all so full of life" I said.
"Gazzy that's it!" She squealed. "What's it?" I asked. "You should raise money and fly the kids over here and we'll join schools!" She said excitedly. We were so exited by this idea. We had also decided to partner kids up as email buddies to the Australian kids could tell my kids what its like there and then when we arrived they'd have at least one friend already. We couldn't wait until we arrived.
Max's POV
I slowly lifted my head from my arms as the door slammed open.
"I didn't do it I say!" a familiar voice said. I looked over to see my best friend Iggy standing there with the janitor behind him, a tight grip on Iggy's arm. "You missin' someone Miss Johnson?" The janitor asked. "Thank you Henry. Iggy, sit down" Miss Johnson sighed.
"What happened?" Miss Johnson asked. "He been flooding the hall again" the janitor known as Henry said. "Has he now? Did he have any help?" Miss Johnson asked looking at me. "I didn't do it!" I said. "Miss Ride" Miss Johnson said threateningly. "You can't prove it" I said and she rolled her eyes.
"I'm sorry Henry, but she's right" Miss Johnson sighed and Henry nodded and left, mumbling to himself.
Iggy had sat himself down next to me and we grinned at each other. Iggy and I had been planning that for about a week now.
So Iggy and I weren't the most popular or friendly people at school. But we had a hell of a time!
"Ok, so before we were so rudely interrupted, I was about to say I have an announcement. In America there is a small school of orphans and their school is about to be flattened. Miss Wade's brother owns the school and it's been decided that these kids are going to be flown here and will be joining us" Miss Johnson announced.
I groaned but practically everyone else grinned and whispered to each other.
"To make the students feel better and have at least someone they know here, it's been decided that you will each be partnered with an American student and will be email buddies. You will talk to them as often as you can" Miss Johnson said.
I put my head in my arms and inwardly groaned.
"To make it fair, you'll draw a name out of a hat and that'll be your partner" Miss Johnson held out a hat.
One by one we made our way to the hat. I sighed as I plunged my hand in and picked out a piece of paper. "Fang" it read. What the hell? I went back to my seat and Iggy soon followed me.
"Who'd you get?" he asked. "Some person named Fang" I shrugged. "I got some chick called Ella. I hope she's hot" he said and I slapped him upside the head.
On the back of the paper were the people's addresses. It then hit me that a few days ago the teachers had asked for our email addresses so they could send us 'something important.' I guess that's what it was for.
Then next class we were given the school computers and logged on to send our first emails.
Fang.
What's with the name? Are you a girl or boy? I'm not being rude because that would just be hypercritical because my names Max and I'm a girl. So what's crackalacking?
from Max
I pressed send and was surprised when my computer made a tiny beep sound to say I had mail, only 5 minutes later.
Max.
What a weird way to start an email. What ever happened to "Dear Fang" or "To my new awesome email buddy"? We'll as you probably gathered I am an orphan, so I got to pick my own name. So Fang it was. Nothing's "crackalacking" except for the fact that the one and only place I can call home is about to go BOOM! What about you?
The one and only Fang
I smiled. I think I was going to like this guy. I quickly typed a reply before the computers were taken off us.
To my new and slightly deranged email friend
Sucks to be you. (Not insensitive. Just saying) Well I'm sitting here talking to a random guy, life can't get much better. So earlier today me and my best friend Iggy almost got caught flooding the hall. And now I don't know what to say (So add awesome and smooth one liner phrase here)
The hard core Max
I signed off and put my computer away.
Fang's POV
This email thing was so stupid. I was kind of grumpy when I got a dude called Max. He sounded bad already. So you can imagine my surprise when it turned out to be a chick. I opened my new email.
To my new and slightly deranged email friend
Sucks to be you. (Not insensitive. Just saying) Well I'm sitting here talking to a random guy, life can't get much better. So earlier today me and my best friend Iggy almost got caught flooding the hall. And now I don't know what to say (So add awesome and smooth one liner phrase here)
The hard core Max
I smiled and typed a reply.
To the air headed Max
I am not deranged. It's ok, your forgiven, lucky for you. Sounds like you have fun at school. Iggy hey? That's who my sister Ella got. Funny that. You flooded the hall? Cool (Add impressed look) So tell me about your life
The one and only Fang
I pressed send then climbed back into bed. "About time" Ella yawned facing me. "What?" I asked. "Don't worry. So I hear your email person is my email person's best friend?" She said and I just nodded. "I think I'm going to like Iggy" she said and I stared at her as she gave me an evil grin. She turned the lights off before I could say anything.