Circe's POV - 09:01

I walk into the Chemistry classroom as the late bell rings.  The teacher is nowhere in sight.  I look around and find most students on their phones.  My attention is brought to two girls in the back when I hear a loud boom.  One girl with ombre hair put up in messy space buns is wearing a labcoat and goggles over a graphic tee and black jeans.  The girl next to her has dark hair in a low bun.  She's wearing a loose orange and black halloween hoodie over ripped blue jeans.  She looks very similar to the person who was sitting behind Cassie last period.  The second girl looks up from her phone in surprise.  The first girl has ash on he face from the mini explosion.  Her hair was strewn all over the place.

"Oh my GOD, Naomi.  What did you do now?"  the second girl asks, annoyed.

The teacher comes running out of the back room.

"WHAT HAPPENED?!" He looks around for a moment before sighing. "Oh, it's just you.  You're not hurt are you?  Terry, go take her to clean up."

The second girl, Terry, takes Naomi out of the room towards that background.  As they leave, Naomi shouts, "THAT WAS SO COOL!" 

Terry responds, "NO, that was NOT cool."

She keeps chiding Naomi as they walk away, the words becoming undecipherable.

The teacher sighs again and wipes his hands on his lab coat.  He looks over at me and walks over.

"Hello, do you need something?"

"I'm new.  This was the room number on my schedule, I think... am I in the wrong class?"

"Oh, yes yes yes."  He nods his head and walks to his desk. "Circe Aurelia?  I forgot you were coming today.  I'm very scattered sometimes.  It's very nice to meet you Miss Aurelia.  I'm Mr. Lewis."

I interrupt his tangent. "Nice to meet you, Mr. Lewis."

He takes a look at his seating chart and looks up.  "There's only a handful of free seats... in the back..." he continues under his breath, "because no one wants to be in the blast radius..."

He looks at me.  "Would you be okay sitting in the back?"

"Yep! In which seat?"

"Any in the back row except the two in the middle."

"Okay! Thank you."

I put my stuff down in the back as the two girls from before walk in.  Naomi's eyes light up when she sees mee and she rushes over.

"Oooooh, are you new??"

Terry rolls her eyes at Naomi as she approaches and bops her on the head.

"Don't be rude, Naomi.  Introduce yourself."  She turns her attention to me.  "I'm Terry."

"And I'm Naomi!"

"I'm Circe.  It's nice to meet you both."

Naomi giggles. "You speak funny.  All proper and stuff.  Kinda like Cas.  You seem nicer than Cas, though."

"Thank... you?"  I respond.  I wonder if Naomi is refering to Cassie from earlier.

"Sorry about her.  She can be a bit... much."

Naomi approaches her little experiment from earlier.  "Hehe, expolsion go boom."

"You're going to get us all killed like that.  Clean it up."

"Yes, ma'am," Naomi giggles.

Mr. Lewis begins a lab about polymer, where we make polymer bouncy balls.  I color mine yellow, Naomi colors hers a dark blue, and Terry's is orange.

By the end of class, Naomi has lost her bouncy ball and Terry gives her hers.  Naomi proceeds to almost lose it in the hallway after the bell rings.  

Nest stop, World History.