(( ? 's POV))

"This is it. A new school, new classes, and new people. No biggie, absolutely no problemo."  I say to myself, trying to calm my nerves. After taking a few deep breaths, I walk through the front entrance of the school, taking a few more bits of the apple that I was eating for breakfast. When I got side I was immediately approached by a short skeleton in blue and orange sports shorts and sports jacket with a mega phone in hand.

"WELCOME NEW STUDENT. I AM SO HA- MHMHMM! He said into the mega phone but was soon cut off by me shoving what was left of my apple into the mega phone, muffling his yelling. When he noticed the he wasn't as loud as he was, he looked in the mike, finding the apple then looking at me with a confused look.

"You know, although I like your school spirit and all, but I don't think yelling and busting a person's eardrums out is not the best way to just say 'Hello', ya know?" I say to him as I take my apple out of the mega phone, dusting it off and taking another bite of it.

"Oh, I'm sorry. In that case let me start over. Hello, welcome new student. I am so happy seeing a new face on campus. I'm your humble tour guide Palette, and I hope you have a fantastic school day." He says with a smile on his face and a welcoming hand stretched out, waiting to be shacked. I smiled back to him and shook his hand, despite being a skeleton and not having skin or flesh for that matter, his hand was surprisingly warm. "Nice too meet you too Palette. My name is Alexandrea Thompson, but you can just call me Alex for short."

Palette gave an even bigger smile then before and his eye sockets had green and yellow stars in them. "It's nice to meet you to Alex. Once you get your schedule we can begin this tour." He said, fist pumping the sky.

After getting my class schedule Palette began to show me around. It was pretty big place, even for a high school it felt like it was as big as a university, it well be a miracle I don't get lost in the place. "So, tell me a little bit about you, Alex. What's your favorite color? What's your favorite food? What are the things you like to do in your free time?" Palette asked with a smile. "Oh well. My favorite color is purple. I don't have a specific favorite food. And the for the things do in my free time, I actually have lots of things I like to do. It's a pretty long list." "That's okay. I don't mind." He said as we made a quick stop at the cafeteria's vending machines.

I placed my hand under my chin thinking. "Well, I love cooking, cleaning, drawing and painting, I love reading and writing, oh i like watching all kinds of animes" I continued on and on with the smile on face. Palette smiled as well, seeing that I was happy and geeking out about the things that I like. "Oh, and absolutely love sports, especially Basketball." I stopped talking when I heard Palette choking on the he was drinking. Once he finally got his breath back with utter shock and confused. He then smiled and started laugh a little. "Hahaha, that was funny Alex very funny, that's not something to joke about around here, okay?" Now it was my turn to give him a cunfussed look. "What are you talking about, I'm not joking when I said that I love sports." He looked at me with worried eyes, then he turned  around and started walking again but he looked stiff, like an old, broken, toy soldier. "OKAY THAT'S IT FOR THE TOUR. SO LETS GET YOU TO YOUR CLOSEST CLASS!!!" I looked at my schedule. I had came in late so I had missed most of first period, which was art with a Mrs. Ink "It actually PE with a couch Error. But Palette" He didn't answer. "Palette!" I said louder. He still didn't answer. "PALETTE!" This time I grabbed his shoulder and made him look at me. "What?" "Palette, why do I have a feeling there's something you're not telling. And don't try to dodge the question or try lying  to me. I can already tell that you're not kind of person that would."

He looks at me for a while then looking away. "I'd never lie to you, Alex. It's just... I don't want you getting hurt." 'Getting hurt? What's he talking about?'

"Listen, Alex, this school is not like other schools. Yes we have sports teams, but they're only guys. I've been at this school since day one and there has only been one girl that has ever joined a sports team and that's Undyne. She's not like normal girls, she's stronger then any other girl, she's stronger then most guys. And if Undyne doesn't get a hold of you first then there's your typical school bullies. But believe me when I say this, in a normal situation they'll pick on you for the littlest thing, but if word got out geeky girl, no offense, wanted to join a sports team that's not cheer. You won't just catch hell from the bullies, you'll catch hell from both the jocks and the bullies and the preps." By the end of his speech Palette was on the verge of tears. I tried to calming him down the best that I could. He soon regained himself, taking beep breathes. "I'm telling you this because it happened to me and best friend Goth. I'm the leader of the cheer team, I'm labeled as a jock. Goth is the assistant librarian of the school, so he was labeled as a nerd. When word got out about us... they, " He was gonna continue but I stopped him 'cause I knew talking about it was hurting him dearly. "Hey hey hey now. It's alright Palette you don't need to explain anything any further. I appreciate you trying to help me out I really do. But, I can't just live my high school days in fear. I'll tell you what," He looks at me what I said this. "If you want, at the end of week, meet me at the entrance to the lobby and I'll tell you what has happened for the week and if I feel if something is off or if I feel if something is gonna happen I'll inform you immediately. Deal?" I said, handing him a slip of paper with my number on it. He immediately looked happier then before and took the paper. "Alright, deal." ((DING DONG DING)) With that being settled, Palette said goodbye and walked to his class while I made my way to the gym.

"Strange though. Is what Palette said true? It must have some glimmer of truth in it if it put Palette in that kind of state. What's gonna happen? I guess I won't know until it happens. I just hope it'll be a good outcome."

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