Aphmau POV

I entered the music room in awe, admiring the instruments scattered around the room. One instrument caught my attention and that was the piano. I always loved playing the piano, grandma always used to play songs for me on it and I just used to fall asleep listening to the beautiful melody of the song that she was playing. I settled down on a chair near the far back, slowly, people started filling up the chairs quietly, no one uttered a single word, only a few people were whispering a few things. I noticed that majority of the people in the classroom were really pale, but covered with beauty in every inch of their face. Maybe only half of the class wasn't so pale, but I just thought that was unusual, since that can't be such a mere coincidence.

I heard someone sit on the chair next to me, so I turned my head to be met with a blond hair girl, who dropped her bag on the floor tiredly before looking at me with her vibrant, green eyes. She smiled crookedly before introducing herself.

"Zoey, my name is Zoey." She reached out her hand for me to shake.

Her smile was contagious and I couldn't resist, I smiled back. "My name's Aphmau." I shook her hand enthusiastically.

"Usually everyone will start whispering to their friends and I just saw you looking around the room, so why not make a new friend. I was suppose to direct you towards the office but it seemed like you found your way around." Zoey chuckled.

"Yeah, uh...I'm good at navigations, probably why I easily found the office pretty easily. But earlier on, I bumped into someone and she dropped her stuff on the floor, so I offered to help her carry her things to her locker which was right next to mine, it turned out her first lesson was also right next to the music room, so she returned the favour by helping me to class. After, we became friends, her name is Emmalyn." I scratched my elbow since the itchiness was bugging me.

"Oh Emma! She's one of my friends, she doesn't talk much. But she's a great friend to have-"

"Alright class, I'm sorry for being late, but let's get started. I heard there was a new student, can you just stand up and introduce yourself quickly." I looked at Zoey nervously before standing up.

"Hi, I'm Aphmau, Aphmau Rosabell."

A kid raised his hand looking at me expectedly for me to chose him. I nodded my head. "Are you Spanish?" He slicked his hand through his brown hair.

"Uh, yes I am."

"So doe-" The teacher who was impatiently tapping his foot on the floor cut him off. "No more questions. Aphmau, you may take a seat." I sat back down patting my knees. What was he about to ask?

"Today, I'm feeling generous. So you could play any instrument you want besides the French horn, we don't want that terrible 'incident' to replay itself in the future." Mr. Newman swivelled in his armchair carrying on with his dominant work, other students started to separate into tiny groups in line for each instrument.

"So Zoey what instrument do you play?" I turned my body to face her.

"I'm a countryside kind of gal, so I mostly play the guitar. I'm quite good at it too. What about you?"

I raised my eyebrows as I wasn't expecting her to ask me what I liked to play. "Well, I like the piano, it's the one thing that, kind of brings me peace, if you know what I'm saying."

"Yeah, it's the same with me playing the guitar, I just get lost to the rhythm of the beat-"

"It's that talking I hear?" Mr. Newman glared in our direction making Zoey and I jump out of our chairs and towards the instrument we're gonna play.

No one was by the piano, so I sat down adjusting myself in the seat. I swiped my fingers over the keys, gentle not to press them. I hit the first note of the song seeing if I pressed the right note. Soon after I started to play the other notes of the song that just slipped passed my fingers, I tapped my foot against the floor to the rhythm of the beat, I unnoticeably swayed my hips as well, getting lost in the mist of the beat.

When I was finished playing, I felt the silence in air. I heard not a single noise and that kind of scared me. But obviously I was smart enough to notice that I was the only one playing. I dared not to look behind me as I knew that everyone was looking at me. Luckily before anyone could say anything the bell rang leaving everyone to forget what happened and to pack their stuff up and leave. I sighed in relief as the tension wasn't so high as before.

I grabbed my bag keeping it close to me before walking outside to meet up with Emmalyn.

"Hey, how was music?" Emmalyn asked making me shrug.

"Awkward, very awkward." I smiled wonkily looking at Emmalyn.

"Hey guys! Wait up!" Zoey shouted making Emmalyn and I stop to a halt.

"Oh, hey Zoey. Have you met Aphmau?"

"Yep! We sat next to each other in Music. And by the way Aphmau, when you said you were good at the Piano, I didn't actually think you were that good. Because Aph that was amazing!" Zoey squeals.

"Aph?" I raised my eyebrows playfully.

She nods. "Aph is your new nickname, Aphmau's too long for me."

"Hey guys we're gonna be late, let's go!" It looked like Zoey had the same class as we do so we all went to our next lesson which was English, with Mr. Holden.

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Lunch has arrived and my stomach was demanding to be fed. I didn't realise that I was this hungry until my stomach was continuously growling throughout English, making other students stare at me weirdly, while Zoey and Emmalyn were snickering. Of course I had other classes like History and science, but my stomach disobeyed me as the rumbling became even louder. Best first impression, right?

But finally my favourite part of the day, the hour where I could eat all I want arrived; lunch. We walked down to the bottom floor before walking down the long corridor I took to get to the office. Zoey opened the identical blue doors to the canteen where all the laughter and chattering were coming from. I barely noticed two girls gesturing us to walk to them. Zoey being the hyper one grabbed my hand and jumped all cheerfully before running over to her friends, who hopefully will become mine as well. Emmalyn just walked casually towards the table playfully rolling her eyes at Zoey's cheerfulness.

We all spread around the table sitting down in one of the seats. I sat next to Zoey on her right side and Emmalyn sat right next to me, while two other girls were sitting in front of me.

"Guys, this is Aphmau. Isn't she so cute!" Zoey grabbed my cheeks nudging them together to make me pout awkwardly.

"Zoey! Leave the poor girl alone. Your probably gonna scar her for life!" A red headed girl with emerald green eyes scolded Zoey. "Are you alright?" She asked as if she was talking to a baby.

I looked at her dumbfounded until when someone else butted in. "Guys! Stop being so strange, your giving Aphmau second thoughts about being our friend. Now hush." A ginger head spoke making Zoey and the red headed girl look at me sheepishly. "I'm Lucinda and the red head is Kiki, my apologies for my friends strange behaviour, I think they had way to much Starbucks coffee in the morning, am I right?" She looked at the two intently while Emmalyn was enjoying the show.

Kiki and Zoey both nodded their heads looking down ashamedly. "Yes Lucinda." Both of them sighed in sync, still keeping their heads down. "Now Aphmau, someone told me you're a great pianist." She wiggled her eyebrows. Everyone continued eating their food including me (since we got our food a little earlier) while listening to the conversation.

"Well, I wouldn't say I'm great, but I guess I really like playing the piano." I shrugged carrying on eating my food.

"Oh don't be silly everyone in the classroom next door heard you beautifully play the piano." She assured me.

"Yeah, we were all sitting in silence when we suddenly heard someone playing the piano, so Lucinda and I made an excuse to get out of the classroom to see who was playing the wonderful masterpiece." I shook my head at Emmalyn and Lucinda disappointedly, while lopsidedly smirking.

"Psssssstttttttt! Guys don't look now, but look who's looking at us." Zoey whispered making us lower our heads a little. Emmalyn adjusted her glasses before taking a glimpse behind us.

She gasped before quickly looking at her food. "Why are they looking at us?" She hissed in annoyance. I take it that she doesn't like them?

"The Vampires of Phoenix Drop High."

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