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Melissa also rode her bike to school; an old, black bike, which gave her the only exercise she needed.

Arriving at the campus, the girl parked it, dusted off her plain knee-length skirt and white top, straightened her black-rimmed glasses and picked up a dozen books - all the books from the day's classes, plus her current scientific - "Elemental Chemistry" by Greenwood et alli - and free time - "The Kinslayer Wars" from the Dragonlance series - readings from the bike's basket. Juggling to keep them from falling off her arms, the redhead started walking towards the school building.

Nathan was sitting at the front of the school, accompanied by no other than Star Ferns, the devil incarnated. Sighing, the girl looked for a way safely around. There wasn't. Shielding herself ahead from the comments she was bound to hear, the girl waved her reddish hair off her face and approached the door, and the pair.

((It's Melissa McCann. Yup, building profiles late in the night is a real no-no. XD)

The astonishment nearly made Mel loose control of her book load. Struggling not to let anything fall to the ground, she stared gawking at Star. "Was she just...*nice* to me?"
Half-wondering whether the preppy girl was reading herself to an attack, whether she had eaten some rotten seafood over the holidays, the redhead stuttered. "Y...yes, I did."
She had spent her summer working at the lab of one of her mother's colleague's, a renowned chemist who worked at MIT, and it had been quite fun; but there was no way she was going to give that much information to the main responsible for making her life hell.

The scene was starting to get awfully disturbing. Mel just wanted to get the hell out of there, and fast. She had no idea why was Star suddenly so interested. Actually, she didn't even think the interest was real; but then again, not much about the preppy girl was.
"Well, I worked at an Inorganic Synthesis lab, on a project about Palladium complexes with phosphine water-soluble ligands on olefin polymerization catalysis. What about you?" Mel worked hard to keep a neutral tone of voice, as if it was no big deal, while she tried not to burst out laughing. She knew she was being mean to Star, who wouldn't understand a word of it, but it sure felt good - and ensured the conversation wouldn't last for too long, either.

Nathan smiled when Star aproached and said "my summers been okay." he then watched as Mel walked up and watched the conversation that then insued. He raised an eye brow and putting his book away he stood up and said "Melissa, thats great, and Star glad you enjoyed your vacation."

Trev ended up at school in no time flat, parking his bike next to a black one that seemed to already be there on the bike rack.
He was early obviously, and there was not very many people around. Star, Nathan, and Melissa were, believe it or not, talking with each other on the school steps, though Mel looked kind of pissed off or something. Though that wasn't very surprising since, even Trevver agreed, Star was a first class stuck up snob. He probably shouldn't chance popping in and causing more trouble, but they were right on the steps, how else was he suppose to get in!?

'There's always the back door...' He thought, just kind of standing by his bike and debating going over there or not.
'Naw, that's a way out of the ways for just wanting to get around them and not deal with all the drama of the first day back at school' And there would surly be more drama to come, screaming girls hugging best friends they hadn't see for months, the guys being jack asses and picking on the new kids while showing off trying to get girls. Trevver didn't like it all.

Trevver sighed, he was going to have to go over there, so he stood up straight, brushed off anything that may have stuck to him on the ride over, and stuck a happy smile on his face. Though, after a second it turned into a real smile instead of a fake one, and smiles were contagious! He grabbed his rather light book bag off the handle bars of his bike, flung it over his shoulder, and turned back to stride over to them all.

"Hey you all. What's cookin'?" He asked when he got close enough to everyone.

"Oh, hey Trev. Nothing much here either." Star said, still having that one smile on her face. She brightened it up a bit when turning to Nathan. "That's really cool Nathan. Maybe you could show me that book sometime." She said, just before she was flocked by her posse. "Catcha later handsome!" Star called to Nathan before being rushed into the school by her friends.

Ophelia walked down to the art room, bobbing her head to her music as she did. When she got there she kicked the door open and slung her bag down by the nearest table before wrapping her hair up in a messy bun. Then she pulled a hand full of brushes out and eight diffrent colors of paint from her bag then lifted the bottom of her shirt and dumped the bottles in and grabbed her paint brushes in the other. She carried it all over to the far left corner of the art room and sat down at her easel then began to work on the painting she had started the day before.

Ophelia walked out of the art room with a plastic cup, going to get water for her paint. She had been looking at the ground as she mouthed the words blasting from her headphones, when she ran straight into trev. This shocked Ophelia and caused her to jump back.
"Oh, my bad!"