Today was the day. I was about to start a new school. It was a chance to have a new start and make a name for myself,  if I could. One problem...  I'm going to stick out like a sore thumb.

It's fair to say that I'm not like most people my age here... I look very different I suppose. For a start,  I'm quite a tall girl,  my family is tall,  I've always been tall for my age and in general, I'm not too tall but I'm tall for a girl and that makes me quite noticeable. However that isn't the main feature that makes me really obvious... I have got big, curly hair like Caribbean hair, that is fairly dark,  apart from the caramel parts going through it. It's quite long too so it is very, very, very noticeable.

Now,  these are two of the features that some people love about me,  and others bully me for.  So it's fair to say I have a love/hate relationship with them. However, there is one thing that I only ever had a hate relationship,  so much so that I spend the last year getting rid of it all.  My weight.

I wasn't huge,  but I definitely wasn't small,  I was noticeably overweight and I got bullied for it the whole time I was in school for it, alongside being taller than everyone and having big frizzy hair. 

Finding out I was moving to Korea meant that I had enough,  I decided that I wasn't going to carry on carrying all this extra weight that caused me so much emotional pain and I could gain any form of confidence I could from loosing the weight.

I wasn't necessarily a tom boy,  but I wasn't not a tom boy,  if you get my gist? So I decided on an outfit that was one of my favourites and didn't make me seem like a tom boy or a girly girl, but somewhere in between. I but on a black skater styled dress,  with a black leather jacket and some basic black slip on shoes.  I made sure that my hair was just curls with a small amount of frizz.

I used foundation to cover the light brown freckles that spread over my nose and on to my cheeks and put on winged eyeliner with some brown lipstick to top the look off.  Although what I wear isn't everyone's cup of tea,  it's what I like and I felt comfortable in. 

Mum offered to drive me to school as she took the day off so that she could make sure I got to school safely. I would have preferred to have walked but I know how protective she is of me. 

The car journey there was pretty silent,  neither of us knew what to say. She wasn't stupid, she knew how uncomfortable this was going to make me feel so there was no point in asking me how I felt
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"Listen,  I know you don't need to hear me telling you inspirational words or whatever,  but just remember,  this is a new start and its only a year until you get to go to university" she said,  trying to comfort me. She was right, although the thought of university was daunting,  I still didn't really know what I wanted to do,  so I needed to make my mind up fast,  or take a gap year.

"I'll pick you up after school as well,  I love you" mum said as I got out of the car.

"I love you too,  don't worry about me" I said in an effort to comfort her that I'd be okay.

You walked up to the reception to be greeted by the woman working on reception.

"Hello,  I'm Ivy,  I'm new here" you said to the woman,  making sure to smile so that you seemed friendly.

"Oh yes,  I was expecting you,  I will be showing you around the school and going through the basics of it and answering any questions" she smile to me,  she was quite a lot shorter than me,  she came up to my chin. 

"I see you have decided to take Biology, Literature, Music and Ethics,  quite a mixture. " she said,  as she went over my timetable as she decided where to show me first.

"Yes I suppose,  I'm not really sure what I want to do so I thought I'd go for things I enjoy and am interested in and just kind of see where to go from there". I answered honestly. I could follow my parents and go into medicine,  seems like a fairly easy choice since I've been around it my whole life,  but is it something I really want to do? Maybe I could go into teaching or become a writer?  Or maybe,  I could do something within music? Who knows,  I've got a year to choose,  right?.

We carried on looking around the school as the lady showed me where all my classes would be,  she also explained the rules of the school,  which were basically the same as every other school in the world. As we walked past classes you could see people noticing me walking past, you would have thought they saw an alien being dragged though the corridors.

"Don't worry able all the students here,  we just don't get new students starting,  especially into the year and someone who isn't from around here" she commented.  Wow,  that really helped,  so I really am going to be seen as some sort of alien,  well that's how it sounded anyway.

As I walked past a class,  I caught the eyes of a boy sat near the front of a class,  he had blonde hair.  It looked like the blonde had slightly fainted. We locked eyes for a few seconds before I realised I was seriously falling behind and was scared of loosing the lady showing me around.

"Oh by the way, my name is Mrs. Kim,  I forgot to mention it,  I'm sorry" she said as she started to walk up the stairs onto another floor.

"The school Bell is about to go off,  so you have 5 minutes to get to your next class,  which is literature,  luckily, the classroom is next to your locker which I am about to take you to". She said,  she seemed in a bit of a rush to be fair.

"Here are the keys to your locker, your timetable and your planner.  You get to have a free period after your literature class and then it's lunch. If you need any help you know where to fine me. " she finished with a smile and left just as the school bell went off.

I opened my locker to find that my school books had bee put in there already.  I reached in to get my literature book and placed it in my bag before closing my locker to go to my literature class.  Once I had done that I turned around to see that there was a group of students just looking stood there staring at me. 

"Are you new?" a lot of them asked,  I replied with "yes"  followed by a lot of "oooohs"  and "aaaahs".

I decided the best option for me would to just go straight into the classroom and get myself sorted.
"Hello,  you're the new student, right,  Ivy? I'm your literature teacher, Mr Bone. Aren't you from England? " he said.

"Yes I am,  sir" I replied, trying to be polite,  not wanting to get on the bad side of the teacher already. 

"Well,  it's nice to meet you,  I'm from America by the way so if you are ever struggling with your Korean,  I will be happy to help" he said smiling,  well it's nice to know that there is someone else here that speaks English as a first language.

I went and sat at the back of the class as I didn't feel like I making much attention and it's the must comfortable place to be fair.  A tall boy with light brown hair and a big smile came and sat next to me.

"Hey,  I'm Namjoon,  but you can call me Rap monster" he said with a big grin on his face.

"Rap monster?  Why Rap monster? " I asked trying not to giggle as I said it.

"Well because I'm obviously the best at rapping"  he said with a cheeky grin

"Stop lying to yourself God of destruction,  we all know that I'm really the best at rapping" A boy shorter than Namjoon came in,  he didn't look like someone you'd particularly want to mess with. However he looked towards me and cracked a sweet smile.

"Are you trying to say that you are better than me?" Namjoon said to this boy.

"Yoongi, Namjoon,  frankly I do not want another rap battle in my class,  we had this last week" Mr bone said to the two arguing. 

Namjoon, leaved over to me and in English said "I'm the best rapper".

"How did you know I speak English?" I asked.

"We were told about you yesterday,  so that everyone didn't treat you weirdly when they would see you and we're polite to you" he said.

"Ah makes sense" I said as the class started.

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"We've got a free period too" Namjoon said to me as he was looking at my timetable.

"You can hang out with us,  unless you've got other friends to hang out with" he continued.

"You two are the only people I've actually spoken to apart from teachers since I've got here" I said and bowed my head down,  I must seem like a loner now I thought to myself.

"Well you can stay with us, anyway you can meet the others,  I'm sure they will like you" Namjoon said. 

"Others?" I asked.

"They are not normal,  you should be warned" Yoongi finally spoke up.
They can't be that bad I thought to myself.

We walked to a room at the other side of the school,  there were 4 boys in there talking amongst themselves on the floor. They seemed fine,  I don't know what Yoongi was talking about. 

"J-HOOOOOOOOOPE" Yoongi practically screamed in front of me as he opened the door,  I'm not going to lie,  I had a mini heart attack. After Yoongi shouted at one of the boys,  who I presume was called J-hope,  all 6 of the boys started shouting at each other and went pretty much mental.  Known of them had actually realised I was there.

"Oh yeah! I've brought a guest" Namjoon said and moved out the way so the others could see me.

"It's the new girl!" one of the boys said and came up to me,  he was the same height as me and started touching me hair.

"Ohhh Rap Mon,  it's like your natural hair" the others all laughed so I joined in even though I had no idea what was going on.
 
"my name is V by the way,  what's yours? " V said.

"um Ivy" I replied.

"Ohhh such a pretty name" one of the boys at the back with silverish hair said,  I could feel myself blush slightly,  he was so nice. 

"Oh look,  someone else who's taller than Jimin" another one of the boys turned around chuckling as he said the comment.  Jimin, the one who had just commented on my name,  turned around to hit the one who made fun of his height

"Jungkook don't forget in older than you,  you should respect your elders"  Jimin said. 

The first boy who shouted back at Yoongi came up to me and shook my hand
"I'm your hope J-hope" he said while smiling brightly.

"I gathered" I said whilst laughing at his cheesy introduction.

"oh really how?"

"well Yoongi shouted your name so loud and you were the first to respond" I said laughing.

" oh yeah I forgot to say, you can call me suga, suga is my nickname" Suga said from the side of me.

"Oh I'm sorry,  I didn't realise" I said,  I felt bad,  did he not like the name?

"Oh no,  it's fine,  just most people call me Suga,  anyway where is Jin? " he asked.  Jin?  Who the hell is Jin?  There can't be more right?

"He should be here soon,  he had to talk to his teacher about something,  he wouldn't want to miss meeting the new girl" V said with a wine to the others. What was that about I thought to myself.

"Oh there he is" Namjoon said,  turning around to the door.  I also turned to see who this guy was. 

The first thing I noticed was the broad shoulders, what is it with broad shoulders? I thought to myself.  He also had thick lips and soft looking hair that you just wanted to ruffle. He looked sweet but serious at the same time,  sending mixed signals.  Our eyes met,  we exchanged stares for a time longer than the usual time that you should stare at someone for.  I realised he's the boy from the classroom I saw before. His eyes were beautiful.

"Jin, this is Ivy, the new girl" Namjoon said pushing me closer to him so that I could greet him
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"Ivy,  such a pretty name,  nice to meet you" Jin said with a smile and taking my hand to shake. Something about what he said sounded familiar,  it was probably the fact Jimin said something similar. 

"What are we going to do since we have a half day?" Jin asked the others. 

"Half day? " I asked,  I didn't realise,  Mrs Kim must have forgotten to mention it. 

"Weren't you told?" V asked.

"No,  they must have forgotten,  is it a one off them?" I asked.

"We have sometimes but they aren't usual,  a few times a year I suppose" Suga informed me.

"Maybe we should show Ivy around,  she's only been here for two weeks" Jin said,  how did he know that?

"How did you know that?" Jungkook asked.

"Oh,  I heard some of the teachers talking about it" Jin said fast. Something seemed a bit strange,  I couldn't think of why though.

"Sounds like a good idea,  I call shotgun and showing Ivy around" V said.

"Aren't we all showing her around" Jungkook asked.

"Yes...  But still I want to" replied V

During Jungkook and V's domestic,  I noticed Jins eyes on me the whole time,  you could almost feel the burning of the stare.

"Come on let's go get some food" Namjoon said,  so we left.