[A girl(AUTUMN) stands quietly just inside the door to the high school's band room. She has brown, shoulder-length hair and a rather short stature. She wears brown pants and a white t-shirt. Her stormcloud colored eyes watch dully as the band pratices. After a few moments she turns stepping soundlessly into the hallway and sits with a sigh on a bench(actually it's a pew donated by some local church, but that's being picky...)]
AUTUMN: I hate this place. I wish that some of the stories I come up with would just become real...[The band's music stops, and the sound of people gathering their books and such emenates from the bandroom. AUTUMN looks up at the ceiling as if she were talking to someone.] Have you any idea how g--d--- boring this place is?!
[A girl(UNDINE) with short blond hair and stormcloud blue eyes steps into the hallway carrying her bookbag. She wears a pair of bluejeans and a yellow shirt with a print of an impressionist painting on it.]
UNDINE: Unfortuneately yes I do. [smirks]
AUTUMN: [in a monotone voice] Ha, ha Undine. So very funny...
UNDINE: [sits beside AUTUMN] What now?
AUTUMN: [shrugs] Disgusted with the human race in general...
UNDINE: [seriously] The usual then? [AUTUMN nods] I can't fix it you know... Would if I could, but I can't.
AUTUMN: I know...[stands and walks back and forth a couple of times; then, turns and punches the soda machine] I hate it!
UNDINE: Cool it Autumn. [looks through the band room door, towards the parking lot out the back] My dad's here already... You gonna be ok?
AUTUMN: [looking at UNDINE with a strange sudden calm] Yeah, I just need to think for a while... Sort some stuff out.
UNDINE: [frowns] You got a way home right?
AUTUMN: [smiles slightly]'Course... I drive, remember?
[UNDINE stands relectantly and walks back into the band room and out to the parking lot. AUTUMN watches her go; then sits down again, pulling her feet up on the pew. She lays her head on her knees. A few random students exit the bandroom, and they head towards the front of the school. Still more students hang out in the band room talking.]
A VOICE: Who are you?
AUTUMN: [looks up] Huh? Who?
A VOICE: I beleive that was my question first.
[A young boy steps out from the opposite side of the soda machine. He smiles kindly, his bright green eyes watching Autumn carefuly. He has long silver hair, sharp facial features, and pearl-colored skin. He untucks his black t-shirt from the oversized bluejeans, and looks expectantly at AUTUMN.]
AUTUMN: I'm Autumn Wraith. You're new to this h---hole, right? [the boy looks at Autumn strangely, and nods after a moment] Well then i'm the first to officially welcome you. [clears her throat, and continues in a mock-serious voice] Welcome to the Suburbs of Hell, better known as Forest Green High School...uh...your name here. [smirks]
MAINYO: [looks a bit thrown off by Autumn] Um... I-i-... I'm Mainyo.
AUTUMN: [looks at him strangely] That your last name or first?
MAINYO: Oh, um, AngrEMainyo.
AUTUMN: [smiles in amusement] I like it.
MAINYO: [frowns, not quite gettng it] Ok... uh... just call me Mainyo.
AUTUMN: Ok, want the grand tour?
MAINYO: The tour?
AUTUMN: I'll show you around. Where you from anyways? Are you a transfer student?
MAINYO: Something to that effect.
[UNDINE walks into second period the next day, the only class she has with AUTUMN.]
UNDINE: Hey, Autumn, what's up? Have you seen-
AUTUMN: -the new guy? Silver hair? Yeah. I met him yesterday after you left. He seems-
UNDINE: -strange. I know. But something about him feels so familiar...
[Both look over at the door, and, as if by the power of their combined wills, MAINYO walks in, looking around suspiciously, his green eyes taking in his surroundings with a hawkish fiercity.]
UNDINE: Speak of the devil...
AUTUMN: He says his name is Mainyo, although, I'm not so sure I believe that that's his 'real' name.
UNDINE: Well, did he look like he believed you? I mean, we may be trapped here, but we're going to find a way out.[Her voice is calm and confident, but wavers a little around the edges, telling Autumn that she's not as sure of herself as she seems.]
AUTUMN: I hope so. Anyway, I just don't know about this guy. If I were you, I'd-
UNDINE: -watch out, be careful - yeah yeah, I know the drill. I just don't know about this...
[AUTUMN nods. Both of them watch warily as Mainyo turns from the teacher's desk, and walks towards them]
AUTUMN: What now?
UNDINE: He wouldn't-
AUTUMN: -it is the only seats in the room-
UNDINE: -crud...
[MAINYO sits in the desk beside UNDINE's and turns to look at AUTUMN.]
MAINYO: You again?
AUTUMN: Yeah...
MAINYO: Hmm
AUTUMN: Oh, meet my friend, Undine[She gestures towards UNDINE.]
UNDINE: Hi
MAINYO: Hello
UNDINE: Where are you from anyways?
MAINYO: Where you from?
UNDINE: Here. Now where are you from?
MAINYO: Oh, um, well, around...
UNDINE: Oh, really, 'around'! I think I've been there once, an interesting place if I remember correctly, but I wouldn't want to live there. [UNDINE smirks]
MAINYO: [looks very confused] Huh?
AUTUMN: Oh, it's okay, she's only joking. She tends to be very sarcastic. You should work on that, Undine, it's such
a human characteristic. [AUTUMN suddenly looks at MAINYO, realizing that she may have given herself away by the disgusted way that she spat the word 'human']
[Just then the teacher walks in and begins class]
UNDINE: [She turns in her seat to speak to AUTUMN after the teacher has given them their assignment.] Do you think he noticed anything? I don't like this. He makes me nervous. Do you think tha-
AUTUMN: Calm down, Undine, I have no more idea about any of this than you do, we'll just have to wait and keep an eye on him.
[Both girls look at each other and then look at MAINYO. He stares at them curiously, and both of them wonder how much of their conversation he may have heard...]
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