A Miraculous Tale of a Cursed Crane

Chapter 2: "Introducing myself to the school"

I stood outside the large cream school. To the left I saw the bakery and internally squealed! I was so excited to be here, but I had to maintain my composure. I wore a denim baseball cap on top of my thick short locks, a simple white t-shirt, a letterman blue jacket with button pins, grey sleeves and trims, matching denim shorts, black tights, black converse, and of course my miraculous. Master Fu enrolled me into school because I was still 15, but this was still epic for me. Last night he allowed that I stay at his place, and that we would tell people that I was living with my great uncle. After school, I hope to get a part time job so at least I could pay Master Fu for lodging, food, and such.

I walked into the school taking in everything. I saw teenagers talking in groups, some heading to class early, and just simply hanging out. I took out my schedule and map of the school from my silver backpack and started walking. On the way there I couldn't help but fantasize how I would introduce myself. Should I act mysterious and knowingly about everyone's names, hobbies, personalities, and secrets? Would that be creepy? Or should I go with a formal normal approach and just state my name or where I'm from? I kind of wanted to do the first option, but I remember Master Fu telling me not to mess too much with the timeline. From what Master Fu mentioned about current events, I'm starting at the beginning of the season after "Stormy Weather".

I walked into the classroom to see all the class characters settling in. My eyes immediately looked straight to Adrien, to Marinette, to the emo red head in the back (Nathaniel), to the cool girl on the left with purple streaks (Juleka), and towards Chloé, who was being kind of aggressive toward Sabrina and would be the cause of the majority of the class's akumatization. I stood at the front of the room as I waited for the teacher to come in. I seriously don't remember her name from the series, but she had orange hair, so she was the english lady. She spoke up, "Okay class settle down, we have a new student joining us." She nudged me forward and I looked at everyone. I was suddenly kind of anxious, maybe out of excitement or maybe out of actually being nervous. This scenario was like a freak'n anime, and I think this story was pretty popular among anime fans.

Knowing that the class was waiting, I smiled and said, "Hello! You can call me Li. I came from the U.S. and I now live with my great uncle due to my parents' work. I hope we can all get along." I bowed at the end. I internally screamed, SHOOT! I resorted to doing the most cliché anime introduction for transfer students! Oh well, I was happy either way. I lifted my head to see the class look at me. The class phone rang. "Hello?" the teacher asked. "I'll be right back students. Li, why don't you do a Q&A with the class?" I nodded and she left. I looked at Chloé to see if she would make a comment and it looked like she was going to say something. I looked at her with a determined look, because I have never met a person who straight up insulted someone before. "Does anyone have any questions?" I asked because they all just scanned me. Nino raised his hand. "Yeah." I pointed to him and he said "My name is Nino, and could we have your number so we can add you to our contacts? Also, do you like to jam out?" I smiled and said, "I'll put my number on this little piece of paper, but in return I want everyone's contact info too. And yes I do like to dance." That's where Chloé came in and she asked, "Are you a boy or a girl?" Really?! Is this why people are just staring at me?! Like I'm not wearing makeup but like... eh I guess this is fine. "What do you think I am?" "You look like a boy with your hair but you also seem fragile, but I can't tell what gender you are once I look at your face." I just looked at her because I couldn't help but smirk. "Um, I'll tell you my gender in two weeks if you can't figure it out. Kay Chloé?" I said smiling but realized I just Chloé's name before supposedly actually knowing it. I think I was distracted that this might be the first and last nice thing Chloe will ever say to me. "Anyone else?" I asked.  Whoo, Chloé didn't catch that I knew her name before asking her. Just my luck, Marionette raises her hand and asks the question based on my mistake. Well she is a superhero so...Nice catch girl! "How did you know Chloé's name before she introduced herself?" Chloé retorted, "Because I'm obliviously more famous Marinette!" I stood there awkwardly and I started to speak. I was going to try to act all mysterious so let's see how this turns out. "Marinette, you have three options to believe in. One, I watch TV and use social media and Chloé Bourgeois is always with her father and is mentioned. Two, the power of deduction." I walk closer to Chloé. "She is wearing designer clothes and seems to be wearing perfume. You can afford stuff such as Louis Vuitton sunglasses, meaning you are pretty fortunate. And with that snappy attitude towards you Marinette and towards others before my introduction, it seems that Chloé has a sense of power. And you have a parent that is in a somewhat political power position and not simply wealthy, because if you just a rich parent I don't think you would act like that. Maybe you would act more like Adrien over here." I said with a wave of a hand. I went back to the center and said, "Third, you can believe that I'm just magical and I just happen to know all your names, some secrets, hobbies?" I said with a goofy grin and jazz hands. With that, I walked up the stairs and slide next to Nathaniel. He's so cute! As I walked, the class just stared at me and whispered with one another until the teacher came back.