The Blossoming of Ciri

Chapter 6- The First Day Back, Part One

“Hi my full name is Alex Damion Marteau and I’m. Well currently I’am 18 but in this story I will be telling you about when my life got turned upside down and changed both me and my family forever...” Chapter 6...

“Urrrrgggggghhhhhh... I hate Monday’s...” I said out loud to myself as I moaned into my pillow.

This is the week that I return to school... yay. Fortunately everyone has prepared for this, I have already been registered into the school by Principal Lepton, who has very kindly allowed this ‘deception’ to happen. Apparently Alex had moved to a prestigious private school in England due to a decision to become better educated, to partially travel the world and to actually make some friends (ouch).

Amber will pretend that the only reason she hung out with the mostly unknown gay outcast loser was because she was friends with his sisters, which is true. She is really good friends with Allison despite the age difference and the other sister being Ciri (me). This is to insure that we have an alibi as to why we are friends.

I will pretend to be Alex’s fraternal twin sister who just moved from Alex’s/my old school (the one where I was bullied in as I mentioned at the beginning of this story) to this one because I didn’t like my old school. And hopefully no one will recognise me as Alex or think too much about the chances of having two pairs of twins in the same family. If people do realise that I’m Alex then I can just say that we look alike because I’m his twin sister. If that doesn’t work, then unless I show that I obviously have no penis, I’m pretty much fucked. Ahem, hopefully it won’t come to that.

The whole past week, since the shopping spree. Mom, Allison and Amber have been teaching me to the best of their abilities on how to look, act and even think like a girl, With their combined help, Google and a fuck ton of YouTube videos made by celebrities, random teenage girls and transgender people, I got pretty much all of this girl stuff down pat by now. My makeup skills are about average now, nowhere near the awesome levels of Prudence. But acceptable for a girl my age. Allison and Amber are obviously still better than me, they’ve had years, I’ve had just over a week. But I am a fast learner, so hopefully I will be at their skill level within a few weeks or so.

I have sitting like a girl down pat now too, it was pretty easy as I practically sat like a girl most of the time anyway according to Amber. I already knew how to mostly take care of my hair, but now I’m a master at it, if I do say so myself. According to evidence and a ton of girls, I’m really great with girls fashion so I’m good there. And finally, again according to Amber, I tend to act like a girl anyway and my actions tend to mostly be very feminine, that’s probably one of the reasons why so many people thought I was gay.

So all in all? I had acting like a girl down by about 90%. Some areas were still... rough. Like certain aspects of makeup and I do still think like a guy in some situations, but that’s to be expected.

I looked at my alarm clock groggily, “6:28? Hmm 2 minutes early...” I thought as I started to wake up, next thing I know, my alarm clock goes off. I slammed it like I usually do and got up. I shuffled quietly to the bathroom and grabbed my towels, Allison, who also hadn’t completely woken up yet was also shuffling quietly towards the showers, we both did our usual washes, you know, hair, pits, bits, whatever and got out of the shower at roughly the same time, we both wrapped towels around our hair and breasts and went back into our respective rooms, we then somehow ended up leaving our rooms at the same time wearing our dressing gowns and slippers, our hair still wrapped up in towels and we both wandered downstairs to the kitchen, I made my tea, she her coffee and took our respective hot morning drinks to our bedrooms. But not before I left a cup of tea out for Dad and she left enough coffee in the machine for Mum. Mum and Allison both like having coffees in the mornings and cups of tea during the afternoons, while me and Dad like to only drink tea, I might have a very sweet Latte on occasion but Dad hates coffee altogether.

When I got into my bedroom I opened up my wardrobe and browsed around for a minute pondering on what I should wear today. But before I could choose something, the doorbell rang. Knowing that Mom and Dad would probably be in the shower right now I decided to go and answer the door.

“Oh hello Amber. What are you doing here this early? And how on earth are you already ready for school?” I asked confused.

“I brought this over for you Ciri. I completely forgot I had it until this morning, I’m correct in assuming you haven’t chosen an outfit to wear today?” She asked rhetorically.

“Um no not yet, uh, hey!” I said as Amber just pushed past me and ran upstairs to my bedroom.

I ran up after her and after I had caught up she was rummaging in my closet for something.

“Where? Ah here!” She said happily as she chucked me a pair of white panties and a white push up bra.

Using my reflexes, I caught both of them before the hit me in the face.

“Hey watch where your throwing!” I said grumpily, I still hadn’t woken up fully yet.

“Oops sorry!” Amber said apologetically before starting to rummage again through my clothes.

“Ugh.” I said as I threw my hands in the air in frustration.

I walked off into the bathroom to have a pee, Allison was standing at the mirror drying her hair and brushing it in a random rhythm.

“Hey Ciri. What’s going on in there?” Allison asked curiously.

“Amber, came over, got outfit for me, rummaging in closet randomly.” I said roughly as I kinda pointed in the direction of my bedroom.

“Ah, still not fully awake?” She asked knowingly.

I just nodded yes.

“Okay. Just let me finish with my hair and I will go and see what Amber is up to.” She said as she started to pick up the pace with her brushing and drying.

I just nodded again and entered the main part of the the bathroom and headed towards the toilet, but before I could enter I spotted my panties and old pad on the floor, so I quickly wandered over to it and chucked my panties into the dirty laundry basket, but as I was about to chuck my pad into the bin I noticed something. There was no blood in the pad, it was slightly damp. Probably due to the steam in the room and the slightly wet floor, but no blood.

It suddenly dawned on me and suddenly awake I practically screamed in happiness, “Yes!!!” Finally I’m no longer on my fucking period! Oh thank you god! That is one less thing to have to deal with today. Allison, who probably heard the scream ran in guns a blazing.

“What is it! What’s wrong? Did something happen?” She asked in a fury holding her hairbrush like a bat.

“Sorry! No don’t worry! I just found out that I’m finally finished with my period!” I said happily.

“Oh! Okay. Well good for you! Now you don’t have to worry until next month. You should probably still wear a pad or a tampon today though, just in case.” She warned me before turning around and exiting the bathroom.

“Okay will do.” I said happily as I continued my path to the toilet.

After I did my business I washed my hands and went back into my bedroom. Where both Amber and Allison were waiting for me.

“Oh good you’re finally back. Could you please put on your panties and bra please before we get started?” Amber asked in a professional tone.

“Um, okay?” I said as I took my dressing gown and hair towel off.

I now stood completely butt naked in front of my sister and my best friend, which for some reason now felt a bit more awkward than it did the last time we did this. Allison just looked away slightly, while Amber suddenly got nervous and tried her best not to glare at my naked body (and failed miserably) while I picked up the white bra and panties set that Amber gave me a minute ago and put them on, the panties felt nice but this bra felt... odd. It was pushing my boobs together and up, it was as if it was designed to make my breasts bigger. Oh wait this is a push-up bra! Duh! That’s the whole point of this bra. Jeez, I really need to wake up more. After I finished getting my underwear on I took another slurp of my nearby tea while waiting for them to explain what was happening next.

“Okay now that no one in here is completely nude, we can continue.” Amber said, nervously before picking up a nearby bag and pulling out a very familiar item. “I assume you remember this?” Amber said as she held out a very cute white dress out in her hands.

“Wait. Is that the dress that I tried on that one day in Forever 21?” I asked shocked.

“Yep! I may have secretly bought it for you while you were getting changed, along with the shoes. This is what you are wearing for your first day today! Minus the shoes though. Bad idea to wear high heels on a first day of school, so I picked out a pair of black booties instead. And, when combined with these...” She said as she picked up a thin black belt and my favourite black leather jacket.

“Okay yeah! that is like a perfect outfit for today!” Allison said happily.

“Here put all of these on!” Amber said as she handed me the clothing items.

“Cool you put all of that on while I finish getting dressed then I will do your hair and our makeup.” Allison said as she ran into the bathroom, leaving before I could respond.

Doing as instructed, I put on all of the clothes, relishing in the wonderful feelings that they gave me, when I was done I took a look in the mirror and saw a slightly messy, but cute girl in the mirror. Giggling slightly I spun around making the skirt of the dress flair out girlishly before settling back down again.

“Enjoying yourself?” Amber asked as she walked up behind me and hugged me from behind.

“You know this is like a dream come true for me right? I just knew that from the moment I saw you that you could be potentially one of the hottest girls in school. And here you are, as a girl, giggling girlishly as you spin around in your dress like a princess. And on top of that, you are about to go to school as a girl too! I’m so fucking happy right now. And that’s all thanks to you.” Amber said to me before slowly turning me around to face her. We stared at each other happily for a moment until Amber started to get closer towards me. She then suddenly kissed me very gently on the cheek, lingering slightly before suddenly pulling away. Her face completely red from the fact that she didn’t kiss me as she would one of her friends. No. She kissed me sensually, like I was her lover.

To say that I was shocked by what she just did was an understatement, I mean as far as I knew Amber was completely straight. And considering how I’m, in all intents and purposes, a girl now, it seemed odd that Amber would just turn all gay on me all of a sudden. Unless... yes that must be it! Amber isn’t gay. She is just so caught up with the fact that I’m a girl now that her brain must be working on overtime, I mean she did just say that this was a dream come true for her. She has been trying to get me to wear female clothes ever since I have met her. And I have caught her staring at me as both a boy and a girl on multiple occasions. Plus on top of that she has just become almost completely obsessed with me ever since I had my trip to the salon... “That’s it! She must have a thing for girly boys!” I thought with sudden realisation.

As I realised this, what remained of my macho pride went completely down the drain as I had just admitted to myself that I had always been somewhat girly. Oh well! Male ego is stupid anyway. I’m just happy that I figured out that Amber wasn’t gay, she was just so caught up in my sudden dive into femininity that her brain hasn’t registered that I was actually a girl now and not a girly boy.

“Ahem... sorry.” Amber coughed out in embarrassment before continuing. “I uh, just got really over excited there for a second... I’m totally not trying to come onto you or something... Um, I uh, I...” She stuttered off into a embarrassed mumbled mess before I interrupted her.

“Don’t worry Amber I understand.” I said reassuringly.

“You... you do?” She asked, scared but relieved.

“Yeah. I know that you are just caught up in how feminine I look and it’s causing you to get confused about your sexuality and stuff. Don’t worry I get it.” I said reassuringly. Happy that I had finally figured out what was going on with her.

“Oh! Um. Yeah... that’s totally it...” She mumbled awkwardly as she started to look off to the side while scratching her head. She suddenly looked crestfallen, like someone just tore out her heart and curb stomped it into the ground. Unfortunately I didn’t notice this.

“So...” I said, changing the subject. “Do you really think that I look like a princess?” I asked excitedly. For some reason, me looking like a princess was really starting to grow on me.

Upon hearing that. Amber suddenly perked up again. “Oh yeah! You really are like a princess!” She stated happily before continuing. “I can’t wait until prom! Then you will really look like a princess! OMG, we could totally both go as princesses! Ooooh! I can’t wait!!!” She squealed out in ecstatic happiness.

“What are you two talking about?” Allison asked as she walked back into my room. Now completely dressed and looking very cute.

“Oh just that Ciri looks like a princess.” Amber said happily.

“More like a messy princess.” Allison said before grabbing ahold of me. “Right time for hair and makeup.” She said as she dragged me into the bathroom.

“Okay. What do you want me to do?” She asked me enthusiastically.

“Um, what do you mean? Shouldn’t I probably do my own hair and makeup?” I asked slightly confused.

“Well under normal circumstances, yes. But, seeing how you are still relatively new to this and considering how this is your first day back at school. I should probably do it, just to make sure that you are looking your best.” She explained.

“Oh, okay then. Um then I guess I want to look like this.” I said as showed Allison the picture of me from the other day that I took on my phone. I didn’t even realise I was holding my phone until now.

Oh that reminds me! I got a new phone! Remember how I said I had apparently broken my previous phone because I fell on top of it? Well when we were in the mall we took a quick detour into the nearby Apple shop and got me the newest IPhone with a fuck ton of storage space in it. Yay! Anyway...

“Oh you want to look like that? Hmm... I guess I could do that. But for today I’m just going to reduce it a lot.” Allison said as she studied the picture of me. Looking up and seeing the worry and confusion on my face she continued. “Oh don’t worry, I’m still going to give you the look that you want. I don’t have anything against the slightly emo look. In fact it really suits you. I’m just going to make it so you don’t look like a complete slut.” She reassuringly explained.

“Wait, that look makes me look like a slut?” I said, slightly hurt at what she said.

“Oh! No, no, no. Sorry! I don’t think it’s slutty at all! It’s just that if, on your first day of school, you go in with too much makeup on, all of the girls will pretty much just tag you as a whore or a slut. Which is really harsh and stupid, but that’s teenage girls for you.” She paused for a moment to shrug before continuing. “While this look makes you look like a goddess...” She said while pointing at the phone. “...it isn’t really the greatest idea to wear it into school. Unless you want almost every girl to hate your guts.” Allison explained carefully.

“Wow. That’s so dumb. I didn’t realise that girls could be so judgemental...” I said, shocked at Allison’s explanation.

“Yeah. Well that’s how society in schools work unfortunately. Girls can get super judgemental and catty when they feel threatened by another girl.” She explained with a sigh before continuing. “You could probably get away with this look after a few weeks or so. Once you have settled in and people have gotten to know you. But for now I will just give you a slightly more basic version of this.” She said as she pointed at my phone again before picking up a tube of mascara. “Plus you don’t really need that much makeup anyway. Thanks Mom!” She said happily as she started to work on my hair and makeup.

A few minutes later and she was done. I took a look in the mirror. My hair, while slightly messy before, was now neat and looking just as cute as it was the other day. My makeup was flawless, I wasn’t really wearing very much, but what was there highlighted my natural good looks and still gave me the slightly emo look that I liked so much.

Satisfied with her work, Allison quickly worked on her own makeup before marching me back into the bedroom.

“Now she looks like a princess!” Allison stated proudly.

“OMG! I just can’t get over how cute you look!” Amber squealed out happily.

“Hold on! I know the perfect thing that would complete the look!” I shouted suddenly, before quickly running to the back of my closet and opening my safe.

Allison and Amber waited patiently for me to come back out. And were in for the shock of their lives when I did finally come out.

“Princess Cirilla Valkyria Marteau, at your service.” I said as I curtsied.

Both Allison and Amber just stared at me before bursting out laughing.

“Oh my god! What is that?” Allison asked while laughing.

“It’s so shiny!” Amber said, still giggling.

“It’s my royal crown!” I said as I pointed at my head. “I got it the other day when we went into that jewellery shop. Pretty sweet huh?” I said as I posed like a princess.

“What the fuck? Why would you buy that?” Allison asked while still laughing.

“I just felt like it.” I shrugged while giggling.

“Jesus...” Amber said while taking a closer look at my crown. “This thing is inlaid with diamonds, rubies, amethysts and stuff. Holy shit! How much did this thing cost?” She asked, completely stupefied at how many jewels there were.

I proceeded to tell them how much it was. I would tell you guys how much it was, but I don’t really like shoving how rich our family is into peoples faces. It just seems like a rude thing to do.

“Wow. There goes your allowance.” Allison said sarcastically.

“Jesus... And I thought that my family was wealthy. But you guys are like as rich as royalty or something. Why you don’t live on your own island or something is beyond me.” Amber said, completely shocked at our wealth.

“Our parents don’t like flaunting our wealth around. We are probably richer than everyone in this neighbourhood combined but we don’t ever show it. The only time that we do show off our wealth is when we donate several million dollars to a few different charities every year.” Allison said.

“Jeez... where does all of that money come from?” Amber asked curiously.

“A lot of it comes from Dad’s company, but I’m pretty sure that Dad has a ton of investments and shares in hundreds of different companies across the world. Mostly the ones that he builds buildings and skyscrapers for I think. I know as a fact that he has a share in a posh restaurant in Washington that his friend owns. And a share in a big tech company in China that another one of his friends own. Stuff like that.” I explained.

“Oh wow...” Amber just said speechless.

“Anyway...” Allison started. “We really should finish getting ready for school.” She said, attempting to get us back on track.

“Oh yeah school. Almost forgot! Not...” I said sarcastically.

After I said that I walked back to my safe and put my crown away. Once everything was secure and hidden again I started to finish getting ready. I grabbed a nice black leather backpack and threw in some school stuff, mostly books and pens. I then grabbed a clear bag full of makeup items and chucked that into my backpack as well, I then took my spare cash, cards and stuff from my old wallet and put it into my new Prada one. I then put that into the backpack along with some spare pads and tampons, then at the behest of Allison and Amber I put one of my sports bras and workout shorts into one of the compartments as well. Just in case if my new schedule had gym class today.

Ah, that is probably something I should mention before going any further. My school... my school is one of the best public schools in the country. I won’t mention it’s name for privacy reasons, but I will mention this. My high school is huge, like really fucking huge. It is both a junior high school and a normal high school put into one big ass campus like area. Hundreds of people go here, so everyone has really messed up confusing schedules that break into 3 different parts. I won’t even try to explain how they work. If I tried then we would be here for hours. It’s like the only downside of this school. Well that and Mr Rickshaw and his random stupid rules.

But other than that, this place is amazing. It’s like a super fancy college/university but, you know, a high school. It has a huge indoor pool and a huge outdoor pool as well. Several tennis courts, loads of buildings, a few huge football fields, a couple of fields for lacrosse and soccer and even a fricken ice rink! We got basketball courts, volleyball courts, any sport that requires a court, we have it. Our school is super enthusiastic about everything to do with sports. And have pretty much a team for every sport under the sun. We have cheerleaders, a gymnastics team, ballerinas, table tennis teams, normal tennis teams, soccer teams, football teams, hockey teams, I could go on and on and on. In short? We have every type of team under the sun.

The academic parts are really good too, and have the ability to adapt to everyone, which is really helpful. We have both normal teachers who teach the basic classes and we also have specialist teachers that teach the more exotic/specific area kind of classes. As an example if want to be a lawyer when you are older, then there is a specialist that can help with that kind of thing, etc. There are classes for everyone, from the mentally disabled to super geniuses. It’s one of the main reasons why this school is so popular, that and it is also completely free to get into. When the school was founded it was created by super rich, kind people who wanted to give everyone, no matter how rich or poor, no matter what ethnicity they had, or disabilities or whatever, a good education. They pooled their money together and built this huge school. It is designed to help anyone find the job that they want to do and offer scholarships to some of the best colleges in the country as well. Want to work for NASA? Why not! Lawyer? Doctor? No problem! All in all? This school is fricken amazing!

If you’re curious, my previous school where I had... bad history with, was a really nice private school with a small student body and a really good academic system, but after the incident I decided to stop with private schools and go to a public school instead. Anyway on with the story...

After I had finished packing my bag, I carried it downstairs and placed it by the door. I then went to go and have a quick breakfast with Allison and Amber. It wasn’t much, just some toast and some fruit. After we ate we quickly grabbed our bags, grabbed our thermoses full of either tea or coffee and headed out of the door. We quickly walked over to Allison’s car. I loved her car, it looked so awesome. It’s a Silver, Ferrari GTC4 Lusso, if you are curious. This car was basically Allison’s baby. If you fuck with it, you won’t see the end of the day. Not that anyone has ever fucked with her car. It’s too awesome. Anyway after we got in, Amber got in the back and I got into the front with Allison and we put all of our bags onto the spare seat, Allison quickly manoeuvred onto the road and we were off...

It took no time at all to get to school. Allison quickly drove into her registered spot and parked. Everyone who wants to drive to school has to get a registered parking spot in order to do so, I think it had something to do with safety and to stop random people from getting free parking but I’m not entirely sure. We grabbed our stuff and exited the vehicle. And holy shit was I nervous, this school may be massive and there may be hundreds of students that go here but for some reason gossip, rumours and information get around really quickly. Our school is very well known to be a very tightly knit community, so knowledge about me will probably be spread throughout the school in a matter of hours.

Allison said her farewells and quickly left to go to her side of the school. It literally takes 10 minutes to get from one side of the school to the other... if you run. Allison had an early morning meeting to get to. I’m not sure if I mentioned this before but Allison is a cheerleader, and not just that but the head cheerleader too! She is the youngest head cheerleader that the school has ever had. A new head cheerleader is designated every year by talent and popular vote and she was voted unanimously by everyone when this year started. Apparently if she keeps going like this she will probably get a cheerleading scholarship by the time she leaves here. After Allison left, Amber and I went to get me signed into the school. It took a few minutes to walk there but we soon arrived and got to the reception desk.

“Um, hi. I’m here to sign in. I’m new.” I said nervously.

“First day jitters huh? Don’t worry, it happens to everyone... okay name?” The receptionist lady asked kindly.

First day jitters? She had no idea. “Cirilla Marteau.” I said, slightly less nervously.

“Cirilla... Mar... oh here you are! Hold on a sec while I print your schedule out... okay, there we go. And... here, this is your ID card.” She said as she gave me an ID card attached to a lanyard.

“Cool, thanks.” I said as I took it from her. Looking at the card it had the picture of female me that we posted earlier to the school. And had the name Cirilla. V. Marteau on it.

“Now whatever you do. Don’t. Lose. Your. ID Card.” She said slowly and clearly before continuing. “If you do, you won’t be able to register into classes, access most doors, use computers, printers or your school account. If you do lose it, you will have to pay a 100 dollar fine in order to get a new one. This is done to help reduce people losing them and because making them is expensive.” She explained carefully. “Do you understand?” She asked firmly.

“Yes.” I answered clearly.

“Good. Here is your schedule.” She said as she handed me the warmly printed paper. “Oh and one last thing, the principal asked me to send you to her office as soon as you arrived. She said you would know why.” She said before turning back to her computer.

I quickly looked over my complicated schedule. Fortunately I had experience with this dreaded thing. And Amber, just in case I didn’t know what or where something was and she did. I had all of the usual basic classes as I did as Alex, Advanced English One, Advanced Maths One, Advanced Sciences One, Gym and Homeroom/Study. Then I had a few new classes that I didn’t have before. I now had Drama Three? Okay I can deal with that. I also had something called H.E Three? I asked Amber what that was and she laughed at me. It was apparently Home Economics. Great... I might have to get that one changed. The last new class that I had was Catering Three. Which I didn’t mind as I enjoy cooking. All in all, not bad.

If you are wondering what Advanced, or what One is, It is in simple terms, classes for smart people. In more explained terms, there are three types of classes, Basic, Normal and Advanced. Each one has 5 different levels in it, One being highest and Five being lowest. So as an example if someone had Basic Maths Five, it would pretty much mean that they are mentally disabled. (No offence to them) and if you had Advanced Maths One, you would basically be considered a genius. When it comes to something like Drama Three, that is what most people start at. ‘Normal’ Whatever Three. Although it isn’t called Normal, it’s just Drama, or English or whatever. And then after that you work your way up or down the list until you end up in the correct class for you. It’s all really confusing and a bit annoying to deal with but it works. This is the Academic part of the schedule and is split across 4 weeks, with different classes each week, so one week could be just English, Maths and Sciences while another week could just be Drama, H.E and Catering or a Mix of everything. The only class that doesn’t obey this levelling thing is Gym, that only comes in Basic, Normal and Advanced. There are no numbers. Most people have just Gym, as Basic is mostly for the physically disabled, and Advanced is for the super sporty athletes who do multiple sports.

If you are confused by all of that, I don’t blame you. And that was only the first part of the schedule! There are two other parts! They are Sports (not including gym) and E.C.A or Extra Curricular Activities, which are basically clubs. Although I’m not going to explain them as well. Again if I tried to explain the whole schedule and how it works we would be here for hours. Plus each schedule varies from person to person, so one person could just be a very bare bones schedule, like mine currently was. Or another person could have a super hectic schedule. Especially if someone has multiple classes across the entire school.

“Oh look at that! You have some of the same classes as Alex did. That’s good, that means that we will still be together in Maths and Sciences. Oh! And you have Drama Three as well! Awesome. And wow, we still share the same Homeroom. Sweet...” Amber said happily as she studied my schedule. “Although your Sports section is completely blank... odd. As is your E.C.A section as well. But that’s normal.” She said suddenly confused.

“Maybe that’s why I have to go and see Principal Lepton?” I reasoned to Amber.

“Yeah maybe... hmm. Well let’s go, we better not keep Lepton waiting.” Amber said as she started to pull me gently in the direction of Lepton’s office.

A few minutes later and we had arrived outside the principal’s office. The receptionist ushered both of us in quickly and shut the door behind us.

“Muhhahaha... Miss Marteau, I have been expecting you...” Principal Lepton said as she spun around dramatically in her tall leather chair.

We just stared at her weirdly.

“Sorry... It was too hard to resist!” She laughed out happily.

Principal Lepton was a very odd person. But she was probably one of the nicest people in the world. Most Principals probably wouldn’t have excused me for a week even if I was dying, let alone two. And on top of that she excused both Amber and Allison as well. She was super awesome, if a little strange. But most people thought she was funny. She was definitely the class clown when she was my age. At first glance she looks like a no nonsense, strict kind of person. She is super thin, almost wirey and dresses like one of those old school teachers with the long skirts and a plain work jacket. She wore a slightly frilly blouse and had those slightly pointed glasses that make her look like she was always angry. Her slightly greying dirty blonde hair was tied up neatly into a bun and her piercing pale blue eyes could glare ice daggers through someones soul if she desired to do so. All in all, she looked like the kind of person who would bend you over her desk and swat you with a cane until you bleed.

But despite her looks, she was the complete opposite. She was a smart, goofy and super kind person who rarely got mad at anyone. She often told people jokes and bad puns, which sometimes became annoying, but she was just the kindest person ever. The only thing that really pisses her off is bullying. She hates bullies with a passion, and if someone is picking on another person, she will crack down on them faster than a bolt of lightning. She also has a particular hatred for Rickshaw, which is completely understandable. Everyone hates him.

“You wanted to see me Mrs Lepton?” I asked shyly.

“Yes Al... um sorry it’s Cirilla now isn’t it? That’s such a pretty name by the way. And wow! You look amazing! If I didn’t know better I would have thought that you were always a girl... Ahem anyway. I completely understand your situation and that you do not want to be ridiculed or bullied. It’s one of the reasons why I agreed to this little deception of yours. Anyway, I should get to the point, class will be beginning before too long. Ahem! Right. As you might have noticed, so far there is nothing in the Sports section of your schedule. When you were Alex you only did TableTennis, which is fine. To each their own. And I knew that you didn’t take anymore sports because you were in that card club for E.C.A and that you were doing your martial arts in the evenings and such. And I know that you weren’t the most popular person either. Anyway...” She paused for a moment, trying to get a grip on her rambling.

Oh yeah! I forgot to mention that! Little known fact about me is that after the incident I started learning Ju-jitsu, I very quickly rose through the ranks and became a black belt. So fortunately if anyone comes after me, I can now whip their butts... probably.

“...Okay. What I wanted to say, is that there is a condition to me going along with this plan of yours. I looked up your history, and before you moved to this school I found out that you used to do gymnastics and swimming and that you were really good at both. So here is my price, I want you to do some more sports here in school. You can still take TableTennis if you want, but if you want my opinion I think that you are wasting your natural talents by doing that. So, I want you to pick at least two new sports and add them to your schedule. And one of those choices has to be either Cheerleading, Gymnastics or Ballet. The other can be one of those choices or whatever you want like Soccer, Volleyball, Swimming, Hockey, etc. But you have to pick one of the first three... yep.” She finished with a slight smirk on her face.

Wow this was really weird for Lepton! She rarely forced anyone to do anything, she is usually super chilled and kind. But right now she was actually forcing my hand into choosing more Sports. Honestly I never expected it.

“Wait. Why do I have to choose between Cheerleading, Gymnastics and Ballet?” I asked, shocked at her demands.

“Well, we always need more Cheerleaders, plus your gymnastics skills would be a great asset. We need more people for the Gymnastics team, a lot of their number just graduated and their ranks need replenishing. And it’s the same with the Ballet team. They need more people as most of their ballerinas have just graduated and your gymnastics skills would definitely help you with that as well.” Lepton explained.

“Ooooh! You could do Gymnastics and/or Ballet with me!” Amber suddenly spoke up excitedly.

Oh yeah, I forgot that Amber did both Gymnastics and Ballet as her Sports. I guess I could do one of those with her. Although I could also do cheerleading instead. If I did cheerleading I would be doing it with Allison, which would be cool, and fun. Hmm, but maybe I should just do gymnastics? It would be the sport that I’m the most familiar with, considering how I did it at my old school. But ballet may also be fun to do. I have always had a great respect for ballerinas, with their combined strength and grace. Maybe I could do cheerleading and gymnastics so that I could do a sport with both my BFF and my sister? Or cheerleading and ballet? Or one of those three and a sport like volleyball or soccer? Maybe TableTennis again? I could do three sports, but I would have a super hectic schedule if I did so. Not to mention I could still take E.C.A’s as well. Aggghhhh! This is SO DIFFICULT!!!

I have no idea what I want to do!

What should I choose...?