Chapter 1: First day of school

~~~One day before the start of school~~~

At Esteban's house

"Tomorrow we will already be in our territory "commented Esteban to Camilo and Michael, "We have to win in everything. Those losers can't beat us like last time.

FlashBack

They are playing soccer in which both teams are tied, but at the last-minute Daniel scores a goal showing who won the game.

Teasing from the winning team was present. Which increased the anger of the team that lost in the last minute. Especially, when they knew the punishment they had to serve for losing.

The punishment that had been decided by both groups consisted of the loser having to be the servant of the winning team for a month. 

The boys took advantage of this month to make the losers do the chores they did not want to do and even others that they were not supposed to do.

To annoy them they sent them to do, such as: cleaning the barn, having a party and then having them clean up after themselves without the help of their employees or their money, even Daniel made Camilo go buy sanitary napkins for his sister, a favor that his sister never asked him to do but he did it to annoy Camilo.

~~~~Fin from FlashBack~~~~~~

"Exactly" comments Michael "We can't lose again, tomorrow we have to show who's boss."

On the other hand.

At the airport in Russia

Sofia narrates.

Here I am again. In a new country, with new food, new cultures and zero friendships or at least known people. Mom says to understand her situation and adapt to this, as we can't change something. Especially, when it is our ghost father who put us in this predicament.

My mother is a 39-year-old woman, divorced, who spends her time traveling for her job. As a result, my older brother David and I are constantly living alone. So, we have become accustomed to moving cities and countries and living alone.

This has not bothered us at all, since, besides not feeling so much pressure from our mother, we were always busy with our own things.

So we rarely felt lonely, since in the United States my brother was in soccer, music, dance and photography clubs. I, on the other hand, was in figure skating, tennis, swimming, chess, and music. So the time in the clubs and the academic loads, we barely had time to breathe and we liked it. So we didn't feel too lonely.

We arrived at our house, a very fancy house in the neighborhood.

We unpacked our clothes (since it was the only thing we had to do) and because we were so incredibly tired we decided to order food delivery.

The decoration and infrastructure of the house is beautiful to me, although David protested saying that it looked like a house for women only and he felt displaced, but well he had to conform since this house had already been bought by our ghost father.

We still don't know the agreement my mother had with our father. The only thing I know is that this house was bought by our father and according to him, we will not have to move any more.

My mother will continue in her job, but now our father will be the one who will pay for our education and stay. That is why we are moving to his country. Following what he and my mother agreed.

Already tomorrow we will have to go to school, and I don't care about that. With so many changes we have gone through in our lives, there is no more fear or excitement to meet the school. I have no interest in getting up early and going to class, but well, we must go.

My brother and I, we are excellent in our studies, even if we don't try that hard and that is a relief for us. However, that's why, it's so boring and monotonous. That's why we are both more in clubs than in a library or at home studying.

First day of school

"Kids, hurry up you're going to be late" mom yells from the first silver.

"I'm coming" I yell, fixing the uniform that I don't like at all.

It's too ugly for my taste.

"Wait a minute mother, I have to look perfect" shouts my brother as I walk out to meet my mother.

Mom rolls her eyes, she knows how much David likes to look good, as well as how long it takes him to do it.

An hour later

We arrive at school. Since it was the first day, Mom walked us to school, but obviously she literally flew off to work. So it was up to us to go to the principal's office.

The school was very large and had multiple counts among its facilities, which evidenced that there were clubs for something extracurricular, which is good for Daniel and me.

After a few minutes wandering around the large school, we arrived at the principal's office.

~~~~In the principal's office~~~~

"It fills me with joy to have such perfect students in our school" comments the principal as he looks at the documents with our school information "Both brothers are first in their classes. Both have won many awards in sports, photography, and music. It is certainly an honor to have them here."

'Here we go again with the usual speech, let's take our classrooms at once' I thought without removing the I care what you say smile, but I must smile.

After another speech and showing us to our teachers my senior brother and I a junior. We each left with our teachers to go to our respective classrooms and make our tedious and respective introductions.

Sofia narrates.

We arrive at my classroom. The students' shouts can be heard from outside. But all is silent when the main teacher opens the door and enters the classroom.

The silence becomes sepulchral, and order is evident within seconds.

"Boys, good morning. As you know, I don't have classes with you today, but I have come here because I want to introduce you to a new student" he turns to me and asks me to enter "I hope you will make her feel good and help her in any way you can."

I can't avoid this moment at all interesting. So I opt to enter and get the uninteresting show over with, as soon as possible.

"Wow, fresh meat!" respond the guys.

"So animal" replies one of the girls.

"Boys, be polite" scolds the teacher "Go ahead student, introduce yourself."

"Hello, my name is Sofia I come from the United States, I hope you take good care of me."

"That's it?" asks the professor confused by my short introduction.

I nod.

It bothers me to be talking about me, if it were up to me, I would arrive and not even introduce myself, but that can't be done.

The teacher noticed my lack of interest in introducing myself, so he said all the things the principal said. Namely, that I am an excellent student, that I have won many awards, among other accomplishments that do not thrill me.

"Wow, I think this girl will take the first place from you Esteban" comments one of the guys.

"Please, there's no one born to outdo us" scoffs someone sitting at the last few desks.

"Cof, cof, Daniel" said someone, but it was not known who.

The chestnut stands up.

"Who was the idiot who said that? That jerk can't even reach our feet" he comments upset.

Everyone mutters among themselves.

What a little school I got myself into.