The room grew quiet. Too quiet. As they walked inside the classroom, the teacher gave a suspicious look at the trio. "Adagio. Sonata. Aria. Glad you all could make it to my class." she said. So, those are their names. I assumed the orange haired girl wearing pink and purple was Adagio. Although my eyes were too busy focusing on that other girl from earlier. Aria, was it? I kept remembering what Sunset said: Stay Away.

"Nice to see you again Mrs. Brush." replied Adagio with a seemingly sarcastic tone.

Mrs. Brush didn't seem surprised by her attitude, so I assumed it was normal. "Take a seat girls." she said to them. As they took their seats, the whole class looked at them with a bit of fear and anger. I stared at Aria as she took her seat. She looked back at me, almost with a look of disgust. She turned away rudely, almost if I had done something to offend her. I was surprised about that. She didn't even knew me, and already she's treating me like if I was her arch enemy. But, for some reason, I didn't seem to bother me. If anything, I came to think...she's amazing. Such attitude, and yet...such beauty.

Sitting next Aria was a girl dressed Pink and purple attire. She had light blue hair with purple hair streaks. She was different. She kind of smiled and waved at me. I wasn't really interested in her, so I turned around.

"Hey, guys." whispered Sonata, "Who's the new kid?"

"Don't know. Don't care." replied Adagio.

"Ehh, the boy in the glasses. Who cares." replied Aria.

At that point, the bell rang. Class was starting. "Alright class," said Mrs. Brush, "let's take out seats, we have much to do today." Everyone took their seats and had their eyes fixed on the teacher. Except for me. I could take my eyes off that Aria girl. She was just sitting their, with her head in the clouds. "Okay students." said Mrs. Brush, "Today, we have a new student joining our class, so what do you say we all get to know him?"

At that point I turned to the teacher. "What?" I asked.

"That's right," she said, "Come on up here, honey. Tell us about yourself."

I nervously got up from my desk. I walked up to the front of class, everyone staring, everyone waiting. I wanted to make a good first impression. I slowly cleared my throat and began. I tried to be quick and to the point.

"M-My name is, Arron. Arron Canvas. I lived in Manhattan, and I've just moved here yesterday. I'm the oldest in my family now, and...um, my mother works for advertising and my dad is a former service men. Served 3 years in the Air Force. I like drawing, writing, and acting. That's it."

Everyone else was silent. I turned to Aria. She raised her brow. I could even hear her whispering. In fact, I heard everyone whispering.

" What was that?"

"Why was he so quiet?"

"That was it?"

"Wow. Manhattan. How amazing."

The teacher walked up to me. "Uh? That was very great Arron. Now, take your seat and let's begin." she said.

That was idiotic! I just made myself look like a zombie! I took my seat and burred my face on the desk. Derpy patted my back. "I thought you were good." she said in a comforting voice. I felt better, but that didn't change the fact that I blew it.

"Alright, class. Today we'll be focusing on pencil art. Sketching shapes, and figures. So, I want everyone to take out a sheet of paper and practice sketching, and doodling. Draw anything you can think, of. Practice your skills."

Anything I could think of, uh? I liked drawing things with my pencil. I reached into my backpack and took out some sheets of paper. I guess this was my chance to prove myself. I wanted to draw something...Out of the Box. But what? Something that interests me. Then I turned to Aria. I know what to draw. I couldn't get my mind off her beauty. I started sketching. I began with a simple oval shape. I sketched where I wanted some of the facial features to go. The whole I was drawing, I could feel some one was watching me. Sure enough, I turned the desk next to me and found Derpy watching me draw.

She had a look of interests on her face. "Wow, Arron." she said, "You can really sketch." I smiled and blushed. First compliment I ever had. I kept drawing, I sketch the shape of the body and started drawing on the clothing. Derpy looked at me very closely. As she saw me draw she began to ask me questions. "Hmm." Derpy thought, "She looks familiar." I was a bit nervous when I heard that. "She looks like someone, but who?"

"Heh, heh, w-who knows?" I said nervously. As I drew on the belt and worked my way up to the vest jacket, Derpy gasped softly.

"You're drawing that Aria girl!" she whispered loudly.

I panicked. "SHH! Don't tell the whole planet." I whispered. Derpy chuckled softly. I rolled my eyes. "Hey, Derpy, what are you drawing?" I asked. Derpy smiled and showed me her picture. It was a square shaped sketch with a half circle on top. "What is it?" I asked.

"A Muffin." A muffin? Didn't really see, but if she said It was a muffin then, its a muffin.

I finished sketching the lower half, and began working on the upper half. I drew the hair and hair clip. I noticed Aria wore a star shaped hair clip. I kept turning to Aria as I drew to focus on details. She didn't really notice me, but I could tell someone else did. Sonata, the little girl with the light blue hair and reddish eyes.

"Hey, Aria." she whispered, "Don't look now, but I think the new kid is crushing on you."

As I turned to look at her a 4th time, I saw she was staring back at me. I panicked and looked away. I could hear Sonata giggling. Oh, great, again I made myself looked stupid. I began to blush nervously. I took the drawing I was doing and placed in the back of the sheets of paper I was using. I began drawing anew image on the next sheet of paper. Aria slowly got out of her desks and was waking towards my location. I didn't notice her coming over, until I began to hear the class whispering and gasping. I looked up and there she was, Aria Blaze. The Angel of Shadow is what I called here, due to her dark makeup and hair color. I was nervous. I beat of sweat fell down from my brow.

The whole class was staring. I was nervous shaking. Aria looked at me with a raised brow. She had a look of suspicion on her. "What are you drawing?" she asked me. I froze at that point.

"Eh, What?"

"What. Were. You. Draw-ING!?" she replied.

I was shaking in my desk. Nervous of what she would think of me if I should her the image. Then I noticed the teacher walking up behind her. "What's going on her!?" she demanded. Aria turned around, and stepped away. No one wins against a teacher. Then the teacher asked me the same question. I didn't answer. Mrs. Brush took my sheets of paper and began looking through each one of them.

"Blank. Blank. Blank. Blank. BLANK! Blank. Bla- Wait?" Uh oh. I'm dead.

"Arron." said Mrs. Brush, "This is really good. You really captured her exact image." Mrs. Brush smiled and patted me on the head. "I have to show the whole class your handy work."

"Uh, NO, Mrs. Brush I don't think..."

Before I could finish, Aria slammed her fist on my desk. "Let her show us. I would LOVE to see your Handy Work." she said with a tone of anger, grunting her teeth at me. Mrs. Brush turned on the projection screen and placed the image on the platform camera. There it was. My drawing of Aria for the whole class to see.

"Look at this class." said Mrs. Brush, "Isn't Arron magnificent. What an art work Arron. Well Done." She applauded for me. As did the rest of the class. However, I could hear some of the whispers.

"Wait, is that...?"

"Why did she drew here?"

"Is that Aria Blaze? Why?"

I began to blush in embarrassment. Oh, what will she think of me now. Aria, stared at the drawing I made of her. It was incomplete though. I didn't het to draw in her jacket and her mouth. Aria slowly turned to me. She had a look of disappointment on her face. She raised her eye brow at me leaned in closer. "Listen," she said, "I'm flattered, but you and I, are nothing. So stay away from me." Aria then placed her hand to my face an slowly stroke my cheek up and down. Then I felt her fingernail push inside my skin, scaring my face. Then she followed it up with, "Or else I'll MAKE you!"

I looked in fear as she went back to her desk. She scared my check, and fir what? But for some reason, I didn't seem bothered by it. It was something out of the ordinary, but...I think I sort of liked it when she scratched me. At that point the classroom bell rang again. Guess that meant Art Class was over. Everyone packed up their things and went off. Derpy went to check on me. "Are you okay Arron?" she asked.

I didn't answer. I stroke the cheek that Aria scratched and slowly smiled. "Arron." Derpy called out. Finally I heard.

"Oh, what?"

"3rd Block is over. We have to get to 4th."

I looked at my class schedule. 4th Block was Gym Class. Derpy smiled and showed me her schedule as well. It seemed we had the same gym class together. "Better get going, then." I said. "We don't want to be late." As we walked down the hallway, I kept thinking about what happened in art class. How Aria looked at me, and the way she scratched me. How it felt both physically and mentally was something I had never experienced.

What was this felling?

Author's Note

In this chapter, Arron gets a taste of Aria's attitude for the first time, and finds he actually finds it appealing. In the next chapter: Its Dodge-ball Day in Gym Class. And you'll never guess who's here again.