Chapter 96 - First Meeting (1/2)

Jasper wasn't expecting the class to be noisy when they arrived the next morning. The unusual level of activity surprised him. Alex and Scarlet exchanged looks and grinned widely. The girls have been dying to meet the rest of their classmates ever since Elfie's appearance.

”What are you waiting for, Jasper? Let's go! I bet it's going to be a full attendance today,” Alex gushed and Jasper shuddered. He wasn't mentally prepared to meet so many people.

The door opened and Elfie beamed. ”Guys, meet our new classmates! They are the ones who initiated the project to help the class of misfits study. We should crash the tutoring session later. It's going to be fun!”

Scarlet counted the number of students in class silently and was thrilled to know that there was a full attendance. She couldn't identify some of them but it was possible to make an intelligent guess based on Dany's brief introduction about them on their first day.

Alex, being the social butterfly that she was, dragged her sister and Jasper along to introduce themselves to the small crowd.

”Hello, I'm Alex. This is my sister, Scarlet and my childhood friend, Jasper!”

A very small Chinese girl hopped from her seat and ran towards Scarlet, hugging the girl. ”You're Scarlet? I heard so much about you from Mr Wong! You don't know how long I've been waiting to meet you. Are you interested in writing lyrics and forming a band with me?”

Scarlet blinked. The girl had a high pitched voice, braided pigtails and looked younger than them.

”You must be Lin Lin?” she smiled and returned the hug awkwardly with the crutches still under her arms.

”Come, sit down first,” a tall boy pulled out an empty chair for Scarlet. ”It must be difficult to move around in that. How did you get hurt?”

Alex looked away when she heard that question. She remembered how Scarlet broke her leg and despite the good relationship they now had, the Wile princess still felt guilty over what she'd done. Scarlet smiled politely and just told the young physicist that it was an accident but didn't elaborate any further.

”How about a round of self-introductions?” A Scandinavian girl with blue eyes, brown hair and light freckles suggested. Scarlet eyed her pink braces and thought that they looked pretty.

”You should start first,” a bespectacled Chinese boy grinned and pointed at the Scandinavian girl who rolled her eyes and flipped her hair back before smiling at the trio.

”Hi, I'm Jean Dawn, a polyglot who speaks sixteen languages fluently. You're next,” she shot back at the bespectacled Chinese boy who pouted. Alex cooed silently and resisted the urge to pinch his cheeks.

”I'm Jun Le, a chess grandmaster but I mostly play for fun. My hobbies are catching Pokemon and fixing jigsaw puzzles.”

The tall boy from earlier smiled. ”I guess I'm next. My name is Nathan Chia but feel free to call me Nate. I'm fourteen this year and am doing my PhD in quantum physics so you won't see me very often here although you can still contact me online. If you need help in Math or physics, I'm your go-to guy.”

”Don't listen to him,” a boy with messy curly hair told them. ”I'm Farid and I am also good at Math and Physics. I like to fix and build things so you can come to me instead.”

Jasper grinned. ”What a coincidence! I also know of someone who loves helping others fix things. You should talk to him.”