Odd One Out

First Day

I hop out of the car and say goodbye to Mum. I walk along, hoping to get to my class room quickly.
Suddenly a shadow falls over me.
"Well, well, well. Look, girls, it's a new kid!" the girl talking has long black hair. She has two accompanying girls with her.
"Hi guys! I'm Kara!" I chirp.
Big. Mistake.
The girl laughs scornfully. "Girls, let's show 'Kara' what happens to new people here."
They advance on me. I back away.
"OMG! LOOK!" a girl on the right gasps. "Her eyes! Th-their changing color!"
I cringe.
"Now they're green instead of brown!"
They always turn green when I feel intimidated.
"So, the little BABY lives in the CIRCUS! As a FREAK ATTRATION!" the other girl sneered. "Let's show 'er what we do with the REJECTS!"
"HEY!" a voice yells. "Leona! Step away from her!"
"It's Sage!" she hisses. "RUN!"
I watch as they dash away, and turn my attention to the girl coming towards me. She has black hair with red highlights in piggy tails and a scar across her left eye. I shiver. She looks all goth-like.
"Um...hi." I smile nervously.
"Oh, cut the crap. I know your afraid 'o me an' all that, everyone is." she sighs. I bits my lip. I hadn't meant to imply that.
"Oh.. sorry." I say awkwardly. "By the way... why are those girls so scared of you?"
"Because they all think I'm a messed up weirdo who spends her time thinking of death." the girl says.
"Do you?"
Oops... I hadn't meant it like that.
"No! Of course not!" she glares at me. Then she sighs again. "Listen, sorry about that. But it's not always easy for me."
"Hey..." I smile at her. "It's okay. I'm...I'm not that normal either."
"What do you mean?"
"Here," I say, "punch me."
"What?"
"Do it. Punch me hard, in the arm."
The girl hesitates. Finally, she gives a weak punch.
"Come on! Harder!"
She punches harder. Way harder.
"Ow!"
"Oh! Sorry!" she frowns.
"No, it's okay... but look!" I point to my eyes. The girl gasps. "Whoa! They're changing color!"
"Yeah, I know..."
"That is so COOL!!!"
"Cool?" I smile. "all the other kids think it's freaky and messed up."
"Well they're WRONG!"
I grin. "I'm Kara."
"I'm Sage."
RRRREEEEEEEOOOOOOOWWWWW!!
"That was the siren." Sage says. "Come on, school's started!"
I follow her happily to our class.