Adelaide Bordeaux has lived in the same countryside English town for her entire life. For years, she's seen the same faces, read the same street signs, heard the same voices, felt the same bitter chill of what many people call the "Eternal Winter of Rochester" for 18 years. She is finally in her senior year of high school, and is ready to get her diploma, go to a good school, and finally escape the small town she has been stuck in. But when a handsome, pale stranger enters her grade a month into the school year, staring at her like he's seen a ghost from his past, will she change her mind?
Adelaide pushed the heavy metal door of Rochester High School open, sighing. It was just another Monday, another bitterly cold October day. There were groups of people standing in the lobby and hallways of the school, gossiping and talking. Since Adelaide didn't have anyone to talk to, she made her way to her first class of the day: AP Chemistry. She stood awkwardly at her table, all alone, as others from her grade filtered in, laughing with their friends and taking their places at their tables. All the tables were filled to capacity, with two people at each table, except Adelaide's. She caught the conversation between two girls at the table in front of her. "Yeah, he's a transfer..... New from America or something...... He's really pale, but honestly, he's all muscle......" Adelaide listened for a moment, then tuned them out. She bent her head, her lower-back length hair falling forward like a curtain around her face. Her green eyes darted across the page of her textbook, taking in information. She could hear the teacher saying something. "..... New to us from America, he's going to be joining this class. It looks like the only place left is next to Adelaide. Go and set up over there, dear, she can explain what we're doing." Adelaide looked up at the sound of her name.
I was thinking that Adelaide looks a lot like a girl your character was in love with a long time ago, but she was killed. Please join! :)
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