Reuploading: Chapter 1.

This is the beginning of my story again. :) Chapter one.

Introduction:

"Welcome welcome welcome to our school school...!"
"...School."
"Whoa! Where did you come from?"
"Oh, uh, over there."
"Hold up! Take a step backward! I'm confused and you're all up in my grill! I can't see anything!"
"Oh, sorry." As the boy stepped back, he finally gave the clearly new student a chance to see the rest of the room they were in. The walls were decorated with pink sparkles and black skulls.
"Where are we again?" the girl asked, and the boy giving her a tour smiled.
"Oh, it's our room," he said, motioning himself and the p

erson of questionable gender dressed in all black next to him. The boy himself was dressed in tight fitting pants with a T-shirt under a vest as well as a scarf. The, (possibly) boy, next to him stood somehow shorter than him, dressed in a black shirt with black cargo pants. He/she wore thick black eyeliner.
"What were your names again?" the girl asked, trying to answer the gender question in a subtle way.
"My name is Frederick Von Hoopenhagen."
"That's new."
"I lied, it's just Teddy."
"Teddy?" the girl mumbled, trying to remember what Teddy was short for again. She decided to just move on, and turned to the other person, "And?"
"My name is Kendall," he/she muttered. The other girl cursed, much like a pirate, under her breath. Why did it have to be a unisex name?
"And your name isssss...," Teddy mumbled, and the girl tried to speak up, but Teddy interrupted, flailing his arm in her general direction, "Wait don't tell me...Jew." The girl shook her head, a look of mild shock appearing on her face, "Oh no wait! That's offensive isn't it? I forgot Jew meant something I'm sorry, are you Jewish?" The girl nodded, but didn't get a chance to reply, "I'm so sorry. I'll go jump out the window...," the girl tried to protest, but Teddy changed his mind and turned back, "Loo?" head shake, "Dew?" head shake, "Mew?" head shake, "Pokemon masta?" stare, then a nod.
"I could just tell you," she mumbled, shrugging, but Teddy clamped his hand over her mouth.
"No, I'll get it. Hugh? Oh no wait, you're a girl...Drew? Oh, still a girl...WAIT! I got it! Blue. Your name is Blue, right?" he asked eagerly, and the girl nodded.
"Yeah, which I guess does fit in to your little rhyme scheme," Blue mumbled. Who names their kid Blue anyway? Kendall stared at her in a way that could only be described as creepy, and Teddy led her away from their room.
"So this is the hallway," Teddy stated, as they walked through a dorm hallway.
"Yep," Blue agreed. Teddy led her onward until they finally got outside the building, and they walked across the street to the school building. The sign outside read, "Baylor School of the Arts." Teddy continued to lead Blue forward until they reached a room, which Teddy opened excitedly.
"Hello people!" he declared as he opened the door. Blue took a moment to survey the class, which looked like possibly a music room or something, which was alarming because Blue wasn't a music person. A mirror facing the group showed the entire group fully.
To Blue's far left sat a blond girl, looking slightly out of place. A fairly good looking guy stood up and ran to greet them. Blue thought for a moment he was going to turn out to be the clearly gay boy to her right's boyfriend or something, but she got a pretty straight vibe from him. She could feel those vibes, it was an ability.
"Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to--" he was soundly cut off by a smack to the back of the head.
"Shut up, you're embarrassing yourself," another fairly good-looking guy said.
"Uh...," Blue replied, a bit confused. "I'm Blue."
"Oh honey, don't be sad," an extremely tall and gangly girl comforted. The final group member walked over (save the blond looking kind of dejected on a chair) and laughed.
"I think she meant her name is Blue," she corrected the tall girl.
"Oh," the tall girl mumbled. "Sorry. I'm Austin." Blue mental noted the generally boy's name for the girl as she looked to the rest of the group to introduce themselves.
The first boy stated, "Yeah, so my actual name is Kip Marvin. Spoilsport there is Malik Shaloob."
The other boy rolled his eyes and spoke, "My name is Malik Green."
"Shaloob," Kip mouthed next to him, earning him an elbow to the rib.
The final shorter girl introduced herself, "Rashida Okeke."
Blue noted to herself that those two seemed to have foreign names but spoke like they weren't. Very suspicious. It was like they were just like any other Americans or something.
"So how many of you are there?" Blue asked, and Teddy shrugged.
"I'll count," he proceeded to go into a giggle fit, then started at himself, "One...Two," he pointed to Rashida, "heehee...hee...three--" He was severely cut off by a scream let out by Kip. Teddy continued, "Where was I? Oh yeah, three...," Kip screamed again and ran from the room, leaving everyone but Austin and the blond girl slowly approaching from her chair to break into laughter.
"I don't get it," Blue mumbled, and Austin took it upon herself to explain.
"He's got this crazy fear of the number three. In any case, time to meet Gerda."
The blond girl, who was extremely thin, finally joined them, and spoke in an accent, "My name is Gerda Bbjornstrand. It is pleasing me to meet you."
"Try again," Teddy mumbled. Gerda nodded.
"Right. I am pleased to meet you. My name is Gerda Bbjornstrand."
"Uh, what?" Blue mumbled. Leave it up to the blue-eyed blond to actually be foreign. Gerda went to repeat, but Blue shook her head and changed her mind. "Uh, so what now?"
"Yes, that is a good question indeed...," a woman said, walking into the room. Blue jumped as she walked up from behind. The woman surveyed the room and sighed, "Aw really guys? Where's the alien?"
"Uh, what?" Blue mumbled.
"She thinks Kip is an alien," Austin explained. Blue blinked at the woman and thought it over.
"Oh," she muttered.
"Sorry," Teddy apologized obediently, "it's just too much fun."
"I guess I can see that," the woman muttered, pausing to think for a second before shrugging. "He'll come back eventually. So, everybody gather round. We have a new student!" The woman spread her arms out to the sides and grinned a childlike grin before pointing at Blue.
"We know!" Malik replied, perfectly imitating the woman's voice, expression, and motions.
She stopped to stare at him before smiling, "And that's why you're here."
Blue decided that probably made sense as she waited for the woman to introduce herself.
"So you're Blue the Jew?" the woman asked, causing Blue to very nearly laugh as she nodded. “I'll call you Barbra. After Barbra Streisand?” Austin whispered something about Blue being grateful she didn't call her "Ginger," as the woman continued, "I'm Missus Teacher-Woman."
"Aw, Crazypants," Teddy said, waving his hand dismissively and smiling at Missus Teacher-Woman. Blue was seeing a distinct line between "crazies" and "not-quite-so-crazies." Teddy and this new teacher were definitely on the "crazies" side. She'd put Kip on that side too. Malik was questionable. Austin and Rashida seemed like the only normal people, and Gerda was...Swedish. Blue wasn't sure how what she was like because of a slight language barrier. Though Blue was definitely happy to dive into the “crazies” side of it all.
"But my actual name is Today Allberry," the teacher said, "or Miss Allberry." Blue stared.
"So they also call this 'weird names club'?" Blue asked, and Teddy scowled.
"I resent that," he said, "Theodore isn't weird. Also I think maybe for their people Rashida and Malik aren't that weird," the two in question rolled their eyes at his "their people" comment, as he continued, "And Gerda's pretty normal for her people. And Austin's really pretty normal for her people. So it's really just you and Crazypants. Also Kip the Space Invader."
Blue rolled her eyes at him. Surely most people didn't have names like that...Well, at least she learned what "Teddy" stood for. Kip came back suddenly, glaring at Teddy with a certain anger that said such occurrences happened quite frequently. Teddy opened his mouth to speak, but Rashida covered it.
"Come on," she said, and laughed, "save it for math class." Math class, indeed, was a funny experience in the presence of Kip.
"In any case," Miss Allberry said, "let's get right down to business. I brought in Barbra here to add to the collection. I mean. To add to the troupe. You're going to start working on a new play now. It's going to be absolutely great."
The group nodded, as Miss Allberry shuffled through her things, in a tote bag around her shoulder. "Aha!" she said, pulling out a bundle of scripts. "It's called 'The Importance of Being Earnest.'" Teddy grinned. Miss Allberry began assigning parts, "All right. Jack: Jack. You get to be the main character," she said, grinning at him as he snatched away the script. Blue questioned his ability to ever appear straight in any circumstances, but decided she would wait and see. "Jasmine," she looked at Malik, "Algernon. Secondary dude. Pretty important also." Malik nodded and grabbed the script from her. "Condoleezza !" she said, and Rashida perked up, "Cecily. Some sort of female. Love interest to...one of those two..." Rashida took her script as Blue began to question how much Miss Allberry actually knew about the script. "Flicka," Gerda turned to listen, "Gwendolyn, Jack's love interest?" Gerda smiled, and Teddy grinned over to her. "Barbra," Blue knew she should be offended, since Barbra was Jewish and Blue was Jewish, but also realized everyone seemed to have a nickname based on race or something like it. "You're going to be Lady Bracknell. She's kind of annoying perhaps?" Blue grabbed her script as Miss Allberry got to the end, "Alien, you get to be some sort of Reverend. Canon something rather, and Ginger, you're somebody called Miss Prism."
"There are more characters than that," Teddy protested. Miss Allberry nodded.
"I know, I know. You'll have to fill the roles in. There are only two," she assured.
Teddy nodded in agreement, and the acting troupe began to read through their lines. Blue was shocked by how straight Teddy seemed, and all was going well until they got to a certain line, “'I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.' Uhhh...I got that my character is a weirdy...but is this really what we're going to do?”
"Jack wanted to do something by Oscar Wilde," Miss Allberry insisted.
"Uh, why?" Blue asked.
Teddy's eyes filled with admiration, "He's my gaydol."
"Huh?" Blue questioned. Malik mouthed "gay idol" to her, and she nodded in understanding and asked, "What about Neil Patrick Harris? He's my gaydol."
"Oh," Teddy mumbled, "my living gaydol sure. Neil Patrick Harris. But Oscar Wilde is a gay martyr."
Malik mumbled that Blue shouldn't question any more if she didn't want a lesson on gay people in history, so Blue simply repeated her line in an attempt to keep the play moving. Once they finished their first read through, Miss Allberry decided she didn't feel like continuing class because she was bored and wanted to take a nap. Teddy offered to continue Blue's tour, causing her to question when they had class. Teddy shrugged.
"See, most classes are pretty optional. Since we're in a special high school where, you know, fine arts are the focus and stuff, so we pretty much only go to class when we feel like it," Teddy offered.
Malik tugged on Blue's arm and shook his head as if to say, "Don't listen to anything he's saying right now he's absolutely crazy." Blue blinked in confusion, as Austin, Rashida, and Gerda skipped away. Teddy gasped and said he had to go to the bathroom, trotting off and showing off the sparkles on the back pockets of his jeans. As soon as he was out of earshot, Malik explained, "See, Teddy doesn't go to class because, well...It's complicated. But I'm guessing you really do need to go to class. Don't you have information or anything about the school? At all?"
Blue blinked, thinking it over, "Why doesn't he have to go to class?"
"I told you, it's complicated. Did you listen to the rest of what I said?"
Blue stopped to think again, folding her arms and blinking, "Maybe he's really stupid?"
"Hello?" Malik mumbled, waving his hand in front of Blue's face.
"I mean, how in the world can you not go to class for reasons that are 'complicated'?" she continued, as Malik sighed. "I know!" she gasped, then shook her head, "No, never mind...Wait! Yes! Maybe! No, that really doesn't make sense either..."
"He's a freaking genius, OK?" Malik stated clearly.
"A freaking genius?" Blue echoed. Malik sighed.
"IQ 170," he said. "He's genius smart and learns on his own time and comes in for tests. Happy? It's always weird when people first learn that...I mean...Look at him." Teddy came back as if on cue, wiggling and shifting around his scarf, before twitching and looking all around the room as if it hadn't happened.
"So, want to continue the tour?" he asked. Blue shrugged.
"Why not?" she asked, walking away from Malik, who rolled his eyes and ran off to his class. Kip followed Teddy and Blue.
"Hey. Hey," he said, and Teddy spun around to face him.
"What do ya need Space Invader?" he asked, flashing a happy grin at him. Blue noted how tall and lanky Kip looked next to Teddy. It seemed like he hunched over to talk to him or something, too.
"Rundown my lit. history notes?" he requested. Teddy proceeded to give Kip what sounded like an entire history lesson about the Illiad, and every time he mentioned Patroclus he would refer to him as Achilles' lover ("certainly not his cousin like that weird hetero teacher thinks"). Blue started to take a bit of stock in it, before going off into some weird daydream where she was riding a unicorn in Narnia and found Achilles and Patroclus making out in the woods. Apparently, Patroclus was pregnant with their first child...She didn't really get it either.
Kip ran away from the two of them as a bell rang, shrieking at the sound. Teddy seemed completely proud of himself and nearly started that gay history lesson Malik had warned Blue about, but Kendall appeared suddenly.
"Why aren't you in class?" she/he asked in a low voice.
"Justin!" Teddy cheered, causing Blue to feel confused.
"I thought h...," she fumbled through the middle, making a mumbled word like "hris" as she continued, "...name is Kendall?"
"Yeah, yeah," Teddy muttered. "But come on," he paused as if uncomfortable, "sh-he's like a goth Justin Bieber."
"Emo," Kendall corrected, widening her/his eyes and turning her/his head to the side.
"Shouldn't you be...Somewhere else?" Teddy asked, and Kendall sauntered off to be creepy somewhere else. "Anyway," Teddy mumbled, watching him/her walk away until she/he was out of earshot. "This is the auditorium right here," he said, pointing to a door to their near right. "Let's go in!" he cheered, guiding Blue inside. He opened the doors wide by running into them, stumbling over a seat to the side and falling into one of the rows. Blue ignored him as she walked toward the stage, fascinated by the person on the stage.
"Let's get physical, physical!" cheered an Asian man. He then transitioned into, "Everybody was kung fu fighting...Hyah!" after the "Hyah!" he stopped in the middle of the stage, covered his face with his hand and collapsed. Blue stared at him as if she couldn't look away, as she heard a moan from Teddy.
"Ow," he mumbled, still flipped between two rows of seats. The Asian man finally noticed Blue, but got distracted by Teddy shouting something about somebody named "Steel Kilmeistah," who Blue doubted existed simply by his name, and the Asian man practically flew off the stage and ran over to him.
To Blue's dismay, he shouted, "I'll save you my love! Your loving boyfriend Steel Kilmeistah is on the way!" He did some fancy flips on the way there, showing off some clearly excellent acrobatic skills, and literally lifted Teddy up off the floor. "Are you OK, lover?" He asked. Teddy blinked at him for a long while, and Blue was sure they were going to kiss or something.
After a tense, suspense filled moment, Teddy blinked again and said, "Well you're not my lovely Kilmeistah at all..." The Asian man looked disheartened.
"But I saved your life," he insisted.
Teddy blinked at him, "You realize you look nothing like him, right?"
"I look exactly like him," Asian dude denied, Teddy rolled his eyes.
"Blue!" he shouted, and Blue trotted over obediently, sad her dream man had turned out to be clearly gay. "Blue, I'd like you to meet Chang Yao Ming Dingaling Dong." Blue stared, giving Teddy an unsure look.
"Is that your real name?" she questioned, and Asian dude shrugged.
"My name is whatever Theodore wants it to be," he said, leaning down to Teddy and attempting to kiss him.
"I told you not to call me that Pablo," Teddy mumbled, pushing against "Pablo"'s face. Blue blinked.
"I'm confused. Is his name Pablo?" she asked, causing Teddy to nod at last. "But...He's totally Asian."
"My parents weren't sure when they found me," Pablo insisted. Blue stared as Teddy ushered her out of the room, utterly confused by the good looking Asian man.
"He's a dancer," Teddy muttered, shuddering slightly. "Anyway...Have you found your room yet?" Blue shrugged.
"I think it was near yours," she suggested. Teddy nodded.
"Probably," he said. "We kind of live in pods. Miss Allberry likes to keep her people together." Teddy led her back to the dorm building, apparently not wanting to come across any more people like Asian Pablo. Blue noted the weather was kind of awful and hot and stuff as she walked, and flashed back to riding her unicorn through Narnia. This time Asian Pablo was running around in boxers yelling "Steel Kilmeistah! I'mma kill you!" Blue was brought back to reality by Teddy shouting she was about to walk into a garbage can. Apparently he'd "said it many times before" and she just "wasn't listening." Whatever. Teddy led her by the elbow to his room again. The dorms were fairly empty since everyone was supposed to be in class, so Teddy began listing off roommates. "So there's me with Kendall, obviously. Kip and Malik room together, and Austin and Rashida are together...Gerda is, uh...With a crazy dude named something I don't actually know...Anyway, you should have a roommate too! Delightful!"
"When do I get to meet her?" Blue asked as it registered that Teddy had said Gerda roomed with someone male, which meant rooming could be co-ed, which also meant Kendall could definitely be a girl.
"Uhhh," Teddy mumbled. "I can't guarantee you it's a her. What did you sign up for on the roommate questionnaire?"
Blue had a flashback moment of filling out her questionnaire to blasting "angry Blue" music. When she'd gotten to the preferences part she remembered, suddenly, that she wrote down, "You could have been all I wanted, but you weren't honest, now get in the ground." As she thought about that, she mumbled, "Hm...I wrote lyrics to a Coheed and Cambria song."
Teddy blinked at her, "Creepy or not creepy?"
"Creepy," Blue confirmed. "From Welcome Home."
"Well this'll be fun," Teddy laughed, as he knocked on the door. The door opened from inside.