Name: Ally Harper
Age: 16
Sex: Female
Appearance:
Personality: Ally used to be a very happy and positive, always looking on the bright side of things. However since the accident she has become very quiet and withdrawn. She now tends to push people away from her and never gets close to anyone.
bio[optional]: Ally grew up in a happy home until two months ago when she was in a car accident. Her mother had been driving Ally to a friend’s house and they were running late. A truck ran a red light and crashed into their car. Her mother had died instantly. Ally’s father blames her for the accident, believing that if his wife hadn’t been driving Ally that day then it wouldn’t happen. So now her home life has become silent. She doesn’t talk to her father and has become quite depressed in the last few months. However one thing she hates is when people pity her because of what happened. She doesn’t want their pity, she doesn’t think she deserves that.

Name: Ben Parson
Age: 16
Sex: Male
Appearance:
Personality: Ben is brutally honest, almost to a fault. He used to try to spare peoples feelings but his honest opinion always popped out of his mouth anyways, so he just stopped fighting it. He's not all that talkative, but he is sociable when he needs to be. He hates seeing people upset, in fact thats his weakness. He loves to draw, in fact he'll hardly ever be seen without his notebook and pencil. Hes a realist that leans toward optimism. He is a really nice person to people he likes and can be pretty rude if he decides he doesnt.
Bio[optional]: Ben grew up with a typical "happy family", complete with supposedly loving parents and an older brother, until his 5th birthday when his dad walked out on them. Since then he's been the only normal one in the family, with his brother being sent to military school due to his violence problems and his mother becoming an alcoholic. He's been sent to live with his aunt while his mom gets her act together in rehab, so thats how he wound up here

Walking into school Ally could feel several sets of eyes on her. She had only been turning up at school every few days since the accident. Ally didnt like coming to school where everyone seemed to know everything about her and her problems, but then again she didnt like being at home with her father either. Today she had slept in and at the last minute had decided to go to school. Walking up the front steps to the school however she was having a few second thoughts. She would never get used to this. She would never get used to the way people stared at her.

Slipping her hands further up inside the sleeves of her jumper she continued to walk inside and then down the hallway. Ally needed to get her books out of her locker before class. As she walked Ally didnt let her eyes leave the ground, not taking any notice of the people walking around her. Maybe if she didnt notice them they wouldnt notice her.

[where are they exactly? i dont think we decided that]

Ben took a deep breath as he approached his new school. New schools were never fun, especially when you joined halfway through the year so you were sure to be noticed. Oh well, maybe it'd be different here. After all, this time he didn't have an older brother whose reputation ruined yours before you'd even established one.

He pushed his bangs out of his eyes and trudged forward. He already knew the way to his locker, the vice principal showed him around the day before, so he went straight there without giving anyone eye contact. He saw a girl at an open locker right next to his, staring at her feet as she shoveled through her books. She looked as if she was trying to be invisible, but that just made her stand out more. He looked around and noticed all the other kids staring at her and whispering. Looked like regular high school drama to him. He walked up next to her and opened his locker, trying to give her some space that he could tell she desperately wanted.

(What do you mean?)

Ally glanced up as someone came and stood next to her. For as long as she could remember the locker next to hers had been empty so it was a suprise to find someone using it. With a quick glance she noticed that the it was guy and that he was new since Ally had never seen him before. Looking away quickly she went back to looking in her locker. She soon found the books she had been looking for and with a small sigh she closed her locker. Ally was not looking forward to her first class. Maths. She had missed so much of it these past few months that she was very quickly falling behind and would no doubt get into some sort of trouble for it.

Turning away from her locker she turned to see people staring at her. She became a little flustered as she quickly moved to get to her first class. As she walked Ally tripped over her own feet and fell to the floor, her books scattering across the hallway. Ally felt like she could cry and knew coming to school today was a bad idea as she went to brush herself off and to pick up her books, now planning on going straight back home.

[like a city or state]

Ben stuffed his lunch into his locker, grabbed a math book, and shut the door just in time to see the girl fall onto the floor. Out of the corner of his eye he could see some girls laughing, and others just looking away like they hadn't seen anything. Jerks. Without a second thought he knelt down and swept up her books with one arm and held out his hand with the other.
"Are you ok?" he asked, wanting to make sure she hadn't hit her head or anything. Now that he looked at her she was really pretty, but looked like she needed some sleep. Or maybe it was that she was getting too much sleep.

Ally looked shocked when the guy, who she was assuming was new but wasnt really sure since she could have missed seeing him over the past two months, bent down and helped her. Ally had a confussed expression on her face. "Umm... yeah I am fine, thanks" She said as she let him help her up with his extended hand. Ally had hurt her knee a little as she fell but it wasnt too bad. Her knee had been playing up since the car accident but she had gone to the doctor about it but there was nothing they could really do for it. Looking around she noticed people looking at the two of them. "Can I have my books back?" Ally asked in a small voice, wanting to get away from here as quickly as possible.

Ben glanced downward and noticed her twinge a little when she pushed up with her knee.
"Oh yeah, here," he replied, remembering that he'd picked them up. He quickly handed her books back to her as he noticed the surrounding students still staring. "Are you sure you're ok? Your knee looks a little banged up there," he said, concerned. He probably shouldn't be bothering her about something so small, he realized, but there was something about her that made him want to stay near her. Too bad, she most likely wanted to crawl under a rock right now.

"Thanks" Ally mumbled as he handed her back her books and she held then to her chest. "I am fine... its an old injury" She said looking from him down to the ground, a common stance which she took these days to avoide eye contact. Her eyes often gave too much away. "You should probably get to class" Ally continued in a small voice. There was no way she was going to hang around for her classes today but she knew that unless he wanted to get into trouble for being late that he would have to start heading for class sooner rather. "You dont want to be late" Ally said, realising that this was probably the most she had ever said to one person at school since the accident.

"Oh, I know what that feels like. Sucks right?" he replied, thinking about his previous arm injury. 7th grade was not a good year for him. The girl mentioned class. Oh yeah. Class. Ugh.
"Actually, I don't think I would mind. Usually showing up late gets you out of getting the 'new student' speech," he laughed, trying to lighten her mood. Ben really didn't want to leave, for some reason he got the feeling he wouldn't see her again for a while.
"I'm Ben, by the way," he said, holding his hand out again.

Ally didnt know why he was still standing there talking to her. She knew that she wasnt anything special, if anything she was a murder in her fathers eyes, and it wasnt as if the people staring at them was making her any more appealing. Looking down at his hand as he extended it to her she reached her hand out and placed hers in his. "I'm Ally" She said looking around as the hallways cleared a little as people moved off to class. "Umm I should be getting home... and you really should be getting to class" Ally said as she removed her hand from his again after shaking it softly.

'Ally'. He liked that name. It was simple. Easy to remember.
Ben paused for a second. Did she say 'home'? "Why would you go home? Tripping isn't that bad.."
He noticed people starting to leave and figured he probably should be too. He started walking toward his class and gestured with his head that he wanted her to walk with him.

Ally noticed him gestuing with his head for her to follow him and reluctanlty she walked along side him. She didnt really want to answer his question but walked with him. "Umm... yeah just decided that today probably wasnt going to be a good day and thought it would be better if I went home" Ally half explained, leaving out all the details that were in relation to the crash. She didnt want him knowing since he didnt seem to be looking at her with pity in his eyes. Although Ally doubted that it would be long before someone filled him in on the details.

"Well that's a lame way to live life," he said bluntly, "I mean, yeah bad days are gunna happen, but you can't just run away from them and hope they go away.."
There he went again, talking too much about stuff that didn't concern him. He wished he had more tact, but then again if he did then he probably wouldn't give his opinion on anything. Ally probably didn't wanna hear this from him, he figured, and braced himself for some sort of retaliation from her. His first possible friend at this place would be gone, just like that.

Ally was shocked when he opened his mouth and said that as her own mouth dropped open. Here was a guy she had known for about two minutes and he had already seen through her running away from things. Sure these last few months she had been hiding but Ally thought she had a good enough reason. She was a murderer after all.
"I-I umm I guess you are right" Ally said nodding her head as she closed her mouth. "Maybe I might stay... one class isnt going to hurt" Ally said, figuring that she might as well give it a go and maybe prove him wrong in the process. She could always just get up and leave.

Ben sighed in relief that she hadn't gotten mad at him, although she had been astonished, he'd seen that. A smile crept onto his face at her reply. Success! Maybe it wouldn't be so bad here after all. He stopped as they reached room 17. "This is my stop," he said, with just a hint of disappointment in his voice, "Where's yours?"

Ally could see that he was glad she had agreed to stay at school by the smile on his face. Ally wished she could have smiled friendly back at him but it had been two months since a smile had passed her face. As he stopped outside room 17 Ally turned to look at him. "Seems we have the same Maths class together" Ally said in a soft voice, also seeing the dissapointment that he seemed to be feeling that they were outside the classroom. "Must be your lucky day... you wont get the whole embarassement of being new since I am pretty sure the teacher will more be talking to me and about my attendance to his class"

Ben gave a small laugh at her exaggeration and his expression brightened just a shade. Ben wanted nothing more at the moment than to personally go up and thank the secretary at the front office, however the bell was about to ring so he had to hurry inside.
The teacher for this class was a crusty old man with huge glasses and a balding scalp who needed to talk unusually loud in order to hear himself. Ben shouldn't have grimaced as the teacher read his paperwork out loud to himself, except that it sounded more like he was announcing it to the class. Thankfully this one was a much more generous teacher than most and didn't bother him about a formal introduction to the class, so Ben was immediately assigned to the nearest empty seat, which was conveniently placed right behind Ally.

Ally followed him into the classroom, wincing slightly as she saw the teacher who was there. She watched as he assigned Ben a seat before turning to her. "Ally nice to see you have decided to show up to my class today" He said in a sarcastic tone as Ally just shrugged her shoulders, mumbling a "yes Sir" before walking down and taking her seat in front of Ben. Placing her books on her desk she then proceeded to use them as pillows to try and catch up on some sleep which she had lacked the night before. Ally couldnt seem to sleep anymore. She would sleep for about an hour and then wake up from a nightmare of the truck hitting the car. So when ever she could afford to close her eys for a few seconds it was much appreciated.

The class was just as boring as expected, but somehow Ben had managed stay awake. Ally, on the other hand...
"Ally. Ally, wake up," he called, as he tried to shake her awake, but she was out like a light. He sighed then shook harder, "C'mon, Teach is gunna get mad!"