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Rachel turned and walked out of the classroom, and back into the now e and started wondering if everyone was right If she had so She stood there, looking around at everything, looking for clues as to as going on She went back to her old locker one more time to see if the co was up; she just had to figure it all out

As she walked to the main office she looked in at the other classes already in session She looked at the kids sitting there at their desks and realized she recognized none of the Classrooe faces but fa

She pushed open the swinging wooden door to the main office and walked over to the secretary’s desk

"Hi, Mrs Dusty, do you happen to have my class schedule here? I’m a bit lost today!" Rachel said

"Oh Rachel Wood Your dad called and said you’d be co on your placement schedule and have come up with a solution since you’ve missed so much already this year," Mrs Dusty said

"Can I ask you so has it been since I’ve been here?" Rachel asked, trying not to sound too odd

"Well, our records show that you’ve been out of school for nearly a year and a half," Mrs Dusty answered

"WHAT?" Rachel said "A year and a half?"

"That’s what it says here," Mrs Dusty said, looking down at her computer "Here is your new schedule You’re supposed to be in French class noith Mr Dappler You should get going now"

Rachel reached out and took the schedule from Mrs Dusty and then turned to walk away A year and a half she kept repeating over in her head What?

She walked to her French class, which was in rooet there She passed a few kids on the way and they exchanged friendly smiles, despite the fact that she didn’t know theot to room 202 she quietly opened the door as to not interrupt the class and then slipped in and took an empty seat She slunk down in her chair in the back of the classroo that nobody saw her enter, which was obviously wishful thinking because everyone was staring at her She couldn’t bear it anyht, and today she felt like she couldn’t get out of it

The class started whispering and the teacher had to quiet everyone down and bring their attention back to the front of the room

"Now class, eyes up here please!" Mr Dappler said

"But Mr Dappler, Rachel’s back!" Brian said Then the class cheered and started asking in unison, "What happened? Where were you? You’re alive!"

Brian was a guy in her class whoht he was hot She was surprised actually that he even noticed she was back She didn’t even think he knew her name but apparently he did She felt excited by that and felt a sense of belonging again in her high school

"Hi everyone!" Rachel said "I’ with it until she gains so of where the past year and a half of her life had gone

"Where were you?" Brie asked

"I thought you moved?" Deborah asked

"But wait, I heard you died?" Kevin asked

"Not now kids, you will have to save all of your questions for Rachel for after class Right noe are speaking French!" Mr Dappler said "Comprendez vous?"

"Oui!" the class responded

Rachel sat there, completely lost in this intermediate French class She had no idea why they put her in this class, but apparently she one She knew she’d have to do a lot of studying to catch up and she couldn’t risk her perfect GPA She wanted to get into a good college and knew she’d have to start applying soon, especially since it was alht about that, she started to get worried She started to feel under an ies She couldn’t believe she’d let this one slip through the cracks like this It’s not like it was a little thing either, it was COLLEGE for crying out loud

She couldn’t let herself get carried away thinking about the future at a time like this; she had to deal with ure out where the past year and a half of her life went She had to sort that out first

She sat there, looking at the clock, waiting for this class to end She knew she only had one more class until lunch and then she’d be able to catch up with her friends and find out more about what had happened to her She knew if anyone were to know these details about her life it would be her friends After all they were like sisters to each other; or at least they had been

The next hour and a half dug on as if it were a year She’d never been so out of it in her entire life She couldn’t focus on the class or the teacher and she was co about in her physics class and she couldn’t understand the lab assignment either: it was all too complicated for her It was also the first ti worse and worse

RING RING

The bell rang and it was finally tio to lunch She was excited and nervous all at the same time She didn’t knohat to expect, and worried that maybe her friends wouldn’t remember her or they wouldn’t accept her after all this time Or worse off, that her friends wouldn’t be friends with each other anymore She didn’t know but she was about to find out

She didn’t have to go to her locker, since she didn’t have one so she just walked over to the cafeteria She arrived there a minute later and was one of the first to arrive She looked around the big e to be filled by her classmates She didn’t knohat to do: she didn’t knohere to sit She stood there, and watched as kids started to filter in frorew louder and louder as the cafeteria filled up

She continued to look around for Dana or anyone she recognized, but they weren’t there She knew soh to sit at their lunch table with the at her in awe She could hear their conversations and itthe butt of jokes and rumors, but today, it was hard for her to escape it She didn’t want to stand there anymore, so she decided to walk around the hallway and coive her friends tile" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>