Maddox and Sophia entered the dining hall and sat down with the other girls. “Hello, who is this?” Asked Emma.

“This is my little brother Maddox.” Sophia told them.

“Maddox this is Emma, Juliet, Audrey, and Charlotte.”

“Hello Ladies.” Maddox said with a wink.

“Maddox,” Sophia pushed his shoulder, “stop that!”

“Oh, Sophie, he isn’t hurting anyone he’s just being cute.” Said Audrey.

“See I told you one of them would hit on me.” Maddox told his sister.

Sophia rolled her eyes. “Don’t mind him, he acts like he’s never seen a female before.”

“None as pretty as them.” Was Maddox’s reply.

“Well, aren’t we quite the charmer.” Juliet commented.

“So what have you all been up to today?” Sophia asked trying to start a new subject.

“Charlotte met a cute boy in the art studio.” Juliet said nonchalantly.

“Really? Did you get his name?”

“No.It was such an awkward meeting all I could do was try to get away as fast as possible.” Charlotte said.

“Charlotte, you should have hung around and found out more about him.” Audrey told her.

“If there is one thing I cannot stand, its awkward situations.”

“Darling, I don’t think anyone likes to be in awkward situations.” Juliet said.

“Little Jules fancy meeting you here.” Juliet heard above her.She glanced up to find Niall with a wicked grin on his face.
“We go to the same school now, Horan.” Juliet rudely said.

“Oh, that’s right they have allowed your kind in here now.” Niall said.

“We’ve been here for nearly a week, Niall. Time to get over it now, don’t you think.”

Ignoring her comment Niall changed the subject. “Who are your friends?” He said pointing to the group of girls and Maddox at the table.

“Niall this is Charlotte, Audrey, Emma, Sophia, and Sophia’s little brother Maddox.” Juliet said.

“Nice to meet you all, now if you’ll excuse me I’m going to go sit with the lads now.” Niall turned to go over to a table with five other boys.Sophia instantly noticed Eli and smiled at him, to which he smiled back, but soon frowned once she spotted Harry sitting next to him. However, that didn’t seem to bother Harry too much because he seemed to be laughing at her glaring at him.

She turned back around to see Emma giving her a knowing smile. “What?”

“Nothing, Nothing. But you do get the attention of some pretty cute boys.” She joked.

“What are you two gossiping about?” Asked Audrey.

“Nothing.” They both said in unison.

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Monday morning rolled around and it was a mad mess. Whoever thought 10 girls could get ready together in one bathroom peacefully is delusional. “Excuse you!” Cora yelled at Audrey.

“Listen you’ve been standing in front of that mirror for nearly an hour.You are not going to suddenly get better looking.” She retorted.

“Shocking a football player’s daughter doesn’t have any manners.” Evelyn chimed in.

“Coming from the girl whose family makes a living off of creating fake publicity.” Charlotte said defending Audrey.

“Funny, that’s not how your parents felt when we were cleaning up the mess your sister made.”

Charlotte stood there with her mouth open. “Too far, Evelyn.” Emma said while hugging Charlotte.

“Oh, she just needs to learn to get over it.” Fiona yelled from the bathroom stall.

“Why don’t we all just calm down and finish getting ready?” Suggested Juliet.

“Why don’t you stay out of it?” said Cora.

“Because we wouldn’t be having this problem if it wasn’t for you.” Sophia pointed out.

“Oh, yes the American is stepping in now. So we need to listen to her.” Penelope mocked.

Next thing they all knew, it was an all out shouting match.Everyone was yelling at everyone else and it was starting to get the attention of the boys in the house.Mrs. Jones saw all the boys gathered in the foyer looking down the hallway where the commotion was coming from.She pushed through them and entered the bathroom.

“Girls!” Mrs. Jones yelled with no one listening to her.

“Girls!” She tried louder this time.Still nothing.

Suddenly there was a loud whistle and then complete silence. The girls turned to look at Mrs. Jones. “Now that I have your attention. What is going on?” She questioned. They all started answering at once. There was another whistle. “Ms. George, perhaps you could tell me what is happening?”

“We,” she said pointing to herself and her four roommates, “were just trying to get ready for our first day, because we know how important it is to make a good first impression, when these five started being rude to us.” She practically pouted.

“Now girls,” Mrs. Jones said turning to look at the others, “can’t we just all play nice.”

“But Mrs. Jones—“ Audrey started.

“Ms. Clark just do as I’ve told you, now let’s go or you’ll all be late for your first day.” She said while pushing them out the bathroom door. Penelope shot Sophia a snide smile, knowing that they had gotten away with being in trouble. “Maybe we’ll need to schedule bathroom times between you two groups of girls.” Mrs. Jones suggested.

“That sounds like a brilliant idea, Mrs. Jones.” Penelope said, clearly sucking up to the woman.

“Well, we’ll discuss it after your first day.”

Each group of girls walked back into their separate rooms to grab their book bags. “Can you believe her?” Sophia asked, meaning Penelope.

“Yes!” All four of the girls replied.

“Let’s not let it ruin our morning.” Emma said as they all headed out the front door.

“Yes, good idea.Today’s going to be hard enough without having to deal with Penelope and her minions.” Said Charlotte.

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Sophia’s first class was Chemistry.When she entered the room she noticed there was a note on the white board which read: “Chose your seats wisely, because the person you sit next to will be your partner for the remainder of the year.”Sophia wasn’t too worried considering she was one of the first ones there.She choose one of the tables in the middle and second from the front.

She pulled out her notebook and started to prepare for the beginning of class, when she heard the seat next to her being pulled out.She wondered who would be choosing to sit next to her, considering that she was pretty sure she would be the last one chosen.

“Well isn’t this going to be quite the interesting class.” Sophia heard a very familiar voice say. She looked over to see a wide grin on Harry’s face.

“What are doing?” She practically yelled.

“Choosing my seat.” Harry retorted.

“Almost every seat is open. Go pick one of those.”

“Come on Sophia.Who better to have as a partner than me.”

“Well if I had a list of all the other boys at this school, I would say anyone of them.”

She was about to tell him to go sit in the seat across from them when Eli came through the door. If she had only known he was going to be in this class she would have saved the seat for him. “Hi Eli.”

“Good morning, Sophia.I see you got to your first class alright.” Eli politely said.

“Harry, you forgot your phone in our room.” Eli told him.

“Thanks.” Harry said taking his phone out of Eli’s hand.

“You two are roommates?” Sophia questioned.

“Have been since we first started here five years ago. Best mate I have.” Said Eli.

Best mate? Great the boy she liked was friends with the jerk she was stuck with for the year. She watched as Eli took the seat next to her at the other table on her left. Soon the class began to fill up and the bell rung signaling the beginning of class.The last person to arrive was a rather large man Sophia assumed must be their professor.

“Good morning gentlemen,” their professor said, then he looked up and noticed Sophia,” and lady.” He corrected.

“My name is Professor Webb and this is Chemistry.” He said while writing his name on the board.

“Now I could start the class with a brief introduction with no class work and go easy on all of you, however this is Winthrope Abbey and we don’t do easy. So I hope you chose your partner well because we will be doing our first lab.”

Sophia was surprised with the fact that they were already jumping into the curriculum.It was nothing like this in America, where in her private school back home, the first day was notorious for being incredibly laid back. She also didn’t really feel like having to deal with Harry right away.

“Our first lab will be on the scientific method.Commonly scientific method is done as an introduction to science.We are using it so that I know you are capable of this very basic tool in any science class. Can anyone tell me what a hypothesis is and why it is needed for the scientific method?” Professor Webb asked.

Several hands shot up.Professor Webb pointed toward the back of class on a boy with light brown hair, ”Yes, Mr. Hamilton, do you know the answer?”

“A hypothesis is an educated guess. The hypothesis is the base of the scientific method, without it the process does not work.” He states with a proud look on his face.

“And why is that?” Their Professor questioned again. But instead of the other boy answering Harry replied instead. “Because a hypothesis is commonly an observation that is turned into an assumption, that through the scientific method, one tries to prove.”

“Well done Mr. Styles.” Professor Webb applauded him. Perhaps Harry might not be such a bad lab partner after all, Sophia thought surprised by his answer.

“To demonstrate this you and your partner will be coming up with your own hypothesis. During the fall semester, before winter break, you will have either proven your hypothesis or not have proven your hypothesis. You may begin.”

“What do want our hypothesis to be?” Harry asked Sophia.

“What about something the student body can relate to?” Sophia suggested.

“Such as?”

“Well I read once that the lighting in a building can affect the productivity levels of humans.”

“That sounds ridiculous.” Harry told her honestly.

“No it isn’t. If we have to do this project then using our classmat es and this school as resources is a smart decision.”

“Yes, but you’re trying to tackle a social issue not a scientific one.”

“Clearly it has something to do with your brain. So therefore it isn’t social, it is biological.” Sophia could start to feel her heart rate rise.Why was Harry being so difficult with this? It was a great idea and they could easily do it.

“If you don’t like my suggestion you come up with something.”

“My hypothesis is that if you change the environment of a certain species then it will change how they function as a whole and therefore begin to cause its extinction.”

“Extinction? How exactly do you plan on going about proving that?”

“I’m glad you ask, Sophia.Since you want to use my school as a resource than I can think of nothing better than using the current situation.” He said smugly.

“Are you insinuating that I’m causing the male race to go extinct!” She yelled catching on to what he was implying.

“Ms. Allaway, please lower your voice.” Professor Webb told her.

“I would say we are more of an endangered species here at Winthrope Abbey since you and the other girls arrived.” Harry said.

“Please! Our arrival has only benefited your school!”

“Ms. Allaway!” Professor Webb warned.

“Benefited?! No this,” he said pointing to her, “is my father’s hypothesis, that somehow having you here, the test subject, will give our school system some sort of edge on the international stage.At the end of the day you are nothing more than an experiment that will fail!” He threatened.

Their professor came over after Harry’s little rant to Sophia. “Ms. Allaway! Mr. Styles! Since you two only want to disrupt my classroom, I will have to ask you to go to the Headmaster’s office.”

They both looked around the classroom to discover that everyone was silent and watching them. “But—“ They both started to say.

“Gather your things and go!”

“Way to go, test subject.” Harry whispered to Sophia as they grabbed their things.

“Me? He only asked us to leave because of your outburst.” She said harshly.

“Will you two stop that and leave already.”

“Yes Professor Webb.” They both replied.

Notes

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