04 REIGN OF EMILIA - "I said I was sorry"

'A true queen knows how to build her empire with the same stones that were used to break it down' that was the statement that I repeated over and over in my head since I woke up this morning. Thanks to Ace, I only got less that four hours of sleep. Now I have one hour to get ready for school. Thankfully, I have been preparing for this day ever since I came to New York, therefore I have already chosen an outfit for the day.

I was wearing a black sleeveless crop top paired with my orange and black camouflage pants with a pair of black leather lace-up ankle boots. I had my family Heirloom necklace on, along with the necklace Abbi, James and I got as a symbol of our friendship.

I did my makeup as my personal maids back home tought me, it wasn't the best, but it looked okay.

I take one last glance in the mirror before leaving my penthouse, heading towards the parking lot with Edwardo beside me.

"Must you be so nervous Your H- I mean Emilia? There is no need to be." Ed assured me while opening the back door to the White Nissan Tiida he got from the Palace.

"Is it that obvious? Anyways. I am aware, but I cannot help it. What was your first day of senior year like Ed?" I asked curiously.

"Uhm" he hesitated for a while before responding while driving. "Honestly. Back in high School, I was overly addicted to eating junk food back then, so I was quite chubby, therefore, I got bullied a lot, but I still didn't regret the memories I kept with some of my friends. I fell into a deep depression which made me lose way too much weight so then I become super skinny but thanks to my friends, I got over it and started eating healthy, now here I am." He explained, taking a glance at me through the rearview mirror.

I was at a loss for words. I could never...

"Wow" I finally spoke. "I would have never imagined you went through all that."

"It's fine really, It helped me become the man I am today." He smiles. "High School is just High School. Just think of all the great memories you will have in the end."

"I will keep that in mind. Thank you Eddy." I smile at him, getting out of the car.

"Hey Em." James greets. We decided to meet up for school so he could show me around.

"Morning Lesleykins" I smile. James rushes over to me and puts his hand over my mouth.

"Come on, not at school." he shushed

"Fine, fine" I say. "So according to my mom, the principal already knows that I am here. Which means my fake identification will be able to run smoothly."

"Great. So you have five classes today. First period is English Literature, which you have with Levie. Then there is Math, you have that with Alec. After that, you have a free period for physics then it's lunchtime, then Geography with Michael and Art with Ace." He explains. My eyes lit up at the mention of Ace.

"Too bad you don't have any classes with me today."

"Ace?" I asked

"Yeah. I'm surprised you two even got along, he can be a bit of an asshole sometimes."

"So I have heard."

"Anyways, this is the girls bathroom, but since the Principal knows you are here then you'll probably be able to use the Staff's bathroom."

"No I am fine, I do not expect to get any sort of special treatment. I am here to get away from that, remember?" I say.

"If you say so. Your first period is in this hallway, room 43B. Class is in two minutes so I'll see you at lunch. Okay?"

"Yeah, See you." I wave him off before heading to room 43B.

Quite a few people were already inside so I just went ahead and took the seat by the window. Exactly two minutes later, almost all of the seats were filled and the teacher walked in.

"Good Morning class. I understand that this is the beginning of school year and I see some new faces, therefore-" she was cut off by someone walking in. It was Levie.

"Oh Good Morning Mr. Armond, please take a seat." she instructed. Levie waved at me before taking a seat at the back.

"As I was saying, since we have some new transfer students then we'll just stick with introductions today, I'll go first. I'm Mrs. Foster and I have three kids and like apples, who's next?" the teacher says.

For the rest of the period, we just introduced ourselves, and tell jokes and stuff. At the end of the period, everyone exited the classroom and Levie showed me to my second period which I had with Alec. It was the same as the period before. We just did introductions. For my free period, Alec showed me to my locker then offered to skip his next class so he could continue showing me around but I politely declined, telling him that it was fine and I wanted to roam the halls on my own. That was a bad decision. Want to know why? Because now, I am lost.

"Oh man" I sigh heavily, turning to another hallway. Suddenly I bumped into someone, causing me to fall flat on my buttocks and the person's phone to fall and smash.

"Oh my God, I am so sorry." I began to apologize with my head down. "I just got lo-" I was cut of by a familiar deep, rough male voice.

"What the fuck." the voice was familiar, but I could not pinpoint where I might have heard it before. I looked up into deep grey-blue eyes. Beautiful eyes. The voice belonged to a guy with Dark hair, grey blue eyes and a Jawline that could cut a chainsaw.

"Wow. ah, I apologize. It is just that I am new here-" I was cut off by Mr. sexy pants.

"I don't give a fuck, you just smashed my phone you idiot." he cussed.

He was beautiful, everything about him was absolutely gorgeous, until the idiot decided to open his stupid mouth.

"I said I was sorry." I began. "What? do you want me to get on my knees and beg or something. " I said.

"Just get the fuck out of my face." he said before walking past me and purposely bumping into my shoulder, which hurt, might I add, so I did what any reasonable girl could do to a beautiful jerk on her first day of school. I stuck my foot out and tripped him. He fell flat on his face.

"Fuck" he cussed.

"Asshole" I hissed before running for my dear life.

I spent the rest of my free period in the girls restroom on the phone with my siblings. When the bell rang I continued my search and finally ended up in the Cafeteria.

"Hey! Over here." James calls, so I walk over to him. He was sitting at a table with around three girls and five other guys. Unfortunately, on of them was the Asshole from earlier.

"What are YoU doing here." we both say.

"Oh Emilia, I see you've already met Ace." James smiles.

"You are Ace?" I scoff.

"You're Emilia?" the Asshole scoffs back.

JuSt mY LuCk.