Hilary smiled and glanced at her
best-friend Emestina. Hilary was in Algebra where Mr. Oroiti was slowly
explaining how to do long division when she suddenly had a thought . Emestina
leaned over towards Hilary. “No asking off topic questions, ok?” She hissed at
Hilary. Hilary giggled. “Of course. Unless you think asking him what our names
mean is off topic?” Hilary asked her innocently. Emestina smiled, shook her
head and turned back to face the front. Hilary giggled again and stuck her hand
up. “Yes, Miss Hilary?” Mr. Oroiti noticed that Hilary was in his class.  “I know this is kinda off topic,” Hilary
started. “But I was wondering what our names meant?” Hilary smiled and turned
to face the rest of the class. They had all cracked up. Mr Oroiti opened his mouth,
then closed it, like a goldfish. He looked mentally challenged slightly. This
made the class laugh even harder. Finally he answered. “Well, I know for a fact
that ‘Oroiti’ means slow.” He looked embarrassed, and started fidgeting. Hilary
tried to stifled a giggle, but failed to do so. Mr. Oroiti was sweating now,
and his face had gone bright red. After another couple of moments, Mr. Oroiti
couldn’t stand it anymore. He made the meanings up. “Hilary means sadness, and
Emestina means dumb.” Emestina was shocked and stuck her hand in the air as
quick as she could. “Yes, Tina?” Mr. Oroiti was relieved that someone had
changed the topic. But Emestina hadn’t changed the topic. “It’s Emestina, Mr.
Oroiti. And I also know that Emestina means serious, Hilary means cheerful.”
Emestina corrected him. Mr. Oroiti didn’t like being corrected, and he went red again, and started fidgeting

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Hilary tried to stifled a giggle,
but failed to do so. Mr. Oroiti was sweating now, and his face had gone bright
red. After another couple of moments, Mr. Oroiti couldn’t stand it anymore. He
made the meanings up. “Hilary means sadness, and Emestina means dumb.” Emestina
was shocked and stuck her hand in the air as quick as she could. “Yes, Tina?”
Mr. Oroiti was relieved that someone had changed the topic. But Emestina hadn’t
changed the topic. “It’s Emestina, Mr. Oroiti. And I also know that Emestina
means serious, Hilary means cheerful.” Emestina corrected him. Mr. Oroiti
didn’t like being corrected by a student, and he went red.

 He heard a knock on the door and a year 10 boy
walked in, followed by two giggling twins. “Hey, I’m Logan Zillan. I’m in year
10.” Mr. Oroiti looked sternly at the rest of the class. “Hello Logan.” The
rest of the class immediately echoed after him, “Hello Lo-gan.” A tall guy at
the back stuck his tongue out. Logan chuckled. “Here are my sisters Clea and
Dianthe. They’re twins. Separate them and you will be like, seriously in
trouble with my mum. She hates it when they’re separated and they come home all
pi**ed off and everything.” Logan explained to Mr. Oroiti. Mr. Oroiti said
nothing. He just walked over to Logan, turned him around and shoved him out the
door, slamming it behind him. “What’s wrong with that guy, huh?” Logan muttered
angrily and stormed off up the stairs, cursing. Mr. Oroiti shook his head
slowly. “Kids these days…” He whispered loudly.

 The two girls had fallen silent when Mr. Oroiti
had shoved their big brother out the door. Now Mr. Oroiti remembered them and
motioned for them to sit down. They slowly walked over to two spare seats and
sat down. Clea sat next to Hilary, and Dianthe sat next to a girl called Lydia
Freeman near the back. Lydia ignored Dianthe. Hilary smiled at Clea. “Hi! I’m
Hilary Nathaniel. So you’re Clea, right?” she asked, smiling. Clea nodded her
head and smiled nervously back. “It’s okay, it’s really nice to meet you. I
hope we become friends someday soon.” Hilary attempted at making Clea feel
comfortable. At this, Clea immediately wanted to become friends with Hilary,
and started feeling more comfortable. Soon they were talking like they had
known each other forever. Emestina glanced over at Hilary and Clea and wished
she was that close with Hilary. I guess
I’m just too serious all the time. I should loosen up a little bit. Maybe then
she would be a tiny bit closer with me as she is with Clea… Emestina
thought sadly. She looked back at her work, and waited for those two to finish
talking. “Hilary Nathaniel! Clea Zillan! Stop talking while I’m teaching a
class, ok?” He yelled at them, calming down by the end. Clea had gone all shy
again. Hilary patted Clea’s arm in reassurance. Clea smiled, comforted again. Mr.
Oroiti started talking again, and Hilary turned to face the front. Clea yawned
loudly, making the class crack up again. The bell went then, and everyone left
on a high note. Clea, Hilary and Dianthe walked out the door together, leaving
Emestina and Lydia together. Lydia was evil, and Emestina was smart and
serious. They were angry at Clea and Dianthe from stealing their best friend
Hilary away from them. Lydia and Hilary weren’t best friends, they were friends
though. “I hate those new girls, don’t you?” Lydia sneakily tried to get
Emestina to agree with her and side with her. It worked. “Yes, I do. I
sincerely hate them both with all my heart and soul. They stole my best friend
away from me! How could she do that to me? We’ve been best friends for 4 years,
and she’s known Clea and Dianthe for about half an hour and she’s already
booted me off her best friends list!” Emestina was getting more and more worked
up about it that she snapped. She hated Hilary fiercely, and she wasn’t going
to back out now. She stormed out of the room, Lydia close on her heels. She
swerved around the corner, and ran down the corridor, headed for the cafeteria,
where Hilary and the twins were waiting. Emestina stormed into the cafeteria,
and slammed the door. Hard. Hilary swung around in surprise, this was not the
Emestina she knew. She knew a Emestina that was serious, shy, quiet, and smart.
This Emestina was furious, angry, and outgoing with a wild twist.