Members' Boarding School - Take Two

[Amarashia]

NAME: Yi-Ming Liu

AGE: 15

ORIGIN: Island just off Malaysia.

NATIONALITY: Malaysian Chinese

APPEARANCE: Just above shoulder length styled black hair. Very dark brown eyes. Slim build, fair skin. Normally wears dark coloured clothes with a slightly lighter or quite bright coloured T-shirt/top. She always wears a very thin pure silver chain which does not have a pendant or crucifix on.

PERSONALITY: Mei (Yi-Ming prefers to be called 'Mei') is just a typical teenager with a taste for dark pencil art, music and writings. She is slightly withdrawn and depressed, but open and friendly to those who know her best.

BIO: Her family originates from China, and there they learnt a secret ancient magic. This has been practised over so many generations that the magic had seeped into their blood and they no longer needed to summon the energy of spirits in the air. Over time, the original practises faded, and to this modern day, the earliest descendants of these magic-makers no longer believe in the artsy fantasy of magic.

When war started between Japan and China, Mei's family imigrated, supposedly to Malaysia. But then, the boat they were travelling in crashed on a small island just off Malaysia. Mei's family were the only survivors. After a few years, they discovered a gold mine, and seeing that they were the only living people on the island, they were immediate owners of the land and mine. They sold the land for a fortune and around that time, Mei was born.

The rest of Mei's family prefered to stay on the island, but Mei was eager to be sent to the United Kindom ("Preferably England," she said) and so with a part of their fortune, Mei was sent to England and there she was recruited at a boarding school. That was after three weeks of staying with a family in England which was when she learnt how to speak perfect English in that mere amount of time. She has a distinct accent.

[Sakura]

NAME: Lily Rodgers

AGE: 14

ORiGIN: Unknown

NATIONALITY: English

APPEARANCE: Long brown hair in two plaits tied with black ribbons on the ends, light tanned skin from a million holidays to Spain and Italy. She wears a pentagram pendant with a blue gem in the centre not because of any kind of religion or magic. Also, she wears a bubblegum pink dress, the sort you'd expect people in the times of Elvis Presley to wear, with a blue denim jacket, white flat shoes and dark sunglasses.

PERSONALITY: Lily is sparky, positive and inquisitive. She's also mostly found with her nose in some book or other or writing a story of her own. She's also an orphan, but this doesn't dampen her spirits.

BIO: Lily is an orphan who was taken in by the Rodgers family and brought up until she was sent to boarding school. The Rodgers were kind to her, but didn't spoil her so much she began to think she could get everything she wanted. She recently discovered that she can see odd people that nobody else can see, but she doesn't realize that they are the spirits of the dead.

[Amarashia]

Her first day:

Mei paused on the worn white marble steps in front of those large, almost intimidating gates. Today would be the first day of a proper school and she didn't know how to look at it. Maybe it would be as good as she had anticipated or as awful as the children in the family that she stayed at had told her.

Slowly she pushed the them forwards, and they swung with ease as the hinges had been oiled. At first glace, this school was certainly very well presented, as the gates' paint was not peeling and the steps were prestine white. It was in fact looked so nice, it was like an eye sore after years of living in a self built mud house on an island some half the world away.

Mei snapped down the extendable handle and pulled her luggage up the steps with the stength she had gained from working in her home land. As she trudged up the steps, her slightly long black skirt lightly brushed the steps and as she reached the top, she gave the white building a hopeful look before grasping the door knocker.

[Sakura]

Lily walked up to the bottom of the stairs leading to the huge brass gates. She'd been told by the 'Odd people',as she called them, had said that these gates would bring forth new abilities and perilous events, but Lily didn't know what they'd ment. She saw that there was already somebody at the gate and decided she should make her first friend. She took a deep breath as she walked up the stairs, putting her suitcase down, "Hi, my name's Lily, what's yours?"

[Amarashia]

The sound of someone talking to Mei scared her slightly. She quickly whipped her head around and withdrew her hand before she could even knock. "Hey," she said hesitatantly, studying Lily. "I'm, er, Mei. Um - can you knock for me... It just that..." She cleared her throat, feeling it almost catch her voice from coming out. "...I'm new here, and I'm kinda nervous."

She took a step back and clenched her hands together to stop herself from wringing them. Damn my nervousness, she thought in her mind. It was almost ridiculous how she couldn't speak normally in front of a perfectly normal person.

[Sakura]

"Sure, I see the problem. Classic case of first day nerves. It's my first day too, but I learnt not to be scared of a new school. The Odd people said that if I just stayed confident everything wuld go just fine." Lily smiled and knocked on the door, "They told me that the first time I had to go to a new school too. So come on, cheer up and let your confidence flow free."

[Amarashia]

Mei laughed and tried to manage a smile which she was sure looked like a grimace. She struggled to relax. "I'll try," she said. She swallowed, then tried to start conversation. "By the way, what did you mean-"

Then the door swung forwards automatically, interupting Mei in the middle of her sentence even though the door opening wasn't sudden. Mei took a deep breath, recovering herself from the slight shock. "You first," she said geturing with her hand.

[Sakura]

"Thanks." Lily smiled, stepping though the door. The ntrance hall was grand looking and must have cost a fortune. From the marble staircase to the ornate statues, Lily was awestruck, "Wow. I didn't expect it to look so beautiful."

[Amarashia]

Mei laughed quietly. "Well, that's what good money gives you." She rolled in her suitcase and briefly looked around at everything. "I'm guessing we have to sign in..." She scanned the walls again, then saw a sign. "Look," she said, pointing. "The reception is this way."

[Sakura]

Lily smiled and said excitedly, "I've got a feeling that being here is going to be so much fun." She raced off to Reception, stopping every so often so that Mei could catch up.