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Okay, so I came up with basic plot details for the first two chapters. I haven't gone past that since the first two will take a fairly long time to complete anyway and other people will probably want input on the story line xD.

I can elaborate on some of these later, if you want.

Chapter 1
 ·     *      (3:00 PM) Show students arriving at the school and saying farewells to their parents or getting off buses. We can use this as an opportunity to briefly get a view of some of the characters’ personalities as well as to get the readers used to seeing the characters.

 ·     *      Once in the school, the students follow signs to the auditorium where they are told to spilt off into different sections by grade (first character interactions can be shown here, even if it’s just between two characters)

 ·     *      School headmaster (or principal) gives a speech on the opportunities of the school, how the schedules work, where the dorm rooms are, etc. (Some characters can be intrigued, while others are bored out of their skulls)

 ·     *      After the assembly is over, the students are told to head to the teachers in the front of their grade’s section (9th, 10th, 11th, 12th) to receive their schedules (which have a map of the school on the back to help them navigate it, though this does not need to be shown to the readers). Once they get their schedules, the students are allowed to go to their dorms (four students to a room).

 ·     *      The main girls’ dorm room will consist of Kim, Kaitlin, Brooklyn, and Janika; the main boys’ dorm room will consist of Andrew, Farid, Darren, and Emery. This is not excluding the other characters, as they will be included in another dorm room.

 ·     *      When they get into the dorm rooms and start unpacking, deciding who sleeps where and that sort of thing, the characters can start having more direct interaction with each other and will probably start talking about things. At this point, the girls will likely be the first ones introduced. It’s not out of the question that they’ll even start having arguments or poking fun at each other. Everyone’s not always friendly when they first meet. Kim, in particular, is probably going to be completely ticked at everyone she gets stuck with, especially with Brooklyn due to her lack of feelings towards others and her tendency to seem insensitive. Kaitlin and Janika will likely start off on the wrong foot.

 ·     *      The characters go down to dinner, where most of them are meeting for the first time. Not sure yet whether or not we should actually show too much of this scene, though.

Chapter 2
 ·     *      We skip to morning, and show the boys waking up. Though the school day starts at 12:00 and is a half day to get everyone used to the new schedule, Farid sets his alarm clock for 9:00 so that his sleep schedule won’t be off too drastically for the next day. However, he forgets how loud it was set to and it ends up waking everyone else up as well, except for Darren who was already up doodling for the past half hour (doesn’t need much sleep). Naturally, the other too are annoyed with Farid.

 ·     *      Until the school day starts officially, we can show interactions between our main male characters and how they cope with each other. Since Emery is not as interested in visual arts he may not be able to relate as well to the others.

 ·     *      Before the school day starts everyone goes down to the cafeteria to eat lunch, where some of them meet up with other people that they either met the day prior or they knew before coming to the school.

 ·     *      And finally, it’s time to actually start school! First, everyone would take the required courses (math, science, English, social studies) and after those are over with they’d go to their elected art courses. I’m not detailing this much right now, since we’d have to decide which characters we’d be following around for each period.

 ·     *     In the first art course of the day (illustration) everyone comes down and sits at one of the four (or five if we want) art tables stationed around the room with four people to a table. Kim, Kaitlin, Andrew, and Farid all sit down at the same table. Right after everyone is settled the teacher introduces himself (I’m thinking Mr. Lockwood), and then says that throughout the year they’ll be working on projects with the other people at their table to get a feeling for what their work may be like in the future. (Characters react accordingly xD)



 ·     *      After this, the chapter ends