In Fate's hands

Chapter 1; Our lady of sorrow

Joy pushed out the alarm clock that was screaming for her to wake up. She sighed when she realized that it was the monday she would start at a new school. How wonderful. She dragged herself out of bed and made her way to the bathroom.

Minutes later, she walked back into her room, her long dyed black hair neatly combed with her bangs in place and started pulling on her clothes. Her favorite Misfits t-shirt with a bright pink hoodie and a pair of tight black jeans. She just started on her black converse when her sister walked in.

“Joy, have you seen my shoes ?” Jana asked

“No, look in the living room” Joy answered taking her black eyeshadow

Jana immediatly looked frightened. “I can't, he's sleeping there”

After finishing up her make-up, she looked up at her sisters whisper. Her face showed a great amount of disgust and anger. “I'l look for you, I have to grab some water anyway”

The twelve-year old smiled and nodded thankfully. Joy took her backpack and made her way downstairs. When she opened the door, she was welcomed with the disgusting smell of alcohol and vomit. Her stepfather was lying on the couch and her mother not far from him, sleeping off their hangover.

She shook her head and opened the fridge. The bottle of water was quickly pushed into her pack and she looked around for her sisters shoes. And she was rewarded with the sight of two brown all stars on the floor next to the fishbowl. She took them and made her way to the door.

“Where the fuck do you think you are going ?”

Joy stopped walking and closed her eyes. “To school, remember ?”

“Watch your tone, young lady” her mother's voice suddenly filled the air as well

“Whatever” she whispered and closed the door behind her.

Jana was already waiting, fully dressed but without shoes. She gratefully accepted her shoes and pulled them on. Joy waited for her to finish and then they both walked outside.

“Joy, what do you think our new school will be like ?” she never was one to be silent

“I don't know, probably the same as our previous one” Joy answered with a shrug


Jana nodded, seemingly satisfied with that answer. She, however, did pull a face when Joy lit up a cigarette. They arrived at their school pretty quickly and they were noticed pretty quickly as well.

“Hey emo-shit”

“What is she doing here ?”

“Look at what she's wearing”

Joy sighed. “Yep, just like our last school”


She walked over to the reception and cleared her throat loudly. The woman behind the desk looked up with a nasty look on her face as soon as she saw Joy.

“Yes ?”

Joy smiled sweetly. “Hi, I'm new here and I just want my sheduel.” her face fell. “Then I'll be outta your way.”

“Name ?”

“Joy Goossens”

The receptionist printed out her sheduel and handed it to her. Joy snapped it out of her hands and walked off. She looked at her first class. Math. Just her luck.

She reached the room rather quickly and she felt like a victory dance. Luckily she was able to supress that urge. She knocked on the door and walked inside.

“Ah, you must be my new student, yes ?” an old bald guy with glasses on asked

Joy nodded. “Yeah”

The man smiled widely. “Excellent. My name is Mr. Anders and I teach math and English so we'll be seeing a lot of each other”

Joy rolled her eyes. “Wonderful”

Mr.Anders nodded. “Now, would you like to introduce yourself for a minute ?”

No “My name is Joy Goossens and I've lived in Jersey for the greatest part of my life. I was born in London, England. My father is British, my mother American. I have one sister. I hate school and everything that has to do with it.” she finished

Mr. Anders was intently listening to her until her last sentence and his face changed to shock. “So....you're British, that's where your accent comes from.” he said after a moment of silence

Joy rolled her eyes again. “Where can I sit ?”

“There's an empty table in the back, miss Goossens” he pointed

Joy walked to the back of the class and sat down. Suddenly, the boy in front of her turned around.

“Nice introduction” he grinned
,
“Thanks” she answered

The boy turned back around and said something to his friend. Joy took a better look at the two boys. The guy that talked to her had two toned hair with a fringe and was wearing black skinny's (that actually looked a lot like hers) and a Black Flag shirt. His friend however, had semi-long black hair that curled a little at the ends. He was wearing dark blue jeans with a plain black shirt. She couldn't keep the smile off her face.


Lunch came pretty quickly, suprisingly. The rest of her classes had gone by without any other incidents and she found that she shared two classes already with the two boys even though they hadn't spoke again.

She sat down on a table and took out her mp3. The food on the table was forgotten when the Misfits blared out of her headphones. Her notebook was in front of her and she started writing down some lyrics popping up in her head.

“Hello ? Earth to Joy”

Joy looked up and saw her sister in front of her. “Hey sis, what's up ?”

Jana shrugged and sat down. “Nothing, I just wanted to ask how your first day is going”

Joy put on a very fake smile. “Just splendid”

Jana laughed and nodded to some kids behind Joy. Joy looked around and saw a group of girls waving to Jana. She laughed.

“You should go to your friends”

Jana gave a half smile. “No, I'll stay with you”

Joy then gave her little sister a playful push. “I'm perfectly capable of sitting here by myself. It's actually what I prefer. Now go”

“Okay then. I'll walk home with them too if that's okay” Jana said standing up

Joy nodded and put her earphones back in. When she heard Black Flag screaming in her ear, she thought back to the guy that was wearing their t-shirt. She thought he was cute, and pretty cool too judging by his looks ofcourse. She hadn't been able to take a closer look to his friend but what she saw was pretty fine also.

She sighed and got up. She needed to put some of her stuff into her locker and she still didn't know where to find it. Time for Joy The Explorer.

“1120, 1121, 1122,......ah 1123” Joy said proudly opening the locker

Just as she closed it again, three guys appeared behind her.

“Looks like our school has no standerds at all”

Joy turned around and saw three of the biggest jocks she had ever seen in her entire life.
“Yeah, I know. I mean they take in anything. This place is surrounded by jocks” she answered with venom in her voice

The blond one pushed her against her locker. “Big mouth as well. We don't like emo bitches with big mouths.”

Joy rolled her eyes, she had a feeling that was going to become a habit. “Well then, just get out of my way and I'll just tiddly on”

But as she tried to walk, she was slammed back by the brown haired guy this time. “I don't think so. You need a lesson, just as we gave those two faggots a lesson when they first got here.”

Before Joy could remark, a fist made contact with her stomach. She groaned out in pain. She would never get used to this pain, even when she dealt with it almost every day. She felt someone starting to kick as well. The jocks however got a suprise when suddenly she raised her hand and gave a hard slap to her blond attacker.

The kicks stopped. It was like they couldn't believe that a girl would stand up to them. Just as Joy saw they were getting over the shock, another voice filled the room.

“Ah Luke, always beating up someone. It's so sad that you only feel good about yourself when you're bullying someone. You look like you need a hug, don't you think so Frank ?”

“Yeah, I think you're right. Do you want a hug ?” Frank said spreading his arms and walking towards Luke.

Luke let go of Joy and jumped backwards, away from Frank. “Don't touch me, you fucking fag. I don't want your filth on me”

Frank looked like he was about to cry. “That's just mean. And I was being so nice”

The three guys looked at like Frank like he was going crazy. “Let's get out of here man”

They were gone as quickly as they came. Joy let out a sigh of relief and took her backpack off the floor. The other boy made his way towards her.

“You okay, sugar ?”

Joy looked up and recognised him from her classes. “Yeah, thanks”

He laughed. “You're welcome but it looked like you were handling your own.”

Joy smiled back a bit. “Yeah, a girl needs to know her self-defense”

“Cool. Listen I'm Gerard and that's Frank but you already know him from our math class. He can't shut his mouth for one second” Gerard smirked

Frank looked offended. “Like you're any better”

Joy laughed. “I'm Joy”

“What's your next class ?” Frank asked

“Euhm...World history” Joy answered after looking on her paper

Gerard smiled. “Cool, I have that as well. Thank God that I'll have some company now beause mrs.Rondue is so fucking boring and Frankie doesn't have that class.”

Joy grinned. She felt that this was the start of a beautiful friendship, nothing could ruin this day she thought.......

.....how naive of her