Charlie bone and the forbidden mystery
One
It was a dark seven o'clock when Charlie Bone rolled out of bed with a thud. It was Monday, which meant that Charlie was off the Bloor's for the week. He got dressed hurriedly and went downstairs where his mother and Maisie were sitting. He was given a big breakfast which he wolfed down. He then ran back upstairs, knocked on his Uncle Paton's door and went in. "Bye Uncle Paton, I'm off to school now. I hope something exciting happens this week." He said with a smile. Uncle Paton smiled back.
"I would say have fun, but fun probably isn't the right word." He replied with a rueful smile. Charlie laughed and left his Uncle in peace. He went inside his room, picked up his bag looked disdainfully at his cape before picking it up as well and stuffing it in his bag. Charlie went back down to his mother, kissed her, said goodbye and ran up the street to where the blue music academy bus was waiting for him. He leapt on, went, and sat next to his friend Fidelio who had saved him a seat.
"Hi Fidelio, hi Gabriel," he said to the friends next to him and behind him. They both nodded in reply. "So how was your weekend?" Charlie asked.
Fidelio looked up from his music sheet. "It was great, I had a music audition for a concert and I got the part." Fidelio wasn't endowed like Charlie and Gabriel. His talent was musical and he was always doing something musical on the weekend. Charlie and Gabriel congratulated him.
"I didn't do much, I just helped looking after our animals," Gabriel said just as they were arriving at Bloor's academy for the gifted and talented. Charlie looked out the window and saw his other friends, Tancred, Lysander, Emma and Olivia waiting for the boys. There was another girl about the same age as them with them. Charlie, Gabriel and Fidelio climbed out the bus and went to join them. Olivia was chatting with the girl next to her. Olivia's hair was bright purple today. She turned around when the boys got to her.
"Hi boys, this is my cousin Amelia. She is living with me at the moment and is a very talented musician," Olivia said before lowering her voice, "She's also endowed but we didn't tell the Bloor's that. Mum dropped her and me off this morning but she will catch the blue bus with you on Friday," She said. The little girl turned around.
"Hi, I'm Amelia. I'm eleven so I'm the year below you or two years below some of you," she said looking at the older boys. Amelia looked just like her cousin except she was naturally blonde instead of brown and she didn't dye her hair like Olivia. The boys smiled at her.
"I'm Charlie, and this is Fidelio and Gabriel. What's your endowment?" Charlie asked. Amelia looked mysterious.
"You will find out soon enough," Amelia replied following her cousin into the hall where talking wasn't allowed and skipped under the sign of the crossed trumpets. The boys shrugged and followed her.
