Fictional Class
I took a deep, steadying breath. Today, I was starting at a new school. Looking at my reflection, I straightened the simple uniform. My short ginger hair curled at the ends and my bright blue eyes stared back at me from the mirror. I checked the time. 8:00 am. It was time to go.
…
A sick feeling rose from my stomach, growing larger and larger with each step I took towards my form room. I could hear my new classmates chatting, louder and louder until I was directly outside the class.
"Quieten down class" a man shouted "We have a new student".
He turned towards me and invited me further into the classroom.
"Hello, I am Mr Blofis and I will be your tutor and English teacher this year. Here" he said, gesturing towards the students "are your fellow classmates. You will be with these people for every class. Would you like to introduce yourself to them?"
"Um, my name is Isla Wilcox. I'm 14 years old…" I said, unsure of what else to say.
"Well, if you'd go sit down, you can properly meet some of your classmates before your lessons start".
Feeling awkward, I sat in the seat closest to her, next to a girl who also had ginger hair only hers was a lot longer.
"Hey, I'm Amy Pond" she said.
"Hi" I replied.
"This is Clara," Amy said, pointing to a girl with short brown hair, "And this is the Doctor" she continued, pointing a boy with lots of dark brown hair, a bow tie and a crazy grin. The 'Doctor' took out a screwdriver with a green light at the end and waved it at me, humming as he did so.
"I think I can safely say that you are not an alien" He told me.
"Um, thanks I guess? Is your name actually the Doctor?" I asked as curiosity got the better of her.
"Yes" he replied "I'm the eleventh person in the history of the world to be named the Doctor"
"Wow" I said.
"One day, once I've built a time machine, I'm going to go back and meet every other person who was named the Doctor. Cos I bet they're pretty special. Then I'm going to go to different planets, taking these two non-aliens with me." The Doctor said, pointing to Amy and Clara.
"Why do you bother" interjected a tall boy with curly dark hair and a scarf. "All this talk of outer space and planets is useless. Why fill your head with such nonsense?"
"Here we go again" the boy next to him muttered. "Sherlock, can't you just leave them to it?"
"Nonsense?" the Doctor asked, offended. "It's not nonsense. We'll see you biting your words in 10 years when I would have created my TARDIS."
"TARDIS?" I asked, confused.
"Time And Relative Dimensions In Space," explained Clara "It's what he's going to call the time machine."
"What are you going to do that makes you so much more superior to the rest of us." asked the Doctor.
"With my exceptional mind, I'll become the world's first ever consulting detective."
"Your exceptional mind?" I asked sceptically.
Sherlock turned sharply towards me.
"I can tell you've been to lots of different schools in your life, travelling across the world. You probably know a few different languages. You have to keep travelling because of your mother's job. The two of don't have a particularly good relationship, but your father is gone, dead perhaps, or maybe he just left you. Your mother won't cart you off to boarding school, not now; you are the only connection she has left to him. However, she can't look after you full time, why else –"
"-Sherlock," the boy next to him interrupted. "Stop showing off," he turned towards me. "Sorry about that. I'm John Watson." He said introducing himself.
I sat, gaping at the pair of them.
"As I was saying," Sherlock said, turning back towards the doctor "Being a consulting detective is far more useful then wasting time trying to talk to aliens".
The Doctor was outraged. "You, you…Dalek!" he called Sherlock.
"Dalek?" Sherlock smirked "How…original".
Before the Doctor could reply, the bell rang, and we all filed out to get to our first lesson.
Our first lesson was Latin. Following the herd of my classmates, I managed to get to the classroom without any problems. However, I was the last one in, so I took the only seat available, next to some goth/emo kid. He was really skinny and pale, and had long black hair that looked like it hadn't been brushed in ages. The boy wore a skull ring round his finger which he regularly fiddled with.
"Hi" I said.
"Hi. I'm Nico di Angelo." He replied.
"Psst" a guy said. "Aren't you going to introduce us, Nikky".
"These two, Jason and Percy," pointing to the two guys in the desk next to us "are my cousins".
They were both athletic and tanned, but the similarities ended there. One had electric blue eyes and neat blonde hair; he also had an odd scar on his lip. The other one had sea-green eyes and messy raven-black hair.
I couldn't see how the three of them were related.
"So, what's Latin like here? Are you guys any good?"
"Latin here's great – Mr Brunner is awesome. Jason's practically fluent in Latin – his father taught him." said Percy.
"My uncles, on the other hand, taught Percy and Nico Ancient Greek," added Jason.
"That's really cool!" I said.
We spent that Latin lesson talking and they helped me along. All three of them were really good.
Just then, the door burst open. A middle-aged lady wearing a black leather jacket came in, fixing her eyes on Percy.
"Excuse me, is there something you want, Mrs Dodds?" asked Mr Brunner.
She pointed one crooked finger towards Percy.
"Him. In my office now." She demanded.
Slowly, Percy got up, shrugged at his cousins and left, following Mrs Dodds.
Latin soon ended and so it was break. Jason and Nico were going to go try and find Percy. I decided not to follow.
I was wandering around the school corridors, absent-mindedly, when a boy accidentally crashed into me.
"I'm so sorry!" he exclaimed.
"It's fine, don't worry. How come you're in such a rush?" I replied.
"Arthur's out to get me. I'm Merlin, by the way" he said. Merlin had short black hair and misty blue eyes. He wore an old-fashioned red neckerchief over his uniform.
"Anyway, I've got to run. Arthur may be my friend, but he's a prat. He's a royal one, but still, a prat. Nice meeting you," he said, before sprinting away.
Five seconds later, a tall, blonde, broad shouldered guy came running down the corridor.
"Have you seen a scrawny little git recently? He looks like a clotpole." He asked.
"Um, no," I replied.
"Are you sure? He has black hair, blue eyes and he wears a ridiculous red neckerchief. I'm Arthur by the way." He said.
"Oh, you mean Merlin? He went over there" I said, pointing in the opposite direction to where he ran to.
"Thanks. I'll see you around, Isla" and with that, Arthur ran off.
Shaking my head, I decided to try and find my way to the next class – chemistry. I wandered around the building until I found myself lost. Spotting a pair of ginger, freckled twins who looked a few years older than me, I decided to ask for directions.
"Your chemistry lab? Go down the corridor, turn left, then right, then left again," one of said.
"What are you talking about? Turn around the other way, then go right, then left, then right," said the other.
"You know, I'll think I'll just be going now…" I said, turning away.
Down the corridor came another ginger, freckled kid, only this one was in my class.
"Fred! George!" he shouted "Why did you dye my bag pink? Turn it back now!"
The twins turned to face the fuming boy.
"I'll tell Mum!" he threatened.
"Oh dear!" one of the twins teased "Is Ickle Ronniekins going to go running to Mummy"
"Come on Fred, let's go" laughed George.
They walked away, chuckling to themselves.
"Those two!" the boy muttered to himself. "I'm Ron, by the way. Ron Weasley. You're the new girl, right? Isla, isn't it?"
"Yeah, I am. Were those two your brothers?" I asked.
"Annoyingly, yes they are."
Ron offered to show me to the next class, and we talked all the way. He told me about his friends Harry and Hermione and how they hated Chemistry with Mr Snape who always looked for an excuse to pick on Harry. By the time we got to the lab, most of the class were already sat down. I took the seat next to Ron, which was also next to Sherlock. Everyone was chatting amongst themselves until the teacher arrived with a slam of the door. We all fell silent.
"Open your book to page 214. There will be no need to talk."
Silently, everyone did as they were told and began to read through and make notes from the textbook, while Mr Snape surveyed the class with loathing. Fifteen minutes passed and still, there was silence.
Without warning, Snape suddenly spoke "Close textbooks and begin experiment 3 on the page, I will be putting you in partners."
Everyone groaned at the last part, and did as they were told.
"Now… How about we split this trio over here?" Snape smirked. "Potter, partner up with Lestrade. Granger will go with Pendragon and Weasley with Anderson."
Snape walked over the table they'd been sitting at and pushed ink over the notes Harry had made.
"Oh dear," Snape said sarcastically "you'd better re-write the notes, Potter."
Snape said the name with contempt, and then went on pairing people. I ended up with a girl called Molly Hooper who kept on looking at Sherlock, who had been paired with Irene Adler. We got to work quickly – Molly was very good at Chemistry. She had light brown hair which tied up in a simple ponytail, warm brown eyes and a kind smile. Molly wore next-to-no makeup. It was blatantly obvious that she had a deep crush on Sherlock.
Next to us, the Doctor was paired with Merlin, and together, they were nearly finished drawing up a conclusion whereas Molly and I were only halfway through the experiment. It seemed they both were gifted in Science. Arthur and Amy, on the other hand, were failing. Snape regarded them with scorn, and as soon as he turned away, Hermione could be seen whispering frantic instructions. Clara and John seemed to be getting on just fine. Sherlock and Irene, however, were on a roll. As if Sherlock was competing with the Doctor, they both rushed to finish.
"Done!" exclaimed the Doctor, grinning widely.
"Done?" asked Sherlock "So you've really done the experiment, drawn a table and graph from the results and you've written an accurate conclusion?"
"I also found the correlation and the relationships between the variables," added the Doctor.
Smirking, Sherlock said "Well I've also written a deep analysis on each of the chemicals and its products."
The Doctor's grin faded quickly as it was replaced with a look of grudging defeat. Sherlock looked smugger than ever. Irene kept on flirting with Sherlock and I could see Molly looking crestfallen.
"Hey, uh Molly" I said, in way to distract her "So, how long have you been at this school?"
It was a poor attempt, I'll admit, but it still did the trick.
When class finished, we carried on talking as we walked to the canteen. After getting our food, we sat down at a table. John, Lestrade, the Doctor and Sherlock – to Molly's delight and embarrassment – joined us. Sherlock didn't appear to be eating anything while the Doctor started wolfing down the most unusual combinations- fish fingers and custard, for instance. Molly picked at her food as the rest of us ate in awkward silence.
"So, Isla" said Molly, trying to make conversation "How has your first day been so far?"
I opened my mouth to reply, but Sherlock beat me to it.
"Don't try to make conversation Molly; it really isn't your area" he sharply said.
Ignoring him, I replied. "It's been really good, I uh-"
Sherlock interrupted me. "Don't encourage her."
"Sherlock!" said Lestrade.
"What, Graham?" he replied in a deadpan voice.
"My name is Greg! Greg Lestrade." he said, while John shook his head, as if it happened a lot.
"Why, hello dear brother of mine" spoke a snooty voice walking towards our table.
Sherlock looked annoyed – really annoyed.
"What do you want now, Mycroft?" he grumbled.
"Can't I show my concerns for my sibling?" he asked. He looked quite a few years older than us.
"What concern? I'd never have thought you were capable of such a thing. No, you want something from me. Or you're here just to annoy myself and my acquaintances. But I doubt you'd waste your time like that, not when the Head Boy election is coming up, and you need to beat Percy Weasley to spot." replied Sherlock.
Instead of answering, Mycroft turned and surveyed us all sat at the table.
"Well?" Sherlock asked impatiently.
"I'm just…making myself known to you all" and with that, he strode off.
"He is such a drama queen!" exclaimed Sherlock.
"Remind you of someone," muttered Lestrade, and John sniggered.
"Whatever," replied Sherlock "Come on, we'd better get to the next class."