It was morning time at the House of Anubis. Students were ambling about and Vera could be heard bustling in the kitchen. Jerome ambled into the dining room, tugging at his tie as he did so, and settled himself into his usual chair.
"Morning everyone," he grumbled, picking up a piece of toast and cramming it into his mouth.
"Well you don't look you're usual destructive self this morning," Patricia joked as she herself grabbed some toast.
"Alfie kept me up all night with his alien movies or whatever," Jerome replied as Alfie walked into the room, cheery but with dark sleepless circles under his eyes.
"Good Morning everyone!" he smiled, sitting across from Jerome, "And sorry if my sci-fy marthon was a bit loud last night mate."
Jerome replied with a sarcastic smile.
The students returned to their breakfasts and everyone was eventually assmebled at the table. Jerome, still groggy, focused on his food. Meanwhile, Joy was staring longingly at Fabian, Nina, and Amber huddled at the end of the table.
"What do you think they're on about?" she whispered to Patricia, who was jolted from staring at Eddie.
"Who knows," Patricia returned half-heartedly, scolding herself for being so silly. Joy sighed and went back to staring and Patricia took it upon herself to glare at her orange juice with a fierce determination for the rest of breakfast. Victor entered just as the chiming clock alerted them it was time for school.
"Halt, students," he said in his usual gruff manor. He was met with collective groans from everyone.
"Just one quick announcement, we will have one new student joining us this evening," he said with crossed arms.
"Oh, not another snobbish American," whined Patricia, then catching herself said, "Sorry Nina, I only meant Eddie." Nina shrugged.
"Actually, she is from Poland. And she happens to be a former srudent of this school. A scholarship has brought her back here this year," and with that Victor left the room.
Everyone went to school whispering casual guesses about what this new girl might be like. Little did they know, she might just change their entrie world.