Charlie Bone, his blue cape waving in the wind, arrived on the bus to Bloor's Academy. He was a music student, so he went on the music bus. He was greeted by his friend Fidelio.
"Hello Charlie!" Fidelio called. "Enjoying life with your aunts gone, are you?"
"Yeah." Charlie smiled. His evil great aunts, and Grandma Bone, were all on a 'vacation'. Charlie believed that they must have been scheming something, but he chose not to worry about it and live a happy life. Fidelio sat down with Charlie, and they watched the kids walking to their normal schools on the sidewalk. One of those kids was Benjamin Brown, Charlie's non-endowed friend. Benjamin wasn't as close to Charlie anymore, because Charlie started to hang out with his endowed friend's at Bloor's.
Charlie and Fidelio arrived at Bloor's, and at the doors, they saw Billy Raven, a small albino kid with the endowment to talk to animals, talking to an unfamiliar kid about Billy's same size. Charlie hopped out of the bus and asked Billy who this kid was.
"It's James! He's new here." Billy said.
"James?" Fidelio asked, now out of the bus.
"Yeah, James! He seems nice. He's in Art." Billy explained. Charlie shrugged and he and Fidelio walked into Bloor's. One rule at Bloor's was no talking in the hallway. Manfred Bloor enforced this very much, and he stood in the hall shushing people and giving them detention.
"Charlie Bone, you'd better meet me in the King's Room. Come in ten minutes early, and we'll have a little… talk."