The Pretty Committee gets an A plus

by raindaance

I'm not giving it away :P...Spoils book 5, so don't read unless you've read it, it wont make much sense. Rated for safety...new people, old people come back, and as always, much drama involving a certain brown haired beauty and her gorgeous friends.

1. Chapter 1

Octavian Country Day School

Principal Burns' Office

Thursday, February 26

8:15 A.M.

"I was traumatized, Principal Burns, truly and really. I know it's not illegal or anything, but finding my mother and my Geography Teacher together really did it for me. I wasn't feeling great, so I went back to the cabin, and well, I just lost it. If these four hadn't followed me into the woods, I wouldn't have made it out alive, believe me!" Dylan's eyes opened wide, and she pleaded silently with the principal.

"Well…" The girls could see Principal Burns was really struggling. She looked at all of the girls, and then at their parents. "I suppose you had a right to be disgusted, really, I must say, I expected more out of our school employees." She glared at Mr. Myner, who was also present at the meeting. Mr. Myner suddenly took great interest in the color of his shoes.

"There is still the matter, however, of Ms. Gregory sneaking up to Lake Placid without telling anybody."

"Principal Burns, $1,500.00 is a lot of money, especially for the students here on scholarship. It is prejudice against the poor, and that is a point I am sure the school board would love to hear about." Kristen got it all out in one breath, looking glad to have it done with. Her parents nodded behind her, for once agreeing with their daughter.

"Well…" Principal Burns looked somewhat sympathetic now. "I suppose, really it doesn't make much sense to expel you, for you didn't mean any harm, but I must still impress upon you the gravity and seriousness of what you have done. You girls will not be permitted to return to Lake Placid, and you will serve detention after school for three weeks. You may go, but I wish to have a word with Mr. Myner. You may attend your regular classes, though they will be pretty much empty."

The girls and their parents filed out of the room, leaving a sick-looking Mr. Myner behind with their bird of a principal. Massie pinched Claire's elbow and smiled, they were back in. Claire giggled, she couldn't contain herself. Alicia was calm and collected as ever, still smiling and looking pleased with herself. Dylan grabbed Kristen in a hug and jumped up and down.

The girls kissed their parents good-bye and headed off to class. As they had expected, none of their parents were mad at them, because it was, after all, Mr. Myner that had lost them in the first place.