The darkness was lit up by a sudden flare of chakra. The large man went through the signs again. A small vortex appeared; a tunnel linking one world to another. He threw in a file, the white pages lifting slightly to show hand-drawn images and ten sat staring into the vortex, a contemplating look upon his face. He focused his energy and zoned into one particular time-frame. He watched the scene unfold.
"You're drooling" a black-haired girl poked the auburn haired girl beside her.
"I am not" she protested, waking up from the doze their English teacher had put her in, wiping the side of her mouth anyway, just in case. The first girl smirked and went to reply with a sarcastic comment, but was halted by a diary being thrown on her desk.
"I missed the homework she gave us. Amy, write it down for me" A curly dark-haired girl stood there holding out a pen, smiling sweetly.
"Piss off" Amy, the dark0haired girl, replied
"Rebecca" she whined to the dozing girl.
"What?"
"Write down the English homework for me"
"We have homework? She gave us homework? Jess, what homework did she give us?" Rebecca searched for her school diary. She had already forgotten the essay they had been meant to hand in today and knew the teacher would blow a fuse if she didn't hand in another piece of homework.
"I'm asking you!" Jessica cried, "If I knew then I wouldn't have come to ask you, would I? Common sense! If you had it-OW!" A book brought down onto her head effectively shut her up.
"Here you go, Oh Queen of Drama" A curly haired brunette handed Jessica a small book "Look for today's date"
"Thanks Mari" Jessica grinned. She went to pick up the diary she had previously thrown on Amy's desk, but couldn't find it. "Ok, where have you put it? Rebecca?"
"Not me"
"Amy gimme it"
"I haven't got it"
"Well it was there!"
"Maybe the gremlins got it" suggested Rebecca with a smile
"Oy! I am not a gremlin!" Amy said indignantly
"Maybe not, but you are talented at giving the game away" retorted Rebecca, eyebrow raised.
"Gremlin, gimme my diary" demanded Jessica, "If you don't, I will scratch you" She showed off her long claws.
"Have it" And with that, Amy threw the diary onto a desk halfway across the classroom, smirking at the annoyed "HEY!" the cat let out.
"She'll get you back for that" Marija said conversationally
"What? By pulling my hair? I am so scared" The monotony in her voice caused the girls to laugh. Silently Jessica walked over to Amy and, extending an index finger, jabbed her in the side. With a yelp Amy fell of her chair, causing hilarious laughter.
Rebecca quickly stopped laughing when a student announced that ther history teacher was coming up the stairs. "Oh…joy….whoopee…Let's all sing and dance and have a ball." Rebecca's face showed her extreme dislike for the teacher. The other three smiled in expectation of the scene that was about to unfold; each time the same story-line and yet each time so hilariously different.
"Oh come on Beck, he isn't that terrible" Amy snickered.
"He's worse than terrible" She replied darkly, "Can't I plead sickness and walk out?"
"And take away my only source of amusement I have in this lesson? I don't think so. So sit your butt down-"
"I am sitting down"
"-Quit sprawling on your desk awaiting death"
"Death isn't stupid enough to come near this lesson…he has the ability to irritate the dead"
"Get rid of your sad face"
"Dun wanna"
"And put your scowly one on instead because Mr. I-can-Rebecca-in-a-bad-mood-just-by-a-thought-of-me has just arrived"
"Keep on scowling" Jessica cheerily said as she and Marija went back to their seats.
"Bitch" muttered Rebecca as the sir walked into the classroom, slamming the door closed behind him. "Break it why don't you" she muttered under her breath." Amy started giggling silently. The result was immediate; Rebecca sat up ramrod straight, gave him a murderous glare and settled a very loud 'I HATE YOU' look upon her face, The sir took one glance at her and looked away. He could not understand why the girl hated him. His memory failed to remember the times he had touched her school diary and put it under her desk, or touched her arm or shoulder. He failed to realise just how much he invaded the boundary of her personal space and privacy and how much she hated him for it.
"Good morning girls" He smiled "And today we will be talking about Greece and the amazing temples they have there. Now, I'm no good at drawing so I don't want to hear any grumbling about my amazing masterpieces!" he laughed, half the class laughing with him to humor him. Rebecca just rolled her eyes and glared. Amy started smirking. Marija, who had caught the eye-rolling, was giggling and Jess, who was in the front like Rebecca and Amy, tried hard not to giggle. Their teacher looked at Rebecca and gave her a wide smile. His response was an even harsher glare.
"Erm yes, well let's see…A certain temple to mention was one dedicated to Athena, a rather beauty to behold….much like my version of it!" He roared in laughter, catching sight of Rebecca again, who just gave him a dismissing glare. He looked to Amy who had a rather broad smile on her face "Does your friend over here ever smile?"
'Friend over here? Jeez you'd have thought that after teaching me for nearly a year, being the subject of my hatred all that time, he'd have bothered to at least learn my name!' Rebecca thought 'And yes, I smile…but not at imbeciles like yourself"
"Um…sometimes" Amy shrugged
"Hmm…well back to Athena" As he continued trying to crack jokes, a student, most likely bored to tears, started tapping her pen against her desk…tap, tap, tap.
"Will whoever is tapping please stop? It is rather annoying. Thank you" the sir said. Immediately, Amy grabbed her pen and started tapping it against her desk, never one to miss an opportunity to mess with the teachers. Rebecca smirked at her friend's antics.
"Ha ha" the sir said looking at Amy. He then glanced at Rebecca. "Praise the Lord! A smile! The girl can smile! It's a miracle!" the sir gasped dramatically. Instantly the smirk dropped off and she resumed her glaring, more intense than ever.
'Feel my hate dammit, feel it creep into your bones!' He turned away from the glare, completely uncomfortable. "Mission successful" she muttered. By now the whole class was giggling, with her friends in hysterics.
About 10 minutes before the bell was due to ring, a girl asked the sir about the project book they had to bring in and how she was going to do it. The sir went to answer her and the decided he needed a file to show her. He grabbed Rebecca's file. She scowled. He leafed through it, showing them how to do the index and other things. He went to put it back on Rebecca's table. Rebecca, who by now had had enough of him touching her things, grabbed it, snatching it out of his hands, slapped it onto the table and put her pocket on it. Then she glared at the teacher, who looked totally shocked. The class burst into laughter. The bell rang, signaling the end of class and the end of another school day. They all packed their bags. Rebecca put her yellow carrier type bag in which she put her files, onto her desk while she zipped up her bag. She and Amy were chatting.
"Ah" said the sir, "What a lovely bag". He went to touch it, and immediately Rebecca moved it out of his reach. Instead of removing his hand, he reached further out until he touched the bag. "Environmentally friendly. That's good" he said looking at Rebecca, smiling. She scowled and glared. Marija turned towards the window so no one could see her laughing. As soon as he left the classroom, Rebecca let out a strangled cry of anger "One day I'm gonna shove my desk into the ugly mug he calls his face…then I'm going to throw him out of the window, if I can get his freaking belly to fit through it, and pray he lands bottom first on an upright branch.
"Oooh a threat" a new voice sounded "I take it you had…hmm…was it history by any chance?" A girl with short brown hair and glasses walked into the emptying classroom
"Bingo" Marija laughed
"It's not funny!"
"Yes Beck, it is" Amy said in complete glee.
"Awww come on Beck, just a couple more weeks and we're outta here and you will never have to see him again!"
"I would say I want them to pass, Jenny, but then I'd be wishing away more time with you guys"
"Awww Becka!" Jessica said, "It's not like we won't see each other when school ends!"
"Just not everyday" Marija added
"Not to rush this…tender…moment but the gates are gonna close in a couple of minutes and I for one do not have any wish to spend the night at school" Jenny pointed out.
"Let's go bitches!" Amy led the way out.
When they got to the school grounds they parted ways; Jenny and Amy got buses home while Rebecca, Jessica and Marija walked, each a different way though. Marija met up with her younger sister and, after saying their goodbye's they left.
Jenny walked over to her stand where the school private would pick her up and take her to Birzebbugia. She got on and sat down, talking to some friends. She arrived home and went in.
"I'm home" she called out closing the door behind her, "Hi mum. How's Christine?" Christine was her younger sister who had been kept off school that day.
"Better" was reply. Jenny went to her room and threw her bag onto the floor. She changed from her ugly school uniform into jeans and a top.
Amy also went home on the bus, but on a different one to Xaghjra. She walked in calling out a quick "I'm home" and went into her room. She got changed and then went and made a sandwich.
Marija walking home with her younger sister, Geraldine, argued all the way.
"Ger shut up! God you are so annoying!" she finally snapped
"Nuh-uh! You are" her sister replied," Anyway the top doesn't even fit you anymore. Just give it to me!"
"No"
"Why not?"
"Because it's mine. Get it? MINE! Now shut up. You are not, I repeat NOT, getting MY top"
They reached their home and while Geraldine walked into the kitchen to talk to their mum, Marija went and got changed in her room, making sure to hide the top her sister wanted.
Jessica walked home ad reached it quite quickly. "Hi mum" she said walking in to the kitchen.
"Hi Jessy. How was school?"
"Fine" and she went on to tell her mum about what had happened in school that day, especially in history. She got a text from Marija and after kissing her mum on the check, went into her room and continued the text conversation.
Rebecca walked home with another friend, chatting all the way. She reached home, all happiness deflating already. She walked in, put her bag in her room and walked into the sitting room. She then got jumped on by her dogs.
"Down girls, down" she laughed, "Hi mum"
"Hi babes. How was school?"
"Fine I guess. Something really funny happened though. In h-"
"Wait a sec babe, I'm on a really hard level on this game and talking is distracting. Tell me later yeah?"
"Yeah" she said glumly, walking to her room. She got changed, grabbed her book and continued reading alone in her room.
The man finished watching the scene and with a gesture closed the window. He sat staring thoughtfully into the flames infront of him, trying to figure out everything he had planned.
A/N; Well this is the first chapter of the re-write. I hope you liked it better than the original. Sorry it took so long but life has a habit of, when you think things are calm, turning everything topsy turvy. I can't say when the next post is but hopefully when University starts I'll get bored in class and start writing more ideas lol Thanks for your support and take care.