CHAPTER 2: SCHOOL BEGINS.
Monday, September 5th, 2006.
It was the first day of school and the girls had arrived in the classroom. At least, Valerie and Tejal were there. Kyra was always late to school, but with good reason. When she walked into the room, she was totally beautiful!
"Good morning Ms. McNasty," the class welcomed Vile in unison.
The students were treated like it was a public school from a bad horror film.
"You're late Finley. Don't even try to butter up to me, 'cause I can always see through your widdle schemes! MUAHAHAHA!!!!" Vile was in a good mood, so she didn't punish Kyra on the spot. But later added one strike to her permanent record.
"Good morning Mr. HappyDaisy!!" the students exclaimed happily as their principal walked into the room.
"Vile, take attendance. Would'ja?" said Mr. HappyDaisy coolly while being extra flirtatious.
'I can't believe he likes Vile,' Kyra had written on a note that she had planned to pass to Tejal.
Eliv, the teacher's pet or should I dare mention HER SON, yelled across the room, "Ms. McNasty! Ms. McNasty! Kyras passing notes!!!"
"Thank you Sugarplum!" Vile said sweetly, like she was a fairy tale princess rather than the evil witch.
Soon after the Eliv problem, Sheldon McDalkaf raised his hand and said, "Ms. McNasty, can I have a bathroom pass? I really need to go!"
Vile just smirked her evil smirk and said "No. You're just going to have to hold it. Only 5 more hours until recess, where you'll start building a shrine to my fabulous irreplaceable self and Eliv of course. He IS the most wonderful person on Earth, after me."
Everyone in the room groaned at Vile's last remark.
"That's one strike for each and everyone of you! Except Eliv of course. Oh, and by the way. I only allow 1 small cracker to be divided between all of you for lunch. Only the best students get to enjoy a quart of soda, 1 gallon of ice cream, and a pie with an additional pound of candy bars." Everyone looked at Eliv with disdain and he smiled sweetly with the same evil smirk.
AT RECESS
"When can we stop building this dumb shrine?" Kyra asked without thinking about the outcome of her question.
"THAT'S IT! 3 STRIKES! DETENTION!" screamed Vile maliciously.
"I wonder what detention is going to be like," Kyra thought to herself. Full of confusion, she asked Tejal to go see if Vile would tell her. She had no idea how much trouble they would be in once they reached the end of the day. After Tejal asked Vile, she got 3 strikes as well, and was meeting Kyra in detention.
When Vile told Tejal and Kyra to wait in the girl's bathroom for detention, they thought that she was going to bring Eliv to come mock them. Instead, they were surprised to see Mr. HappyDaisy enter the room.
"Timothy, or Timmy, as he wants to be called, will supervise your detention." Ms. McNasty paused for a moment, and then pushed them all into the out-of-order toilet stall, and into an open trapdoor. As they plummeted, she slammed the door and laughed manically. What she didn't know, was that Mr. HappyDaisy's shirt collar was caught on the locked trapdoor, hanging from the cave's ceiling.
TWO WEEKS LATER
"Very nice job on your test Valerie. You got one of the highest scores in the class, a B+," Vile said almost sweetly. With scores like that, she was allowed to join Eliv eating ice cream during lunch. After Valerie got her test back, she thought about where Tejal and Kyra had disappeared to. After moments of consultation, she finally decided that it was time to begin her search for her two good friends.
After Valerie gathered her books at the end of class, she set out to find Tejal and Kyra. She remembered that they last told her that they were going to have detention in the girl's bathroom; and she hadn't talked to them since. First, she got a bathroom pass; but didn't see any hiding spots there, so she checked the out-of-order toilet stall, which was forbidden from students and faculty.
When she entered, she gasped. In place of a real toilet, there was a CARDBOARD one! Valerie looked around and noticed a large knobby handle sticking out of the ground. Bursting at the seams with curiosity, she pulled open the trapdoor to reveal a large dungeon-like pit. She took her emergency flashlight out of her backpack and jumped down into the darkness. When she moved her flashlight across the room, she saw two people pacing back and forth around a business-like person hanging in the air. Soon she recognized Mr. HappyDaisy as the hanging one, and Kyra and Tejal as the pacing children.
"VALERIE!? What are you doing here?!" Kyra questioned why she would ever get detention. Being a straight 'A' student, Valerie was the last person you would expect to see in detention.
"I can't believe I'm stuck in here too now!" Valerie sighed in disbelief.
Being Tejal, she needed her daily dose of sarcasm. She decided to let it all out on Valerie. "OH COME ON VAL! KIKI AND I HAVE SURVIVED FOR ABOUT 2 WEEKS ON BREAD AND WATER. AND YOU NEARLY KILLED MR. HAPPYDAISY! ITS PEACHY-KEEN DOWN HERE IN A DUNGEON!!"
Kyra also needed to let it all out on someone. "Val, don't take it personally, but… you're an idiot not to have found us sooner! I mean HELLO! Connection here! Girl's bathroom, not here for two weeks… We haven't been on vacation here! NEWSFLASH! WE'RE IN A DUNGEON UNDERNEATH A SCHOOL!"
Valerie stood there with her mouth hanging open, but suddenly closed it as if a bug would fly in there at any moment.
Suddenly, a thud came from the ceiling. Someone had shut the trapdoor.