Chapter 2 - Meeting the Mauradettes
They came to the end of the hall, and took a left. The only options were the stairs leading up or down. There were three girls sitting on the stair leading up. The girl seated the lowest had curly light brown hair, glasses and the cutest vacant expression on her face. The girl seated behind her had long curly blond hair, with a stripped red and white head band. The third had short straight mousy brown hair. They all smiled when they saw Cat appear.
"Hey lovely's." Cat greeted her best friends.
"Hey" They all said in unison back.
"Who's the hottie behind you." The girl with the long blond hair said.
"Break me off a piece of that!" exclaimed the short curly haired girl.
"Chelsea!" Cat said a little embarrassed. He was cute, she thought. Shaking her head she ignored Chelsea's comment.
"Drake."She said turning her attention to him. " Theses are my friends, Chelsea," The short curly haired girl gave a flirtatious wave then winked, Cat rolled her eyes and went on. "Kaitlyn." The girl with the long curly hair smiled and said hello. "And that's Danica, or Dani, as we like to call her. Dani gave a tired salute.
Drake stood beside Cat, he gave a wave, but stopped when he noticed Chelsea smiling evilly at him.
A bell rang, which ended their little meet and greet. The girls got up, grabbed their bags which had been hidden behind Dani. Kaitlyn and Chelsea started their way down the stairs.
They had History of Magic in the basement with MacDonally.
"Buh bye." Chelsea waved to them.
"Later" she said back to them. She grabbed the side of Drake's arm and pulled him with her as she went up the stairs. She stopped to pick up her bag and vest.
"Umm What's with Drake." Dani whispered making sure he couldn't hear.
Cat rolled her eyes, "Lajoie."She said. Dani nodded in understanding. They had a love / hate relationship with their Headmistress. Ever since first year when she and mauradettes exploded the bathroom toilets with cherry bombs. It had seemed as though the headmistress got more joy out of picking on Cat than her friends. Probably because of the truth or dare incident in third year. "She told me he was an exchange student from England and to help show him around."
"Well that's not too bad." Dani said.
"He's in all of my classes." She whispered angrily. "Its like he's her new way of making sure I'm kept out of trouble."
"Well at least he's cute." Dani smiled. They reached the top floor, all the wall space on this floor was covered with pictures. They walked down that hall and turned left into their class.
"This sucks." She muttered to Dani. Dani knew of Cat's irritation of most people. Cat preferred to either be with her friends or alone, she had never been very sociable.
They walked into the class desks were in twos, students had filled in most of them by the time they got there. Professor Vanmeir stood facing the chalk board which was writing down their latest assignment.
"Late again." Vanmeir said. Cat was always late for this class.
"Well today I have a reason." She smirked pulling Drake to the front of the class. She left him there and went to go sit in the back corner near the windows. Dani sat on the opposite side of the room.
The teacher looked at Cat and Drake confused.
"New student." Cat said with attitude. "Maybe Lajoie told you."
"Yes, yes, now I remember." He turned to Drake. " It's a good thing you only came two weeks into the school year. I'm sure your new friend, and partner for this class will help you catch up."
Cat turned away from the window to the teacher. Her eyes wide open. "What?"she exclaimed.
"Well in this class we do a lot of partner work."
"Then give me back Dani, and get Drake to work with Erikka."
"Not going to happen." Vanmeir said. "You both get nothing done, and Danica is a very bright student I don't want you to infect her learning abilities anymore than you already have."
Cat's jaw dropped out of shock, of what the teacher had said. "I do not affect her learning abilities."
Ignoring her the professor went on. "Since you are the only one without a partner, Drake will be yours."
"What is everyone against me today?" Cat said folding her arms in her chest.
"We already had this conversation before." Vanmeir said. He took a deep breath, turning to Drake he asked. "So what is you name." He said.
"Drake Moon." he answered.
"More like hottie of the moon." A girl in the front said sarcastically. The class laughed, even Cat gave a little side smirk.
Cat turned to look at Drake. He had magnificent blue eyes, silky lose blond hair, and pale skin. He almost looked like he could be from the moon. So beautiful, she caught herself thinking.
Drake turned and saw that she was staring at him. He smiled lightly at her. This only made him look more gorgeous. She could feel her cheeks going red. She quickly looked down at her desk, trying to hide her ever more blushing.
"Now take your seat beside Cat and we will begin the lesson." Vanmeir said.
Drake sat inches away from her. He smelled sweetly of ocean roses. She turned over to look out the window, trying to avoid his gaze. The September sun made the silver trees glow a beautiful gold. The silver leaves still hadn't change to a light blue yet. The school had originally been built here to protect theses trees and their dying population. The trees contained magical properties that were valuable to the magical world. Catherine loved their beauty. Its no wonder people used to cut them down greedily.