Chapter 4: The Break.
Just as the rest of the class had dismissed, Kowalski walked up to Skipper, his expression anxious and disconcerted. Skipper was supporting his back against the wall and enjoying his sandwich. He seemed to be bored out of his wits.
"Well, how did you like our first lesson, Skippa?" asked Kowalski, biting the end of his gel ballpoint nervously.
Skipper shrugged his arms uninterestingly.
"I spaced out at the very beginning of it so I can't truly tell" he replied, before taking another bite of the sandwich.
"Mr Snowhill rejects some of my theories I've been working on for nearly a month!" said Kowalski, grudge and sadness ringing in his voice. "I wonder If there's any way I could convince him".
"Sure, you can, smarty guy!" they heard someone's female voice, echoing behind.
Kowalski jumped up in surprise and turned his head back.
Tracey and Cassie were having a peaceful stroll across the corridor. Tracey was clutching Cassie's arm: she had a vanilla lollipop in her free flipper.
"I'm pretty sure you can make it!" added Cassie, and winked to the tallest penguin. Meanwhile Tracey had her eyes stuck on Rico, who was surrounded by his new classmate's and babbling about his dynamite fetish.
Skipper sneered, thrust the last piece of the sandwich in his beak and picked up his rucksack from the floor.
"I'm not staying here any longer, Kowalski" he exclaimed, ignoring Cassie's and Tracey's giggle.
"What.. da.. what.. you want to quit, right now?" said Kowalski half-consciously. He didn't really pay much attention to what Skipper was saying because he had his eyes fixed on Cassie, his face covered in a violent blush.
"Tell Mr Snowhill I got a sudden attack of fever or something" said Skipper, while making his way towards the stairs.
"Okay, Skipper" said Kowalski, without even turning his head in Skipper's direction.
"Honestly, Kowalski, where did you get to know all these stuff?" asked Cassie, watching over the tallest penguins with her deep blue eyes.
"Erm… I've always had a thing for geography and Science.. you know" uttered Kowalski, digging the floor with his foot.
"You seem to be really wise and inquisitive of the world" said Cassie.
"Will you excuse me, Cassie" muttered Tracey. Cassie nodded and released Tracey from her grip. Tracey waddled up towards the group of her class-mates, her eyes still fixed on Rico.
Rico spotted a penguin girl waddling towards his direction and gulped loudly. It was Tracey! Her eyes had a color of a red-eyed tree frog's skin, and her hair was very long and soft and she had those wispy bangs falling on her face.
"Can I join?" she asked, turning her eyes at the second tallest penguin.
Rico blushed violently and nodded his head with alacrity.
"Boo!" Skipper jumped from behind the bushes and grabbed Marlene by arms. Marlene let out a short shriek and gripped her breast.
"Skipper!" she said, watching at her friend in surprise. "Aren't you supposed to be at school?"
"Nah, I've scrammed" smiled Skipper. "I want to spend the rest of the day with you. Here you are" he offered her a couple of candies. "They've been distributing those for the first day of our course."
Marlene smiled and took one of the candies.
"So, where shall we go?" asked Skipper, embracing Marlene by arm. "How about a stroll to the park?"
