Okay!! So, here is chapter four. Many thanks to my readers and reviewers. You guys keep me going! You are my energizer bunnies! Okay, enough of the metaphors. This story sort of makes me think of Harry Potter, but I sware I'm not going to go Harry Potter in Life with Derek form on you guys! But enough of my jibjab, on with the story! Woooooot!
Disclaimer: I do not own Life with Derek. Darn. I do own this plot. Yay!
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Anna, the rest of the group, and I went through another door that was identical to that one and entered a room that looked just about the same. Except the teacher was a woman with really frizzy, black hair. And on the board, 'mind controlling' was written in big letters.
"Okay, class. Do we have anyone new here today?" Does every single person ask this? Gosh.
I raised my hand once again, waiting for her to do something that related to mind controlling. But what did I know about mind controlling? Nothing if what was in the movies was completely false. Which, most likely it was.
"Aaaa, yes, Casey, correct? Mind reading isn't my major but I'm pretty good at it and your name is Casey, right? Or that's what people call you." She smiled at me and nodded at her.
"Yes, I'm Casey," I replied. I wonder how many time I would need to say that today.
Randomly, a boy screamed, "The puma in my bathtub stole all my squishy pomegranates!" I stared at him then realized that maybe it wasn't so random. I looked at the teacher and raised one of my eyebrows. Well, this I could get use to. That was pretty funny.
The boy scowled at the teacher as the kids sitting around him laughed.
"I am Mrs. Finia and welcome," The teacher smiled.
"Thank you, Mrs. Finia," I smiled back.
The teacher started in on a long lecture and I took notes like last time. She showed some examples of her superior mind controlling.
"I'm in love with my step-sister!" Derek shouted from beside me. I stared at him, shocked.
"Whaaa?" My eyes nearly fell out of my head.
"She made me say it! I sware!" Derek whispered back to me.
I looked up at the teacher, she was giggling to herself, obviously having fun messing with her own students.
"My simian appearence was maternally inherited!" A boy yelled and blushed as the whole class bursted out laughing.
I smiled. I could really get used to this.
"There is macaroni and cheese in my underpants!" A girl yelled through out the classroom. Was the class always like this? Or was the teacher doing this because she wanted to show off her skills in front of her new student? Which happened to be me.
"I'm in love with my step-brother!" I practically shrieked across the room. Then my mouth dropped open and I snapped it shut. I glared evilly at the Mrs. Finia. I am not going to like her as well as I thought.
Derek smirked at me. I gave him a glare and whispered, "She made me say it!" And I turned back to glare at the teacher.
After the little examples, she continued on with her lecturing. So, I naturally continued on with taking notes to study later.
One thing I think that I'll not like about this place: Lots of people can read minds here. I need to watch what I think when I'm in class or near a teacher or some other important person.
I jumped again at the sound of the loud bell echoing off the walls of the classroom. Hopefully, by the end of the day I'll stop jumping.
I shoved the notebook of notes into my black messenger bag and followed Anna out the door. I followed her back to the mess hall. It was obviously time for lunch. I sat down with Anna, Derek, Shane, and Layla in the same spot we sat in that morning.
"Oh, you don't have to sit with me! Go sit by Derek. I know you want to," Anna wiggled her eyebrows at me. Yeah, I did want to but does that mean I would let Derek know that? Hell no!
"That's okay. I'm fine where I'm at," I said, smirking at Derek.
"Ohhhh, I get it. You guys would rather look at each other, huh?" She elbowed me in the ribs. Well, it's not bad looking at Derek. Actually, it's quite nice now that I think about it. But, I need to stop thinking about it! I mentally smacked myself.
"Yeah, of course, Anna. You're right," I smiled at Anna.
"So, what was with the yelling in Mrs. Finia's class, you guys?" Anna looked back in forth between Derek and I.
"Oh, it was nothing," I said, pasting as fake smile on my face and waving my hand at her. I looked away from her and groaned quietly.
"Attention everyone! Lunch is starting now, so please enjoy your food!" Does the Headmistress always do that? It's kind of odd and really peppy.
We ate silently again. It was odd considering that back in Toronto, lunch was hardly ever quiet. Well, it wasn't completely quiet, there was still that buzzing of whispers echoing off the walls, but I mean it was quiet amongst the five of us.
I was happy it was Friday, that means I can get used to the school over the weekend and maybe I'll even get to study a little. But, Anna said something about explaining something later. Hmmm.
I sighed, done with my food and content with what I had eaten.
The loud bell rang once again and surprisingly I didn't jump this time.
I followed Anna and the rest of group one to our next class. I don't think any of the classes are similar to any of the classes back in Toronto because when I walked into this class, on the board, written in big letters was 'Controlling the body'.
A short, dark-haired man was at the front of the room. I prayed that he wouldn't make me jump up and run around like a chicken whose neck had been cut off.
He asked the same general questions as the other teachers had. And I answered them just the same.
I scribbled down my notes of Mr. Matthew's lecture and wondered if the other stories of the wanderers were true. The stories about select wanderers were more advanced. As in, they had other powers, I guess you could call it that. I wonder if that story was true and if it was, was there anyone here that was apart of those select wanderers?
It'd be pretty cool to see if anyone was one of those select wanderers from the stories. But, according to the stories, the powers all had to do with the mind. Or was controlled by the mind, or something like that. My memory was a little fuzzy of all of those stories.
I, again, didn't jump when the bell sounded, telling us to get our butts on to the next class that we had. I wonder what that class was. How to turn coal into gold? Now, that would be even more interesting and pretty darn useful.
Surprisingly, the next class was something that I was actually familiar with: History. I just hope that they're not going to tell us that Area 51 is real and crop circles are indeed made by aliens.
I took a seat in the same position as the last 3 classes. Between Derek and Anna-Molly. I smiled at the teacher. Now, this was something I knew: History. I was always good at History.
The teacher was a really tall woman with blonde hair that looked identical to Layla's. Actually, now that I look closer at her, she looks exactly like Layla or Layla looks exactly like her.
"That's Layla's mom. I can tell by your face that you're thinking that Layla looks exactly like her. Well, there's a genetic reason for that," I nodded at Anna as she whispered the information in my ear.
Hmmm, rather interesting. Layla's mom works here? And she teaches history? Quite awesome from my perspective but I bet Layla didn't like it so much.
"Hello, Cassandra McDonald, welcome. I'm Mrs. Stevens," Well, she gets straight to the point. She didn't even ask me who I was, just said 'Hey! Cassandra, darling! Welcome, baby!', or something like that and minus the Chicago accent.
"Thank you, Mrs. Stevens," I smiled and nodded at Layla's mother.
She went into a lecture of why history was important for us. Gosh, what was with these teachers and lectures? I shook my head trying to clear my thoughts so they won't be read and I started taking notes on the lecture.
It was actually rather boring and I wondered why there weren't any people sleeping. Well, actually that makes sense. Mrs. Stevens would probably start controlling their body or something else that is strange like that.
The time flew by meraculously and the final bell rang. Four classes, huh? Not much. But, they do keep you on your toes.
I followed Anna out to the courtyard, finally seperating from most of the people from group one.
"So, what did you think?" Anna asked me as we sat down at a circular table.
"Of what?" I asked her.
"The classes, the teachers, anything else..." She said, making all these hand motions.
"Oh, Mr. G is pretty funny. I don't think I will get use to Mrs. Finia making people shout out random things. Mr. Matthew seems really quiet and strict. Layla's mom was pretty cool and she looked so young, too." I rambled on about the teachers.
"Well, I think you've got a good grasp on the teachers," She chuckled lightly.
"I hope so!" I said, laughing along with her.
"Okay, so what do you want to do this weekend?" She said, still smiling but she stopped laughing.
"I don't know, go see a movie?!" I asked joyfully.
"Can't leave the grounds. Not allowed to," She said with a sad expression on her face. My face dropped, too. What are suppose to do then? Run around the grounds shouting 'I have ants in my pants!'? I don't think so.
"What the heck are we supposed to do, then?" Seriously, 'cause I was lost at finding anything to do.
"We, have a library here. And a t.v. and a computer. They also have a skating rink, it's on the other side of the main building. We could go skating," Anna suggested. Which it did sound like fun and the Headmistress never mentioned a skating rink.
"Skating rink? I didn't see that on the 'grand tour around the grounds'." I said, causing us both to laugh.
"Yeah, they rarely speak of the fun things to do around here once you first come."
"I see. So, when's dinner?" I asked just so I would know, I wasn't really hungry.
"Ohh, in about 2 hours."
"Cool, until then, where's the library?" We chuckled.
"Come on. Follow me." She lead into the direction of the library. I wonder how big it is. Probably huge, considering that the rest of the school seemed to be as big as Japan, which was appoximately the size of the state California in the United States of America.
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Okay, well, I'm going to leave off here. This chapter was pretty boring. But, I mean, come on people, she's just settling in, okay? I'll have the next chapter up soon. But, until then, please, please, please review!! Thank you!