Chapter 7
"I reckon you guys should go to school!" Mom said. Song, Evie, Twitch and Freeman looked up in fear. "She means a place where humans go to learn stuff. No torture. Apart from lessons." I said. Their faces calmed down then. "Go on! Let them give it a try." Mom encouraged. I knew that Nudge loved school and Twitch was all brains. The younger ones looked interested and Iggy nodded. "But you know what happened last time. It was a lucky escape." I said. Gazzy and Angel started to think. Nudge still looked like a puppy with a treat dangling in front of her face.. "Please! Please, Max! Please!" she begged. "What's it like?" I asked. "The school is full of humans your ages and the teacher's are normal. Kasey Strong's mother works there. I've checked the history of each teacher and it looks pretty clean from Mr. Chu's followers." Jeb said. I turned to the flock. "Who wants' to go to school?" I asked. Nudge's hand flew straight up. Angel and Gazzy raised their arms. Twitch and Freeman along with Evie decided school. Iggy and Dylan wanted to go. And Song. Fang's arm stuck to his side. "Right. How about we let those who want to go to school to school and me and Fang will stay here and watch the house?" I said. "You and Fang need you're education too, Max." Jeb said. "Look. Me and Fang don't want to go. It's safer if we stayed here to watch the house." I said. "What if something happens at school for them lot? Where are you going to be?" Jeb asked. I looked at everybody. They still hand their hands up. Fang just looked at me. "It is safer for everyone if we did go but who will watch the house?" I asked. " The house doesn't need watching, Max. My friend had this deceive put in. Whenever someone tries to break in, this remote will go off. Then you can disappear between lessons or whatever." Mom explained and handed me the remote. I looked at it for a while. Then I looked at Fang. He put his hand in the air. I didn't want to but it's about time I put the flocks need of education before my dislike for school. Did I just say that? Oh God, I'm growing up! "Fine! We'll go to school." I said and everyone cheered. Apart from me and Fang. We just smiled.
Its official. We're going to school next week. We got our stuff. Evie and Angel have matching pink bags with little red flowers on it. Iggy has an all white bag. Gazzy has a white bag with little bombs patterned on it. Dylan has a black sports bag. Song had a red bag with a large skull on it and Fang had a black bag with little repeated jolly rogers. Nudge wanted a bright pink bag with loads of black and white hearts on it. Twitch had a blue bag with 'animal' written in blocks. Freeman had a camouflage bag. Me? I had a bag like Songs but all black. Pretty emo, right? All had matching pencil cases. Stationary as normal. Each gets ten bucks for lunch a week. Worst part? We got uniforms! What type of school in America has school uniforms? Apparently, West School High does. The youngest four don't have to. Lucky things. The uniform sucks. It's a light blue blouse, navy jumper with school badge, navy trousers or skirt, black socks or tights, school shoes for girls and for guys, it's the same just grey trousers. Both where this disgusting maroon tie with navy and yellow stripes. Erlack!
Everyone is in bed apart from Song and Dylan. Fang wasn't feeling well. Maybe he's just trying to get out of school. Iggy was tired. Dylan and Song are playing Uno. I squished up to Mom. "Can I tell you something?" I asked quietly. "Sure. What is it?" she asked quietly. Thank God she didn't shout it. She kept on reading her magazine. "Fang was looking at baby stuff on the computer the other day." I whispered. Her eyes went wide and he jaw dropped as long as a hot dog. "Are you serious? You're only fifteen!" She whispered back. "I know but I kind of asked him if he wanted kids and he said yeah. I asked him not yet but maybe in a year or two." I replied. She didn't say anything. "You got to talk to him about this, Max." she whispered. "I will. I will but not yet. Maybe tomorrow. "You better. But still, honey, you have kids when you want to." she said. My mom can be supportive. "I'm off to bed." Dylan announced. Mom left then. So it was just me and Song. The Red Head. "Hey. Can I talk to you?" she asked. I nodded. "What do you do when you fancy someone?" she asked. She looked nervous. "Um. Ask them out?" I said hopefully. She smiled. "Thanks." she thanked. "Who's the guy?" I asked. She looked around then leaned in. "Dylan." she whispered. Oh. My. God. Dylan? "He's all yours honey and if he breaks your heart, he's got me to deal with." I said. Did I sound like my mom? Song giggled. "Thanks. He's cute and sweet so fingers crossed. I'll ask him out soon." and then she winked. "Off to bed?" I asked. She nodded.
Next week.
We all sat around the breakfast table, pretty tired, eating our lovely breakfast of toast and whatever we wanted on it. Then we dressed and got ready to go to school. As we walked out of the door in out awful uniforms and awesome rucksacks, I spotted Kasey and some tall guy, both wearing our uniform. "Hey!" I called to her. She waved back and crossed the road with the tall guy. "Morning Jayne. This is my brother, Henry." she introduced. "Hi. I'm Jayne and this is my boyfriend, Lucas." I said and smiled. He didn't smile back. We kept on walking until we got to middle school for Gazzy, Freeman, Evie and Angel. My visited the head and she seemed nice. Gazzy and Evie are in the same class and Freeman and Angel are in the same class as well. Then we walked over to High School. I think I'm going to be sick. We said bye to Kasey and her brother and head off to the head's. I knocked on the door and this gruffly voice told us to "enter" and we did. The head is some plumy guy with a greasy moustache and no hair and smokes a lot of cigars. "You must be Jayne Smith. Please sit down." he said. Me, Fang and Song sat down on the three chairs and the rest stood up. I'm Mr. Kidman and I will be your principle until you leave this school and leave into the world as adults." and then he went into a long speech. Nudge and Twitch were in some Mrs. Greaves for registration. Me, Fang, Dylan, Iggy and Song were in Mr. James for registration. So we all went off to classes with our timetables in our hands.
Maths first. NO! I knocked on the door and some flat voice told us to come in. We did. The teacher looked like a dolphin. Long nose and no hair with beady eyes and a big mouth. "You must be the new students. Please take a seat." he said. There were desks spare in the front. Great. Not. I sat in the corner by the window next to Fang. Song and Dylan sat next to each other and Iggy sat by himself on the far right desk. The teacher, Mr. Newman, gave us books and asked Iggy where his helper was. He looked shocked when Iggy said he didn't need one. We started maths and it was boring. One hour of doing sums. I was glad when the bell went. I jumped out of my seat and sprinted out the door. Geography next. Now you'd think use bird kids would be good at Geography but were are not. We have a good sense of direction. That's all. After an hour of sitting through learning the flags of the world, break came. We met up with Nudge and Twitch who seemed to be having a good time. "Science was awesome. Wait till you get to cut open a frog." Twitch said. "Gross." I joked. We saw Kasey. "Hey guys." she said. "Hi." I said. "Are you guys going to the carnival tomorrow?" she asked. Nudge perked up. "What carnival?" she asked. Kasey handed us a flyer with a pictures of rides and games on it. "On Thursday. At five to eleven. You going?" Kasey asked. "Maybe. It'll be nice to get out." I said. Her face lit up. "Can I come with you? I don't want to go alone." she said. I looked at everyone and nodded. Kasey really jumped for joy. "Thank you! Will I met you there or should I come over to your place at some time?" she asked. "You might want to come over. I don't know where it is." I said. Kasey nodded then we went back to class. Double History. This is the worst day of my life. We sat through Romans and Celts. For two hours. Two hours! Lunch was the bomb. Not like Iggy's cooking but it was something. I love Italian food. Pasta rocks! "Maybe I'll cook pizza tonight." Iggy said. "I'm grinning, Iggy." I said. When lunch was over, we had Gym. The best lesson ever! Me and Song and Kasey went in a group and came up with this act using jumps, rolls, using the equipment and shapes. We had good marks, thank god. I like Gym. We ran out the gates when the bell went. We waited for the boys and Nudge then walked down to pick up the other four.
We got to the gates and Freeman was standing next to his teacher. Ohgodohgodohgod. I put on my best innocent smile and asked "What's up?" "May I talk to your parents, miss?" she asked. Miss? "Sorry. Our parents sleep all day and work all night to put bred on the table. They're asleep, sorry. What happened?" I asked. "Jack disappeared this morning and didn't come back until last lesson. He refuses o tell us how he got out or why." the teacher explained. I looked at Freeman. There was no rips in his clothes so he didn't fly. He must have blended into the background. "Sorry but Jack is very good at hiding so he might have not have left the building." I lied. I turned to Freeman. "What happened?" I asked. "Some guys were picking on me so I ran away and hid in a cupboard." he said. Maybe he was telling the truth or was lying. "I'm sorry about this. It won't happen again." I said and then grabbed Freeman's hand and everyone followed us before the teacher could say another word.
"Were there really boys teasing you?" I asked. Freeman nodded. "They said I was weird cause I dress differently." he said. He was wearing anything weird just his kaki clothes. "Don't listen to them. Bullies are cowards. Next time, tell the teacher. Don't use your abilities. Okay?" I said. Freeman nodded. At home, I told the others that we were going to the carnival. They cheered and we had pizza that night. We then changed into our flying clothes then went air borne. We flew to the E house and practised diving. We then did scatter patterns and practised fighting in the air. Freeman is a pretty good fighter. Dylan knocked out Twitch but Nudge got slightly made and did an behind the back kick. We went in pairs. Me and Fang, Song and Dylan, Twitch and Nudge, Iggy and Gasman, Angel and Freeman. Evie sat this one out because she hurt her ankle when she kicked Freeman in the ribs. She decided when to tell us when to start and stop. "Go!" she yelled.
I sprang and Fang who dived out of the way and then came back up and grabbed my leg. I struggled and used my other legs to hit his chest. He let go and I dived and flew straight. Fang pounced on my back and I turned belly up and flapped my wings to knock Fang off. He fell the snapped open his wings and fled up. I dived and head butted him. That hurt! I punched him but he blocked it and then went for my jaw. That hurt. I kicked his stomach and twirl-kicked him in his jaw. That has got to hurt. He then went for my legs but I pulled away and karate chopped his back, right between the wings. Fang yelled out then grabbed my knees and did the head banger like on ice skating. He let go and I got dizzy. He had enough time to punch me in my face. Ouch. I kicked him in the ribs then grabbed his arm and twisted it. "That's foul play!" he said. "So?" I said and then did the head banger to him just using one arm. I let go then I punched him in the face. Ha. I blocked a few punches then grabbed his arms, separated them then kneed him in the stomach. Then he head butted my stomach then I kicked him where it hurts. Woops. "Stop!" Evie yelled.
Fang was panting but smiling. We did good. Nudge had a bleeding nose and Dylan was rubbing his shoulder. "How did we do?" I asked Evie and she gave me the thumbs up. We all were smiling and Twitch somehow fixed Nudge's nose. "Have you got healing powers?" I asked Twitch. "Nope. But I think I can fix broken bones." he answered. Cool. "We did great guys. Let's go home." I said and we flew back to our home.
That was awesome. Hello Max. Oh. Voice. What do you want. Look through the window at Kasey's house. I did so. A guy I didn't recognise was looking out of the window, looking at my house. Why? Doesn't he seem familiar? Ah, nope. You'll find out soon.
Across the road
"How am I going to get them?" "They're going to the carnival on Thursday. You can get them then." "Good work."
Did some fighting please you? There's more coming up. Promise. R&R and take a cookie each, please!
