Chapter 10
Jack hurried to his locker to get away from Aster and to get there before Elsa so that he could wait for her. He caught her slowly walking with the other girls, so he quickly got into his locker and grabbed his pencil case and planner for Performing Arts. He closed his locker and Elsa was hiding behind the door with her stuff.
"You got into your locker before me but I still finish before you. How is that possible?" Elsa asked.
"No need to brag, Snowflake. It won't get you anywhere in life!" Jack answered.
They walked to the classroom and took their shoes off and sat in a circle with the other year elevens. Mrs MK walked in, barefoot, and sat down with her laptop.
"Okay guys and girls. We are starting our first topic today. Can anybody tell me how to pronounce that word on the board?" she said.
Jack looked up and saw the word. Tableaux. Tableaux. Oh how Jack hated that word. He opened his mouth to speak but Elsa bet him to it.
"Tableaux. Pronounced Tab-low."
"Correct. Here, catch. Now, can you tell me what it is?" she informed.
"Tableaux is a still picture, or scene, created by humans on stage for entertainment purposes!" Elsa said.
Mrs MK nodded and tossed Elsa another Milky Way, which she caught, and then proceeded to stuff both into her mouth. Everyone stared at her and she just shrugged. Mrs MK divided the class into four groups and gave the class a theme for the tableaux, the beach. Jack's group did a shark attack and when the groups presented, everyone had the same idea. It went like that for the entire lesson. The teacher would give them a topic and the class had to think of a tableaux in groups and present them. About fifteen minutes left of he lesson, Mrs MK sat the class down and let them ask her questions about her life. The class asked random questions like "what video games do you play?" and "what consoles do you have?" The bell went and the class got their shoes on and walked to their lockers. Jack walked with Elsa and nudged her with his elbow. He put his school bag on the ground and pulled out his homework and started.
"So, got any plans for tonight?" Jack asked.
"Yeah, I'm catching up with the girls. Why?" Elsa replied.
"Just wondering. You have my number. Call me if you need me," Jack said.
Elsa looked up at him and smirked. She continued walking and left Jack behind. He hurried after her and saw her bodyguard. He looked different, somehow. Jack blinked a couple of times. He kept moving and tried to ignore the bodyguard but some sixth sense told Jack that the bodyguard was glaring at him, as if he knew what had happened to Jack and what he was told to do. He got in his locker and once again, Elsa was waiting for him.
"What took you so long?" she asked.
"You're bodyguard looks different. Also, I think he was glaring at me before. Like, intensely glaring at me!" Jack answered.
"That's just you. Anyway, I promise that I will call you when I get home tonight," Elsa promised.
"Why would you need to call me when you get home?" he inquired, confused.
"So that you know that I am safe!" she replied.
Jack nodded and watched Elsa walk off towards her bodyguard. He turned away and meandered towards the bike shed and got his bike out. He put his helmet on and rode home. As usual, Pippa was waiting for him in the back yard.
"Hurry up. Mum is waiting to talk to you!" Pippa informed.
"Am I in trouble?" Jack asked.
"It depends on how you define trouble but yeah, probably!"
Jack put his bike away and made his way inside.
"Whatever you think I did, I didn't do it!" Jack yelled quickly.
"You're not in trouble, yet. Just sit down," she said.
"Oh, thank the gods. Why do you want to talk?" he questioned.
"You left your phone home today. Somebody called you and when I asked who it was, they hung up. Do you know who it was?" she responded.
"How am I supposed to know if I haven't seen the number yet?" Jack asked.
His mum held out his phone and Jack pulled up the call log. That's bad. Why would they ring if they know I'm at school? He had a deep breath and looked his mum in the eye.
"I don't know who that was!" Jack lied.
"Really. Scroll down. That number has rung several times!" she snarled.
Jack did as he was told and yes, his mum was right. His kidnappers had rung him several times.
"What do you make of that?" she asked.
"Persistent. Don't worry though, Mum. I rung up when they tried saying that my computer has a virus," he lied again.
"Really? They tried telling me to hurry up and do something!" his mum said.
"Yeah, hurry up and let us fix the virus on your computer. You know that they hack into the computer to steal information, right?" Jack argued.
"Fine. If that number rings again, I'm reporting them to the cops!" she shouted as Jack ran to his room.
Jack quickly called them.
What do you want?
"You need to stop calling me. Mum answered before and she just said if you keep ringing she will get the police!" Jack whispered.
Okay. How's it going with Elsa?
"Pretty good. I think that she trusts me!"
Okay.
Jack heard the phone stop and Jack quickly went into his call log.
His phone rung and he answered it. It was his kidnappers again.
Okay, new plan. Save this number and call it Fred!
The phone hung up again and Jack saved the number and called it Fred.