Chapter 11: Thinking with your heart
Lysander and Alicia had the whole thing planned out. Last time they'd kept it their secret, but this time the plan couldn't be successful unless they let Tancred in on it. He would play the biggest part in this. I'm sorry if this is sounding pathetically mysterious.
The plan was that Alicia would give Tancred the disc and he would give it to Emma and apologize. This would all happen Monday night. The whole school would be at the music department's musical. The teachers were always so preoccupied with the drama department, it wouldn't be hard to get them back together during the show.
Of course they had to get through the day first.
Surprisingly, it went pretty smoothly.
The only thing that was even mildly interesting was during the first few minutes of Art class. There was a girl in Alicia's class named Sylvia. Sylvia was always annoyingly happy. Alicia often thought Sylvia cared too much about everyone else. When Sylvia came over it didn't occur to her that no one, especially not Alicia, was interested in Dagbert's misfortune.
"Hello Alicia."
"What dreary story have you come with today?"
Ignoring the comment, Sylvia said "Did you know Dagbert's father died recently? It must be so sad."
Sylvia looked ready to tear up on account of this, not realizing that Dagbert was probably the one who murdered his father. But like I mentioned before Alicia was not the one to come with this story to.
"Sylvia, I don't care."
Sylvia's head snapped up sharply and she looked appalled. It was an even more pathetic look {In Alicia's opinion} because she had tears running down her cheeks.
"You don't care?? You don't care?! How can you not care?! Caring is thinking with your heart!"
Alicia was ready to laugh at how dumb that sounded. She could've gotten that line straight off the cover of a book at a therapist's office. Alicia was tempted to say, Oh, gag me. But that would provoke an argument. The only way to get Sylvia to go away and leave you alone was to make her think she'd offended you.
Alicia said in a hurt sounding\offended voice: "Are you trying to tell me I'm heartless?"
Sylvia's eyes grew at least four times bigger than normal. If possible, she looked appalled at herself. She started to back away apologizing about a thousand times.
Once she was gone Alicia turned towards Lysander, who was trying and failing, to hide his laughter. Alicia had no doubt that he'd given Sylvia that corny line.
After Art Class…
Alicia couldn't help noticing that nothing at Bloor's Academy ever changed. That's probably what made her do what she did. Although she was known for acting upon impulse. Right before the concert she hung a sing above each of the coat rooms.
Above the music coat room she hung a sign that said in blue marker: Sing like everybody on Earth is deaf
Above the art student's coat room the sign, which was in green paint said: Draw like it's all you know how to do
She decided that the one over the coat room belonging to the drama department had to be special. So on a white sheet of paper she'd written Act like nobody's watching in black block letters. She'd then colored in the rest of the paper in rainbow colors. She'd colored in the block letters purple.
Sure it wasn't all that original, but it left her feeling like a genius for a good twenty minutes.
Sorry I haven't updated in so long! This was sort of like a filler chapter. I kind of wanted you to get a look at what Alicia's everyday life at Bloors is like. Read and Review! Jenny Nimmo {pretty sure that's how it's spelled, I'll look later.} owns and wrote the books, I own and wrote this story.
