Chapter forty nine - The First Day of School
Faith ran through the front office of Tottem Middle School at a fast pace to get to class on time.
"Hey Faith! Your late again," said Ellen, one the front office ladies.
"I know, I know!" yelled out Faith as she passed by the front desk.
"You can't keep this up. You'll get a red letter sent home," yelled out Ellen hoping Faith had heard her.
The front office ladies were lovely, kind and caring people. They watched over the students in the school and tried to help them out as best they could.
When Faith got to her classroom the door was open and she walked in to find her English class in discussion mode about something but no teacher was in sight.
"We know high school people. I bet you don't know high school people," said Natalie.
"Yeah we know high school people so there," added Lulu.
"So what. Everyone knows high school people," said Jezza.
"You know high school people?" asked Natalie surprised by what she just heard.
"Yes we do know high school people so just except that fact that we are just as good as you."
"We are no way just as good as you. We are better," said Lulu.
"Besides Jezza your brother doesn't count as you knowing someone from high school since you're his sister," said Natalie.
"We still know high school people," said Craig who joined in on the conversation.
"Get out. Your telling me people like you know high school guys? Are they like your cousins or something?" asked Lulu.
"Oh I bet Lulu that they don't know 'the new guy'."
"Yeah they wouldn't know 'the new guy' for sure."
Faith walks further into the classroom and has her word, "Oh yeah. We know the guy that is new." As Faith finishes her sentence she sits down in a seat next to Jezza.
The conversation then dies down as their teacher comes back into the room.
"Oh I see Faith has joined our lesson late again," said Mr. Cowie. Mr. Cowie then continued speaking, "Today we will start our poetry topic so I want some nice title pages to start off the topic and then we will start writing our first poems about ourselves."
After the first two classes of the day had finished, it was recess time and Faith quickly rushed off to the library without telling her friends where she was going.
Roxie and Jezza stood in the school hallway outside their English classroom.
"Where did Craig go?"
"Good question Roxie. Also I wonder where Faith went. They both just took off really quick after class. Do you wanna go look for them?"
"Okay. I'll go to the library first."
"I'll look near the canteen and then if we find them we bring them back to the spot where we sit."
"Alright then I'm gonna go to the library."
"Okay. See ya soon then."
"Yep."
Roxie and Jezza then headed off in their different directions looking for their friends.
Meanwhile Faith was situated on the left side of the library in the middle looking through the myth, magic and fairy tale books section. This was going to be the only place in the library she could possibly be able to find a book with the same symbol from her dream.
Over on the other side of the library Craig was at the computers searching for books with titles relating to vampires.
Roxie walked into the library rather loudly and she got told off by some people to keep the noise down. Roxie wasn't used to being in libraries since she never went to them much except for the odd project here and there.
Roxie started walking down some of the rows of books not knowing exactly where to look. She first walked into a row of books about rainforests and there was no sign of her friends there.
After she walked through a number of different other rows of books she still had no luck with finding her friends.
She walked up the small set of stairs to the next level of the library and Roxie thought she may have seen someone familiar. She walked over to the table they were sitting at and peered over their shoulder. They were sticking in some picture into a scrapbook type thing. Roxie sat down in front of the person.
"Don't tell me you believe all that supernatural crap?"
"It's not crap Roxie. You don't know a thing about it," said Craig as he stuck in something else.
"Well the truth is it is rubbish. None of it is true. It's all just myths and make believe stuff."
"Well then how can you explain the other night with Faith?"
"I can't but I'm working on it. Just give me time. I'll prove you whose right."
"Don't waste your time Roxie on proving that what we saw wasn't the pure truth because it is but obviously it's gonna take a while before you actually believe."
"Whatever. You know you never believed in the supernatural until now, until Faith told you about the vampire stuff. In my opinion you're too caught up in this supernatural crap because of Faith."
"In my opinion you're jealous."
"I don't want your opinion."
"Did you ever think about if I wanted yours?"
Roxie got up from her seat and walked out of the library full of anger.
Faith had overheard the conversation from behind a bookcase. She didn't mean to eavesdrop but she just happened to be there at the same time.
She noticed Craig get up from the table and walk over to the computers to look something up. Faith quickly ran over to the table he had left his scrapbook at and noticed that the information in it was mainly about vampires and their origin, myths etc. Faith only got a chance to have a quick look because Craig would be coming back soon and she didn't want to get caught looking at his scrapbook.
Faith wasn't too worried about what she saw in Craig's book. She wasn't afraid of this being a bad thing she just thought that maybe Craig had a few questions after the other night and he was looking for the answers and this would all be finished with in a week or two.
