Something about the attitude

Chapter eight

Weeks passed fast and school had started. Aunt Sakura had signed me in the same school as her kids. Ryan would pick us every morning since Kaede and Evan were not making any progress at saving their money to fix Kaede's car. Master Syaoran demanded that Ryan should be the driver because he was the oldest. I really didn't care who drove us to school until I had the experience of what it was like for Ryan to be behind the wheel.

"SLOW DOWN" I yelled digging my nails deep in the leather of seat in front of me. "FOR GOD'S SAKE, RYAN. TAKE YOUR FOOT OFF THE GAS"

"This is just like a rollercoaster ride" Kari said as peaceful as she could as we flew through the street on our way to school. She was placing her hands on her lap and closing her eyes as if trying to push the reality we were living away "my life is guaranteed. I have my seatbelts on. So what could possibly go wrong?"

"Everything?" Evan suggested and she mumbled something under her breath like 'I need my mommy'

"Dude, why don't you let me drive today?" Kaede offered with a green face because he was the one in the front beside Ryan "you are clearly nervous and tensed about something"

 "Isn't he everyday?" I asked but was ignored

"We promise you that my father won't know about this" he glanced back at us "don't you guys?"

"We promise" we said in unison.

"SHUT UP" he yelled gripping the wheel tightly that I almost heard it crack. And we all fell quiet in fear of what might happen if he got distracted.

'OH MY GOD. I CAN FINALLY SEE THE SCHOOL' I thought hopefully. I was vowing to kiss Mr. Chan's (the history teacher) ugly face if I ever saw it again.

"Lana, please grace me with your silence" Ryan said as the car stopped inches away from the school's wall.

"But I didn't say anything" I protested but then I remembered that he could read minds "oh..." I whispered as I took my back bag and stepped out of the unfortunate car. I laughed at Evan who got from the other side and immediately bent to kiss the ground. We heard the bell rang and the kids around walked inside staring strangely at us. Kari came out of the car and kicked him in ass.

"Out of my way, you idiot. I still need to go the girls room" she said and hurried to inside. Evan stood and brushed his clothes from the dirt. Smiling goofily at us and I smiled back him.

"Sorry, I really needed to do that" he said scratching the back of his head.

"I can't blame you" I said gripping his arm playfully and pulled him towards the gates "come on, we will be late for history"

"You two are an embarrassment to the human race" Kaede said following us along with Ryan.

"And you are not?" I said giving Evan a high five.

"Whatever, kids" he walked off. Ryan shot us an apologizing look and followed that scum bag.

"I swear he gets under my skin" glaring after him

"You'll get used to him"

"Like I wanna hang around him enough to get used to him"

"Come on, we don't want to be late. Mr. Chan is gonna be happy to take his revenge on us for that reason"

We were late.

And after school, we were to meet our fate at the hands of Mr. Chan.

We walked out of Mr. Chan office. And found Ryan, Kari and Kaede waiting for us to come out. I took back what I thought earlier. I'm NOT under any circumstances going to kiss the face of that asshole.

I rubbed my ears to stop the yelling voice of the mad teacher from hurting my eardrums any further.

"Man that's what I call a headache?" Evan said massaging his forehead.

"Tell me about it" I said.

"My god, what happened in there?" Kari asked.

"Are you kidding? Didn't you hear him yelling?" I said

"We sure did" Kaede said "I never loved that guy until today"

"Who asked you?" I glared at him

"I talk whenever I feel like talking, princess" he said walking off. And I followed him with the others. "And I feel like talking right now"

"Sure" Kari said and Ryan shocked his head in sympathy.

"You better make your sentences simple as possible. I don't want to tire my Brain thinking about your obscure words" Evan said.

"Dork, you don't have a brain. And you don't think much" Kaede said

"Unlike you, you never ever think" I said defensively. And we all burst out laughing except for Kaede of course who was looking rather careless.

"As I was saying before I was rudely interrupted. I feel like talking. And I happened to have a little friendly chat with father this morning while you kids were still sleeping your asses off"

"You had a chat with dad?" Kari asked.

"A friendly chat?" Ryan asked speaking for the first time since we met after school.

"as a matter of fact, yes" Kaede said eyeing me strangely "he told me that he didn't want to go to the dinner the elders planned for Saturday night because my mom was visiting Japan for that weekend" he paused "he asked me to go with him but I told him that I had a date…"

"Again?" we asked

"uh yeah" he said "but that's beside the point I told him that he should take you since you are new to this and you should meet other people with magic" he pointed at me

"You actually think I'm going to agree to this just because you said so?"

"Yes"

"Why is that, Mr. I'm so mature?"

"How would you like it when dad pays that history freak a visit to discuss your grades?"

I stood silence for a minute. I was trying to count the grounded days I would be living.

I figured that I would be grounded for life.

End of chapter eight