Chapter 3 True school life

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A.N (OOOOOOOO!! SPIKE! YAAAAAAAAAY!)

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Mrs Ouch glared at the form.

"Now. Due to - er - circumstances."

Rae glanced at her notebook, fighting laughter. She knew all about these 'circumstances', as she had created most of them, with the help of Henry and Hayley, over the summer holidays. The rest had been a cunning mixture of lucozade tablets and glue.

Ouch was continuing;

"there are several new additions to the staff, which will be announced in assembly. I hope you will all be suitably supportive to your new teachers and give a good impression of our school." she glared pointedly at various members of the class, who stared at the ceiling. "Among these is our new deputy head, who you will be meeting in assembly. Chaplain will be returning to only doing history."

Rae almost burst with trying desperately not to laugh. At the same time she wondered what the new deputy head would be like. Their last one had been sacked after he threatened one of the mums with unmentionable acts of violence. Then there had been Chaplain, the Power - hungry slimy git, and now there was a new one.

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Hayley was in her classical lesson, lying on the table whilst talking to her friend Bethan who was sitting nearby. Sophie was sitting at her place on the desks.

"So, you know how all these teachers have 'disappeared'?" Hayley started.

"Yeah." Bethan instantly became suspicious.

"Do you think Mr Perv is one of them?" Hayley asked innocently, not being able to keep track of Rae and Henry over the summer.

"Dunno, hope so. He only ever fully explained the pervy stuff about Roman Britain and I don't think the examiners would like that."

"Depends who the examiner is." At that instant they heard footsteps on the gravel meaning one thing, the answer was arriving.

"Quick, look innocent!" Hayley whispered.

They sat in their seats and brought out their textbooks and files. As the door opened they turned around to see who the teacher was and instantly they gasped with shock and three lower jaws dropped onto the floor.

In front of them was the largest person they had ever seen. He was about 7ft and almost completely covered in Blonde-ish hair. He was frowning at them and seemed to pass them off as completely below them.

He walked to the front of the class and sat down at the free seat.

"Right, first off, where's the rest of the class?" He asked.

"Um, sir, we are the class. There are only three of us." Hayley replied, completely overwhelmed by this giant.

"WHAT!!! That can't be right. Oh well. I'm Mr Creed. I'm yer new teacher and you had better not forget that." Mr Creed growled the last part, "Now you are gonna introduce yerselves to me and if I like yer then we'll get along fine, if not then I can make yer classes a livin' hell."

"Um, Okay then sir. I'm Hayley and I'm the only one staying on for A-level Classical, so I hope you like me cos I value my sanity."

Bethan whispered quietly, "What sanity?"

Mr Creed unfortunately overheard this part, " Quiet, Now who are you?"

"Um, okay, I'm Bethan, I'm dropping Classical cos I'm keeping up my art and stuff and I also want to keep my non-existent sanity."

"Non-existent is the right word for your mind!!" Hayley butted in.

"Okay, break it up! Next."

"I'm Sophie und I'm going back to Germany after zis year. I also like to be sane."

"Riiiight, I'm beginning to wonder if I'll still have my insanity intact by the end of this term." Creed stated, sinking down into the chair.

"Weeelllll, I wouldn't hold your breath Mr Creed, I think Mr T is still talking to his psychologist." Hayley commented whilst rummaging through her bag.

*This is gonna be a loong lesson* Creed thought to himself as he looked around at the three innocent faces.

"Right, lets start with Roman Britain, then after two lessons we'll move onto Virgil geek and then on Friday we'll do those depressing plays." Creed announced. Hayley could tell that this was going to be a fun teacher to have around, so long as he didn't hate them.

The lessons went by without a hitch and Creed found himself beginning to warm to his class, Hayley and Bethan especially. Soon it was time for break and the four of them hurried up so as to get to break early.

"So, do you lot have many more lessons today?" Creed asked.

"Nope, I have the rest of the day free!" Hayley replied, speaking for everyone else as well.

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Henry looked curiously at the new girl. At first she had seemed kinda prissy, but there was something about her. she was just wondering what about her seemed different, when her attention was distracted by the arrival of Miss K for their Latin class. Phew. At least one teacher was the same. She turned her attention back to unpacking her bag and flicked a note saying

"India likes girls" to her friend India next to her, and nearly fell off her chair in surprise.

The new girl, Kitty, had bent over to unpack her bag and her head had gone RIGHT THROUGH THE TABLE! She looked up and caught Henry's flabbergasted gaze. She looked horror struck, and quickly flicked her a scrawled note. It read:

"PLEASE, PLEASE DON'T TELL ANYONE. I'LL EXPLAIN LATER."

Henry looked searchingly at her. Her face was pleading, and completely honest. Henry glanced quickly around the group. No - one else seemed to have noticed. She nodded, quickly, and scribbled back "Meet me in the I T room at break". Kitty nodded and smiled, and instinctively, Henry liked her.

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Rae was chilling out in the library, for some strange reason she always loved Wednesday mornings, the fact that she had a double free first thing in the morning, had absolutely nothing to do with it.

The door opened, and her head snapped to face the oncoming libarian. For some odd reason the old libarian had left, although Rae hadn't done anything to her, but she couldn't really be sure about Henry.

Rae turned back to her 'work', then realized what she'd just seen, so she turned to face the libarian. He was slightly squat, with a thick orange hair, all over, apart from his face and the palms of his hands and feet. His arms reached to the floor, and he looked like he'd just come out of the jungle.

"Okay, I knew we were short of teachers. BUT!"

"Don't say the m word!" a small, timid voice said, coming through the door was a pathetic looking man,

"Come on, I've taken biology. But he's an orangutan!"

"It was an accident in his last job."

"Really?"

"Oook!"

"What'd he say?"

"He said 'why are you here'?"

"I'm always here, on Wednesdays. I'm a student Librarian."

"And I'm the assistant Librarian."

"I'm Rae."

"I'm Rincewind."

"And he is?"

"The Librarian."

"I can put up with that."

"You're not screaming?"

"I've seen weirder."

"You have?"

"Yeah. This is my school we're talking about here."

The bell for the end of the second lesson, so Rae smiled at the book ordering Liberian, and left the room, for her next lesson, Biology; where she had to sit through a revision session.

Finally the bell went for break, and Henry, Hayley and Rae headed for the dining room, for biscuits, tea (Hayley only has coffee in the morning), then to the I.T room for a talk.