The dress code was ridiculous. It was so ridiculous that Artemis felt like stabbing the principal over and over again. Preferably he would hire a hit man to gun down that pea brain of a principal. No, there wasn't a ludicrous uniform. Instead there was no dress code and dearest Angeline wasn't going to let her dear Arty get away with a two piece Armani.
Yet again he was dressed in a jacket with a non waterproof hood and jeans that were itchy with so many pockets he didn't know what to do with them. The shirt he was wearing said B.U.M in big letters and indeed it made him feel like a bum. The beautiful Juliet was getting wolf whistles from the majority of the male population making Artemis yet again feel superior to his new peers. He would never whistle at an attractive female. Fact was, he never found any of them attractive.
A few hours later he found his first class was boring, more boring than sitting through a romance movie (only to Artemis). His second class was more boring than watching toenails grow. His third class was more boring than listening to Juliet drone about the latest fashion. His fourth class was more boring than reading a pre-school book and you do not want to know what he thought about his fifth class. Juliet wasn't even actually body guarding him. She was in her own classes having the time of her life flirting and doing other activities she loved.
If this was for the gifted and talented one would think someone would make the syllabus of college status or more. Either way, college or not, Artemis Fowl would foul up the whole class with his knowledge. Pun intended.
"Isn't this wonderful Arty?" Juliet gushes after the fifth class. If she could, she would definitely be dancing and screaming, "Whee!" at the top of her lungs too.
"Yes, yes, if entering a time wasting school was wonderful."
She frowned. She held up five fingers, "I haven't been to a normal school for more than five years. Go me!"
"Don't you have a maid job later?"
"I don't actually have to work you know." She slung her arm over his shoulder. Bending her head towards his she smiled, "One day you'll see how wonderful this is." To emphasise her point she made more hand motions. She practically skipped down the hall as Artemis shook his head. "Note to self," he murmured, "put Juliet on a diet with no sugar involved."
A new school. A fantastic beginning for the young Hawk girl. She smiled as her brunette curls swung from left to right as she walked from class to class. She loved going to school and pretending to be idiotic until the tests came. At a moment like that, she aced everything with a perfect mark. That was to be left as a surprise to her form teacher for later. She suddenly loved Romeo, her practically unknown brother who was off somewhere, for signing her up to school although she would prefer staying at home and monitoring her clones though Libra was already with them.
CRASH!
A pale adolescent of perhaps fourteen made contact with her body leaving a feeling of mild pain and a shock of pain on her wrist.. Immediately Athena noticed a sudden change in his blonde friend's expression, from strangely overjoyed to the professionalism of a carer quickly picking up all his books and propping him up only to receive a murmur from the pale teen.
"I'm so sorry," she started gushing. She pushed a strand of her black hair behind her ear and proceeded to pick her own books up. Sighing and possibly trying to be chivalrous the blue eyed teenager knelt down to pick her books.
He looked up at her and she was starting to wonder whether he was mute or deaf. Whichever made sense to Athena since he had an overprotective sister, or friend, next to him.
Her theory was proven incorrect when the boy rose again and spoke, "You should really not rush down the halls without looking. It's unethical not to mention unintelligent."
His icy tone made her scowl.
"Well excuse me. I was not rushing," she replied.
He rolled his eyes. "If you insist Miss."
He turned to walk away. His blonde friend seem to apologise endlessly about her mistake of not standing by him.
He mumbled a reply and Athena came to the conclusion that he was a grump, a grump who was attacked by vampires before he became one himself and the beautiful blonde girl beside him was a mesmerised girl who knew nothing about his vampire instincts and soon she will die from a loss of blood or turn into a vampire herself.
"By the way," he suddenly commented although he was a little way in front, "I'm not a vampire, but thank you for the compliment." He flashed her a vampirish grin and she gave a little shudder. Oh yeah, he was a vampire.
"I thought you didn't get along with anyone," Juliet remarked, hardly taken aback by his annoyingness.
"It was out of pure pleasure," Artemis replied dryly. "She's not the first one to even try and imagine me as a vampire. Those blood sucking things are non-existent and she should have realised that."
He stepped into Room 201. Art class. He didn't really remember why he was in this school again. After all his teacher was hardly at all qualified to teach him, he had forged so many pictures which actually passed off as genuine in a certified Art Inspector's eyes. It would be simple, very simple.
He took a seat in front of a mediocre canvas, he wondered where all the fees went since they could at least afford a higher quality of paper. Much to his surprise, but perhaps it should hardly came as even a shock, Juliet was his teacher's assistant. He was starting to wonder how she weaselled out of her Physics class. Ah, yes, what a coincidence. She suddenly decides to act as a bodyguard when she wants to skip Physics.
In fact, she might even have misused her hologram. Imagine what were to happen if her hologram was touched. A hologram that had a mind of it's own is and most probably always will be a breakthrough. Though Artemis knew the fact all to well, he'd just have to wait before he could finally market it but if anyone discovered it in the class he was in trouble.
A sallow yet cheerful woman of forty-three stepped into the class with old fashioned glasses perched on her nose. Her chin was slightly raised and her hands were clasped as she spoke to her class.
"Morning students, I would like to introduce our two new students, Artemis Fowl and…" She paused. "Oh dear, where's Miss Hawk?"
Artemis Fowl had been introduced into every single class before this one, so he was hardly surprised he was yet again introduced especially since they spent a ridiculous amount of time changing classes all with different students. Yet, he was wondering who was missing from class on the same of day she entered Berkeley's School for the Gifted and Talented. Despite that he stood so that the rest of the students could stare at him and wonder whether he was an immortal blood sucking being.
He heard skidding noises and a crash. He smirked. He could almost guess who that was. "I'm here," she suddenly said when she appeared at the doorway. Her hair and clothes were intact but a closer look will show that her hair was covered by glitter that wasn't already there in the first place.
"Nice for you to join us," the teacher said disapprovingly. "I hope you didn't get lost."
She smiled brightly but Artemis could see its insincerity. "I'm sorry, but I did." She cast a glance at Juliet and the Fowl heir could just see the frown line of familiarity on her forehead.
The rather statuesque brunette was introduced and both of the new students promptly sat. She took a seat next to Artemis Fowl II much to his dismay but it seemed to be the only seat left.
"Good morning once again students, today we will study the paintings of Vincent Van Gogh which you all know. We will be painting his famous sunflowers today."
A smirk tugged Artemis' lips as his mind drifted somewhere while the teacher droned on about the wonders of Van Gogh. She even showed her own reproduction which Artemis had to proclaim was the sixteenth thing he saw that was mediocre in this school, excluding all the teachers he had met. If it included that number it would no doubt be endless.
I'm back. I'm finally back. Sorry for the lack of updates on Prophecy Unraveled but in Opal Returns there will be much better surprises you can expect. Please focus your attention on this one now. Thanx. Review!