Chapter 5: First Day of School
"We're forgetting something," Charles said. "I don't know how to use my power yet."
"Well," Millie said, thinking. "Just focus on an object, and send it off in the direction you want."
"Uh…" He was still unsure of himself.
"Don't worry," Sabrina said. "Millie and I will be out there for help." They went out to face Draco, but found him gone.
"Where is he?" David asked.
"Gone," Millie said. "For now." She looked at the clock. It was nearly five o'clock. "He must have gotten new orders or something."
"What now?"
"I'm gonna go make some supper, I'm sure everybody is hungry." An hour later, they were all sitting around the table, eating for the first time that day.
"I think we should each take shifts for nighttime," Sabrina said.
"You're right," Millie said. "We adults will do it though, you four still have school tomorrow." They all moaned.
"I'll take the first one," Robert said.
"I'll go after him," Millie said.
"And I'll finish off till morning," Sabrina said.
"How can we have school with that thing after us?" Annie asked.
"Demons are smart," Millie said. "They won't attack you at school. They'd expose all magic if they did."
"What about you guys?" David asked. "We won't be around to help you."
"Don't worry about us, David. We've been fighting demons for a long time. Besides, with you four not around, there won't be much need to attack."
"Can I be excused?" Jordan suddenly asked.
"Yes," Millie said.
"I'm exhausted, I'm gonna go to bed." Jordan left the kitchen and went upstairs to her room.
"I'm gonna get an early start too," Sabrina said. After eating, everyone else decided to go to bed as well. Robert and Millie were left to clean up.
"Robert," Millie said. "Be sure that you check in each room from time to time."
"I'll be sure to," he told her. "Why don't you go to bed? I saw how hard you fought today."
"I'm fine," Millie told him, though in her voice, he could tell that she was tired.
"Millie, face it. You're not as young as you used to be. Age is finally catching up to you. You can't fight like you used to."
"I can fight just fine, Robert. I don't know what you're talking about."
"Millie, you know exactly what I'm talking about. You need to lie back a little and let others do the fighting for you. Let Sabrina carry on for you."
"Robert, I'm gonna be a witch until the day I die."
"If you keep like this, that day could come sooner than you think."
"Come on, everyone!" Sabrina yelled through the house. "Time for school!" She heard motion in everyone's room, everyone's except David's. She walked inside and put her head right next to his ear. "Hey, David!"
"What the…!"
"Bleep!" Sabrina edited for him.
"Just a few more minutes," he groaned.
"Nope. I have been giving you a few more minutes. Time to get up."
"Do I have to?"
"Uh…yeah." She started to walk away. "Now, get up." A half-hour later, everyone was downstairs sitting at the kitchen table.
"Here's some breakfast," Millie said.
"I don't usually eat breakfast on school days," Charles said. David started shaking his head 'no'.
"You do in this house," Millie said. "I'm not going to let you go to school without a good breakfast." Charles moaned and started picking at his food.
"I'll see you this afternoon, mom," Jordan said, standing up. The others soon followed her outside. Annie and Charles got into his car, David got into his truck, and Jordan got into her red car. David started his truck, revealing how loud it was. Charles and Jordan pulled out, following him to Rigsburg, where the school was located. They soon arrived to the small high school.
"Smaller than I thought it'd be," Charles speculated.
"Hello, end of my social life," Annie said depressively.
"Well, let's go," Charles said. They got out and walked inside the school. The school looked slightly bigger on the inside, but it was nothing to what Annie and Charles were used to.
"It's not that bad," Jordan said, seeing how depressed they looked.
"Yeah," David said. "Though they look like it, they're not all farm hicks."
"When do we get our schedules?" Charles asked.
"In advisory," Jordan said.
"And how do we know what advisory we're in?" Annie asked.
"It's alphabetical," David said. "See, our last name is Reicks, so our advisor is Mr. Recker. Annie, your last name is Heins, your advisor is Mrs. Ford. Same for you Charles. I think 'j' falls under her advisory as well."
"So, where's Mrs. Ford's room?" Charles asked.
"Upstairs," Jordan said. "Third door on the left, I think."
"We'll see you later," David said. They walked off in an opposite direction to get to Mr. Recker's room. Charles and Annie slowly walked through the not-so-crowded hallway to get to the stairs. Upstairs, they found Mrs. Ford's room with ease.
"Ah, our two new students," she said as they walked in. She was a rather large woman in her late forties. "And what are your names?" She sounded as if she were talking to kindergartners.
"I'm Charles Johnston."
"And I'm Annie Heins."
"Here are your schedules," she said, handing them each a sheet of paper. They went over to a table and sat down.
"So, what classes do you have?" Charles asked.
"Spanish III, Chemistry, Lunch, Algebra II, and Astronomy."
"We have Chemistry and Astronomy together," Charles said. "I have American History, Chemistry, Lunch, Spanish III, and Astronomy."
"Sounds fun," Annie said sarcastically.
"Hello there," a rather built guy said to Annie, walking over to their table. "And who might you be?"
"Annie," she said.
"You must be new," he said.
"Hmm…what made you think that?" she asked. She hated guys that were full of themselves, which is what this guy seemed to be. He looked dumber than a box of rocks.
"I'm Rick," he said.
"Hello, Rick," she said. He grabbed her schedule from her hands and looked at it.
"Hey, look," he said. "We have Spanish together."
"Oh yay," she said.
"I'll be seeing you later," he said, walking back to his friends. He gave a few of them high fives.
"What a jerk," Annie said, rolling her eyes.
"Have fun with him later," Charles teased. The bell ran about thirty minutes later and Charles and Annie went their separate ways. Eighty-five minutes later, they joined back up together for chemistry. They were joined by David and a friend of his.
"Hey, this is Aaron," he said. He then turned to Aaron. "Charles and Annie. My mom adopted them."
"She what?" Annie blurted out. David gave her a shushing look. "I mean, yeah." Aaron gave them both a weird look, but sat down at the round table with them.
"So, where're you guys from?" he asked.
"New York City," Charles said.
"Wow," Aaron said. "What's it like living there? I've always wanted to live there."
"Big," Charles said.
"Bigger than this place, that's for sure," Annie mumbled.
"I imagine so," Aaron said.
"Class, be quiet, this is chemistry," the teacher said, walking in. He wore a white lab coat and had a big beard. "If you're not talking about chemistry, you don't need to be here."
"Oh, isn't he a bundle of joy," Annie said.
"Mr. Langhus isn't the nicest of teachers," David said.
"I can see that," Charles said. They went through another eighty-five minutes of boredom. When the bell rang, everyone in the room ran for the lunch room. David had stayed back to walk with Annie and Charles.
"What's for lunch?" Charles asked. "I'm starving."
"Something vulgar and disgusting," David said. They got to the lunch room and sat with Jordan.
"Hey, guys," she said. "How was your first half of a day?"
"It was okay," Charles said.
"Except chemistry," Annie said. "Jeez, I hate that teacher."
"You'll get him later on today," David said, looking at her schedule. "He teaches astronomy too."
"Great," she moaned.
"Hey, David and I are in that class too," Jordan said.
"Me too," Charles said.
"Besides that, how was your day?"
"Okay," Charles said. "Annie made a new friend in advisory."
"Really, who?"
"Some jerk named Rick."
"Rick Stanson," David and Jordan said together.
"I dislike him a great deal," Annie said.
"Good," Jordan said. "He flirts with like all the new girls and any other hot girl he can get with."
"He thinks he's all that just because he's captain of the football team," David said.
"Seems like he is," Charles said, looking at the table he was at. He was surrounded by girls flirting with him.
"Yeah," Jordan said. "Those are the bimbos." As the lunch line went down, their table filled up. Most were friends with David and Jordan. Charles and Annie couldn't help but feel a little out of place.
After lunch, they didn't see each other again until astronomy. Mr. Langhus was just as much of an ass in that class as he had been in chemistry. The class was harder too. They spent most of the day learning how to plot the location of stars and other crap like that.
"I don't like this class," Jordan whispered to them towards the end of class.
"Neither do I," David said.
"You don't like school in general," Jordan said to him. The bell rang shortly after that. They got their things together and started walking to the parking lot.
"Just think, guys," David said, "we get to do this everyday for another eight months."