"You want me to do what?"Cecily yelled,annoyed that her father had made plans to send her to a pai zhua master after years of telling her she was forbidden to train.
"Calm down Cecily..I trust RJ,so can you. The workers there are also his will have friends working at the shop and it would benefit you in many other ways"
"Yes,Because sending your daughter to some guy who owns a pizza place to train is such a good dad,I see absolutely no problem at all"
"You don't understand the dangers of not being trained. RJis a great master and I believe he will be able to help you find out what your animal spirit is within a week of training"
"This isn't fair. You could have told me about this months ago when you first decided.I may have agreed to it then,but you can't expect me to just accept the fact that you are sending me into the clutches of a master who could be evil for all you know"
"Listen. Cecily, I know this might be hard for you, but RJ is not evil. I don't think hes even capable of it. Please. I'm begging you Cecily, let him train you"
"Well it's not like I have a choice. Just don't expect me to like it" Cecily sighed heavily before going to her room and throwing herself on the bed.
The sun was shining,the birds were chirping and Cecily,was still asleep.
"Cecily get up you're in big trouble." her dad shouted bursting into the room
"Wh-what,what time is it?"she yawned
"You are a whole hour late to school. They just rang me asking where you are. Get up,get dressed and get down stairs before I drag you to school like that"He said closing the door as he left.
Cecily jumped out of bed,threw on a pale orange knee length dress and white leggings,did her hair then ran down stairs to put on the shoes she bought the day they moved and ran to her dad,waiting in the car,clearly unhappy.
"You are to go to the head teacher as soon as you get is ridiculous Cecily,why didn't you wake up?"
"Why didn't you wake me up? You usually do when I don't come down"
"I was very busy talking to RJ on the phone. They can't wait to meet you at the pizza place after school"he sat in silence for the ten minute they got to the school her dad said nothing before driving walked in silence to the head's office.
"Ahh,Cecily,how nice of you to finally join us"Mrs Halston said walking to the office
"Please sit" Cecily sat down and began to fiddle with a hairband
"Cecily,I would like you to tell me why you weren't here this morning"
"I really am sorry Mrs Halston,I overslept and my dad never woke me up since my alarm broke and I really didn't mean to"
"I know its hard being the new girl from Miami,so I will give you the benefit of the doubt,but next time you wont be so lucky. Now, since you have come,I believe you should get to class"
"Yes Mrs Halston"Cecily muttered leaving the office and trudging down the hall to English class.
She hoped no one noticed her lateness but almost everyone did and at lunch she was swamped by people,who she didn't actually know,wanting to know why she wasn't there
"Oh leave the girl alone won't you. She's new here."A tall blonde haired girl left her and Cecily was grateful for the blonde girl
"Hi.I'm Emily" she introduced herself
"Cecily" she said uncertain of this blonde girl who had only now appeared to be interested in her.
"I know. You just moved here from Miami didn't you?"
"Yeah,How did you know?"
"I asked about"Emily smiled "So what brings you to Ocean Bluff?"
"My dad remarried and she wanted us to live here"
"Oh that's gotta be tough" she seemed generally interested in Cecily and they talked for the whole of lunch,Emily asked about life in Miami and Emily was only too happy to tell Cecily about the school and about Ocean bell rang and Emily asked where Cecily was for last lesson
"Um.I have science"
" Cool. Me with?"
"Mr drastive"
" Same. Come on, don't want to be late now do we Cecily"
It was almost four by the time Cecily's father turned up to take her to Jungle Karma Pizza to formally meet RJ and everyone else.
"Dad,do I have to go through with this. Is there no other way. I just don't get why you wont train me" Cecily said walking through the door behind her dad
"Yes you do and you know why I can't. Besides you'll be fine."
"Hey RJ" Daniel said seeing RJ walk through,for some reason covered in was horrified at the sudden appearance and looked at her dad quizzically
"Cecily,this is RJ, your new master for the time being."
"Yeah what evs" she sighed taking out her phone .Daniel looked at his daughter then took RJ to the side
"She's not exactly happy about this."
"I can tell"
"Are you sure you want to train her? She might be tricky and it's ok if you want me to take her to the academy. I would understand"
"My friend,you worry too 'll be fine here,Theo,Lily and Casey are some of the best people around and I'm a great master if I may say so."
"Well then I best be you soon Cecily" he said before walking out the door
"Welcome to JKP Cecily.I'm Lily,that's Fran and this is Casey and Theo" Lily said pointing to the boys,who waved when they were mentioned
"Cool" she she said quickly
"Don't worry about anything,if RJ can train Casey,he can train you." Lily said jokingly
"Hey.I heard that"He said
"Good,you were meant to"She said playfully hitting him on the arm
"Fran's in charge while i'm gone. Cecily, leave your stuff upstairs then come with me."