Note: Asa and Manfred are still 17...
Chapter five
Exhausted, Charlie dragged his feet along the ground as he huffed and puffed, doing the morning run. He stopped for a moment to catch his breath,
"Tired from your mid night chat?"
Charlie jumped and turned to face Tancred, who was grinning,
"How do you know about that?"
Tancred looked at him,
"I guess I was better at sneaking out than you were..."
Charlie looked confused,
"You snuck out as well?"
Tancred's grin broadened,
"Yea, and I bet my reason was different to yours...Unless you snuck out to see a girl to..."
Charlie held back a laugh,
"Actually I did."
Tancred's jaw dropped, before he could ask any other questions Charlie had suddenly found some hidden energy and sprinted off.
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Looking behind him, Charlie could see Tancred was still standing where he left him looking confused, Charlie laughed.
"Having fun?" Someone whispered into his ear. Charlie spun around - what was it with people sneaking up on him. "I'll give you a hint: I'm the coolest invisible person you'll ever know..."
Charlie pretended to think,
"Ollie? Ollie Sparks is that you?"
Leah sighed,
"I'm pouting."
"I can tell."
"Now I'm shaking my head."
"I'm sure you are."
"And you look like your talking to yourself."
Charlie and opened his mouth to respond and relised how ridiculous he must look and shut his mouth.
"That's better. Now, I have a plan! You get all your little friends on my side, because I'm assuming they all hate the Bloors. So many are in your group?"
Charlie counted, muttering quietly,
"Me, Tancred, Lysander, Erin, Amber, Gabriel and Emma...Seven."
"And how many against us?"
"Manfred, Asa, Zelda, Dorcas and Billy...Five."
Leah giggled,
"Their already out numbered...The plan is to turn as many as possible against them..."
"You won't be able to change any of the others..."
Leah giggled some more,
"Oh, I'll be able to change Asa..."
Charlie raised an eyebrow,
"I highly doubt that..."
Leah struggled to control her giggling,
"Ever heard Asa had a school-girl crush?"
"What?" Charlie asked incredulously, "On who!" he asked, but then he relised, Leah had gone.
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Charlie walked into the dorm that night to see Lysander and Tancred talking, as soon as they saw him they stopped. Tancred walked over to Charlie with a smile on his face and put an arm around Charlie dirrecting him to where Lysander was,
"Come join the big boys Charlie..." Charlie tried to take a step back but Tancred stopped him, "So who were you with last night?"
Charlie laughed,
"Sorry Tancred, that was just me taking the piss..."
Tancred looked relieved,
"Thank god, I know what I was doing was innocent...But who knows what you were doing Charlie...So you weren't with a girl?"
Charlie looked at him,
"Who were you with!"
Before Tancred could hush him up, Lysander spoke,
"He was trying to impress Amber with how he can make snow...All he managed to do was give her a cold."
Charlie and Lysander laughed as Tancred muttered,
"It may have still impressed her..."
"Perhaps you should have told her to wear more than just her night gown..." Lysander pointed out.
Tancred changed the subject,
"So why were you out of bed last night?"
"I was talking to the girl the Bloors were trying to find..."
Both boys gaped,
"And how did you do that? How did you find her when the Bloors are stripping the castle to try and find her?"
Charlie shrugged,
"If she doesn't want to be found she won't be and that's what I need to talk to you about..." Charlie then told Lysander and Tancred Leahs story and how she needed as many endowed on her side. By the end of it Lysander and Tancred agreed, they'd rather support some against the Bloors than a actual Bloor. they also promised to discretly tell the rest of the endowed.