School? School!
Vincent lay asleep in his bed. Clutched in his arms was a fat, golden yellow, stuffed chicken. He mumbled as he slept and moved a little bit around. He had a smile ear to ear wide spread on his face.
Vincent smiled as he grabbed the cup that was handed to him. He looked into the pair of brown eyes and took a sip of the liquid inside.
"This is so awesome," he said. "Tifa Lockhart from Final Fantasy VII is handing me a cup of tea. This couldn't get any better."
Vincent sat at a round table as Tifa walked away. With the same goofy smile, he blissfully drank the tea. A moment later, another girl came up to the table and placed down a slice of pie on a plate before him.
"And Kasumi from Dead or Alive has given me pie, heaven." Vincent said. He took the fork in his hands and cut off a piece of pie and stuck it into his mouth.
"Vincent…"
"I wonder who is it that's next?" Vincent asked. Another woman came in.
"Vincent, come with me on an expedition," she asked in her soft British voice.
"Lara Croft, I'm not sure if I can go with you. Tifa asked me before to go fight Sephiroth and Kasumi wants me to come with her in the tournament at Zack's private island." Vincent smiled, "Can't believe Lara Croft from Tomb Raider is asking me to come with her."
"Vincent…"
"Maybe," he said.
"Vincent!" Malon yelled.
Vincent sat straight, "Huh? Nani?" He still clutched his stuffed animal.
"Um, what are you doing with that?" Malon asked, pointing to the chicken in his arms.
"You mean Warky? He's my stuffed golden chocobo. Had him for a long time and I'm not about to get rid of him."
"Chocobo?" Malon asked at the foreign word.
"A giant bird race from the Final Fantasy series," Vincent replied. "What is it?"
"Zelda's mom called. She has something important for us to do once she gets home. And that's in about twenty minutes," Malon answered.
"Fine," Vincent climbed out of bed and stretched. "I'll take a shower and I'll be down there."
Malon stayed in the room for a minute staring at Vincent.
"Go!"
"Take it easy, Vincent," Malon said. She went toward the door, "Remember, twenty minutes."
"Yeah, yeah," Vincent said. He got up from his bed. He grabbed a towel and walked out of his room, down the hallway, and entered the shower. After fifteen minutes of a shower in hot water, Vincent climbed out with the bathroom full of steam. He wrapped the towel around himself and went over to the mirror. He combed his hair back and brushed his teeth.
He went back to his room and pulled on some clothes. He buckled his belt for his jeans and tied the laces on his high-priced sneakers. Vincent took a shirt from his closet and pulled it over his head and went downstairs.
"There's the big king himself," Zelda said as Vincent came down the stairs. "Took your time."
"I have to work hard to keep looking this good," Vincent said. He walked over to the table, which everyone was at, "So, where is your mom? Malon woke me and I don't like waking up unless I want to."
"She should be here anytime now," Zelda said.
Link sat with his feet on the table and his hands behind his head. He looked bored and tired, "I still don't see what's the whole emergency."
The front door opened and closed and Ms. Harkinian walked in with a folder in her hands. She walked into the kitchen where all the teens were. "There you are, great you got my message."
"Zelda wouldn't shut up," Link said.
Zelda slapped Link softly on his arm, "Shut up."
Ms. Harkinian reached into the folder and pulled out some papers. She handed them each to the teens, "I have already enrolled you in public school so now I just need you to fill out those forms."
"Wait back up a moment," Link said. "Public school? You got to be kidding me."
"Link, are you sure that you had no idea that you were going to public school?" Ms. Harkinian asked.
"Link, remember I managed to figure out the situation when we came to this house? Damn your stupid," Vincent said.
"Now Vincent, I looked at your classes and noticed that you four are above average. Link and Malon, both of you have Calculus AB to take while Zelda and Vincent are taking Calculus BC. Vincent, you also have a number of AP classes lined up."
"Yeah, guess I'm too smart for school."
"Zelda has just one less than you," Ms. Harkinian added. "I know my daughter is ready for it and it seems your confident in your knowledge and abilities to take one more than her."
Vincent looked at the forms, "School does ask for a bunch of scheiße."
"I hope you know I understand German," Ms. Harkinian said.
"Whoops," Vincent said.
Link chuckled. Zelda and Malon looked confusedly at each other.
"Your lucky that I really am in a hurry Vincent," she said. "Oh, you also need to fill out this form," she handed Vincent another form, "If you want to use the student parking lot, you need to apply for a parking decal."
"What did you say?" Zelda asked quietly as they begun to fill out the forms asking for names and addresses.
"Let's just say doodoo for this one."
Zelda shook her head smiling. Malon looked at Vincent's hand as he scribbled down information. On his ring finger was a silver band with the Superman "S".
"Hey Vincent, can I look at your ring?"
Vincent sighed and took the pen into his left hand and continued writing. Malon looked at the right hand with the Superman ring.
"Ambidextrous?" Zelda asked, gazing down at the switched hand.
"Yeah, comes in handy," Vincent said with a smirk.
After a few more minutes of scribbling, everyone handed their completed forms over to Ms. Harkinian. She fingered through the papers and placed them back into the folder.
"Everything seems to be in order," Ms. Harkinian said. "I'll just go and dropped these by the school on my way back to the office. Come this August, you all will be attending public school." She smiled at them and left them alone.
"Public school, this is going to be really long year," Link said.
"The idea of public school is as absurd as you think it is, Link," Zelda said.
"Zelda, don't even much worry. Link hates learning anyways. Lord knows how he managed to keep up with me," Vincent said. He turned over to Malon, "Maybe you get to see your boyfriend in class now."
"That's right. I need to see which school he goes to," Malon said, dashing upstairs.
"I cant believe your just as smart as me," Zelda said.
"And why is that? You're making the assumption from the fact that I usually spend my time playing video games and watching anime. Where do you think I got my knowledge from?" Vincent asked.
"That only explains a few things. Yes, some of your recreation activities allow for some education but not math nor science. Where did you learn your equations and formulas?" Zelda asked in desperation. "I spend at least four hours a day studying arithmetic and science. You spend all day sitting on your butt playing games and watching cartoons."
"Jeez Zel, come down," Vincent said, getting up from his seat. "More or less my teacher made me finish my homework without looking in the back of the book and spent a great deal of time on different lessons. She also motivated me by taking away my Super Nintendo and giving it back after I finished everything and it was right."
"It's true," Link said. "Good thing I had a different teacher."
"You two had different ones?" Zelda asked.
"Link was going to be the head of his mother's half of the company and I would be in charge of my dad's," Vincent asked. "So in order for us to the best, we received the minimum of what we really didn't need. Since step mom's and pop's jobs were radically different, it called for separate learning lessons."
"How different?" Zelda asked.
"Mom is an investor, a successful one and all," Link said. "I have to learn more about business and that type of crap."
"My dad is the president of a company that heads most computer technology in the world. I have to learn way more math than necessary and the in works of a computer," Vincent said.
"So what do we do now?" Zelda asked.
Vincent started for the stairs, "I'm going back up to play some games. This place is boring."
"Hey Zel," Link said. "What do you think about attending public school?"
"Link, I'm really not sure. I'm kind of excited, we really don't hang around with our peers if you don't count those rich snobs."
Link chuckled, "Arent you a rich kid? I get what your saying though, the type that think they're the only important person. Hate them too, than again, no one ever seems to tell them that. Or us for that matter."
"Or us? Link, are you implying that we think we're more important than most people?" Zelda questioned.
"All I'm saying is that we might," Link said. "Think about it, we never look at ourselves but at others." Link got up form his chair and went over to the stairs, "I'm going to see what Vince and Malon is doing. Vincent speaks the truth, this place is boring."
Zelda shook her head, "You get more interesting everyday."