Here we go with chapter 9! Hope you like it. Sorry it took so long again. I finally was able to plan out how this chapter would go. Now on with the show!
Rick walked down the hallway that leads to detention. While walking he noticed that Yura was coming down to detention from the other hall. The two met up in front of the doors to the detention room. There was an eerie silence between the two.
"What do you think it will be like in there?" Rick finally said. Yura shrugged and stared at the door.
"We'll probably be stuck copying down notes or something." She replied. Rick narrowed his eyes at the ground.
"How the heck does Minxie think that this is going to help me?" He mumbled to himself.
"What?" Yura asked curiously. Rick quickly shook his head.
"Maybe we should just go inside?" He suggested, trying to change the subject. Yura nodded and reached out to open the door. When it opened, the two gasped in amazement.
The room was like a restraint. Tables were set all over the room with table clothes on them. There were candles set on the tables and the chair had red velvet seating on them. The chalkboard had food items listed on it and the best of it all was a glass chandelier that was hanging down from the ceiling.
Rick and Yura held their mouths open, stunned by the sight. An African French (This is France so I can put African American, I think it looks a little weird.) dressed in a suit walked up to the two. "Hello, welcome to detention, my name is Lawrence and how may I help you?" Rick and Yura looked at each other confused. Lawrence gazed at them, waiting for an answer. Yura cleared her throat.
"Yes, I'm Yura Ishiyama and this is Rick Stern." She explained. At these words Lawrence smiled and nodded his head.
"Ah yes, you're the two that Minxie mention." He said. "Right this way." Lawrence then guided the two to a table that was in the back, under a dim light. Rick and Yura sat down in a chair and looked around the room.
"Excuse me, how can this be detention?" Rick asked, stupefied. Lawrence laughed lightly and shook his head.
"This is a fake detention; the real detention is on the other side of school." He explained. Then he pointed to the map that Rick still had in his hand. "The route Minxie gave you was the route to here."
"Wait, how is it that the teachers don't know about this?" Yura questioned suspiciously.
"They just don't okay." Lawrence replied sternly. He smiled again and left the table. Rick and Yura sat silently for a few minutes, not knowing what to say.
"So, you're from Japan I guess." Rick said casually.
"Actually, I was born here but my mother came here from Japan." Yura explained. "We used to live in Paris when I was little because my mother needed to work out some issues on something."
"What did you mother need to work out?" Rick asked. Yura looked gloomly at the table.
"Before I was born my mother got a divorce from her husband." She said. "She got remarried and then I was born." She paused for a second. "He walked out on us when I was three." Rick looked at Yura in sympathy. Although he did not know what it was like to lose a parent the thought of it almost made him cry. He didn't though because he would never let a girl see him cry. Yura looked up at Rick. She was smiling. "I'm actually glad we came back here though. Because I would have never met Minxie and you if I hadn't." Rick smiled too. Suddenly, the door to the classroom opened and Minxie stepped into the room along with two girls that Rick had remembered seeing in class. Minxie walked up to Lawrence who looked pretty surprised. He quickly showed the three girls to Rick and Yura's table. Rick looked at Minxie with a mix of shock and horror. Minxie stole three chairs from another table and placed them next to Rick and Yura. She and the other two girls sat down with them. Rick and Yura gave the three questioning looks. Minxie then laughed slowly and smiled.
"Okay, you may be wondering why I'm here?" She said with a tone that sounded like she was telling a joke.
"Well, yeah we are." Rick replied in a half angry tone. "Who are those two your posse?" He indicated Ellie and Jerry. Minxie gazed from Rick to Ellie and Jerry. Suddenly she laughed lightly.
"No they aren't but wouldn't they make great groupies though?" She said lightly. Rick and Yura glared at her for an explanation. "Well, these two are Ellie and Jerry Belpois." Ellie waved excited like while Jerry merely nodded. "They fake a fight with me so they could get me and them into detention with you guys."
"Why do they want you and them with us?" Yura asked.
"Because we wanted to meet you all." Ellie answered.
"Why?" Rick asked.
"Let's just say that we had a feeling that we all should be friends with each other." Jerry replied calmly. It was obvious that Jerry had finally gotten over her detention break down. Rick and Yura looked at each other and then at Ellie and Jerry.
"Come on guys!" Minxie urged them. "Sure they sound weird but if you two can be friends with me and survive, then you can definitely be friends with them." The two looked reluctantly at Minxie but soon Rick sighed in defeat.
"Fine, I guess we could try it." Rick agreed. Ellie jumped for joy and stood up from the table and quickly shook Rick's hand.
"This is Rick Stern and I'm-." Yura began to introduce herself but was stopped by Ellie.
"You're Yura Ishiyama." Ellie finished.
"How did you know my name?" Yura asked suspiciously. Jerry laughed playfully.
"You wouldn't believe her if she told you." She answered before shaking hands with Rick. Minxie jumped for joy and hugged her four new friends.
"Yay, we have our own group of tight knit friends!" She exclaimed. "See Ellie you got just what you wanted." Ellie nodded and smiled, suddenly a vision began. Ellie saw herself in front of a switch. She grabbed hold of the switch and pulled it down.
"X.a.n.a." Ellie mutter dazed like under her breath. Suddenly, electricity shot from the switch and electrocuted Ellie. Ellie screamed and fell to the floor. On the floor Ellie could see that her future self had suddenly developed red eye like marks on her hands and forehead. Then, in the blink of and eye, the vision was over.
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