Chapter 7:
Fakir awoke to the sound of the school's bells. He sat up and groggily looked around the room. His eyes rested on Ahiru, who was sound asleep.
So that's why she's always late he thought swinging his legs over the bed. He was about to open the curtains when he remembered Ahiru.
"Oi! Wake up!" he called soft enough not to be heard by the others in the neighboring rooms.
"Uuuuun," Ahiru sat up. Her eyes were closed and she didn't even look awake. She looked at him then fell back down onto the bed.
"Oi!" he repeated and went over and shook her shoulder. Her eyes opened.
"Good morning Fakir," she said groggily and went back to sleep.
"Wake up!" he swept the sheets out from under and she fell on the floor.
"What was that f-" Fakir rushed over and cupped his hand over her mouth.
"Shut up!" He hissed, his hand still over her mouth, and listened carefully to make sure nobody had heard her and was coming to see what was going on. It was silent. He heard Ahiru mutter something from beneath his hand. It sounded like she was getting annoyed. He then felt a pain in his hand and realized that she had bitten him. He quickly took his hand away from her mouth and began rubbing where she had bitten.
Ahiru was gasping for air, "You… were pinching … my nose… I couldn't…. breathe" she said between gasps.
"You bit me!" he said in disbelief.
"You were killing me!" she said in annoyance. Then they both heard a knock on the door. Ahiru changed into a duck and fakir hid her clothes between the bed and the box spring and opened a drawer which Ahiru proceeded to climb into.
"What?" Fakir called taking off his shoes and sock and throwing them sloppily onto the floor.
"Can we come in?" it was a man's voice, more specifically the headmaster's voice.
"One minute!" he called back, throwing off his neck scarf, unbuttoning the first three buttons of his shirt, taking out his hair band, and messing up his hair. He went over and opened up the door. There stood the grey haired headmaster and the dorm leader
"Good morning Fakir. Aarik, as well as quite a few other students and teachers, has informed me that a student witnessed you sneaking out of your room with a girl yesterday morning." Said the headmaster emotionlessly, as though he didn't care.
"That's not true, I was carrying an injured duck into the door, but my roommates scared it away so I went and chased it," Fakir lied.
"In any case we're going to ask your roommates what happened but it'll take about week for us to get a response, so you are going to be 'grounded,' so to speak, your windows sealed and you will not be allowed to leave this room except for classes, your meals shall be brought to you, until we know what happened yesterday." He then turned on his heel swiftly and left, Aarik following close behind. Ahiru poked her head out of the drawer. Fakir walked over and pushed her head back down and she quacked in protest.
"I'm changing" he said. She instantly stopped struggling and buried herself in the back of the drawer.
A little time went by and Ahiru soon heard Fakir say "I'm done" and she hopped out of the drawer and saw that fakir had already pulled out her clothes and was putting his shoes one, getting ready for school. She went over ad sat down inside the dress and changed back.
"Fakir why don't you have your shoes?" she asked looking at the small pile of books and notebooks in the bag beside him.
"oh," he said, "I don't dance any more."