Chapter 6: Monday Morning
On Monday everything was back to normal. Almost. Lysander, Tancred, and Alicia boarded the green bus that would take them to Bloors like they did every week. But Tancred was more on edge than usual. When Emma got on and saw Alicia she seemed nervous too, but didn't say anything as she took her usual seat next to Alicia. Lysander was doing a good job of hiding it, but no one was talking so it was becoming hard for him.
"Would you all knock it off?" Alicia said irritably. "I'd be surprised if the Bloors didn't make sure everyone knew, but they haven't done anything to physically harm me yet, so stop worrying. I can take care of myself."
"We just want to make sure everything's going to be alright." said Emma quietly.
"Well you don't need to." Alicia's voice had softened a bit. "I'll be fine."
"You couldn't speak a little louder could you?" some rude boy from the back row called up. "We can't hear you back here!" Him and a few of his buddies laughed. Of course that's when his suitcase magically {Yes, that's sarcastic} flew up and whacked him in the stomach.
Alicia laughed at the sound he made and wondered if she'd been right the night before. Maybe things wouldn't change all that much after all.
During Break...
Her morning classes had gone well. She hadn't seen Manfred or any of the Bloors yet. She couldn't decide whether to take this as a good or a bad sign.
Olivia had nearly tackled her to the ground when she saw her. Liv then made Alicia if it was all true or not.
Their group {Emma, Olivia, Alicia, Tancred, Lysander} got a lot of strange stares as they walked by. Olivia was used to this. But this time if wasn't her that everyone was looking at. Alicia had forgotten how much her appearance had changed.
At dinner Dr. Bloor didn't have any announcements to make.
In the Red Kings room Alicia got quite a few glares, but ignored them. It also helped that she wasn't the only one they were glaring at.
Other than that homework sucked, as it usually did. The room stank of fish the whole time. And everyone's pencils or pens or extra notebook paper kept flying across the room and attaching themselves to Joshua Tiplin. About half-way through the Branko twins started entertaining Dorcas {honestly, who thought up her name?!} by sending books and anything else in sight flying across the table and whacking whoever happened to be in their path. Even though they were his lackeys Manfred seemed to be getting pretty annoyed.
He wasn't the only one either. Alicia got hit by three books, two pens, and a pencil. At the same time she was busy trying to keep her homework papers from flying away to stick to Joshua. She would've yelled something that surely would've gotten her detention if Tancred hadn't beat her to it. But, his shout was drowned out {Sorry about the wording there Tanc} by his wind and a lot more than a few raindrops. This time, as everyone was protecting their belongings, it was Tancred who was sending things flying. Unfortunately, he didn't have as much control over it as the twins did. In the end he stomped out of the room and everyone just sat there dazed for a few seconds before Manfred announced that they could leave.
Alicia and Emma were still out of it when they returned to their dorm. When Olivia flounced in asking what happened, the best they could do was sink onto their beds.
Lysander's dormitory wasn't much better than the Kings room had been. Tancred was trying to calm it down, but it was a lot of effort and in the end he just let it blow itself out.
So much for a great day back thought Lysander as he did exactly what Alicia and Emma had and sank onto his bed.
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