Chapter 7: What a Week!
The rest of the week was definitely... tiring.
Sometime the first night back, Dorcas had messed with Emma, Olivia, and Alicia's alarm clocks, so none of them woke up on time.
By Wednesday Olivia was pretty unhappy. As much as she loved being around Alicia and Emma, she didn't like having her drama friends avoiding her.
Which made Alicia feel guilty because she knew that technically, she was the one they were avoiding.
Dorcas had "accidentally" ruined three of Emma's paintings, so Tancred had "accidentally" set fire to the hood of her cape.(Lightning bolts can be very dangerous things)
Lysander and Tancred weren't having much of an easier time in their classes. On Thursday, Joshua Tiplin had come in to "borrow" something from their teacher. On his way to her desk he'd muttered something to Tancred that had created, well, a lot of wind. Unfortunately, that wind knocked over Lysander's clay sculpture.
On his way out, Joshua took a route around the classroom that brought him near Lysander, who was now picking up pieces of his sculpture that had gone crashing to the floor. Joshua crushed one of the bigger pieces with his foot and when he left he had quite a few pieces of clay sticking to him.
The twins made fun of Emma and her work so much that she was in tears by the end of class.
Dagbert was keeping up in the music department too. By Thursday morning there was more hatred in the music department then there ever was before.
By lunchtime on Friday Gabriel was ready to strangle Dagbert. If he wasn't afraid of drowning, he probably would have. And Gabriel getting violent wasn't a thing that was seen often.
As everyone was walking through the hall on their way to the exit, Tancred told Alicia what Joshua and Dagbert had done.
Alicia had been more patient with bullying that week then she'd ever been in her life. But once she learned that they'd been tormenting her friends too, something inside her snapped. She spotted Joshua and within ten seconds she was kneeling on his back and her hand was smushing his head into the cold stone floor. She then shouted a severe warning in his ear while the twins tried to pry her off of him.
At that moment Manfred strode around the corner. He took in the situation and roared, "Alicia! Get off of him!"
Alicia looked like she was trying to get up, but even with Ideth and Inez pulling on her, she didn't seem to be able to get off of Joshua.
"Alicia!"
"I'm trying! My hand is stuck to the back of his head!"
Tancred and Lysander burst out laughing. Whether it was true or not, Joshua's magnetism was the perfect excuse.
"Get moving, all of you!" Manfred yelled at the crowd that was forming.
Reluctantly Tancred and Lysander walked out and boarded the bus.
"And it's detention for you!"
He smiled cruelly. Alicia groaned.
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Poor Alicia, she was so close to freedom, yet not close enough. I don't own Charlie Bone! Lucky Jenny Nimmo...