Chapter 8:Detention!
Alicia watched in dismay as the rest of the three hundred students of Bloors Academy scurried out the entrance. She watched them board their buses, and she watched the buses leave. She envied them for a little while, then proceeded to glare at Manfred, who had his usual cold smirk.
She somehow managed to move her eyes around the grand entrance hall, and avoid looking at Dagbert completely. Didn't these guys ever go home? They didn't live here like Billy use to, did they?
The four of them had surrounded her from behind in a semicircle. Manfred was standing in front of her. From the look on his face, you'd think he was the Red King himself. The Bloors always thought of themselves as royalty.
It put a disgusted look on Alicia's face. She hated them with all her heart. She couldn't stand the thought that, in reality, he was her older brother. Ugghh... She didn't want to think that, there was no way she'd ever believe it! In her mind, someone had already taken that role. Tancred.
Alicia remembered a time when she used to live with the Bloors. She'd been ashamed of being related to them, still is. But back then, she'd been ashamed to be in the same room as them.
That was the past. She used to think it that it was arrogant of her to think so, but she was better than them. Conceited as it felt, the truth felt nice. They lived off of other people's and her own pain and hatred. It wasn't hard to be a better person. But she doubted Manfred could change, even if he wanted to.
She picked up her suitcase and walked through the gap between Manfred and Ideth. (Or was that Inez?)
"Come down to my office when you've put that away." ordered Manfred.
Alicia stopped halfway up the staircase. She had half a mind to chuck her suitcase at his head, then do a lot of hoping that it would cause some real damage. She restrained herself. She didn't however restrain her voice. That was a losing battle. Without turning around, she said coldly, "And what idiot put you in charge?"
"Just do it!"
Alicia liked to observe people, so she knew exactly what their faces in the now pointless circle would look like.
Ideth, Inez, and Joshua would be glaring at her. Manfred would be seething, his face having color for once.
Dagbert would be smirking at her comment. Dagbert would find it amusing for Manfred's little sister to be the one testing his authority.
She got a bittersweet feeling from knowing that. There was still part of her that missed him.
...
When Alicia entered Manfred's office, there was no one there but Manfred and herself.
All his helpers seemed to have disappeared. Manfred was at one side of the desk so she sat down at the other side.
"Why must you always do this?" he asked irritably. "No matter what family you get put into you always seem to find a way to cause us trouble."
"Me?!" she said incredulously "Cause you trouble?"
Manfred ignored this comment.
"And it's not just us." he continued "I never thought I'd feel sorry for that storm bringer and his friends. They were never in this much trouble before you came along. Do you enjoy causing trouble for everyone around you?"
Manfred had stopped talking, so Alicia got up and walked out.
There was part of her mind that was screaming out, he's lying! But that part had gotten blocked out. She'd been afraid of this.
What a fool she'd been for thinking that she could stay happy in a family so close to the Bloors.
She'd burdened Tancred and his friends enough. She knew what came next. Alicia knew this drill only too well.
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