… So much for updating regularly.
ALAS! BLAME ME NOT! BLAME THE GOVERNMENT-FUELED ESTABLISHMENT KNOWN AS SCHOOL! (Then again, I go to a private school, so scratch the government tish…)
Anyways, it's officially summer on my side of the Pacific, so WOOT WOOT REGULAR UPDATING TIME. I will FINALLY be able to update (semi-)regularly, so yeah. I honestly do hope this gets the biz it got in its first version.
Enjoy, my pretties!
DISCLAIMER: Own anything, I do not.
"Do we have to?"
The Fantabulous Four had just finished lunch, and were about to go to Math class. Andy tried protesting, like every single time they had Math. She HATED Math time. Their teacher was, according to Andy, the devil's messenger, sent to torture little children into insanity with numbers and equations.
Nick just thought that Andy hated it since she was bad at it.
However, a sweet change came upon the classroom, when a pretty blonde girl entered the room. They hadn't expected that.
"Good afternoon everyone. My name is Miss Shelby Trinity, and I will be your new Math teacher from now on." She said kindly, and they all stood agape. The Fantabulous Four especially, immediately recognizing this teacher.
"I'm sad to say that Mrs. Ongtao won't be teaching anymore, due to her retirement as a sixty-year-old teaching veteran." At this, half the class cheered. Miss Trinity simply smiled. "However," she continued. "I hope you won't mind me being here. I'll do the best I can to help all of you learn and have fun with Mathematics."
It was an obviously well-rehearsed speech, but it still caught the eye of most of the students. Others were just ogling at the teacher.
"Let's start, shall we?"
"She's a really good teacher."
Andy, Nick, Tammy and Mel surrounded one table, as they waited for the next teacher to come. There had always been a five-minute break between Math and Science classes, since Miss Carpio, their Science teacher, had to teach in another school building, and had to walk the entire way to their classroom. No one really minded.
However, before any of the four friends could reply, the teacher entered the room, four minutes earlier than anyone had expected.
Firstly, his hair was white.
It went downhill from there.
"OHMIGOD IT'S OTT—" Andy was muffled once more, this time by four hands. No one seemed to have noticed them, as they were at the back of the room.
"Good afternoon," he said. "My name is Mister Otto Malpense, and I will be filling in for your Science teacher, as she is on maternal leave. I hope you won't mind my teaching." He said rather sheepishly.
"First, I would like all of you to ask anything about me." He said casually. Andy was almost going to raise her hand, when Nick put it down.
"Nothing. About. H.I.V.E." She said, and Andy pouted.
"Why is you hair white?" one of their classmates asked. Otto chuckled.
"It's because of my albinism. At a young age, my hair was already white. That would also explain the pale complexion." He explained briefly.
"Are you a Veela?" asked another student.
"No I am not a Veela, but thank you for thinking that I am one." He replied kindly.
"Do you have a girlfriend?" asked one of the female students, and most of the class giggled.
"Sadly enough, no, but I do have a few female friends on my side." He said. Andy grinned.
"Of course he does," she whispered to Tammy, her seatmate, from the giggling of the teenage girls. "Laura and Shelby, that's who."
"Would you quit it with the H.I.V.E.?" Tammy asked pleadingly, but Andy shook her head.
After the quick question-and-answer session, they continued with the Science lesson. Luckily enough for Andy, she loved Science and answered almost every question like an encyclopedia.
"You're lucky you like Science." Said Mel, after Mr. Malpense left. "Because of your insanely happy energy high, Otto will probably pick you into going to H.I.V.E."
"See? She thinks that they're from H.I.V.E.!" said Andy, and Tammy and Nick sighed.
"Mel?" Nick asked, rubbing her temples.
"Yeah?"
"Do us a favor and stop encouraging her."
"Hand me the Microplane and the lemons, my lowly minion."
Andy was having fun. Pretending she was an evil overlord concocting a poison that would be as lethal as Anthrax proved to be far more entertaining than she expected. Not only that, but J.J. turned out to be a better minion than she expected. She decided that she had a new thing to look forward to for Home Economics. She had to admit though, J.J. was better at cooking than she thought.
Not as good as her though.
(And yes, Andy had a superiority complex when it came to cooking.)
She started grating the lemon in her hand, as her partner was preparing the meringue for the top of the lemon meringue pie. She just had to add the lemon juice and zest into the egg mixture and she would be finished with her filling.
"Hey head chef, you done yet?" J.J. called out. He'd put in the pre-prepared crust (provided by the school) into the pie pan, and was waiting for Andy's wonderful filling.
Yep, that was evidence of her gratuitous superiority complex.
"What did I tell you, my useless crony?" she asked, smiling. J.J. looked puzzled at first, before realizing what he'd said.
"Oh right. Sorry. Great evil overlord of the school kitchen, art thou done yet?" he asked, laughing. Andy laughed.
"Yeah, yeah. I've got it right here."
The pie finally got into the oven, after a long argument about how the meringue. Its creator wanted it smooth, while Andy wanted it spiked up. He argued it would burn that way. She reminded him who the evil overlord of the school kitchen was. He said he was retaliating. Pretending to be horrified, she brought out a pair of tongs, and shouted, "Fight then, you mangy cur!" J.J. grinned, before unsheathing a spatula and engaging in a heated swordfight which ended with a very pissed Home Economics teacher.
"So how's the cake?" Andy asked, as she put away her tongs and saw her three friends struggling to frost a chocolate cake.
"I still wish that we could have been grouped by friends." Said Nick, accidentally wiping chocolate onto her face.
"Oh please, you only want me for my talent and looks." Andy replied, smirking and winking. Tammy pretended to throw up in the bowl she was holding.
"Well, you look like you had fun in your impromptu sword fight." Tammy said. They all laughed.
"If only Mrs. Cantos didn't interrupt. I would've won." Andy said, feigning sorrow.
"I still don't get why there were only the two of you, and the three of us and everyone else." Said Mel, folding extra cocoa powder into their ganache.
"I asked. Because of the class's uneven number, two of us would eventually become the only pair. Apparently, fate adores me." Andy replied, getting one of the spatulas and spreading the chocolate ganache in the middle of the two cake layers. As the teacher was outside, it wouldn't hurt to help a little.
She piled the cake layers up, frosting the entire thing with gooey chocolate. She piped out whipped cream swirls on the edge of the cake, and put the piping bag in Mel's hand before the teacher came back in.
When her pie had finished baking, she took it out and placed it onto the wire rack to cool. She grinned as she set her eyes on the lovely creation.
"Clean up everyone! Time to clean up!" hollered their teacher, and everyone headed swiftly to the sinks. There weren't many of them. Luckily enough, Andy was near the sinks, and J.J. had already begun cleaning up.
"Mangy cur." She whispered as she passed him.
"Crazy overlord." He replied, grinning.
Andy eagerly awaited the next subject: Science. Ever since Otto had come to teach at the school about three months ago, the subject had become more interesting each day. Maybe it was because the students became intimidated by him when he was actually serious about sending a misbehaving student to the principal.
"… And yes, April, Sirius is not the North Star, it is Polaris. Yes Andy?"
"Is it true that there's a theory that our universe could just be a giant bubble and that there are other bubble-universes out there, like alternate universes?" she asked.
"Actually, yes, there is such a theory. The possibility of such universes is astronomical, and an access path to them would be very…"
And yes, Otto trailed off their subject of stars and went on about the theory of bubble universes.
It was very much interesting, but when Otto was about to go back to the subject of stars, the lunch bell rang.
"It's a good thing that Otto got off the subject of stars. We've been studying that topic for ages. The only reason why we had to review it was because April didn't listen to a thing he said in the original discussion." Said Nick, glaring at said classmate. She never did like the girl, ever since she slapped her in the fifth grade.
"Come now, dah-ling, you can't hold a grudge that long, can you?" asked Tammy. "It's unhealthy." Added Andy.
"Speak for yourself, J.J." Mel said. Andy snorted, amused. "Hey! I don't hate him that much." She said in her defense. "He can be irritable, but—"
"Yeah, we know. You don't know why you disliked him, blah blah blah, he's not that bad, yadda yadda." Nick said. Andy replied by sticking her tongue out at her friend. The others laughed.
"Well, let's eat then! I'm hungry." Said Tammy, racing to the usual table.
After a long day of class, the Fantabulous Four headed back to their dorms. Before Andy could reach her room though, she was stopped by her lowly minion.
"Can we talk?" he asked, sounding worried. Andy was baffled. She was pretty sure he wouldn't be worried about the sword fight they had in Home Ec., and she'd never seen him like this. They weren't close, but still…
"You do know girls aren't allowed to fraternize with the boys in their dorm after 7pm." She said, checking her watch. "And this'll be cutting it close. Plus I've got homework."
"It'll be quick." He said. Andy raised her eyebrow.
"I think you should talk to my sister." He said quickly. However, she heard him clearly; clearly enough for her face to go stony. She turned and walked away.
"Hey!" he exclaimed, chasing after her. He grabbed her shoulders and turned her around. Andy wouldn't look at him.
"I know things have been kind of weird between you guys." He said. "But the thing is, it's ruining—"
"It's not ruining anything, Jayj. There was nothing to begin with, and we all know that." She said flatly.
"Come one, Ands!" he said pleadingly. "When you settle that I really think you'll be able to accept—"
"There's nothing to accept, Jayj!" she screamed. Andy let out a big sigh, before rubbing her temples.
"Listen…" she said as calmly as she could. "You and I, we both know that she's never going to talk to me. She'll never listen to what I have to say."
"But you guys have been friends since fourth grade!" he said, exasperated.
"Had been." Andy replied harshly. "We had been friends. Until I did something so stupid she stopped talking to me completely."
"You know I hate being a bridge between you two." J.J. said. "It's like… Like being Hermione when Harry and Ron fought in the fourth book."
Andy chuckled sadly. "You know it's not going to work, Jayj."
"Come on!" he said, frustrated. "We're graduating this year! You know she's transferring to another school! You may never see her again!"
Andy sighed, shaking her head. "I've gotta go." She said, smiling miserably. "See ya whenever." Before J.J. could reply, she left.
"Ah shit." He muttered to himself.
Hmm... The plot thickens. Like soup.
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