CHAPTER 2
June 28
"Crap." I said softly.
I had overslept again. It was 8.15am and school starts at nine. I quickly grabbed the uniform and rushed into the bathroom. After a quick shower, I threw the uniform on. The uniform consisted of a white shirt and a black skirt and had a pocket on the left side of the blazer with the initials P H on it. I rushed downstairs with my things thrown into my backpack. It was 8.30. Half an hour to eat breakfast, get to school and find my class. Easy, right? Breakfast was cereal and I ate it pretty fast, leaving the house at 8.35. A kid with gold eyes came rushing down the stairs. He had black hair and wore goggles on his hat. It wasn't part of the school uniform but I don't actually care about all these rules.
"Hey! You must be the new housemate. Yellow, right? Ruby mentioned you to me yesterday. I'm Gold. Glad to see I'm not the only one going to be late from now on." He said with a smirk.
I didn't have time to respond and just dashed out of the house. The school is a ten minute walk from the house so I walked quickly, not wanting to sweat. It was getting chilly as summer was ending. Thankfully, the blazer is part of the uniform. I managed to arrive at school at 8.43am. Enough time for me to get to my locker and find my class. My locker number was 3056. It was on the third floor, where the third years had class at. My locker was just outside the class I was appointed to. That is a bonus. I put most of the heavy books inside or the books I didn't need. Unlike a typical high school student, I don't see a point in decorating my locker. I would probably just add a mirror so I can fix my hair.
The class was extremely noisy. I saw Blue at the back row of the class and she waved at me. I walked over to her. There were two students in front of us. One of them was a boy with brown hair. He was just sleeping, clearly not interested in making friends. The other, had black hair, like Gold, but had red eyes instead. He looked at me cheerfully.
"This is Red and this is Green." Blue said. Pointing her finger at the red-eyed boy as Red and the brown haired boy as Green. "The seat next to mine is not taken, so why don't you sit here." Blue asked.
She didn't actually ask since she just grabbed my hand and dragged me over to the seat next to hers. Blue tapped Green and he growled at her, gave her a quick glare and went back to sleeping. I sweat dropped a little.
"Sorry about Mister Unfriendly over here." Blue said sneering at Green.
She was going to introduce me to Red I think but just as she was about to, the bell rang and the teacher walked in.
"Good morning class. I see we have a new student called Yellow. Everyone give her our warmest welcome when you see her later or after school. I'm Miss Roxanne. I'll be teaching you Biology. If you have any questions, please approach me after class Yellow." Miss Roxanne said before turning to the whiteboard and begun scribbling down notes.
Back in the back row, Green was still sleeping. Red was staring out the window. Blue was looking at her nails and fixing her hair. None of them were actually paying attention. Sighs. I took out my notepad and started copying down notes. I'm terrible at studies so the least I should do is to try and pass this year.
Miss Roxanne didn't actually teach anything. She just scribbled down a bunch of notes, which I jotted down into my notebook and then she sat at the table. A few students went up to her ask questions.
"The teachers in this school just get us to copy notes. Our school is a strong believer that students should self-study, as it's the best way to learn. You can ask questions when the teacher is done writing notes though." Blue said, looking upset as she saw some nail polish fading in one of her fingernails.
Well, at least I don't have to do much in class, I thought. Just before the bell rang, Miss Roxanne stood up.
"Okay class, the examination is in 2 weeks time. So, to prepare you for that, I'm giving out 3 sets of past year papers with answers at the back. Please do attempt it." She then walked out of class.
Technically, she didn't give anything out. She just left the papers on her desk and walked out. I was about to walk up and take it when Red stood up.
"I'll take it for you." He smiled and said.
I blushed. Blue saw that and gave an evil smile. Crap, I thought. The next lesson was Physical Education (PE). Blue led me to the gym where we changed into our gym clothes. The gym was huge, the size of two football fields. There was even a swimming pool, a multi-purpose court and a giant space.
A teacher walked in. More like, marched in. You could hear him stomping his feet as he walked in.
"ALRIGHT MAGGOTS! TODAY WE WILL BE PLAYING DODGEBALL. BOYS VS GIRLS. GET YOUR BALL AND GET INTO POSITION." He screeched.
I never knew someone could have such an ear-piercing voice. Blue seemed used to it and passed me a ball and we went to the girl's side of the court. Right when our gym teacher, Blue told me he was called Lt. Surge blew the whistle, everyone started throwing balls everywhere. Blue grabbed my arm and pulled me to an area under the bleachers.
"He will never notice that we are missing." Blue said while sitting down.
I joined her and we started talking about my school experience. Sapphire and Crystal joined soon. It turns out that all the classes have gym together. I started to wonder how crowded the changing rooms would be later…
"Hey Yellow, tonight there will be an initiation because you just joined our house. Every member has to go through it." Blue said, trying to be as creepy as possible.
I shivered a little. Maybe it was because the gym was air-conditioned and we were all wearing skimpy gym uniforms. Crystal told me to relax, saying initiation was just staying in the attic for 10 minutes and I could just stand by the door for 10 minutes. Blue slapped Crystal at that point, scolding her for being a spoiler.
"The attic is not even scary." Sapphire said with a yawn. "I'm going back out to play dodgeball, catch you guys later." She said as she ran out from the bleachers."
We spent the next hour talking, and when we went out, Sapphire had knocked all the boys out. I stared at her with my eyes wide open.
The rest of the day flew by quickly and soon, it was 11.30pm. Blue made sure Janice went to sleep before gathering everyone in our bunk.
"Alright! Today is Yellow's initiation to the House of Cearian. As Yellow knows, because of ahem Crystal ahem spoiler, she has to stay in the attic for 10 minutes." Blue said, sounding annoyed at Crystal spoiling the initiation.
I was then pushed into the attic. The door to the attic was the door all the way at the end of the corridor. "Good luck!" Blue said as she shut the door.
The attic was dusty. Cobwebs filled the ceiling. I almost shrieked as I saw a cockroach run pass me. Did I mention I hate bugs? Standing by the door for 10 minutes, how boring. I walked up the stairs to the attic. The attic was covered in dusk. Crates and boxes were everywhere. One thing caught my eye though. There was a book by one of the boxes. I picked it up and blew the dust away from it. The book said diary of Ally Jones. I thought it was a storybook and it looked old and interesting so I picked it up and put it in my pocket. My pocket was surprisingly huge to be able to fit the book inside. I took a walk around. The attic was huge. I walked towards the window. Only streetlights could be seen, everything else was pitch black.
I turned around. There was a painting at the end of the attic. I walked over, carefully, not wanting to step on anything. The painting showed a man, probably in his thirties. It said John Cearian 1487-1541. It must have been the son of Pharaoh Cearian.
"This is a really old painting." I mumbled to myself.
"Yellowww." I heard someone call.
It must have been 10 minutes already, I thought. I walked back to the door quickly, sneezing because the place was so dusty.
"How was the attic?" Red asked.
"It was fine. Just very dusty." I said.
"I'm surprised you didn't find it creepy." Crystal said while shivering.
"Well, it's late now. There's no school tomorrow, so let's go to town." Blue said, directing the message to Sapphire, Crystal and I.
"I'll pass if you're goin shopping." Sapphire said.
Blue sighed and we all retired to our rooms. Blue went to bed straight while I went to wash up. As I lay in bed that night, I pulled the book out of my pocket.
The diary of Ally Jones.
I flipped the page open. It wasn't a book, but an actual diary. The first entry was titled 15 August 1925. Wow, this diary is from almost a hundred years ago, I thought.
"Dear Diary, I was granted special admission to this school. I don't know why. I overheard one of the teacher's saying something about the time I was born being important. I was born on March 3 at 7.20am. They are up to something, I don't know what."
That's funny, I thought. I was born on March 3 too, my uncle told me it was a time in the morning too, when the sun was rising. I wanted to continue reading, but I was exhausted. I kept the book in a drawer and went back to sleep.
Author's note: The start of the mystery begins here. No more updates until October.
SPOILERS FOR UPCOMING CHAPTER:
First meeting with Silver.
Super lame fanclub like every single high school fanfiction.
Second diary entry of Ally Jones