Chapter 2: NO CAVEMANS IN SCHOOL
The bell rang and people were rushing down the stairs squishing Jack and Patrick, they were running because the cafeteria only has ONE table. So they need to fight for the table. That's not the problem to them, since Thorgil is the strongest girl in the whole grade she was pretty scary to the others, if she sat on one of the chairs of the table, everybody flee to safety. She seems to enjoy the scared glances and whimpers and uses it as an advantage of personal space.
As always, Jack and Thorgil sat together. It was about a week ago before Pattie and Patrick sat with them. When they first enter the school everyone was ignoring them and they were labeled as 'Weirdos'. Then Thorgil explode when Camilla K. Corn made fun of her in front of the school. In a hurry, Corn was running out of the school back to her home town in less than a month.
From that day on everybody was scared of her, in case she might make THEM leave the school. Pattie was horrified when Madame Elamore (Also known as Madame E. or The Women of Fear) announced Thorgil as her roommate. She tried her hardest to stay on Thorgil's good side. They turn out to be friends and the ONLY friend of Thorgil.
Thorgil was furious at first when she found out she need to share a room with a roommate. She poured water out her window at Madame E. soaking her with freezing cold water, who was on her way to the Teacher's Community. She sneaked out of her room and draw devil-horns and mustache on her face with a red paint. Even though, Thorgil had been treating her rudely, they turn out to be very alike! Madame E. was a shield maiden once but she retired because she had gotten an injury in her leg and she was never able to walk properly. From that day on they talk together everyday after school about how to use least Jack was TRYING to fit in.
Jack quickly finished his hot cider in one gulp and munched on his bread, he licked his fingers when he is done. At, home, he never ate any bread like this before. All of the bread he ever ate is made of acorns. The bread at school was sweet and soft, not like the stone-like bread he need to dip in cider before he bite in or he will break a tooth. It wasn't like his mother's food is nasty; she was actually a very good cook. Thinking of his mother for the second time that day, he sighed. His mother is a wise women she was able to seek things in water, was probably looking at him right now.
As, Jack made her way to class, he thought sadly about all his adventures. He of course missed, her mother who is always so kind to him, but now, he is thinking of Lucy. Lucy was an elf, she was Jack adopted sister, but she, choses to be a selfish person. Now, Jack thought she is probably stuffing herself in Elf Land or grieving over the loss of her beauty.
Today their first class is history, and everyone who was still eating quickly gobble up his or her breakfast and hurry to class as the bell rang twice. Thorgil and Pattie had gone first to save their seats so they could sit together.
"Hey, Jack! Wait up!" Patrick called he is running toward him in full speed. Then, he clumsily bumped into some girl apprentice who pushed him onto the ground along with his arm full of scrolls. One scroll made it's way over to Jack, and he picked it up and handed it over to Patrick.
"Thanks, you can go first if you want." Jack didn't answer as he helped him pick up his school supplies. Together, they made his way toward the classroom.
Pattie and Thorgil was already there, Pattie waved cheerfully and pointed to the seats she saved for them both. Which is right next to them. Thorgil was busily looking out the window and talking to a sparrow.
Jack was always jealous of Thorgil's abilities to talk to birds, even though Thorgil had explained OVER and OVER again how annoying it was.
"Birds are SO stupid, all they say is, 'I'm itchy, I'm itchy, I'm itchy,' or 'I caught a big fat worm! I caught a big fat worm!'"
It's no use, so, Thorgil use the her HARD way: beating people.
"If you ever say your jealous of my ability to speak Bird, I swear I'll thrash you," Thorgil had threatened.
Still, Jack can't help looking at how fluently Thorgil was able to speak Bird.
Suddenly, Thorgil noticed Jack staring at him. Jack quickly turned away, blushing deeply. Thankfully, Thorgil was in a good mood, like she completely forgot about what happened in the morning. She start kicking her legs under the table making thumping sounds.
Most of the time, if she saw someone staring she will glare back. Jack's face turn back to normal color as Madame Elamore came in the classroom.
"Today, I will be teaching you." She said. Whispers echoed throughout the classroom of how they had heard rumors that the teacher went to visit his family in the mountains.
Lady Elamore, start talking about THE ANCIENT LIFE OF CAVEMANS.
Jack didn't know why. It's either because they we're influenced because of Madame Elamore (but that means they are actually listening in class) or because they are just plain stupid. He choose the second option.
Three boys in class leaped onto the table and start screaming.
"I'M A CAVEMAN! I AM THE CAVEMAN KING!" Jack heard Albert yelled.
"OOH-OHH, AHH-AHH!" Bernie did a bad imitation of a caveman. It seemed more like an monkey.
Then, for being the dumbest in the Groupies, Joey yelled something that is going to scar him for life.
"I AM THE TOUGHEST PERSON IN THE SCHOOL! IT'S TIME TO SUCK UP ALL YOUR DROOL! WHY IS EVERYBODY SITTING STILL? WHEN WE KNOW WE COULD BEAT THORGIL~" Joey sang. When he noticed what he just said he quickly covered his mouth. He seriously regret what he had just said. Was that too much? He was just being silly like always and tried to find something that rhymes with 'still'... But too late. Thorgil heard it.
"WHAT DID YOU SAY?!" Thorgil screeched, she pounced on Joey. Pressing a knife to his throat. Where did she even get that?! Jack thought panicking. She pulled his hair, scratched his face, and was going to do something more horrible when Madame E. scurried over and pulled Thorgil off of him.
"Lady Elamore! Let me go! I need to teach that brat a lesson!" Thorgil said through gritted teeth. Joey was horrified, he scooted closer to the wall.
"Thorgil, control you temper. Your manners can NOT be accepted," Madame E. said, then turned to glare at the three boys. They all returned to their seats and now were staring at their feet.
"Thorgil, I give you permission to go to the nurse," Madame Elamore said looking at Thorgil's bloody knees.
"It's okay, I can still walk," Thorgil protested.
"Go," The manner director insisted.
"But—" Thorgil started to say, but then opened the door and step out the classroom after the Women Of Fear gave her a you-better-listen look.
"And Jack?" Lady Elamore suddenly said snapping Jack out of his trance.
"Uh, yes?" He answered uncertainly.
"Sit down, please."
Jack glanced down surprised he was standing and clutching the edges of the table with a vice grip. He released his hands and winced at the deep marks that would have fit perfectly around the edge of an table. Jack then sat down and rubbed his hands together to try to ease the pain.
After Thorgil left, the classroom was extremely silence. Except the voice of Madame Elamore's teaching nobody talked, nobody even dare to sneeze, ask a question, or cough.
When the class was about to end, Madame E. wrote something on a piece of paper and stuck it on The Wall Of Rules. Everyone was curious, but they knew better than ask is to look at it themselves. When Madame Elamore dismiss them and left the classroom half of the apprentice bards were standing around the wall.
Jack, Pattie and Patrick was part of them. In big bold letters the paper read:
NO CAVEMANS IN SCHOOL