I sprang up with the empty plate hanging down to my side and went to throw it onto my bed like I would a shuriken. "Woah!" Silver shouted "Don't break the plates!" I laughed and threw it anyway making it curve around him and then land onto my pillow safely and without a scratch. "Not all Greeks break plates Silver!" I laughed again and pushed my bed right up against the wall next to the window, the foot of my bed just touching the curtains and Noir did the same.
The boys left their beds where they were opposite each other like ours and we started decorating the walls. "I overheard Ruby saying they had make bunk beds! How much stuff did they have with them?" I laughed and turned around to where Noir was putting a life sized cardboard cutout of the female ninja from the film Kill Phil up and I shook my head. "We are not having bunk beds!" Noir shouted "Someone's gonna end up getting hurt!" Horati was precariously hanging up a huge framed picture of a weird blue hedgehog thingy on the wall above his bed and I shook my head. "Probably Horati have you seen how big that picture is!" I laughed and he smiled at me happily. "If I was hanging that up I'd be dead in a minute!" Horati laughed "I'm sure you wouldn't and anyway I'd happily help you. That's what team mates do isn't it?"
I grinned and nodded happily. "Though I think I'll let you put up your picture by yourself I don't want to somehow kill the team leader cause I can't hang a picture straight." All four of us laughed and turned around to carry on with our decorating.
"What on remnant is that River!" Horati laughed a few minutes later and I looked around confused as he pointed at my hand where I was holding a teddy of a Beowolf with half its face ripped off, the red stuffing inside falling out of the bit marks. "This is Gerald, he's cute don't you think?" I scanned across the room but everyone just shook their heads smiling and Silver laughed "Well at least we know you aren't scared of much if you can sleep with that!"
I huffed but smiled and pulled out my posters to tack up on the wall. After what seemed like hours of careful placement of my posters which ranged from the size my hand to full body pictures of my favourite celebrities I stood back and jumped up onto my bed. "Finally, the River Zo wall of stuff point 7 is complete!" I looked across the room to where Noir was stood on her bed admiring her own wall full of pictures, all of them from horror movies and little newspaper cutouts of the biggest murder cases throughout the past 5 years.
Horati had more pictures of the blue hedgehog along with other obscure film and TV posters of superheroes but nowhere as near as many as me and Noir, the small space we had above our beds overflowing with pictures, some of them signed, and some just rough cut outs from magazine and comics. Silver on the other hand obviously had a favourite show. There was a huge floor to ceiling poster above his bed with deep red and silver swirls on in the shape of a sci-fi nebula. In front of it was an old police box not seen in remnant since the invention of the scroll with the words; Keep Calm And Basically Run, written underneath. He was sat underneath it and seemed quite impressed with the huge poster above him, a fez balanced on his head.
Horati shrugged at the fez approvingly "I guess they're kinda cool." He looked up at my mammoth collection of bands and squinted "Are those men wearing eyeliner?" he asked smiling and I went bright red trying to stand in front of the worst of the singers with black lipstick and flat ironed dyed hair. "It's cool ok!" I shouted "Your squirrel things not much better." I muttered and he pointed up at the blue things. "River, seriously I know that you know it's a hedgehog." I stuck my tongue out and we all turned to look at Noir who looked very happy considering she was going to be sleeping under decapitated heads and murderers.
I shook my head smiling at my awesome team mates, especially at Horati since I now knew he wasn't going to be like the last friend I had tried to fight with. 'I can't keep thinking people will hate me' I thought and made a mental note to stop being so hostile. I tried to put my headphones in, determined to listen to my bands and forget all about my past but Silver had noticed the time and so had Noir. "Guys we gotta go to the next class already come on!" Noir shouted, already at the door. "Yes come along Pond, sorry I mean River." Silver shouted from down the hallway and I ran after my three teammates tucking my headphones with my scroll into my utility belt.
As everyone slept that night I stayed up and did all the work and more for Professor Peach. By the morning I had slept for 3 hours and had written a thick binder of possible uses and experiments for the Red Sap along with diagrams of how these could be achieved. Noir got up first, filling the room with the rich smell of her characteristically black coffee, the same colour as her black leather armour. She noticed me still half awake and sat up in bed with the binder open on my lap. "Hey River you want some coffee?" She asked holding it up to my face and I pulled away quickly as I was bombarded with the smell. "Remnant no! That stuffs vile, I need something fizzy to wake me up." She laughed quietly and grabbed a bottle of pop from under her bed, passing it to me and pulling my binder onto her own lap, sitting on the edge of my bed.
"Woah River you nerd! This is bound to make her let us back on the Forever Fall trip, we can take it to her today before first lesson!" I nodded sleepily grabbing a pen from my bedside table and quickly finishing off the last paragraph in the book. "Those two better be grateful." I muttered and she laughed and nodded, "I sure am." She held out her hand and I stood up, yawning loudly not caring if the boys woke up and grabbed my knee high socks and the rest of uniform. I gave a sock to Noir and she walked silently over to Silver understanding instantly what we were going to do and I walked next to Horati. I held up my hand.
Three. Two. One!
SMACK!
Both boys shot up in bed as the heavy woollen socks smacked them in the back of the head and Noir and I ran as fast as we could into our bathroom and locked the door, falling against it laughing, tears streaming down our faces. "Could you see their faces Noir?!" she nodded and wiped away her tears and trying to calm down her breathing. It didn't work as we could hear the two boys uttering confused and one of them fell over.
After some time, the boys realized it had been us who 'attacked' them and started banging on our door which didn't budge at all. They took 5 minutes before they worked out that we wouldn't be coming out for a while and finally left to get ready before class. "You get changed in that side of the room and I'll go over here and we can just look at the walls." I out forward the idea and within a few minutes we were both fully dressed in our uniforms and ready to brave the boys.
When we opened the door neither boy was around and they must have been in the bathroom or just already at class. "Were going to see Professor Peach. See you in class boys!" We called before leaving towards her class room.
I handed my binder forward and the professor flicked through it quickly, laying it down on her desk and glaring at us over her glasses as much as she could considering she was only slightly taller than us. "You can go on the trip but you will be staying by professor Oobleck's side the entire time, no objections, and no running away." I nodded happily at her and her face softened. "You girls seem like very capable huntresses, I hope you can reel those boys in before the day that I tell them off and you're not there to help, you need to work more as a team and trust me I do not take slackers lightly in my class." She spun around on her heel and left the room.
"Well that went well." Noir said and I watched the door swing shut. "Yes… Yes it did."
Fight scene and a school trip next! Double trouble! Still no Greek but next chapter there will be. Cookies to whoever can name all the references in their rooms. review or PM me what you think and I'll answer the ones you guys don't know next time- Tschuss