Jerome
"I hope Trudy cooked us a feast today! That quiz was really hard", Alfie tells me. He is clearly not in a better position than I am. Well, I think I passed the quiz, but I'm not really sure. It was that hard.
"I know. It would help me get over thinking of that quiz and how I did on it.", was his reply.
I'm sure I did worse than Alfie, and we're talking about Alfie here, not Mara. Speaking of Mara, here she comes towards us.
"So, how did you guys do on the quiz?", Mara asks me, clearly in a cheerful mood.
"No, not really", I reply.
"You should spend more time studying instead of pranks and that kind of stuff", she suggests.
"Sure Mara, that would help me, but would it help Alfie?", I point towards him.
"Hey, that's not funny!", Alfie tells us as Mara and I laugh.
"Sorry Alfie," Mara tells him, though she knows full well that it was just a joke.
Well, that little joke made me feel a little better. We walk towards the house, with me and Alfie walking in a slightly faster pace than Mara, who tries to follow us while trying to read. She finally gives up trying to read that book. She now manages to walk at the same pace we walk, so she also joins in on our conversation with Alfie. We talk on the way towards the house, while maintaining a good pace. We need to get there first so that we can eat a lot of the food.
We get there just before lunchtime. I open the door, and enter the house, where I see Amber and a new girl already sitting on the table. Alfie and Mara follow inside, where they also see Amber and the new girl sitting in. Trudy comes out with the food and calls out to us, "What are you standing there for? It's time to eat!" Oh right, we came here to eat. We sit down on the chairs around the table and wait for the others to arrive.
Mara then asks the new girl, "So what is your name?"
"Oh, I'm Nina.", I hear her reply.
"I'm Mara, and this is Jerome and Alfie", Mara points to us.
"Hello, Nina!", I tell her. Alfie says the same thing.
"Nice to meet you, Mara, and you guys!", Nina waves to us. We wave back. Just then, another new student enters the kitchen. We all look towards him.
"Did I do something wrong?", the guy asks us, hands raised.
"No, it's just weird that there are 2 new students arriving at the same time.", Alfie says.
"What's your name?", Mara asks the new guy, to which he replies, "Uh, Eddie."
"It's lunch dears. Sit down and wait for the others, then we can eat!", Trudy reminds us, so Eddie goes to sit on one of the chairs and we wait. And wait. And wait. But no one else arrives. I see Amber bring out her phone, apparently to text message the others as to why they did not come home for lunch, to which Alfie remembers, "Never mind texting Mick, he told me he may not be coming home for lunch because of practice."
"You should have told me earlier", Amber complains. She must have already sent a text message to Mick.
A little while later, Amber receives a message from Patricia, which contents she share. "Joy and I won't be there for lunch. We need to buy some things for school. We're in town".
We start lunch until we eat to our hearts' content, which for Alfie meant too much food. We all finish eating in a short time, with the exception of Alfie, who tries to eat more. Nina and Eddie look at him with bewilderment, while Mara, Amber and I just laugh. It's really funny seeing Alfie try to fit as much food as he can inside his mouth.
Finally, when it was all over, we head towards the door to get back to school, but Victor stops us from heading towards school, saying there was a school meeting, and classes were suspended for the afternoon. Works for me. With that being said, I head back to our room, followed by everyone else, who heads to their own rooms as well.
Sometime later, I hear the door open and close, and hear Mick's voice (and footsteps) after that. He was heading towards the kitchen, and I hear him ask Trudy for something in the kitchen. I can't hear the exact conversation, but something tells me Mick was looking for something to eat. I can't really blame him.