MPHFPC Randomness

MPHFPC Children at School

A little story of what happens when you let loose the lions. In this case, the peculiars in the school. All with original characters.

A typical, boring school day for Jacob was a new and exciting experience for the peculiar children. He had trained them for a few months how to properly act in the 21st century. Now he, and hopefully the peculiars, were fairly confident on taking the next step: going to a public high school. The peculiars weren't very keen on meeting new people, but they blended in well with the school by pretending to be average high school students. They eventually made a few new friends, who were deeply interested once they found out that the peculiars were British exchange students.

Throughout the days spent in school, nothing too eventful happened besides the peculiars messing around with each other during lunch and aggravating Ricky as much as possible. But this particular event is what Jacob likes to look back on.

This happened during his history class, with a teacher that no one in the class liked. He had a bald spot surrounded by his straight brown hair, which was starting to grow gray strands, and his name was Mr. Gareckk (with two "k''s for some reason). Whenever a student slightly misbehaved, he'd insult them in front of the class, sometimes resulting in the student crying and leaving the classroom. For some reason, he seemed to especially dislike Jacob as the teacher would take any opportunity to berate him when Jacob would speak. Ricky, who sat next to Jacob, would occasionally defend him, leading to the teacher berating him too.

All in all, Mr. Gareckk was known by the students as the biggest asshole of the school and it was a miracle he was never fired. Now all he had to do was deal with the peculiars. The only ones who had Jacob's period were Millard and Enoch. Millard sat behind Jacob and Enoch was close to the back, surrounded by empty seats. Just the way he liked it.

While all the students had their notebooks out, Mr. Gareckk was lecturing everyone on the French Revolution, going on a few tangents about Napoleon being egotistical. Not many of the students paid attention but pretended to anyway so as to not aggravate the teacher. Ricky didn't care and had his headphones on, listening to Gojira's The Link album. The teacher noticed him headbanging slightly with wireless headphones on and decided to snatch them from his ears.

"Hey!" Ricky called out, glaring at him.

Mr. Gareckk smirked down at Ricky. "I wonder what you're listening to that seems to be more important than what I'm teaching you."

Ricky pretended to be hesitant. "Um...let me think...music?!"

"Oh really?" He temporarily slid Ricky's headphones on his ears then took them off. "You call this"―he pointed at the headphones—"music?"

"Yeah! What's it to ya?"

"Sounds like a bunch of screaming noise to me." Mr. Gareckk placed the headphones in a drawer under his desk. "That stuff will rot your brain, kid. That ain't real music. Haven't your parents ever taught you to listen to stuff from Mozart or The Beatles? That's real music."

Ricky looked ready to snap the teacher's neck.

"If it makes you feel better, Mr. Pickering," Millard whispered in his ear, "I like your music."

"It's not even that," he whispered back. "He stole my damn headphones."

Mr. Gareckk batted an eye at him, then averted his eyes to the classroom. "Anyways, onto our lesson..." He was in the middle of his lecture on Robespierre—his explanation of history was noticeably disjointed—when Enoch raised his hand and made monkey noises. Mr. Gareckk slowly turned his head to glare at Enoch.

"What? Why are you interrupting my class time?!" A few students giggled at the teacher's outburst.

"Er...I forgot. Sorry." More chuckles.