Thief

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The same two sharp knocks came on my door early the next morning.

"Good morning sleepy head." Carlos smiled and I glared at him.

"I hate you." I snapped, running my hands through my tangled red hair.

"That's not the right attitude to have before the first day of school. Now go get ready, we need to go have breakfast." He scolded playfully. I hit him with a pillow before going to get changed.

We both sat on a table waiting for Jay, Mal and Ben to join us.

"Hey Carlos who's this?" A girl asked, blue tray balancing in her hands and a boy stood behind her. My hands nimbly shuffled the deck of cards that lay in my hands.

"Oh this is Jack, she's coming to school here now." She nodded.

"Well I'm Evie and this is Doug." Evie said motioning to the boy behind her before sitting down.

"Pick a card." I said suddenly to Carlos. He selected one out of the cards and looks at it, I nodded and he placed it on the top of the pile.

"Hey guys." Mal smiled sitting down next to us with Ben beside her. We all murmured a hello as I neatly shuffled the deck and pulled out a card.

"Is this your card?" I asked showing him the three of spades. He nodded before taking a bite out of his banana. I smiled secretly to myself before aiming and carefully throwing the card so it sliced the top of his banana off. He gave me a horrified look.

"You cut my banana."

"You can say that again." I said quietly to myself as I ate the spoonful of Coco Pops into my mouth.

"So Jack who's your evil parent?" Evie asked.

"Queen of Hearts." I said back. A loud bell rang through the dining hall and our group got up.

"Follow me I'll take you to your lessons." He gestured to the door. It was 'rush hour' so we joined all the 'royalty'. A princess stared at me so I dragged my fingers over my neck and snarled at her, she squealed and ran off to her lesson.

"First of all you will be practising your archery." He said, leading me to a small shed full of equipment. I picked up a bow and a quiver of arrows.

"Good morning Carlos." A jolly fat man chuckled.

"Morning Sir Maxwell. This is Jack, she's new here." His beady eyes darted over to me. He nodded briskly and walked off. Carlos looked confused.

"What's the matter with him?" I adjusted the quiver on my back.

"He's Alice's father." I said quietly. Carlos looked at me.

"What?"

"Alice, he's Alice's father." I growled as I knocked an arrow into place and let it soar right into the bullseye. I walked along, shooting targets as I muttered angrily to myself. My eyes flashed red.

"OFF WITH HIS HEAD!" I yelled, jumping and running along the roof, my red penknife in my hand. Carlos ran along beside me, trying to slow me down. I carefully jumped down and stood in front of Carlos, snarling.

"Look I don't know what's happened but just calm down Jack." The red in my eyes slowly died down to melt back into blue. I held my head, it felt like someone was hammering against my skull.

"What happened?" I asked, rubbing my temples.

"Eyes red, angry, off with his head, stuff happened." Carlos panted. I looked around.

"Come on let's just go to the next lesson." I said, grabbing his hand and walking stiffly out of archery.

"Welcome Jack and welcome to Goodness 101 with me the Fairy Godmother." A short lady said.

"Carlos has already done this class but we're just going to do it again for you." I nodded, distracted by a dog running along the field.

"Okay first question. If someone hands you a crying baby do you
A) curse it
B) lock it in a tower
C) give it a bottle
Or
D) carve out its heart?"
My eyebrows furrowed and I thought about it.

"Is it d? Carve out its heart." I cheered excitedly, FGM (fairy godmother) face palmed and shook her head.

"Try again." What would a prissy princess do? I thought to myself.

"Is it C? Give it a bottle." I said in a monotone. She nodded.

"Alright question 2. You find a bottle of poison do you
A) put it in the Kings wine
B) paint it over an apple
C) turn it over to proper authorities." I rolled my eyes.

"C." She smiled at me.

"That's good your getting better Jack." The bell rang loudly and I picked my bag up.

"I want to show you something..."