The Misfit

Chapter 3 : Chorus Class

    The classroom was a large cool grey room across the hall from the back entrance to the Fellwood Academy Auditorium. The sound of songs came from the open door to the room. An after school club perhaps. As soon as we entered a cockatoo avian with very pale skin, white hair and yellow crest ran up and greeted my mother happily.

   "Oh my goodness Maria it's nice to see you!" He said. "What brings you to my sanctuary?"

    "Do you still have a spot open for another student in your afternoon class?" My mother asked.

    "Why yes I do!" He replied.

    "I was wondering if you'd take Ty. He loves being in agriculture but he is unable to really socialize. I'd think he'd be great in here being around the other students. He also has a lovely voice." My mother explained.

    "Ty?" He looked at me "So this is your son." I froze and I notice something when he looked at me. His bright red eyes. Red eyes? I've never seen an avian with red eyes. That's... Strange. That's Not the only thing I noticed. The strangle tingling in my spine. Was I scared of him? He reached his hand to me and smiled "My name's Alan McDowell, I'm the chorus teacher here. Nice to meet ya!"

    I shook his hand to be polite though when he turned around to address his class for a moment I shook my feathers out a little to try to shake the tingling. "Class!" Mr.McDowell said "This is Ty! He is a new student that will be joining us starting on Monday. Be friendly and come say hi!"

    Honestly I expected the same treatment I've gotten my whole life but, I got the opposite instead. They came up to me fearlessly and if anything were in awe at my appearance.

    A young female rock Python naga with an owlkin on her back came up to me first and slithered circles around me in excitement "Aw dude you look soooo cool!" She said. "Right Eren?"

    "Right on mate!" Replied a young orange-coated werewolf with an Australian accent on my right. She wore mainly green with a red rose in her mane.

     The naga stopped slithering around me for a moment. "My name's Madison Swieteck! The lovely lady on my back is my girlfriend Delaney Foy and that's Eren Azailia our Aussie bussie!" She turned to the rest of the students and pointed them out for me. "The other werewolf is Alexander Fleming, the two fennec foxes are the Beliziare brothers Romeo and Christopher, the little deer is Gwen Davis, the centaur is Sadie Valinstro, the unicorn shifter is Peyton Shaffer, the demon kangaroo is Klarissa Monroe the principal's daughter, and the heffer is Ms.Bossy herself Malinda Trainor... I think that's everyone. Oh! Except for Emma McDowell who is Mr.McDowell's daughter and her boyfriend Monty Hall. They're high schoolers but they come over to help us out every once and a while." 

    I just nodded and tried to smile though I still felt odd. First it was Mr.McDowell giving me the creeps and now creatures like me? I'm not complaining about being liked for once it's just-

    "Ty!" Mr.McDowell called breaking my thought process "Why don't you sing a little so I can find a placement for you?"

    "Placement?" I said puzzled.

    "Why yes. The different places in chorus depend on your vocal range. The two main groups are altos and sopranos. Altos are mid to low notes and sopranos are mid to high notes." He turned to the class. "Altos raise your hands." Madison, Delaney, Romeo, Klarissa, and Malinda raised their hands. "Sopranos." Eren, Alexander, Christopher, Qwen, Sadie, and Peyton raised their hands. Five altos, six sopranos.

    "It's easy! Just try to match the pitches the best you can." Madison said.

    Mr.McDowell had me stand next to the piano. As Madison said all I had to do was match the pitches he played on the piano. It was still stressful because of how self conscious I am. The notes near the middle were easy the lower ones became a little tougher. I could do the higher notes so long as they were mid range but, any higher and I had a really hard time. After I was done he determined I was mid to high alto.

    "Won't ya look at that! Our class is finally even!" Eren said.

    "Yeah now you can stop complaining about it bothering your OCD!" Madison teased. Delaney and Eren laughed.

    "Mr.McDowell may I sing my song today?" Klarissa said after things quieted down again.

    "Why yes you can!" Mr.McDowell said. With that Klarissa happily hopped to the piano and began to sing.