Henry

Surprise, surprise! Henry doesn't have a dick!

"What?!" 

Henry brought her hands to her ears, ineffectively muffling the yells of surprise each boy in the class had emitted. She'd been told that the school had an unbalanced population of boys and girls, but she didn't know that this many boys dominated the place.

"But this is an all-boys school!" Marc yelled out.

Now it was Henry's turn to drop her jaw. She whipped around to Ms. Mayla. "An all-boys school?!"

Mayla grinned in response. "Not anymore! Mr Rottohorn has decided that Miss Willoworth here will be the first ever female student of Calleria College! This was approved by Headmaster Williams in his response letter. We're turning co-ed!" She pulled out a sheet from her folder and showed it to the class.

All the boys rushed forward to read the notice. They crowded Henry and Mayla, pushing each other out of the way to grab the sheet. Mr Gornwalle massaged his temples again. She lied to me! Henry seethed. She stepped to the side to avoid the masses, combing a hand through her dark hair again. One boy, Dylan, announced the contents of the paper after wrestling it from Tom.

"'It is now decreed that Calleria College is a co-educational institute! We will now accept female students onto our campuses and into our classrooms. We wish our students to have the most sociable and realistic environment to the reality outside of school, and in order to achieve that, we realize that both sexes must be present. Signed, Wilfred Williams. Signed, Thomas Rottohorn.'"

Everyone turned to stare at Henry, who had been leaning on the doorframe playing Angry Birds on her phone. 

"Dumb pigs," she muttered.

Mr Gornwalle coughed. She looked up from her phone and smiled awkwardly.

"Sorry," she nodded to Mr Gornwalle as she slipped her phone back into her pocket. "Nice to meet you all."

Mayla clapped her hands in happiness. Yes! Once Headmaster Williams returns and finds out that Rottohorn supposedly turned the school co-ed, he'll be out before Henry can recite the chemical formula for glucose! And then I get to be Deputy Headmistress!

"Well," she smiled smugly, "I've some work to do now. Treat her nicely, boys!"

With that, she waved goodbye and sauntered out the door. 

"Well," Mr Gornwalle coughed awkwardly. "Henry, why don't you sit next to Wayne? Wayne, put your hand up so she knows where to sit." 

A boy with multiple wrist-bands and watches put his hand up. Henry took her time, whistling languidly as she walked up the steps. She sat down onto the empty seat to the right of Wayne. The class stayed silent.

"Stop staring! God, you're gawking at me like you've never seen a girl before!" Henry huffed. She crossed her arms angrily.

"Well, we've never seen a girl with the name Henry before," Wayne shot her a dirty look.

"Your name means wagon-driver; I wouldn't push on names if I were you," she snapped.

The boy in the seat in front of her, John, asked, "But just out of curiosity, can you tell us why your name is Henry? Is it short for Henrietta?" 

"No," she mumbled.

"No as in you won't tell us why your name's Henry or no as in it's not short for Henrietta?" Tom asked loudly. 

"No to both," Henry said as she grabbed her bag to pull her books out. "Don't you have a lesson to teach, Mr Gornwalle?"

He snapped back to assertive-teacher mode and started rambling on about other shit for the rest of homeroom. 

Well, at least there's some hot guys in this class, she smiled wryly. Too bad they're busy staring at my legs. 

"Mr Rottohorn? I've given the new student a tour of the campus and settled him into his class," Mayla announced.

The man grunted and took a sip of his coffee, without looking up from his work.

"Um, I'll just be off doing my own work now, okay?" Mayla smiled.

Rottohorn just flipped the page and grumbled, "Hurry up then."

As Mayla left the office, she grinned cheerily to herself. Brilliant. He doesn't suspect a thing. She sat on her office chair, spinning around on it in happiness. Then she grabbed Henry's file from her desk and placed it in the lowest drawer.

"I'll plant it in his room later," Mayla giggled.

Back in the office, Rottohorn continued scribbling away on his work. His laptop chimed, breaking the silence in his room. Rottohorn opened up his laptop and stared at the blinking e-mail notification. After skimming through the e-mail, he set his mouth in a firm frown, with wrinkles creasing up the sides of his mouth and  his forehead.

"Looks like Williams is coming back soon," he muttered.

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Oooh, Mayla isn't as innocent as she wants the others to believe. What's going to happen once Headmaster Williams comes back?? Comment, vote, follow!! Thanks heaps for all the reads already! xoxo