Gifted

Chapter Fourteen Emily

After transportation class and elemental class, there is Music and Studies periods.
What in the world does Music have to to with magic, powers, and transformation! What the heck will be the goal of this class!? Oh gosh...
I sigh loudly, when Taj comes over to me. He says:
"Um, hi, what's the matter Emily?"
I'm confused, a boy has never talked to me in such a caring fashion. I don't know what to answer, so I say:
"Nothing, I'm fine, thanks"
He look sad, then walks away, and goes back to the "group".
I'm alone, again, until Cecelia comes up to me and leads me to the next class. It's music:
"I can't wait.....!"
I say in a super sarcastic voice.
"Hihi, yeah, me neither!......."
Sarcasm.
We walk into the classroom and see that our teacher is already here. Her name is Mrs Kochanski. Okay, interesting name there, almost our whole class giggles and makes fun of her last name. I don't; I don't make fun of people, and if I do, I do it in my head. My mind goes back to the class when I hear a very sharp and distinguished voice:
"Okay, my name is Mrs Kichanski and I will be your Music teacher this year."
She seems strict, uh oh.
"We will start by a little introduction to our fellow comrades. If you please, say your first name, your last name, and lastly, a thing or two about your beloved family"
Wait- what? Does she want us to feel bad? Why does she want us to talk about our family and say that is was beloved. Why? But, we have no choice but to start. The first person is Aaron.
"Hi, I'm Aaron, Aaron Sigent. Um, let's see; a thing or two about my family.......? Um, my parents are both teachers? Is that good?"
"Yes, yes, very good. Excellent! Bravo! Bravo! Good job Aa- what has it......"
"Um, Aaron"
"Yes yes, very well, Aaron. Now, who is next? YOU!"
She is pointing at Cecelia. So Cecelia says:
"My name is Cecelia Dean, and-I I....pass. I'm not very comfortable saying this."
We all turn to her, and see that she has small tears in her eyes. She's looking down to her lap.What's happening? Why isn't she comfortable telling us a bit about her family? It all continues, but no one else other than Cecelia says 'pass'. I still wonder why she said that, I'll have to ask her later...when we have some alone time.
Next class, there's Studies period. I wonder what we'll do in that class.....?!
The teacher is called Mr Bolifo and he isn't not serious at all!
He tells us that in this class, we normally do homework. But, for the first few days, we don't have any, so we just get a whole class of free time! Yay! Everybody cheers when he says that. We decide to have a kind of mock battle, but it ends up with Cecelia, Hazel and I kind of team ing up against Hazel, Rachel and Aaron. Only a few people are neutral in our group, including Taj and Zayne. The very air is tense and somehow, I feel that this is not going to be good. But, nothing really happens. We sometimes stare at each other and signal the other team to give up. But they don't, and they never will.
They do the very same, but we don't give up, we don't loose the game, but we don't win either. During the time that are mock fighting the others, Cecelia and I take a break, sit down and chitchat. We talk about how bad we felt about Victoria, and, in addition to that, it wasn't even her who lied, it was her parents!
We also talk about the place, how it's organized and she even agrees with me about my "no technology" theory. About how it's for security reasons that we couldn't have any phones, etc.
She tells me to come over some time.
We also goof off about the school, and make fun of people we probably won't ever see again. I'm happy to be able to speak normally with Cecelia again. Before,she'd just hang out with that mean popular group and I was scared that she would turn into one of them, even though she is probably the total opposite as them... Or maybe not...It feels like it's back to normal again, but it's not, when I see Hazel stare at me. She and Rachel are sitting at a table together, and she grimaces in disgust and sticks out her tongue. Then, she turns around to tell Racheal something. She giggles.They think I can't hear them, but I can, this is what I can distinguish:
"Oh my god! At first, I thought she was pretty, but oh my god she is ugly! Ooh, look at her, look at her and her beloved friend, the one who betrayed us. They are the two most unfortunate girls, I mean look at them! No one will ever like them, they are so stupid, I mean like wow! But, sadly, they think that they are the best, but they are just two little idiotic, ignorant girls. And poor Julia! She's friends with them.." Now,they are done, I turn to Cecelia, and she nods, not knowing at all what to do. She heard it too, so much for discretion! She has tears in her eyes. But I don't know if they are just there from Music class or if she also heard Julia and Racheal talking. I mostly think that it's because of the two girls! They were so mean!
I feel disappointed, by Cecelia. Those girls were her friends, how could she? How did she even become their friend?
Well, now I'm clearly much happier with Cecelia, just for me and no one else to take her away from me. When class is over, we walk out silently. I start having the feeling of missing my family. My family back home, back in the normal world. I stick with Cecelia, but I feel a little like she is trying to avoid me. I continue following her, no matter what happens to her and me. When we get in front of the dorms' doors, we separate. Both of us go into our own room, and do whatever we have to right now. Next is dinner, and then we go to bed.