The Institute for The Extraordinarily Able

Chapter Two

 *THE GUY ABOVE IS CYRUS*

After the assembly I went back to my room to unpack before Elisa returned, luckily I finished up my unpacking right before she came to the room.   I walked to the dining hall to meet up with Winnie and the gang for supper and was confused when I saw the boy from earlier with them but I decided I may have been a little rude to him earlier and decided to not say anything. We all had small talk with each other as we made up our supper plates.

"So," I spoke up and looked over at Summer. "I was thinking about going to Headmistress before lights out to see if she'll charm the choker for me. Do you want to come?"  He looked at me and gave me a thumbs up along with a smile. If his mouth wasn't full of food I would have been offended. I laughed at his silliness as we all walked over to a table by the windows and sat down. I opened the container that held my salad and poured the French dressing into it.  I wonder why know one likes French dressing... I thought as I took a bite and practically moaned at how good it tasted. A slight chuckle came from the boy, I really should learn his name, and he shook his head at me while continuing to laugh; I rolled my eyes, how weird was that?

"Hey, Winnie?" I looked to her. She looked up at me and gave me the look that signaled that I could continue. "Do you think I could spend the night in your dorm tonight? I don't think your roommate should mine since we usually share a bed anyways and I really just wanna have a good rest tonight without all the stress of Elisa, like cutting off all of my hair, or something." I let out a slight laugh, and even though it was a joke, I seriously thought she was horrible enough to do something like that.

Winnie scratched the back of her head and looked at Summer, who shrugged at her and went back to stuffing his face.

"I don't know, Amelia. My roommate is really shy.." She said and then looked down at her food.

What? "Oh... okay." I said quietly and looked over at the boy and decided I should probably ask about him now. "Hey, What are you doing here anyways? You don't look Unusual." He was still looking at his book and eating, it was like he didn't even hear me. Rude much?

"HELLO?! Jeez, are you deaf or something?!" I said to him loudly and bitterly. A hand that I couldn't see nudged my shoulder, Damian.

"Woah, Amelia chill. Cyrus is probably having a dizzy spell, just think whatever you want to tell him. Don't be rude either, he's cool." He pointed a finger at me and took a bite out of his chicken thigh. I was confused but I shrugged and did what he told me.

"Hey, Cyrus... wait... is it Cy- Yes, that's it. What are you doing here anyways sitting here? You don't even look Unusual." I thought and Cyrus looked up at me like he'd just seen a ghost. He dropped his fork and finished swallowing his food before he answered me.

"Damian's my roommate, and I'm new this year so he said I could sit with you guys. You don't look unusual either but you're still sitting here." He told me, accent still as strange as ever. I raised my eyebrows, he had a point.

"Fair enough. I have Elisa as a roommate, as you all already know because the school apparently thinks I want to deal with her rude and narcissistic all year long. I don't understand why they didn't just put her up in the boys' dorms, because we all know she'd be spending most of her time there if that new rule wasn't introduced." I chuckled slightly and popped a cucumber slice into my mouth. I looked up after no one answered and saw that Winnie was awkwardly poking at her at her food, and the rest looked at me with cautious eyes. Damian cleared his throat and Summer looked like he was fighting the urge to laugh. With my luck she's probably right behind me... I put on my best smile, (mostly to hide the severe embarrassment I was feeling at the moment) and turned to face her. However, to my surprise she had Joe and Camilla on both sides of her.