Black Cat

Black Cat-7

Balto may be some super-freaky-monster-magic-talking cat, but he slept like a dead dog. I was able to sneak out of my room around Nine thirty, I had slept barely in the time he had told me to go back to bed. I felt like I was being suffocated in there, I needed some space from this whole weird stupid mess anyways.

And what better place to clear ones head than to go to high school and deal with all the lovely distorted views of reality there. I mean it wasn’t like everybody had an overgrown idea of what was supposed to be and they definitely didn’t try and force it on others.

I made it to school in time for second period, which wasn’t all that bad. First period was simple, Math. And we were only doing study period so I wasn’t missing very much to begin with. Second period though was chemistry, which I needed to be in.

I pushed in along with all the other students in the midst of class changes, finally making it to my class room. The lab tables were all set up for some experiment that we no doubt would be doing later.

I dropped my bag down at my desk and slumped into the blue chair, I should have stayed in bed and slept. I felt exhausted.

“-Yeah, I heard he came from somewhere in Europe.” One of the blonde-heads in my class jabbered as she walked through the door curling one of her falsely blanched locks of hair around her fingers.

“I heard that he’s going to be joining this class. Isn’t that perfect” One of her lackeys giggled leaning in close to her.

Exchange student, hm. Sounded interesting, I couldn’t help but begin to create a person in my head. School was what grounded me really, without it I would be floating in a world of make-believe right now trying to figure what was left from right and right from down.

“Danny you’ll definitely get him. I mean if he really is as hot as they say he is, he won’t be able to keep his hands off of you” They all began to cackle as they moved into the seat farthest from the door and the teachers front work station.

I groaned sliding into my seat, on second thought maybe I could miss a few days and just wander the streets.

Who knows maybe I could pick up a talking dog next time. The bell rang and the last few straggling students moved into the room taking their seats. We waited for the teacher to come running in pushing up his round rim glasses and apologize to us in his British accent.

We all called him HP for Harry Potter because that’s who he looked like. He enjoyed the nickname and even stopped calling the class chemistry and started calling it Potions class.

                The door swung open again and in he came not as rushed this time, he was smiling and looking over his shoulder as he waltzed into the room.

“Good morning!” He called looking out at us, “Everybody I have some exciting news. Today we will be welcoming a new student teacher.  Everybody please say a nice hello to Mr. Bandit” HP stepped into the room waving his arms to the door as a broad shouldered brick wall of a man walked through the door.

He smiled and waved at us, my heart could have burst from my chest. He was familiar to me.

“Hello everybody.” He spoke in a deep bass voice that was more of rattling growl.

The girls in the room sat a little taller and the guys squared off their shoulders. I felt like I was going to explode, he was so familiar that it was nearly painful for me not to name him.

“Please though, Call me Sunny” He said with great big goofy smile that made all the girls giggle and snicker in their seats.

It clicked, this morning the one that hadn’t spoken he had been called Sunny. It took all my will power to stay in my seat and keep an impassive look on my face. I was shocked, why was he here?

“Sunny will be sitting in on our class and helping out,” He turned to look at Mr. Sunny Bandit who still held the teachers things in his large hands, “You can sit next to Sybelle, She’ll help you with anything you need” HP offered generously making me grimace.

I did not come to school to deal with this, I came to escape the alter-reality that just dropped itself in my lap in the form of a furry snappish, controlling little black cat name Balto.

“Thank you” Sunny set the Teachers things down on the work bench careful not to let the books slid off the top of the laptop or allow papers to fly out.

He then turned towards me who sat on the first row front row steps from the door. He strode right in sliding into the seat next to me trapping me against one of the supply closets.

“Alright, so those of you who have not handed in your experiment thesis statements and so on should do so now. Before you start moaning and groaning, I will not be expecting you to do any of the actual experiment today. I think in honour of Mr. Bandit joining us and the fact its Friday and nobody wants to really do anything, we’ll watching some Earth instead and work on Monday”

Blondie’s hand shot up, “Can we work on the thesis and stuff today while the movies on?” She asked chewing obnoxiously on her gum.

“Sure, if you can focus and work in the dark” HP said smiling broadly at her.

He pulled his laptop out from under the pile of papers and books and began setting it up for us.

“Hello Sybelle” Sunny said leaning down to look at me.

“Why are you here” I snapped feeling irrationally irritated by his presence.

“It’s part of Balto’s plan to keep you safe. I promise not to interfere with your school work. I’m only here to make sure you stay safe”

I blinked down at my desk my hands slowly curling and uncurling into fists, “I find it really hard to believe all of this.”

Sunny nodded his head looking around the room, “It’s understandable. Most people would have gone into shock seeing Balto speak. You are handling this really well”

I gave a shy smile glancing at him, “Thanks, I’m pretty good with surprises and shocks like this. I-I rationalize it the best I can”

He smiled at me and patted my shoulder, “Well you’re doing a good job so far, I take it Balto told you when you woke up”

My eyebrows furrowed and I shook my head pulling my hands off the desk so I didn’t have to watch them shake and tremble.

“Uh, sort of. He’s going to tell me more after school. But I know about him being a Feral-familiar thing.” I murmured looking away from him.

“Ah, so he told you the basics” Sunny sighed rubbing his forehead.

A loud monotone beep rang through the speaker above the door followed by the voice of the office lady, “Hello Mr. Larkym.”

Mr. Larkym paused the movie and stepped close to the speaker, “Yes!” He called back.

“Is Sybelle Vertigo in class?”

“Yes she is” He looked towards me.

“Could you send her to the office, the Principle needs to speak with her”

My heart plummeted, I began to go through what I could have possibly done wrong to get sent to the office for.

“Sure thing, she’ll be there in a minute”

“Thanks” The voice cut off.

Mr. Larkym, aka HP, nodded me towards the door. I grabbed my backpack and rose quickly have thankful to be away from Sunny. I rushed out of the room running into the hallway, This day was just going from bad to worse.