The Medium

Chapter 3

  The car ride was silent, as I had expected it to be. I didn't even talk to Eli. I could see that he knew why, momma would've told me the same thing she always says. I didn't want to hear it again. I wanted her to believe me, but... she doesn't. 

   So here I stand at the entrance to the administration office. The name of this boarding school is KUBS. King's Unique Boarding School. I had looked into this school and apparently the students had wear uniforms, but they could do anything to their hair face.

  "Come on Lilianna." says momma. I followed her inside the building. A lady with short brown hair sat at a desk, she looked up at us when she heard the door close behind us. She smiled at us.

  "Hello, how can I help you two?" she asks.

  "My daughter is a new student here so she needs her schedule and what room she's in. " says momma.

  "Ah, yes let me go get Elise for you." she says standing up and walking off to go find this 'Elise' person. I looked around the room. There were a lot of paintings of the woods, flowers, and deer. I guess that keeps them relaxed, personally I would want more of a variety then woodland based paintings. Soon the lady comes back followed by another lady with long blonde hair and blue eyes. She wore a long sleeve white polo shirt and a black pencil skirt with black heels.

  "Hello. My name is Elise Watkins. I will be the one to give you your schedule and room number. Follow me please." she says. We follow her back into one of the rooms. She walks around her desk and sits. "Please have a seat." Momma and I sit down in front of her.

  "So Mrs. Watkins what does Lilianna need to do?" asks Momma as Elise starts clicking buttons on her computer.

  "Well first her name is spelled  L-i-l-i-a-n-n-a correct?" she asks.

  "Yes." I say.

  "Alright. And what's your last name?"

  "Novello."

  "Could you spell that for me?"

  "N-o-v-e-l-l-o." I say getting a weird vibe from her.

  "Are you getting a weird feeling about her too?" asks Eli.

  "And you're fifteen?" she asks.

  "Yeah." I say answering both questions.

  "Okay we put you where we could for the rest of the semester. If you have any problems come to me and I'll get it worked out. Not only am I an administrator, I'm a guidance counselor as well."

  "That's good to know." I say. She smiles at me and grabs a paper off her printer. She hands it to me.

  "This is your schedule and room number. Your room is room 110, it's on the first floor of the girls dorms." she says handing me a key.  "Keep up with it. It's your room key." she says as her sleeve on her right arm slides up revealing a fox tattoo on her forearm.

  "Do you see that?" asked Eli. I nod my head letting Eli know I saw it without letting momma and Elise know that I was acknowledging him.

  "Do you have any questions?" Elise asks. I shake my head.

  "How do we get to the girls dorms from here?" asks momma.

  "When you're walking out take a right and the next building on you're right is the girls dorms." says Elise.

"Thank you Mrs. Watkins."

  "Please call me Elise. I think you'll like it here Lilianna. Don't worry." she says.

  "Right." I say while standing up and following momma put of the room.

  "You go ahead and go find the room. I'll drive the car closer to the building." says momma.