Barely An Angel (Completed)

2~ Not The Best First Day

“Alright, students,” Mrs. Bradley’s gurgling voice sounded throughout the classroom. “Today, we’re learning about the different classes of spells, and which ones you shall never use.”

One of the nymphs in the front of the classroom raised her hand. “Mrs. B., it’s the first day back to school. Can’t we, like, have a free day or something?”

Mrs. Bradley laughed, a sound like water rushing over polished pebbles in a stream. “Very funny. If all we were going to do today was have a free day, then school would’ve started tomorrow. Now, take out your notes, this is quite important.” Right as the last word left her lips, she lifted her huge water bottle to her mouth and began gulping down water.

I leaned over the aisle to Nathan, who had taken the seat next to me. “She’s a little intense, I forgot to mention. But she’ll grow on you.”

Nathan scoffed. “She’s nothing compared to the teachers I had at my old school.”

“Really?” I asked, my eyes widening. I thought there could be no teacher more strict than Mrs. Bradley. Once, she took someone’s binder and shoved it in this huge jar of water she keeps on her desk, all because they hadn’t written their name on their homework.

Nathan nodded. “Oh yeah, totally,” he vigorously nodded. I smirked. He hasn’t seen anything yet.

“Ramona? I trust that you’re not distracting Nathan?” Mrs. Bradley gurgled once she finished drinking. “It would be a shame if he were to receive a bad grade as a new student, all because you couldn’t keep your mouth shut.”

Oohs sounded throughout the classroom. I rolled my eyes. “I was just letting him know that you can be an unreasonably strict teacher. Thanks for proving my point,” I smiled smugly.

“I’ll not have that attitude, young lady!” Her voice rippled. “You’ll be heading to the principal’s office after class. I would send you now, but this is an important lesson that I wouldn’t want you to miss.” Nathan was staring at me out of the corner of his eye, a guilty expression on his face. I glanced at him, trying to signal that it wasn’t his fault.

She’s like this all the time, I mouthed at him, waving it away as if it were nothing. He just shrugged, before turning his attention towards the front of the classroom.

“Alright, now I expect everyone to be paying attention,” Mrs. Bradley sighed. “As I’ve said previously, we are learning about the different classes of spells.” She picked up a short piece of chalk and wrote 1, 2, 3 on the chalkboard. She then turned towards us with a smile on her face. “There are three classes of spells; Class 1 being the easiest, most harmless spell, and Class 3 being the complete opposite. While Class 3 spells aren’t necessarily impossible to cast, they can do a great deal of damage and have irreversible ripple effects. Class 2 is the happy medium; which includes spells that are more powerful than those in Class 1 but can’t do any damage. Well, they can’t do too much damage.”

I was practically yawning through all of that; the three classes of spells were pretty much common knowledge. But Mrs. Bradley loved teaching about them, so nobody stopped her. I looked over at Nathan to see if he was just as bored as I was, but was surprised to find that he looked very much intrigued and was hanging on to every word Mrs. Bradley said, scribbling it down in his notebook. I guess as a human, he wasn’t exactly familiar with the world of magic.