The lost trident

Chapter Three

Mind the language and spelling. English is not my mother tounge
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Three
"Bianca!!! ,” Mrs. James screamed from the kitchen. “Come here at once.” Bianca groaned from her room. Her mother would not just let her be. After all most sixteen year olds in her school didn’t do house chores any more so why would her mom still bother her. “Bianca!!!.” This time her mum shouted on top of her voice. “I’m coming,” she replied. Just then the doorbell rang. “I’ll get it,” Bianca said. When she opened the door she saw a young girl of her age at the door. “Hello,” she said to the girl. “Hi. Please is this Mrs. James residence,” the girl responded. “Yes, hold on” Bianca said to her. “Mum,” She shouted. “Someone is her to see you,” she continued “Who is that?”, Mrs. James asked.” “Sorry, what’s your name?” Bianca asked the girl. “Kiara,” the girl said “Kiara? What a strange name” Bianca thought to herself. “Mum, she said she’s Kiara”. “oh! let her in”, Mrs. James said. Bianca let the strange girl into her house. She had an odd working step as though she had never walked on land before. Then she stopped abruptly after taking a few steps. “You may have your sit”, Bianca said as the girl looked confused. “Sit?”, she asked. Bianca used her hand to describe what she meant by ‘you may have your sit’ before Kiara could understand. After all, she had spent most of her life in the sea and there was no such thing as a sit. Moments later, after an awkward silence between the two girls, Mrs. James entered the living room from the kitchen where she was attending to dishes Bianca was supposed to do. Wiping her hands on the apron she wore, she introduced Kiara to Bianca. “Bianca meet your cousin Kiara from aunt Heltida.” Bianca was trying to remember who aunt Heltida was.  “Aunt Heltida, my elder sister who lives in the carribean,” Mrs. James said trying to remind Bianca who the said Heltida was. “Ohh!!” Bianca exclaimed suddenly remembering the aunt Heltida her mother rarely talked about except that she lived in the Caribbean with her husband and her mother never told her she had a daughter. “So you are aunt heltida’s daughter”. Kiara nodded. “You know, I’ve never met her before.” “Uhm, Bianca don’t you have practice with andrea today?” her mother asked. “Oh yes I do. Thanks for reminding me mum.”she said “So kiara I guess we will talk when I come back” Bianca said heading towards the door. As she went she began thinking. Her mom was acting strange since Kiara came into the house. For instance, she had never reminded her of her practice with Andrea. Infact she was always against her leaving the house to see friends. Something was definitely up.
“Welcome to the land” Mrs. James said to Kiara. “Thank you.” “So tell me, what happened?” “She didn’t tell you?” Kiara asked “No, I only saw the sign.” “What sign?” “Oh you still have a lot to learn as a mermaid,” she said. “And I’m sure you know that your secret must not be revealed to anyone except you want to be banished from the pod,” she added “So what happened?,” she asked. Kiara told her the story. “So from what you’re saying, Poseidon has the trident,”Mrs. James asked after Kiara told her the story. “Yes ma,” Kiara replied. “Then we have to map out strategies to find him because for all we know Poseidon could be anywhere. Aquaville is a really big place”. “Aquaville?” Kiara asked confused. “Yes that’s what we call this land,” Mrs. James answered. “So there are other lands,” Kiara asked. “Yes but that’s for another day,” Mrs James answered trying to avoid further questions. “Let’s just focus on how to catch Poseidon.” After brainstorming they got a solution. “So you are going to attend Bianca’s school and check for Poseidon while I’ll check at my work place.” Mrs. James said. She worked at a laboratory as a zoologist specialized in aquatic animals. Of course she exceled because she was once an aquatic animal herself. “Hey babe I’m back,” Mr. James said as he entered his house. “And who is this?” he asked as he saw Kiara sitting in the living room with his wife. “Welcome dear,” Mrs James greeted. “Honey, meet Kiara, the girl I told you was coming from Heltida. Kiara meet my husband, Lance,” she introduced. “Kiara nice to meet you,” he said extending his hand for a shake but Kiara did not understand the gesture so she kept on looking like a dazed person. “Uhm honey, Kiara does not understand our ways yet,” Mrs. James said trying to save the situation. “Okay that’s true,” he agreed.
The next day, Mrs. James told Bianca that she would go to school with Bianca. “Seriously mom,” Bianca said. “Yes, seriously,” her mom replied. Then Kiara came out in some undies Mrs. James bought for her. “Kiara where are you going to like that?” Mrs. James questioned in surprise. “To school of course,”she replied with confidence. Bianca could not hold back her laughter and her mother gave her a disapproving look. “Sorry mom I can’t help it,” she said amidst the laughter. “wait do you come from a primitive village or what.” “Bianca!” , Her mother called her in her high pitch voice he uses whenever Bianca says a foul word. “Kiara we don’t go to school like that. Come let Bianca dress you up”, Mrs. James said in a very soothing voice. Bianca took her to the room they were sharing and gave her a nice outfit. “Now this looks good on you,” Bianca said. “But seriously is that what you wear to school where you come from?”she asked. “You can’t understand the culture of where I come from culture,”Kiara replied. And the duo left for school.
Aquaville high school was located at the centre of the town alongside the shopping mall and the church, a catholic church. So Nina’s crecesnt was a very busy street. “Welcome to my school,” Bianca said. “There are a lot of people here,”Kiara said. “Of course, this is a public school,” Bianca responded. “Public school?” Kiara asked. “Don’t you get or don’t you speak English where you come from?” Bianca asked. Kiara just looked at her not understanding anything. “Okay a public school is a school supervised by the government. Get it?” “yea”. The bell rang and before Kiara could ask any question, Bianca dragged her to the class for the first period. Biology.
“Today, we will be looking at the various habitats we have,” Mr Jones the biology teacher said introducing the topic of the day. “How many types of habitats do we have?,” he asked. No one was ready to answer everyone looked at him as though he was not speaking the language they understand. As he was scanning round the class for who to call, he spotted Bianca and Kiara whispering to each other. “Miss Bianca can you answer the question?”. Bianca didn’t hear the question and she began to stammer. “Can you repeat the question?” Bianca said. But mr jones attention wasn’t on her anymore, it was on Kiara. “You are a new student, right?” he asked. “Yes I am,” Kiara responded “Name?” “Kiara.” “Hmm, nice name.” “Anyway as I was saying,” he continued forgetting that he asked Bianca a question. 
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