Deck of Cards

Quatre

𝖈𝖍𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖊𝖗 𝖖𝖚𝖆𝖙𝖗𝖊

As everyone scattered around, trying to find the nearest seat, Alice can't help but wonder what Fleur was saying during the argument. The words "territory" and "violation of rules" did not seem quite friendly to her, more as something with a gang related subject. Nonetheless, she brushed it off her shoulder and paid attention in class.

A young male teacher walks in with a black leather shoulder bag, smiling at everyone. He walks up to the desk, sets his things down, and leans against the table with his back. 

"Hello everybody," he says. His voice boomed across the room, which startled Fleur. "I'm your chemistry teacher, Mr. Flaunders."

"Hi Mr. Flaunders." the class muttered. 

"Not a very energetic first period now is it?" 

𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖓...

Ten minutes before the bell rings and nearly everyone in the class has become bored and tired. Fleur twiddled with her pencil as she read the syllabus that was being passed. Alice was paying attentively at Mr. Flaunders' words. Sparrow and Jamie were chatting quietly about some nerve-wracking subject. Russo and Daryl were drawing something. It had seemed that everyone didn't care for anything at that point.

Alice looks back at Alistar, who was leaned back in his chair with a pen stuffed behind his ear. She looks at his chains that reminded her of Jamie's chains. As she gazed among his aura, he looks at her. Alice immediately looks away. He smiles. 

Five minutes before the bell rings and Mr. Flaunders had said class dismissed. Everyone scuffles around their seats to talk to friends and classmates while other girls surrounded Mr. Flaunders. 

Alice stuffs her notebook in her backpack, paying no attention to her surroundings. 

"Hey Alice. I'm gonna go talk to Jamie real quick," Fleur says to Alice, who just nods. "What's your second class?"

"Art I think." she replies, taking her schedule out again. "Yep, Art."

Fleur smiles. "That's good, that's Jamie's next class as well."

As Fleur goes up to Jamie, who was already at the door, Alice quietly groans. 

That guy doesn't even like me... she thought. 

She puts her backpack on and turns around. She feels her backpack hit someone. As Alice turned around to see who it was, it was Alistar.

"Sorry..." she squeaks as she tries walking away. But before she can go up to Fleur, Alistar grabs her hand, pulling her close to him.

"Such a beautiful maiden," he says as he looks her in the eyes. Alice tries to get out of his grip but he holds on even tighter. "It's too bad you're under Diamond's territory though..."

His grip hurt Alice's wrist, making her whole hand a reddish-pink color. Daryl comes in and pushes Alistar off of Alice, losing the grip. Alice nearly falls down but steadies herself.

"What did I say earlier, Cairstairs? Don't touch what the Superior Suit claims bitch." Daryl says, grabbing his collar. "You know what happens when you break the rules."

Alistar grins. "Whatever. Diamonds always cheat on Cutthroat Night."

The bell rings. Alice runs off to her next class, scared of what may happen next. 

𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖙𝖍𝖊𝖓...

Finding her seat in the rather small classroom wasn't very hard in Alice's opinion. She always liked being in the far left of the classroom, because it's where she can observe everything. She pulled out her sketch notebook from her backpack. It's the most precious thing she owns, because she has had it for since she was young. It contained all of her drawings from all her ages.