Demigods at Rookwood

Chapter 4

Thalia

Scarlet, Ivy and Ariadne showed us how to get to the hall and we sat down on some very uncomfortable wooden benches.
I looked around the room. A few people were staring at us, though most people hadn't noticed us, or at least hadn't noticed that we hadn't been at Rookwood before.

I talked to Annabeth and the rest of the demigods for a little bit, before we stopped because a few teachers were glaring at us and making 'shoosh' gestures.

I started fidgeting with my uncomfortable uniform. I looked around, and so were the rest of the demigods.

After 5 painfully long minutes, there was a loud cough that echoed all around the hall. I looked, and saw Mr. Bartholomew standing on the stage.

"Good afternoon girls" he said slowly.
"Some of you may not know me. I'm Mr. Bartholomew, the Headmaster of Rookwood. My father founded this school, that he had set up to provide a proper education to his daughters, and those of his influential friends" He paused, took out a Handkerchief, and coughed into it for a few minutes, before carrying on. "You may be wondering why I've called you all here at this hour".

There was a murmur of agreement.

"I have been informed that some incidents have occurred while I have been away".

"He's going to tell everyone what
Miss. Fox did!" I heard Scarlet whisper.

"Well rest assured, now that I have returned, we will be doing things my way. Severely delinquent behaviour, will be punished by immediate expulsion. I will have nothing going on that is not directly sanctioned by me.
Is that clear?

There was a small murmur of agreement from everyone.

"I said, IS THAT CLEAR girls?

Most people jumped in their seats. I was starting to wish he would start coughing into his handkerchief again.

"Yes sir" we all chorused.
Mr. Bartholomew continued.

"The prefect system shall be reinstated, as it has been neglected in my absence. I will be selecting representatives from, Richmond, Mayhew, and Evergreen to be prefects. They will make sure everyone is following my rules".

I stifled my laugh. Mayhew? What name is that? It sounded like 'May you'.

I glanced at Scarlet and Ivy. They were looking at each other like, 'isn't he going to say anything about Miss Fox, or what happened last year?'. I was thinking the same thing. It was odd.

Mr. Bartholomew started pacing slowly.
"We will keep the past to the past, and look to the future. With that, I would like to welcome some new students"

Everyone looked around.
"Annabeth Chase, Thalia Grace, Piper McLean, Hazel Levesque and Reyna Ramírez-Arellano, would you please stand up"

I was going to tell him to just call me 'Thalia' and not use my last name. But something told me not too. Mr. Bartholomew has said that 'severely delinquent behaviour,' would be punished by expulsion. I doubted he would expel me for that 'offence', but I figured he was the type of guy to at least punish me for doing something as simple as correcting him, and I didn't want to find out what techniques he used for punishing pupils. So I bit my tongue.