Harriet Roswell and the School of Witchcraft

Chapter 8

He didn't talk until they'd walked far enough down the corridor, to the point where Mrs MacDougal's echoing voice finally vanished. Then he started talking.

"I'm supposed to give you folks a tour, welcome to the Red house. I'm Tyler the prefect, and I will nark on you. The headmaster gives me money every time I do it, given there's proof. History lesson 1, this entire school exists because of our current headmaster, so have some respect. History lesson 2, the headmaster originally tried to make enough houses for every colour of the rainbow, but then he found out that was way too many, so our schools house's colours are now red, orange, yellow and green. The other houses tend to pick on green, but thats just because we're jealous they got the good colour. If you go outside wearing your house's colour you're going to look like a real neon bitch. I f**ked Jacob Harrison in that room" he points to a room labeled library.

"Is there anytime we need to wear our house colours?" Olivia asked.

"Sports day, spelling bees and those weird quizzes. Our houses don't matter the rest of time, despite teachers trying to encourage some friendly competitiveness between us. We do get house points, at the end of each week the winner of the individual week get some sweets or a treat brought to their form. Sometimes its food, sometimes it's a film thats just been released on Dvd or a game, you know something you'd want. At the end of the year the house with the most gets 5 school days to take off during the year. A lot of folks just use this to extend their half term holidays, others use them as mental health days, or for times they've forgot to do their homework. The year before yellow won, most of their group saved their days until the end of the year and then had a 3 day summer holiday party before they left." Tyler points to another room labelled 'secret library.'

"Made out with Hikaru Ice in that room."

"Why is it called the secret library?" Trisha a girl with a blonde pony tail sharply pulled back asked.

"It's just to let you know that those books are known for being racist, or sexist anything along that line. It's more of a hey, maybe don't say you want a relationship like 'Lolita', thats from the secret library so you probably haven't understood it Christina. There's also stories with unhealthy relationships. Freedom of speech and creativity is very important here, in essence all books are allowed but some are segmented, you can go in there though, any year is allowed to take out any genre if thats what you want. There's a lot of sci-fi written by men in the 90's in there. We got 'Lolita' and 'Mein Kampf' stored at the back, below it is '50 shades of grey' I'm telling you now, the librarians terrible, don't mention it to her though, she'll take your guts out. Top tip if you're going to read 'Mein Kampf' do it in the library and don't take it out. The teachers will watch you for days unless you're a history student. Hot tip: judge on the book, but research an author before you give them your heart. I've recently secretly moved a book from the library into the secret library."

"Why?"

"I came in here a young whippersnapper alone and found a friend in a book. I researched the author and it all looked clear, they even appeared to support the 'gays', but it was a lie. God I purchased so much merchandise. The authors not a 100 years old, the author has every opportunity to educate themselves. My bezzie Alexia has never done anything to speak over the abuse suffered by women, but now her words are just one more excuse for a transphobe to hold up. Broke my heart. F**k her." He pulls his hair back and then shrugs "William Shatners in there too."

"The space guy's book?" Trisha asked, and William Shatner a fat man with short curly hair pressed his face against the small window in the door.

"Let me out" he cried.

"No, fuck you, you can stay in there until you apologise." Tyler yelled and punched the window cracking it. Harriet turned to Romero.

"What's happening?" Harriet asked.

Romero shrugged "that could be Elvis Presley for all I know."

"Yeah, I mean we're probably going to the sued" Tyler said and he continued to lead them down the hall "I don't see how that was a personal betrayal, everyone knew he was an ass, but the headmaster seemed pretty pissed. So he invited him over and locked him in there. I don't know how he's going to sort that out." Harriet pulled out her phone and typed 'William Shatner' into it. The picture of him did have a resemblance but she couldn't say off handed from that glimpse if it was him.

Tyler pointed to the right, and to the left, sometimes pointing at walls, sometimes pointing at doors.

"This whole hallways full of extra curricula's, the signs are self explanatory" Tyler points to the computer room "those all run 'doom'. Lost my virginity under those desks."

"Oh for gods sake" Alex a short boy with brown hair, freckles, and teeth that overlapped in a cute way said "do we need to-"

"Child, it is absolutely necessary you know what rooms I've made out in" Tyler points to the next room labelled music room "you do not want to know what I've done with some of those drumsticks."

"Are all the prefects massive sluts?" Christina asked.

"I don't know, are all you bitches slut shamers?"

"Where's our dorm?" Romero asked "my bags kind of heavy ."

"The other side of school. Probably should have gone there first, but I need y'all to listen to my tour first." The group groaned.