The Legacy Of Jewelox

CHAPTER 32

     The next day at school, all the students were roaring about how unfair the junior match was. “What're they on about?”, I knitted my eyebrows in confusion.

     “Millington hurt our junior star player, Ben”, huffed Rachel.

     “Casy’s best friend?”, I grinned.

     She laughed and nodded. Ben's gotta huge crush on Casy just like how Ben's best friend, Zachary, has a big crush on Casy's best friend, Livvy. They're so adorable when they argue.

     The whole school was tormenting the staffs troubling them for a request of rematch next week. It was all down to our principal. If he doesn’t do anything about this, I’ll personally make sure his wife suffers from Cholera.

      When it was ICT, Rachel was a bit pumped up than usual. I kept a particular eye on her. The teacher entered class. She's the same teacher who teaches us math and my thoughts came crashing down.

     “Liz, how the hell do you draw this stupid graph?!”, Rachel, who sat next to me, groaned in frustration. Ms. Linda had just passed us after giving me a tick and she seemed to have heard Rachel. Sky was having a hard time concentrating.

     “Sky, you come here and sit”, the teacher pointed at the table next to Clementine. Sky looked up at her so fast, I’d have thought her neck got fractured. “W-wha—wh-why? I’m perfectly fine in this place, no worries”, swallowed Sky. We gaped at our teacher.

     “Yeah, why?”, me and Rachel harmonized our sentence.

     “Sky, go there and sit. You don't hafta sit with these two cartoon characters”, she smiled, ignoring our question.

     “Hey, that's mean!”

     “Yea, we're no cartoon characters! We're just like you, FYI”

     “And why do you hafta change Sky's place?”

     “Yea, I mean, if we were cartoon characters, then so is she!”

     “Yea, you can’t give us all mental abuse with math and then separate our friendship like that! As if it were picked from the trash can!”

     “Agreed, Rachel! If I become President one day, I’ll make a law against anything mathematical!”

     “First of all, you have to get out of those fantasy daydreams of yours”, laughed Ms. Linda.

     “Well, I’m currently reading a book that is NOT fantasy!”, huffed Rachel.

     “Well, you still read Harry Potter, Games of Hunger, The Town of Skeletons, Labyrinth Runners and many more”, the teacher smirked.

     “It's The Hunger Games, not Games of Hunger!”, protested Rachel.

     “And what is this Town of Skeletons? It’s City of Bones, and that's a book I read, not Rachel”, I defended.

     “And where in all seven heavens did you get a book called Labyrinth Runners? It’s Maze Runners and very much spectacular! Besides, there’s zero wrong in reading fantasy books!”, Rachel procrastinated.  Oh no… I get where she's going…

     “There are many wrongs in fact. It drives you insane and fantasy is totally fake. Even now, I can bet that you students are kinda like ‘waiting' for a letter from Hogwarts. You keep daydreaming about fantasy this and that and look where it's got you. You can't even draw a simple graph”, she replied.

     “Fantasy is NOT fake! I've see—”

     “Erm… What she means is, it’s TOTALLY fake!”, interrupted Sky while I pinched Rachel who realized what she was about to leak out and fled her hands to cover her mouth.