The light shone through the single window right onto my face, I groaned and rolled over. Why did I have to pick to only bed that the sun shone onto? I sat up yawning and checked the cheap plastic alarm clock on my bedside table that told me that it was 6:45 am exactly. I looked over at the four other beds and saw that three out of the four were still in use. The one next to me was the only empty one, I recognised it as summers, good I thought summer was the type of girl that you wanted to stay away from. She had bleach blond hair and blue piercing eyes she was the type of girl who could be your best friend one minute and your mortal enemy the next; there was all ready an entire section of my prank book dedicated to her.
Then their was charlotte who was basically summers minion, she seemed ok though, bit snide and rude but that was probably just because she was hanging out with the wrong crowd. Sally was a nice bubbly girl with a dark brown afro making her head twice the size, last night she had talked non stop. My fourth roommate is Lyra she is quite quiet and keeps to herself, she must like to write though because the whole night she was scribbling away in her notebook.
The other girls were stirring now, I slipped on my uniform and grabbed my satchel and headed out the dorm room door just as the bell signalling the start of breakfast rang.
I strolled down the corridors and into the hallway where I saw Robin and waved hello and grabbed his hand and dragged him down the corridor,the hallway was nearly empty as it was till quite early. "w-what I hadn't finished my breakfast I need my food!" I shoved a stack of toast at him to keep him quiet. It didn't work. "By the way that spider thing so not cool, had nightmares all night about its hairy legs - wait where are we going?" We had come to a stop at a door that read staff only, "didn't I tell you? I am your new teacher."
"Wait really?" He asked
"Ye sure, I am actually 32" I said rolling my eyes as I continued walking "And no this isn't our final stop, I need to know where the electricity room is Robin came to a halt turned around and grinned.
Thirty minuets later I banged into English class ten minuets late breathless. "Sorry professor," Robin said, "I was-"
"Please be quiet and go to your seat Mr. Loxley I don't need to here some made up excuses this early in the morning- not so fast Miss. Windsor," while the professor had been talking I had been inching towards a seat near the back, "Introduce yourself to the class."
I cleared my throat and winked at robin at the back and then began to talk "My name is Skylar Windsor though most people know me as the Black Widow." The teacher shot me a confused look so I barrelled on before she could stop me:
"I have murdered 19 husbands and have escped frojm prison 9 times I am now hiding from the government who plan to assassinate me whe-"
"thank you miss Windsor that is enough, I gather you will be great at fictional stories next year but now is not story time. My name is Mrs. McCarthy I will be taking you for English this year pleae take a set next to Miss. Bowman
I looked and saw that she was pointing to lyra relived that it wasn't summer I sat down net to her she gave a small hello but that was it I was sat down for maybe ten minuets when the bell rang.
The whole class jumped, apart from Robin and I who grinned at each other and looked at the teacher
"Good lord, is that the time?" She said glancing towards the clock which now said that it was 9:40. I glanced back at my watch saying it was 9:20 I grinned at Robin as we exited class and turned around to the rest of the class bowed and said your welcome in perfect harmony then we took of sprinting down the corridor until they were out of sight breathless once again. I took out my time table to see what we had for the rest of today:
English 9:00 -9:40
history 9:40 - 10:20
break 10:20 - 10:30
maths 10:30 - 11:10
maths 11:10 - 11:50
lunch 11:50 - 1:00
Latin 1:00 - 1:40
Latin 1:40 - 2:20
break 2:20 - 2:30
P.E 2:30 - 3:10
P.E 3:10 - 3:40
I groaned when I saw Latin "Why Latin," I said to Robin, looking up from my timetable. "We did Spanish at my old school"
"Really, go on then do some Spanishy stuff."
"Hola Robin sabes que puedes ser realmente anoying algunas veces y tengo otra broma perfecta para ti eres estúpido."
"Wow, what does that mean?" he asked
I snorted "You really don't want to know."
"Yes I do."
"No you don't."
"Yes I do."
"No you don't."
"Yes I do- oh fine by the way what why are you here"
"Err .. because we short circuited the bell so it would ring twenty minuets early and then went into the classroom and changed the hands on the clock."
"No," he said laughing, "I mean why are you at our school did you move or something?"
"No," I said clearing my throat, "I was expelled."
"Wait really? That is so cool, what did you do did you blow up a classroom or something? Because I have always wanted to do that but if it gets me expelled-"
"Come on lets go," I said avoiding his eyes as we walked down the corridor.
"But you didn't answer my question....nope I'm alone now," and he sprinted to catch up with me.
The rest of the day passed without much incident and we were sitting in the year nine common room when Robin tried talking about the subject again:
"You know you still haven't answered my question why were you exp-"
"Hey ben, are you ok?" I asked, partly to avoid robins question and partly because he did not look ok. Ben was Lyra's twin but the complete opposite; he was loud and outgoing but right now his face was tearstained and his eyes were wide and frantic.
"Ben are you ok?" I asked again this time more urgently.
"It's Lyra," he said.
"she's missing....."