So today I went to the library in search for a book about tropical deciduous forests, but this kind of stuff is so rare … I guess it can’t be helped, not so many people love plants as much as my teachers... or my head chief. Hell not even Andrew likes theme, he does have a passionate hate for theme thou. As I was saying, I’m trying to get a project done by tomorrow and I have this lack of information going on so I don’t think I’ll be able to pull it through without having a one-night-stand with botanic and fitocenosis witch are both my heart subjects. Now let me tell you how I got here because I’m not the kind of person to offer for these things.
This morning I was woken up at 6:30 because the ‘classes’ were starting at 8 … why in god’s name do I need 1h and ½ to get ready, only my sister knows. Anyway, I got up, got ready by 7 and went to have breakfast, some yogurt with cereals (petty good I must say). Then I started wondering where are we supposed to group up and why the hell are those girls still not ready, we were supposed to leave … 5 minutes ago and it’s 7:55… I guess the place is pretty close. This place is wonderful in the morning, the fresh air, the blue sky and mostly the elegant aura… but I miss the crowded city. Finally, they were satisfied with their looks, now I can’t blame theme for taking their time, but making me get up so early is pure cruelty. Carla was wearing a green dress with yellow trimming and lime flowers, she had gloves and a lime ribbon attached to her braid; after her, my eyes landed on Mary who was dressed in a pink wavy dress, simple, strapless and elegant and then Ne-sama surprised me with her flower-patterned knee-length dress … did I miss the part with get a dress? Even Rory was in a dress, an orange-pink stripped one (ugly as hell, but I can’t judge her taste...) none the less, only I was wearing a red T-shirt with a ghost on it, a pair of grey shorts, snickers and my backpack. All the other girls were having elegant, heeled shoes or sandals and elegant mini-bags, it was demoralizing me a bit, but then Ni-sama and the twins came dressed in shorts, T-shirts and dragging their backpacks; told you I was more of a boy! Now everyone was present and we were looking from one to the other, no one knew which was the appropriate ‘uniform’ but we went with the flow and climbed into our cars, well Ni-sama’s and Ne-sama’s cars to be more specific. I have no driving license and we were grouped in 4 to 4 gangs. We were already late by 10 minutes, but Ne-sama knew a shortcut and got us in the 15 minutes of the academic be-on time thingy. It seems this kind of thing was usual for theme cause of my sisters… they wouldn’t survive this way in my faculty.
Now we arrived at the specified location, which was a school… literarily a bad joke. A Harry Potter looking school because on the outside it looked like a 10 room (6m2) building but inside it was huge! almost of the Rose Red mansion’s dimensions. The classroom isn’t hard to find when you have an angry teacher waiting with an annoyed Andrew standing at the entrance waiting for you. But the biggest surprise so far was waiting inside the class, at the dusty desks were waiting with bored expressions my best friends. The fact that I also knew some of the other people because they were also friends with my buds was negligible now. Even the teacher’s ancient outfit was unimportant, now the fact that my friends, the ones supposed to be in other towns, were here, this was vital.
Their shock was not so big, they were just happy to see me and I was happy to see them, it was also a plus that they were dressed in T-shirts and jeans. Seems that Poison, Bony, Black-gato, Secretzela, Brotaq and Dodo were the nicknames of my friends Cornelia, Oana, Constantina, Geanina, Michelle and Rodica who had grandparent in this town, it’s so strange they didn’t know that until now. We had a 5 minutes hug + wa-zup moment and then the professor cleared his throat and started his lecture. I remember him telling us this was a basic knowledge class and it was 4 times a week; his name was Iulius and he has a passion for Rome. Carla was making jokes that he was from ancient Rome and his clothes weren’t denying it. This class was all about culture, life and daily things and we got a test, the easiest test ever since it was about movies, music, anime, manga, books, basic biology, computers, food, drawing, paintings and other such things, eve the history questions were easy. Let me give you some examples:
1. What is the name of the main character in ‘The body thief’?
2. Who is the bearer of the ring in Lord of the Rings?
3. How many main characters does Jigoku Shoujo have?
4. Who was the first king of Romania?
5. Where is the longest river in the world located?
6. What are the most used OS?
7. Name one species of endangered animal from Europe.
8. How many books did J.K. Rowling write?
9. Name one Spanish dance.
10. How many characters does the Japanese alphabet have?
11. How many dialects are spoken in Germany?
12. Where did the first human appear?
13. What is the name of the best pop band in the Eurovision history?
14. What is the name of the main actress in Titanic?
15. Write the main geometrical theory. (triangle)
And so on, really easy, we finished in 2 hours thou because of the quantity of questions displayed. There were people that had difficulties and even Andrew complained a little. Iulius said that the test was going to get us in study groups and he even gave us homework: write a 20 pages essay about the differences between the European and Asian cultures with examples (the essay can contain only examples). At first it didn’t seem too hard, but the 20 pages long gave me a bad feeling, mainly because it was due to tomorrow. Than we moved to a wako -class, literally, it had distorted objects all over the place, along with floating and/or sparkling things. They said it was the magic class and everyone got excited, even the rational Brotaq and Secretzela were enthusiastic about it. The professor was an old lady that looked oddly like the cat-girl from Soul Eater (I never know her name); she started her class with the bibliography which was full of large books with long names. Then she sorted us in pairs and then groups: me + Dodo, Brotaq + Blackgato, Oz + Dex
Secretsela + Carla, Rory + Mary, twins
Bony + Poison, Adi + Christi, Nessi + Lavi
Ne-sama + Ni-sama
We than started practicing some transfiguration spells and they all worked, even the growth of plants and animals worked, it was creepy. And again we got homework: write the main battle spells that A. L. Severus suggested for dark matter. Now I don’t know what dark matter is, but my time is so going to be limited today.
I thought the third class would be some stuff with chemistry and turning things into gold but no, it just had to be some FMA alchemy class. The teacher, a midget pink-haired kid, started turning the lumps in our class in paper tables and made the stones on the tables become crystals. Then he started to make fire and water out of leafs and other things, really creepy! These time no groups or anything but he told us to practice with some paper in order to find our affinity, Naruto stile! I got water and wood, but the tutor said I have talent for all 5 elements. Bony and Poison only got wind and the disappointed look in their eyes said it all. You can’t impress with air or can you? Happily no homework but we have to practice using the techniques in a book.
The fourth class divided us because it was a specialty improve class, were the biologists were conducting experiments that combined cell culture and potions, the it experts were combining alchemy and searching the internet, industry was getting magic and alchemy together in order to make furniture and other things; the girls in the design area got to make dresses based on drawings and air/water and in arts you get to make paint draw by itself or sand to finish a sculpture or the piano to play Chopin just by thought and even the voice to imitate the songs of birds. It was amazing; sadly we had to test all sections in order for theme to find our true affinity.
For me it was the weirdest experience ever because the potion used to grow a person was accelerating the culture and it was making the organism to evolve and we got from a culture of bone tissue cells to make a real bone and the process wasn’t stopping. After more experiments we deduced that it was due to the basilisk blood that had amazing growth properties. It creped me quite a bit and I wasn’t the only one.
Then we went to home economics were we should have cooked but after Brotaque, Secretsela failed and Blackgato make everyone bow to her feet, they decided to let us clean and take rounds in cooking. It was fun because we mostly lacked of, it seems having experience by cleaning after others help, well Bony and Poison were left behind because they were ‘protecting the nails’ and stuff. And I’m not even mentioning my sisters; they were trying but not succeeding. After an hour we left the ‘princesses’, as Andrew and Nessi were calling the persons that didn’t finish cleaning, and went to the next class: free choice. Here we found a series of lists with things to do in 30 minutes, that was the first time I saw that we made so many classes in 4 hours … and to me it seemed ages!
I picked a black list on which was automatically written my name, Brotaque’s because she touched it next, Andrew who was just too curious and Lavi’s who wanted to joke but failed. A red cross appeared on it that meant that a group was formed and that the game could begin, we stared at if for some minutes and then started gathering things that could be useful on this trip. We had to climb a mountain, get a pink bird, steal a flag and get out a fortress… who can’t do that in 30 minutes?
The map was guiding us on a long, curved road, but we went straight using branches to climb, the first person that climbed, had to tie a rope to a rock or something in order for the others to fallow, the one leading was Andrew because me and Brotaq were lacking experience and Lavi was a coward. The fortress was actually a cottage or looked like one because inside we found a giant room where we had to play volleyball and football. Me, as the great player I am got us almost loosing, but Lavi saved the score with his encouragements and the consolidation of Brotaques passes and Andrews saves. All this time someone in the team was supposed to remember the music and answer the question at the end and that’s when I used my talents. And while some band was playing punk-rock famous melodies we had to play football, were things changed because I scored and the other 3 were just trying to protect the gate, all while screaming names of bands and titles. When I thought we were done, they started throwing basket-balls and the boys make a show while we had to sing traditional songs from all over the world, this got us the pink bird, but when Brotaque ‘borrowed’ the flag we were circled by the other players who were now dressed in red and white. They had swords and arrows and seemed ready to kill, but we run and the chasing was funny because we tried to camouflage ourselves, but the arrows looked automatic, they traced us all over the place. Finally we got out, but the enemy caught my shirt so I had to struggle to get out, but the thing was strong, thing because it has no face anymore, not even a human shape, it was a black flubber. I really thought it was going to tear me to peaces or drawn me in the blackness, but Andrew placed a hand on my eyes and pulled me while mumbling some things. I really don’t remember the way back, but Brotaque told me that we simply run and locked the door when we got inside the building. It seemed the black things could not survive without the flag, or so the book said, neither could they climb down the mountain.
Back at the building, others were barely starting to leave while some of the others were arriving, but we were the first to finish in 30 minutes, that was certain. We started chatting about what had happened when Granny came and told us we had to join her for tea. And it wasn’t just her, the duchess and her cat-like person were there, some samurai and a butterfly-person were also in that old-fashioned amber room. They said it was a relaxing time, but I beg to differ because none of us felt right. We were served green tea and tiramisu while everyone discussed our performance and the fact that we were so casually dressed. Andrew tidied his shirt so he looked a bit more … official, but not so much, Lavi got his hair tied up and got his jacket off to reveal a simple blue T-shirt, Brotaq simply looked at me and we started laughing. Now everyone thinks we’re crazy! The boys were having fun watching us get scolded by the older persons, but we just ignored the comments. The butterfly lady told us we will be leaving that old-fashioned map-tapped room, that started to intrigue me because of the animal/plants drawings placed on the maps and walls, and we will go shopping in order to bond.
The bonding failed after she left us for a red dress and a blond young man. We thought it would be better if we did window shop for a while, maybe they are supervising. And we were right, the teachers were watching from around the corner. After walking through some stores, we headed for the mall and there they lost us. With our plan completed we chose to have a bite, no lunch today and dinner wasn’t close either. While having a coke and some fried chicken we chatted about that night’s plans and Andrew remembered we skipped work… mostly that I skipped because he had excused himself and so, in order to save my ass a second time that day, we and mostly I had to go clubbing with theme.
As we were planning and arguing about fair and unfair and other things like this, the other girls and some of the boys found us. They had finished the ‘mission’, as we called it and the tea and decided to ‘bond’ with us so they tracked us down. Poison and Christi along with Adi and Bony decided to skip clubbing for a passionate night, while Nessi and Blackgato decided to ‘join us later’ aka after the passionate session, only Dodo and Secretsela were eager.
The group split in order to get ready and I headed home to get changed & co. On the way I regrouped with my bros and sis and they decided to have a wild night with us. Oh joy. At home I got online and checked my email where I found that I had to make a project next week for the study biology class that was going to be next Thursday. I decided that was going to wait until next Monday and that today’s priority was black matter and the essay which took me 2 hours. At almost 22 I was finishing ‘homework’, when Carla burst in while dragging Andrew who was all glamour. They both started yelling and gesturing me to get ready. It took me almost 1 hour to please theme, because they had a problem with my rock-casual attitude and even with my make-up. When they were satisfied, I was ready for a dance club, but luckily we went to an old music to new music place that entertained us until morning. Once again I had a student night where I danced and drank and danced again until I fell on my bed for a blessed hour of sleep… I was woken up again at 6:30, but I skipped and slept for another hour.
The second awakening got me a bit dizzy and the rush didn’t make me more energetic, neither did the classes. For the first class we presented the essay and had a debate on that theme that ended with Christi and Adi fighting, Oz and Lavi ripping the papers and Poison and Bony were having a friendship crisis. The second class got some desks burning; books became origami and potions made holes in the floor. But that was all forgotten when we figured out some genes with the help of magic during the third class. The fourth class was a pain for all the boys … well almost all, my sisters and Dodo know how to dance, while the rest of us don’t. Andrew swore he will never dance with Poison, Lavi couldn’t move after Bony tripped and got him a meeting with the floor, while Ni-sama begged me not to step on his foot for the 12th time that hour. Everyone was glad when we got to karate and we could let our rage and anger out on our partners: boys vs. boys and girls vs. girls. Blackgato got my ass kicked again just as she was doing back in faculty; Brotaque chased Secretzela all over the place while Bony and Poison really fought. The boys had fun, they laughed by our clumsy moves, it seems all of them had blue, brown or black belt and were just playing around. Later we got to learn kyudo, again the boys were already going pro while we were barely managing to adjust to the bow. After what seemed like ages, we were finally finished, I can’t say I don’t like archery but it’s stressful when people are laughing. Next course was about architecture and house design, we had to make and decorate our own house in 2D and than on the computer in 3D. Maybe one day I’ll show you my art, I’ll just say it went well and got me calmed down. In order to describe the house, I’ll say its normal, with 5 rooms at the 1st floor and 4 on the lower floor and a lounge in the attic; I also used pastels and objects from different cultures in order to decorate it. The garden was hard to draw because we had to make the flowers in detail, but it was fun…
Next we got to ‘study biology’ which meant to take care of some fish in the aquarium (I got white shark newborns and the rearrangement of a clown-crap aquarium), than we had to pot some plants: ……. and take care of theme for the next days. Afterwards we went horse riding which was awesome, I really loved it!
After class I had to go to work and recuperate Monday’s hours and to Thursday’s labor. It was just some cell culture preparation, changing the medium for others and making some new bacterial and fungus cultures. Nothing too hard until now, but I had to read data for the antibiogram, test the level of calcium accumulated in the medium for some cells and some UV analysis.
After work, we were invited to a party, Oz’s house was empty so he wanted to have fun with us. Pretty fun: dance, drinks, fun… until things began to get a bit to passionate. What do I mean by that? Well Brotaq was making out with Lavi on the roof, Secretzela and Dex were having fun in one of the bedrooms, Chris and Poison along with Bony and Adrian already left, Oz and Dodo were kissing on the sofa and I was just taking another sip of the votka when everything went black. Later I found myself making out with Andrew in the garden, that moment a lot of questions were crossing my mind, but I couldn’t stop, he was definitely a good kisser.
“.. hei, wait! Andrew, stop.”
“What now? What’s the matter this time?”
“What do you mean? Everything is a matter! What the hell happened? We were just having votka inside…” his face was definitely puzzled. “That happened hours ago… you don’t remember? You started kissing me and dragging me onto the balcony and than you tried to jump down … I cought you and we started making out. And slowly we were trying to get somewhere alone because all the rooms were busy with the others… You don’t like me… right?” his face was so full of pain I simply spoke my mind. “I do like you, but I don’t know you… and you don’t know me. Just give me some…” “Time, yeah right. I get it.” “Than was do you propose we should do?” “Let’s just be together and we’ll get to know each other. Isn’t that better?” “Ok, but…” kiss “But what?” kiss “Don’t…” kiss “let…” kiss “Ni-sama a..a..and Ne-sama…” kiss.. kiss… kiss “find out…” kiss “Don’t worry, they already know. They’re watching from the second window…” “And you don’t care, they’ll murder you!” “Soo… you do care, huh!?” Andrew smirked while slowly pulling me up along with himself. “It’s embarrassing! They’re still my family…” his smirk grew larger. “Soo? They won’t care or they’ll just be happy for you… let’s go back, you’ll get a cold with that dress…” I looked down and noticed my messed up black dress and her pulled down braces and blushed. “Or maybe we could just find another private place…” “Nope, not today, I want to go home.” “Don’t worry, we’re leaving soon anyway. It’s almost 5!” “Oh joy, another sleep-less night!” “What do you mean? You slept yesterday for at least 2 hours!” “Nope, there were 2 hours at most.” “Interesting… and even fascinating, whou woud have thought you can pull out a night with almost no sleep and tons of drinks? I’m impressed.” “You shouldn’t be, I’ve done better … without blacking out.” “I’m wondering, if that’s how you kiss when you’re unconstient, how do you normally kiss, better or worse?” I was shocked by this statement.
We went back inside and I fell asleep on the couch while Andrew was getting some lemonade. When I woke up I was warped in a blanket and cuddled in Andrews arms whilst he was whispering my name. We got up, tidied our clothes a bit and went to classes, that day Ni-sama and Ne-sama gave up following me and ‘taking care’ of me because ‘someone else is taking care of her now…’.
The classes were uneventful, we had alchemy, some biology and home economics were my cake made the boy’s hearts melt. Afterwards I went to work along with Andrew who was trying to be lovely-dovely, but Dea and Nao were enterfearing, they were having fun while Andrew was slacking off and had to make some insecticide and anitibiotic tests. Later we planned a self study session in the library where I read some great books about anthropology and mammals biology, 4 books to be exact. And afterwards we had to return to school for some art class and table maners class. The first one got me drawing some original characters, writing a sorry for theme and towards the end of the period I started making origami cranes and boats. As for the second class , we had to arrange a table in an English maner and do an ikebana decoration.
Later that night, Granny dressed me up in a big fluffy blue dress with matching gloves and a tiara and announced that I will attend a ball. My shoes had 5 cm tall heels and dancing was not my forte, but Andrew seemed to enjoy spinning me around. The ballroom was large, full with large demon pictures, quite creepy to be exact. That night I had only one glass of champagne, but the black-out happened again when I was chatting with Andrew in the garden, but this time, not only did I jump into his arms but also I bit his toung. He was shocked, I was shocked more, but my body was craving for blood, his blood. I knew there was a disease that required people to drink blood, but it was genetic and I didn’t manifest it until now. Surprisingly, Andrew didn’t get mad, he was happy about it and said I simply love him. Weird, if it would be the other way around, I would be freaked out. The rest of the night we stood outside chating and kissing, but at some point Andrew fell asleep onto my lasp and I was stuck, but it was nice, the air smelled of roses and his face was so peaceful. At some point he mumbled something in a weird language that seemed oddly familiar, but I’ll just have to investigate that later because he woke up, seems he has a biological timer for 4:40 in the morning at parties. He took me home and for the rest of the night I googled things for classes, read some manga and wrote on the blog.
The next 3 days were almost identical with the first 3 days of ‘school’ with the exception of me falling asleep in classes twice, burning some materials, destroying some samples, repeting a test 3 times because of being dizzy. But Sundy was a bless because I slept all day long, but now it’s Monday and my project isn’t finished even thou I searched the library and the internet, not even the magic learned earlier today helped, I’m not even mentioning the bio specialty thing… it’s useless. We also once again got in trouble today because of our mission where we had to guide pink unicorns to a tropical forest and find a rare snake and 7 species of flowers. Why did it have to be a wet forest and not a dry forest, that was what I needed! Anyway I’m off to bed, tomorrow morning will be the finish-up and I don’t want this week to be one of the one-night stand study + clubbing weeks.