Lapras Valley High – Hell Blastoise

Chapter Five – Joy and Rant

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Ashley frowned and kicked the wall, not caring about the pain rushing from her toe. She paced the empty room angrily, about to go mental. She had been alone for a day now, and couldn’t take it. She was worried about me, about whether I had burnt down the school yet with Fury.

Tears began to leak from her eyes, as she furiously walked around the room. Her anger was building up, and she was glad Sugar wasn’t there otherwise she might of accidentally gotten mad at the little Eevee. A knock sounded from the other side of the rickety door, and it slowly swung forward, revealing Principal King.

"Ashley," he began.

Ashley whirled around, glaring. "What do you want now?!" she yelled. "Last time you talked to me you gave me bad news! Now what do you want?!"

Mr King gulped. "I was just going to say that I’ve been able to fit you into Lapras Valley High."

Ashley stopped, and looked at him. "Really?" she gasped. Mr King nodded. Ashley let out a joyful scream.

*

I lay awake, letting the sunlight steam in through the window. Fury had already gone out, probably to see Nixie or get food. Kayla was using the bathroom; I could hear the shower running.

Last night I had managed to use that thing, and it was really relaxing. Even though I did accidentally break the handle to the hot water and leave a large crack in it. I got so mad because I couldn’t get it working that I lashed out at it. Lucky Kayla helped me work it.

This whole place was hard to get used to but I was slowly adjusting to the whole atmosphere. Kayla was turning out to be all right; just she had a snobbish streak that seemed to be like drugs, something permanent that you can’t get rid of.

This was all too weird. I sat up and looked around at the unfamiliar surroundings. I can’t become nice, nice doesn’t get you anywhere, I told myself. I had already broken though, made a friend (Nayia) and sort of was getting along with Kayla.

But being nice got you no where. You tried to be nice in Quagsire Heights and you know what happened? You were most likely to wake up either in heaven or in somebody else’s apartment tied to a chair, nude and gagged.

Not a pretty thought but just a bit of reality.

Kayla stepped out of the bathroom, dressed in a denim skirt that reached her knees, and a short green top with a picture of a Chikorita grinning on it and scrawly writing reading ‘Chikorita Chick’. Her hair was wet, and her top was so short it showed off practically all of stomach, coming to a stop just below the beginning of her chest.

"Morning," she greeted cheerfully.

"Morning," I replied, sitting up. I watched as she went over to the mirror and began to brush her hair. "Um… can I… I mean, are you … do you still need…?" I began awkwardly, pointing to the bathroom with my thumb.

Kayla saw me in the mirror and grinned. "Go ahead, have your shower."

*

I still felt a bit uncomfortable about being sort of open with Nayia, but as Fury, Nixie, Nayia and I lined up for breakfast, I was getting used to the fact that she was my friend. Nobody though, could replace Ashley. She would be my best friend forever.

"Have you heard about that party going on?" Nayia started. "I got an invitation thing today under my door. I think I’ve got it in my pocket, but I’ll show you later. It’s for some kind of ‘Start of year party’ in Shelder Bay. I heard that after dinner we go there on Friday night, and just meet new people and go swimming until midnight. Then on Saturday night there is the beginning of term disco. I can’t wait! Are you going to go?"

I shrugged. The disco did sound interesting, I had never been to a disco before, so I just shrugged again and nodded. "Okay."

"That’s great!" Nayia cried. "What are you going to wear? Because I saw these clothes in Lapras Valley that’d look good on you. They were basically the same thing you wear, jeans and a top, but these jeans were the fashionable jeans –"

"I’m going with my clothes," I told her. "I don’t want any new clothes. I’m not getting any new clothes."

Nayia sure talked a lot. I suppose that’s how people were. Or maybe it was just her. I wasn’t sure.

"Okay sorry about that, but I’m defiantly getting new clothes. Maybe another denim skirt, they had some really nice ones at Lapras Valley Mall."

*

"Excuse me," Ashley asked an office lady at the front office of Lapras Valley High. "My name is Ashley Lien, I was wondering, which dorm and tower am I in and could you please tell me the tower and dorm of Sally-Anne McGregor?"

"Your in Flaria Dorm 6-C," the woman replied in a bored tone. "And your friend is in Flaria Dorm 6-F."

"Thanks," Ashley thanked, and left with Sugar bounding behind.

*

Well, time sure went fast. After I saw Ashley, I felt like life would be okay, and Nayia really liked Ashley as well. The disco was interesting, the music was all right I suppose and that Blaron guy, he asked me to dance. We also met some new people, Martin (tall, light brown hair, blue eyes, 13), Craig (average height, black messy short hair, brown eyes, our age), Spike (Blaron’s cousin, dark brown hair spiked up, hazel eyes, our age) (they’re all our age), and Greg (average height, blonde hair, blue eyes).

I know it’s slack of me to head forward to today after missing out a whole week of action but if your not happy with it then just deal with it because I’m not giving a damn.

Anyway, it was Monday morning, and first class was about to start. We had received our timetables yesterday and bought our books from the front office. I was in a lot of classes for one day, why not just make one period a day not 4?

"We’ve got geography first, come on," Kayla said, poking me. "We can’t be late."

"Who cares?" I shrugged. "Come on Fury."

"Stop," Kayla held her hand up to my face halting me. "No pokemon allowed during classes." I scowled.

"Who are they to tell me what to do with my pokemon?" I snapped. "Come on Fury."

Kayla sighed as I stormed past her, and turned around. "Which classroom am I in?" I asked.

"Follow me." Kayla led the way to my class and opened the door, letting herself in. Fury and I followed.

I saw Martin and Nayia talking at the back of the class. They seemed kind of private and secretive, like lovebirds. Spike, Craig and Blaron were all discussing some topic and in my opinion looked like nerds.

Ashley was sitting in the seat in front of Nayia, politely not listening to their conversation. I went and joined her there, and she grinned at me.

"Where’s the bloody teacher?" I complained.

"Who cares," Ashley shrugged.

"Hey, Sal," Nayia said, poking my back. "The later the teacher the less work we have to do which means the more talking and doing nothing."

"Who is our teacher?" Ashley asked.

"I don’t really know," Martin began.

"Last year we had Mr Banks but he left the school because he got transferred to Cascade North’s day school, Hydro Park High," Nayia continued. "So we could have Mr William but I’m not sure I think he’s taking the other year 8 class."

"You two were here last year?" Ashley asked.

"Yeah," Martin shrugged. "Nayia and I have been here for over a year. So have most of the others. Only a few are really new. Like you guys, Blaron, Kayla and Teresa who’s over in the corner with the popular girls."

"Heather, Leah, Marina and Annabelle " Nayia scowled. "They’re all bitches. Worse than some of the Zharman Islanders. Aunt Misty always said to watch out for them and she was right."

"Kayla and Teresa are over there with them." I frowned, Kayla was a bitch but not bad bitch just a snob.

"You know, we really couldn’t get a worse teacher than Sister Eve," Martin pointed out.

"Who’s she?"

"She is the toughest religious character in this school. She is a professional nun and a real bitch. She is forever yelling and giving us the guilt and pain of being her students," Nayia explained. "Its always ‘Craig! Get here at once, spit out that chewing gum and tuck your shirt in! Your in big trouble boy!’"

"Hey!" Craig objected from the other side of the room. Ashley laughed.

"You’ve never met Lady Blastoise," I spoke up.

"Who’s she?" Martin asked.

"Oh no, here we go," Ashley sighed.

"Lady Blastoise is worse than those popular bitches over in the corner and Sister Eve put together multiplied by 10!" I cried. "She is the toughest, most unfair, prejudice person you could ever meet." By this time, I was ranting so loud and getting so angry that the whole class had gone silent. Fury was on my desk, sighing. "She wanted to take me to her mansion and turn me into a slave when the orphanage was shutting down. Once I had to go live in her castle of doom for two weeks, and every day I was scrubbing the floor and cleaning out toilets while Fury was in an enclosed pool being forced to swim laps! FIRE POKEMON CANT SWIM! You haven’t met anybody until you’ve met Lady Blastoise, the biggest bitch in the whole entire galaxy!"

Ashley’s eyes widened, and Fury gave a strangled cry. The class was seated and staring at me nervously, their eyes flicking between me and something behind me. I turned around, and my blood ran cold.

"Nice of you to share your opinion Sally-Anne," Lady Blastoise smirked.