Chapter 2

The bell thunder heavily, all the children woke up early and started their day. They only had 5 minutes to get dressed.



Breakfast was now being serve. The kids sat down at the long narrow table's as they waited for Lily to serve out breakfast. Ms.Norway walked around the table's, no kid's said anything nor mumbled.



Lily started setting out the plates. They always got served 1 piece of bread, some water, and a meduim portion of red sausages. As Lily was passing out the plates she came across where Nathan was.



She smiled happily at him, but one of the teachers pushed her "go on move it along!" He yelled out to Lily. Lily sadly continued to serve breakfast.



5 minutes of breakfast was over. Ms.Norway yelled out to the children "everyone to your classes now!" Lily stared as she watched the children rush to their classes.



Frederick was in writing class. he looked amused while he was writing and reading his work. While he was writing he heard the writing teacher Mrs. Simpson yelling at one of the kids.



Frederick lifted his head up and saw Mrs.Simpson taking a girls paper. "What is this!" Mrs.Simpson said while looking at the girl strictly. "well..well I thought I could write a letter to my mother," The girl said very sadly.



Mrs.Simpson madly ripped the paper apart. The girl stared at Mrs.Simpson with a very sad look. "How pathetic are you, did you not hear the rules that Ms.Norway went over,no letters!" She said while yelling at the girl.



The girl said in a sad voice," I'm sorry Mrs.Simspon I thought_" Mrs.Simspon yelled."You thought nothing, stand up right now!" She said strictly. The girl stood up trying not to cry. As Frederick stared at the situation he looked at Mrs.Simpsom with a mean stare.



Mrs.Simpson pointed to the corner of the wall "Go to the corner and think about what you done!" She yelled. The girl walked to the corner feeling ashame.



Mrs.Simspon continued to walk around the room. The girl turned her head a little and tears began to fall from her eyes, as Frederick saw the tears coming down the girls face he felt sorry for her.



Lily was finishing cleaning up the 3rd floor. As she was walking down the hallway and going to dump out the old water she heard Ms.Norway voice yelling. Lily turned her head as she saw Ms.Norway up the stairs yelling at a boy who was misbehaving.



Ms.Norway pointed at the boy strictly."your such a fool your parents aren't coming back for you that's why they sent you here to began with because your a filthy child!" She yelled.



He began to cry. "I can careless about those tears, now stop your crying I say!" Ms.Norway said with a mean tone.



Lily stared at him with pitty. Ms.Norway got frustrated because of his crying,"stop your crying!" she slapped the boy in his face really hard with her hand. Lily got startled by the slap and dropped her bucket. Water was starting to pour out everywhere.



Ms.Norway looked directly at Lily and stormed down stairs to Lily. "Look what you done you foolish girl!" she yelled out to Lily.



"My apologies head leader!" Lily said with a frightening tone." You clean this mess up this instant or you will be punished!"



Lily got more startled and rushed to clean up the water. Lily hurried and got on her knees as she scrubbed the floor with the rag. Tears began to fill her eyes.



Ms.Norway stormed away pass Lily. Lilly lifted up her head and saw the boy crying while covering his face with his hands, Lily began to cry as she looked down at the puddle of water.



Nathan was looking out the windows after classes were over. As he leaned his head against the window he saw the gates open up and a carriage arriving into the school yard. Nathan stared as the children got out of the carriage with sad expressions.



A girl came out the carriage, she was holding a beautiful porcelain doll in her arms, one of the teachers saw her with the doll and yelled out "hey no items allowed!"



The girl held her doll tightly while saying."But my mother gave me this doll before I came here," "I don't care!" The teacher said with a mean look. The girl eyes widen with sadness.



The teacher snatched the doll from the girl arms and roughly slammed the doll on to the hard ground. The doll face shattered into pieces. The girl screamed with sadness "noo!"



She cried running towards her doll trying to put the pieces back together, the teacher pushed the girl away from her doll and the girl fell to the ground crying. Nathan looked away from the window and walked off after seeing what happened.



Lily ran towards the choir room. She quickly went through the doors and fell on both knees while crying for her brother. But suddenly Lily heard something in the choir room. She stood up slowly looking around while wiping her tears away.



Lily held her locket close to her. She saw someone standing up by the choir desk in the corner. As she looked more the person started to walk towards her.



Lily got scared a little and stepped back a bit, but when the person reached where she was the light through the stained glass shine onto person, Lily was relieved when she saw that it was Nathan.



Nathan stood their staring at Lily."Did I disturb you?.." Lily said while looking at Nathan. Nathan looked down at some music sheet papers and said,"I was getting music sheets for my violin."



"wow you play the violin!" Lily said. But Nathan did not say anything back. Lily stared at Nathan for a bit and said with a smile,"when did you start playing the violin?"



Nathan looked away from Lily with his head held down a bit. Lily got the feeling that she was probably bothering Nathan. "I'll leave you alone then..." She said while walking away from Nathan.



Day was over, the children were in their dorm rooms. Meghan was sleeping but Samantha sat up on her bed crying quietly trying not to wake Meghan up. Samantha began to cry a little loud while sniffing a little.



Meghan heard Samantha sniffling and slowly opened her eyes and sat up. Meghan looked over at Samantha while rubbing her eyes, "Samantha.." Samantha looked over at Meghan with tears in her eyes.



"I'm sorry I didn't mean to wake you" she said while crying. Meghan saw tears coming down from Samantha pale cheek and said with a concern voice."Samantha your crying whats wrong?" "It's nothing.." Samantha said while wiping some of her tears away.



Meghan looked at Samantha concerned, "come on tell me" she said staring at Samantha. Samantha then said very sadly with tears in her eyes,"it's..it's just that I was thinking about my parents and..when the accident occurred I just wish.. I was there with them."



Samantha cried more as she continued to think about her parents."oh you poor thing here come lay with me," Meghan said while scooting over for Samantha.



Samantha went over to Meghan bed and sat down beside her. Meghan held Samantha while comforting her. Samantha cried while holding onto Meghan.



"I miss my parents so much..and now that I'm stuck here it just seems that everything has gotten worse," Samantha said while crying. Meghan agreed with Samantha,"I understand I miss my ma and da as well as my younger sister's...and being stuck here is so scary."



she said while rubbing Samantha straight dark brown hair. "But as long as we have each other then I guess everything..will be ok.." Meghan said a little sad. Samantha noded her head in agreement while leaning her head on Meghan shoulder.



Morning arrived and everyone was outside. The children stood in the field as Ms.Norway was doing her daily inspection. As Ms.Norway walked around, the boys stood still and the girls had their dresses lifted up a little for Ms.Norway to check if everyone was wearing black stockings today.



Some of the children looked nervous and some looked scared as Ms.Norway walked pass them. She then came across a girl who dress was not lifted up.



Ms.Norway stood in front of the girl but the girl tried her best to avoid looking at Ms.Norway as she rubbed her hands against her dress nervously.



Ms.Norway looked at the girl with a very strict expression,"Madison?" She said while looking strictly at her. But the girl still did not look up at Ms.Norway. She was trembling nervously. "Why is your dress not lifted up Madison?" Ms.Norway said with a strict tone.



The girl did not want to say anything."Madison!" Ms.Norway shouted with a frawn. The girl slowly looked up at Ms.Norway with a nervous and scared look.



"Lift up your dress so I can check your stockings" Ms.Norway said strictly. The girl slowly took her hands as she just lightly touched her dress.



As everyone stared Ms.Norway got really frustrated and yelled "I said lift up your goddam dress!" All the kids got startled as she yelled at the girl. The girl eyes started to fill with tears as she lifted up her dress.



When Ms.Norway saw her stockings she said with a mean tone. "white stockings..." The girl started to shed tears, Ms.Norway held out her hand and one of the teachers gave her, her paddle.



Ms.Norway grab the paddle and the girl shouted out." Oh! please head leader don't punish me please! I really tried my best to find my black stockings!" She said while crying.



Ms.Norway did not want to hear any of her accuses. As the girl begged for Ms.Norway not to punish her Ms.Norway yelled."shut up!" She grabbed the girl by her hair and threw her to the ground in front of everyone. 



Ms.Norway looked at all the children seriously and said,"this is what happens when you wear the wrong stockings, let this be a lesson for all of you!" Ms.Norway began to beat the girl with the paddle.



The girl screamed while feeling the sharp pain of the paddle hitting her back. Nathan closed his eyes while only hearing the girl screams. Lily held her locket tightly closing her eyes in fear.



Inspections were over classes were beginning. Nathan was in math class. He started to think about what Lily said about when he first started to play the violin. He thought about when he was playing the violin for his mother.



While thinking about his mother the math teacher Mr. Frank was calling Nathan name,"Nathan, Nathan, Nathan!" He hit his desk with his paddle and Nathan snap out of his thoughts.



The math teacher yelled at Nathan,"I called your name three times, did you not hear me calling you!" He yelled. Everyone was turned around looking at Nathan and the teacher.



Nathan said in a careless tone a little,"no.." while looking at the teacher with a serious stare. The kids started to mumble a bit after Nathan said no, the teacher leaned close to Nathan face saying with a mean tone,"whatever you got going on you better snap out of it do you understand."



But nathan did not say anything while staring at the teacher with the same serious look. Mr.Frank touched his paddle while looking at Nathan."I said do you understand!"



Nathan stared at the teacher hand on the paddle and looked at the teacher again"..Yes.." He said with a serious tone. Mr.Frank gave Nathan a mean look and went back to teaching. Frederick stared at Nathan from across the classroom and Nathan stared back at Frederick.



Math class ended and Nathan was in the hallway staring out the window. Frederick had some papers in his hands as he was walking down the hallway. He saw Nathan staring out the window and walked over to him, "hello Nathan" Frederick said looking at him.



Nathan looked at Frederick a little then back out the window. "was something on your mind in Mr. Frank class?" Frederick said,"no.." Nathan said.



Frederick stared at Nathan wondering."are you sure bec-" before he could finished his sentence Meghan called out for Nathan. Nathan turned around and Meghan gave Nathan a hug.



Nathan did not hug Meghan back but stood their waiting for the hug to end. As Meghan stood back from Nathan she saw Frederick,"oh..hello Frederick" She said while smiling at him."hello Meghan" Frederick said while giving her a little smile.



Frederick then told Nathan he was going to go to the library. As Frederick left, Meghan looked at Nathan,"um.. Nathan can I use you for a moment please?" Meghan said smiling at him. Nathan slowly noded his head.



Meghan took Nathan by his hand while walking to the art room. As they went inside the classroom Meghan gathered her painting board and brushes.



She told Nathan that she had to do a portrait of someone or something. She stood her painting board up and pulled up a chair,"sit here" she said pointing to the chair.



Nathan sat down on the chair and Meghan pulled some of Nathans hair back on his left shoulder,"perfect" she said while admiring Nathans beauty.



"you know Nathan you are so charming and beautiful..well..you always been since we were little," she said while twirling his long and curly hair while smiling gently at him.



"Well um..let me get started" she said while getting her paint brush ready. She told Nathan to turn his head towards her a little. As Nathan turned his head a little, Meghan smiled at Nathan as she began painting him.



Nathan sat their with no movement or expression. Frederick was in the library writing, as he lifted up his head he saw Samantha, she was standing in front of the book shelf reading and picking out books.



Frederick stared at Samantha smiling gently at her, when Samantha turned her head she saw Frederick. Frederick gave Samantha a little wave and Samantha smiled at him blushing a little.



Lily was wiping down the windows in the hallways, as she was wiping the windows she saw a wealthy carriage arrive at the school gates. She slowly stop wiping the windows and stared at the carriage with a curious look.



As the carriage door opened a man who looked very wealthy came out the carriage. He was bit over weight, had a powdered wig on, and looked about 45 years old.



He walked while staring at the school. As he went inside, Lily started back cleaning the windows again. The man continued to walk inside the school while admiring things.



He then made his way up stairs where Lily was, as he saw Lily he cleared his throat a bit."Excuse me.?" He said with a calm and deep voice, Lily stopped cleaning the windows and turned around at the man.



"yes sir.?" Lily said with a shy tone."where is Ms.Ellie Norway?" He said looking at Lily. Lily held her dress nervously "...um..she might be in her office" Lily said while looking down a little. "can you take me to her please."



Lily lifted her head up at the man and looked at him worried because she was now frighten by Ms.Norway, "...yes sir" Lily said with a scared tone a little. Lily lead the man to Ms.Norway office.



Lily lightly knocked on her office door."what is it!?" Ms.Norway said a bit loud, Lily slowly opened the door and said,"um..theirs a man who wants to see you" Lily said a bit quietly. "let him in," Lily opened the door for the man.



As the man came into Ms.Norway office Ms.Norway stopped what she was doing and stood up really quick and nervously "oh! Mr.Edward" she said with a big smile but also nervous. 



Mr.Edward smiled at Ms.Norway "hello Ellie it's such a pleasure to see you again" he said while walking up to Ms.Norway and greeting her with a kiss on her cheek.



Lily stood by the door as she watched Ms.Norway fake her attitude, Ms.Norway looked at Lily and happily said."um Lily dear can you go make me and Mr.Edward some tea please."



"yes head leader." Lily said while looking nervous a little. Ms.Norway giggled nervously as she glanced over at Mr.Edward while saying. "No, not head leader...where on earth did you get that from it's Ms.Norway dear. My apologies Mr.Edward she just arrived here."



Mr.Edward giggled a little,"it's quite alright." Lily left the room confused thinking about what Ms.Norway said. Ms.Norway pointed to the chair with a smile "please do sit."



Mr.Edward sat down in the chair and Ms.Norway happily said, "so what brings you by here today Mr.Edward?" She smiled. "Well I just wanted to come by and check up on things" he said.



"I see that you are doing very well with the school and children Ellie" he said happily. "Well you know I'm all about the children Mr.Edward" she said with a little smirk.



Lily was back with the tea. She handed out the tea to Mr.Edward and Ms.Norway, Ms.Norway touched Lily head as she thanked Lily for the tea. Lily trimbled as she felt the rough hands of Ms.Norway.



Ms.Norway and Mr.Edward talked for a few minutes while they both headed out into the hallway."Remember in two weeks Mrs.kin will be here with the money for the school" he said serious."yes sir" Ms.Norway said with a smile.



Just as Mr.Edward was getting ready to leave Nathan walk pass them. Mr.Edward saw Nathan and shouted out "hey young lad!" Nathan stopped and turned around at Mr.Edward.



Mr.Edward eyes widen as he saw Nathan. "Nathan, Nathan Smith," Mr.Edward said with a smile. He walked up to Nathan and said,"do you remember me Nathan?"



Nathan didn't say anything at first but slowly said,"no.." Mr.Edward said happily." It's me Nicolas Edward, I'm close friends with your father I knew you since you were just baby."



Nathan did not say anything but only stared away from Mr.Edward. "I still can't believe that it's you, you may have your father eye color but you look just like your mother," Mr.Edward said with a smile.



Nathan looked down without saying a word."Did you know Nathan that your parents are now consider the richest people in the state and soon the world?" Mr.Edward said with joy.



"Really?" Ms.Norway said while looking very amused," yes indeed." Mr.Edward said. Nathan was tired of hearing about his parents.



Mr.Edward continued to talk to Nathan while reaching his hand out and trying to rub Nathans head, but Nathan stepped back quickly from Mr.Edward and stormed away from him and went downstairs.



Ms.Norway called out to Nathan "Nathan! Nathan!" Ms.Norway said loudly. She turned around to Mr.Edward."Mr.Edward I'm deeply sorry for his behavior" she said worriedly, "no,it's quite alright I shouldn't have mentioned anything..." Mr.Edward said.



Nathan went into the music room and got his violin. He sat down in the chair and began to play his violin while thinking about his parents. As Lily cleaned the floor she slowly stop scrubbing the floor as she heard the sound of a violin.



Lily thought to herself, "what a beautiful sound." She stood up and followed the sound of the violin. As she approach the music room she put her ear to the door and smiled while hearing the beautiful sound of the violin.



Lily wanted to see who was playing the violin so she slowly opened the doors and peaked inside a little, as she saw Nathan playing the violin she smiled happily and thought "he plays the violin so beautifully." Lily closed the door softly and stood by the door listing to the sound of the violin.



Night arrived and everyone was in their rooms sleep. On that night Nathan had a weird dream. He dreamed of playing his violin for his mother but then he saw himself running towards the school gates.



When he reached the gate he tried to get out but couldn't. He felt a hand on his shoulder. He turned around and saw Ms.Norway.



She said to him in a scary voice."Your under my rules now!" Nathan woke up quickly from out of his sleep and sat up, he rubbed his face a little while thinking about his dream...