Chapter four

I had finished the food I was eating when all of a sudden Pinocchio screamed down my face,"Oh my moggie I totally forgot to tell you that today is the annual pool party and it's a school tradition!"she squealed. I stared at her with an amused look in my face how could someone get so excited over so little things in life.I always had a scowl plastered on my face and a distant look as far as I could remember. Mother used to say that I acted like my father always detached from the outside world. When the thought crossed my mind swirling emotions clouded biological reasoning when reality decided to hit me and remind me that Pinocchio was still with me saying something I could not hear."Did you even hear a word I said?"she asked.

I simply waved her off indicating that she may start speaking and I would listen this time."Since the foundation of Arabelle High there has always been a pool party and not just any regular pool party like in the modern world where people wear bikinis or trunk shorts and go swimming no it's more than that.It's organized by the school student body where they get a chance to interact with new students and the rest of the school gets to flaunt all the wealth and status.I'm sorry but I have to tell you that this school is not just any regular school it's a school for the talented people all the rich people those people in the country who don't know what to do with their wealth bring their children here most of them are spoilt little brats.Nobody knows the reason why you're in the school in the first place since you came you have not spoken to anyone and they will try to get information out of you so you have to be ready they will make sure they must know who you are where you came from whether you are rich or not whether you're talented or not they don't care they will look down upon you if you don't have status if your family's surname is not recognized in the city of New Orleans or anywhere around America that's how mean they can stoop and that's how low they are and so Nova please be careful because they will go to any lengths use any means to get what they want,"she said. I looked at her surprised but not showing it even as she continued telling me that the school was ruled by those with status and money of which I have none of those and they were going to try to figure that out but I would never let anyone in to know who I am or where I'm from and why I was there and if I did it had to be someone I could completely trust and I don't trust easily so nobody would know who I was I would make sure of that and tonight whatever plans they had on their sleeves I was not going to give in.

When Pinocchio left my room wheels in my head kept spinning as she told me the pool party was to last all weekend.When Pinocchio mentioned that they would even try to drug me and get me drunk so I could spill I just couldn't believe such people existed in the world. I held my head in my hands in frustration as I tried to think of a way of escaping such a difficult situation.The door to my room was knocked interrupting my private thoughts and I got up to open it.In front of me to there was a sight to behold there she was a girl with raven black hair that reached her mid waist.She had a pair of ash grey eyes that really looked at me from head to toe giving me that intimidating personality that I would bet my bottom dollar on it that she possessed.

She had a petite figure with a flawless skin in short she was beautiful.Her perfume wafted through my whole room as she sashayed herself in without invitation did she ever learn about courtesy since it dimmed fit as this school was all about mannerisms.She placed the box she was holding on my bed."Wear this for tonight,"she said as she walked away. I had a feeling that tonight was going to be a starting point for my life in that school. I didn't know who she was and neither did I care but I knew for sure that pretty girls with class were trouble.

I closed the door and started inspecting the box I opened the ribbon and removed the top to reveal it's contents and there it was a sequin red dress that was crimson in colour. I stared at the most expensive piece of clothing I had ever seen in my whole life but I was not impressed knowing the underlying motives awaiting me.The day passed quickly as I was relieved of my classes as it was dimmed fit that after three days in the attic I needed fresh air to breath so as to avoid me fainting. The school had rules which I could not understand at all why would they need to know things about each student,so that they can understand them,they say, as for me I thought it was complete bulshit.I felt like stretching my legs and so I left my room and walked out of the girls wing into the garden.I stared at the vast forest surrounding the school wondering how and when I was able to come to such a place.

Tonight was going to be a mess I could feel it the calm before the storm as if the silent evening was warning me.I know that anyone who saw me staring at empty space doing nothing would question my sanity.What they wouldn't know or understand is that life sometimes makes you do alot of meaningless things for example I had nothing and no one in this world and tonight they would try unveiling that. Pinocchio had explained to me that when the elite queens of the school looked up my admission files for things about me they found nothing so the pool party was their best guess. in the previous pool party they had defamed a girl since she was poor and it made her leave the school.Pinocchio told me that whenever they felt someone was not fit enough to be in their school they will do all they could to get them out as for me since they knew nothing about me which pissed them off and most of all Pinocchio says they thought that I had a pretty face and gorgeous hair and they hated it nobody was to look beautiful than them.

I was on my way back to the girls dorm when I met Sylvain and he looked like he was waiting for someone."I'm here to give you this,"he said as he handed me a box.I took the box from him as I looked into his blue eyes then looked away.I walked away from him without saying a word as he followed me wordlessly.When I got to the door to my room he finally said,"May you hand me the dress Dercy gave you."By Dercy I guess he was implying the midnight haired girl.I opened the lock and my room clicked open.Just as I had left it untouched I closed the box and tied the ribbon as it was and handed it to him.

He took it and walked away as he disappeared from sight some girls around the hallway started whispering to themselves when they saw him leave the room but I couldn't care less.When I opened the box my eyes watered unlike the crimson dress what I saw was the most stunning piece of clothing I had ever seen.