York and Mori

Mori had English literature after Etiquette class. Though the English literature should have been changed to “Oooold English literature”. Everything that they were reading started with “thee” “thou” and other strange words. The teacher talked in a monotone voice and at the end of the class took everyone to the library. It was a beautiful library, three stories tall. The center was open to a dome on the ceiling and there were people studying all around the library. The librarian was a handsome young man with long brown hair tied up in a pony tail. He looked much different compared to the other teachers she’s seen. He had dark rimmed glasses and dressed a lot like the students rather than in robes and suits.
He described about the library and the collections available for the school to use. Mori took a few pictures when no one was looking and saw one of Princes friends from earlier that day. He was cuddling with a beautiful girl reading a book. She took their picture without the flash and she couldn’t help but smile.
The bell rang again and Mori had to find her way out of the library to get to science. Before she left the large front doors of the library she was stopped by the librarian and given a box.
“Please give this to Zee when you see her,” he said with a smile.
Mori couldn’t even ask who Zee was. He went off back to work and she was being pushed through the door by a few students. Mori met up with York and went to science class. After teasing Prince with the camera again, she found science class very interesting. The woman teaching enjoyed her subject that she taught and she talked quite loud. Mori figured that she must have been around too many explosions in her years of teaching.
After teasing her brother about his drawing of a girl he randomly met, they were given a lab to complete. She finally finished cleaning up with York and left him.
“Day fifteen. This is my first day of school at the strange school and everything is just strange,” I told my camera.
Mori was in a stall in the bathroom and the bell rang. She decided that she really didn’t want to check out her next class. So she decided to skip class. Mori pushed open the stall and showed the bathroom. It was decorated with string lights and large framed mirrors.
“This school, located in a castle, may look modern and beautiful, but the students and classes are strange. One guy keeps hitting on me, and every girl he sees, York and I had to take an etiquette class, and English class is just so old sounding. Then I was given in the library a package by the librarian to give to some girl named Zee. This school is just weird-”
Mori tried to take out her camera to show the video camera the pictures he had take that day but it suddenly fell to the floor. She gasped and fell to the floor. Under the sinks laid her camera, thankfully alright. But just as she was about to stand back up, she noticed something. A small panel right under the sink above was slightly sticking out. She pushed on the panel and it pushed inwards. She looked at the video camera that was still on and smiled into its lens.
“Well, here’s something interesting! A secret passage way in the girl’s bathroom… maybe I can find a hidden treasure! Talk later.”
She turned off her camera and crawled into the tight hole that was made. The tunnel in front of her was long and tight, but her camera helped to bring light into the area. The door closed by itself and it got darker. Mori continued to crawl feeling all the dust and dirt rub against the palms of her hands and knees. She thought about going back, but then the light from her camera found a ledge.
It only dropped a few inches and she crawled out into an open place where she could stand freely. Echoes of sounds of the schools filled the dark open area. The area was about as big as a closet and had a high ceiling. The area was cold and the stone walls surrounding her felt cold to the touch. She followed the wall around till she heard a crack. The floor undernieth her suddenly collapsed and she found herself falling down a slide that turned into an almost vertical drop. She screamed going down the quick slide. Light passed by her quickly and many voices came and past. The slide was passing by many classrooms in session and none realized that there was something in their walls.
She continued to fall and scream till she tumbled out onto a cushioned floor. She coughed as dust fell into the air and she saw wood in front of her. Once the room stopped spinning, she noticed that the wood in front of her had handles on it. Loud music filled the wooden area and she could see light through the wood. She walked forward and exited out of a wooden wardrobe. Mori took out her camera and took several pictures. She now was in an L shaped hallway that had cherry red wooden floors and pale yellow walls. Her focus changed suddenly to the music playing down the hallway in front of the wardrobe.

Mori followed the music. The entire hall was flooded with music. Beautiful classical music all humming one accord. All of it was perfect sounding and flowed beautifully. Though that’s not all Mori heard. Through the beauty of the flowing music, she heard music that popped and had a different beat that wasn’t trying to be perfect. She followed the noise away from the flowing music and entered a different hallway. The sound started to form into the similar patterns to Mom’s Jazz music. Mori knew that it was some strings playing, but this was different. She heard pounding of someone’s hand hitting the side of the instrument, giving it a different beat along with the plucking of the instrument.
“Woo!” Someone shouted as the beat changed again.
Mori followed the noise and peeked her head into the room. A girl spinning around a large bass was plucking the strings unlike the others. She had her eyes closed as she kept with the beat and Mori couldn’t help but watch. The girl had a spunky look to her and her long strawberry blonde hair was tied up in a pony tail. She reminded Mori of the librarian. Though Mori noticed that her hair fell to the floor. It was longer than long and the girl didn’t seem to mind. She only stepped over her hair as she moved.
“Hey!” Someone called behind Mori.
Mori turned around and fell to the floor to see a guy about as tall as her brother. He wore a hood over his shaggy brown hair that was longer in the front and shorter at the side. He also wore gloves on his hands. Though the more Mori stared into his eyes, the less lifelike they began to look.
“Todd! Don’t you be scaring her!” the girl said finally.
She sat down her bass and came over to Mori. She gave Mori a hand and helped her up to her feet.
“Well, isn’t it the new crew? Welcome to the Fairy Tale school!” the girl laughed.
“Fairy Tale…” Mori cocked her head, “I though that the school was named “Gladstone”.”
The Todd guy started to laugh and the girl joined in with him. Mori felt like an idiot for asking and they weren’t helping.
“I’m sorry,” the girl said catching her breath.
“I’m not,” Todd smiled, “She should have known by now that this school is strange.”
“Yeah… but-”
“Look…” the girl said placing her hand on Mori’s shoulder
“Oh, Mori.”
“Mo, this school is nothing but normal. See this basement room here? This is the only room in the entire castle that has computers. Internet may be slow down here, but at least its better than nothing!”
Mori was amazed to see a computer. The library didn’t even have a computer. Not even on the librarian’s desk! Mori looked over to the girl who messed with her dark rimmed glasses.
“My name is Rapunzel, but friends and family calls me Zee”
Todd shrugged at the name Zee.
“The given names here are so stupid, names keep you unique.”
“Oh, that’s because you hate you’re given name!” Zee laughed.
Mori looked to them confused. They were good friends and she hadn’t seen students like them at the school yet. They talked improper and dressed more casual. Mori looked to Zee and she smiled and dragged Mori over to a desk with flyers all over it. She described how everyone in Fairy Tale High has a given name which is linked to a Fairy Tale character. Ever since they were young they were to live by that name and there were no exceptions. She explained how the top people of the school were the three princes: Prince Charming, Prince Erik, and Prince Edward. Each of them basically rule the school with their girls not so far behind.
“Why this is? No one really knows.”
“That’s why we exist,” Todd said pointing to the room.
Mori looked around the room to just see a basic storage room with chairs and desks placed together and many random objects and items.
“Welcome to the Fairy Tale High Tribune,” Zee commercialized, “our job is to seek out the mysteries of the school!”
“And this is Madam Oliver,” Todd held up a cat.
The cat had purple marks on its face and tail and wore a bell around its neck. Though Mori couldn’t tell if it was just fluffy or if it was truly fat. The cat had a bored look on its face and yawned in Todd’s gloved hands.
“Since we needed a teacher, we made Oliver here our “cursed” teacher. She’s a beauty isn’t she?” Zee asked taking the cat.
Mori couldn’t help but laugh. Todd and Zee were so loose and fun loving, Mori was so happy to meet someone like them. She ended up staying and talking with the group through lunch and to the end of the day. The package Mori had for Zee was actually her lunch and Zee told her that the librarian was her brother. Todd and Zee were seniors and had only had three classes to go to. So the paper’s club room was their get-away room and they had no one to pass down the paper to. They invited Mori to the group by the end of the day and she was hired on as their photographer…