Vivica walked out on Keats arm. She received her satchel and her crown. Honestly she hated every second of this. She hated having to plaster a smile on her face and act like she liked Keat. She took her seat on the throne and waited for this BS to be done with.
Prof. Faoláin continued with the last set of royals. When his name was called Jack showboated all the way. He was jumping around whooping and throwing his fist up in the air. Vivica rolled her eyes, she looked at Catherine and felt bad for her. Her face screamed confusion, yet she tried to continue walking with her head held high.
Prof. Faoláin finished his speech and stepped away from the podium. The President of the school took his place. The president, her father. She quickly looked away, her anxiety sky high. She knew that if she messed anything up her father would punish her, or have her brother or Keat do his dirty work for him. Either way it was not something she wanted to go through. She sat there with her head held high and tried to portray the perfect student, the perfect queen.
After what felt like forever, the President was done congratulating the students in the positions of Jacks and aces. He encouraged all the other positions to work hard and his famous line of "Jokers can and will take the place of lost cards." he finished.
"Now, enjoy your first meal at Rose Thorne Academy" he said and signaled for the wait staff to bring out the food and royal tables. Applause erupted from the student body.
Suddenly Shiro stood up and stomped off to where Prof. Faoláin was standing with his wife. She seemed annoyed for some reason, then she heard it. Jack was whispering and messing around. He was trying to get the attention of Catherine and trying to get her to talk to him. Catherine looked uncomfortable.
"Please be quiet, you were talking all through the speech." she said
"What you don't want to talk to your king?" he said, starting to sound annoyed. "We'll be together all year we need to try to get to know each other." he said
Catherine looked at him "I think I know enough about you right now."
Jack tensed up "What did you say?" he said anger seeping into his voice.
Shiro then appeared between Jack and Catherine. "Hey, cheeks, she said to shut up." she glared at Jack, and took a dull red lollipop and stuck it into her mouth.
Jack stood up and tried to square up with her. "Butt out of this, this is between me and my queen."
Catherine balled her small fists "I am the first year queen, not your queen." she said.
Keat began to laugh "uh oh Jack better get your queen in place or else she will never listen to you." Vivica sat there. She didn't know what to do or what to say.
Shiro stood with Catherine, completely ignoring Keat. "Come on Catherine, let's leave this Joker and go hang out." she said.
Jack had had enough at this point. "I am not a mother f****ing joker! I am the King!" He yelled out.
Shiro looked him up and down and scoffed "king of the fools maybe." she said "if that at all." Catherine looked between them and nodded to Shiro, "Lets go, I do not want to be here." she said and turned to leave with Shiro. Shiro smiled then turned towards the students.
"Hey, Flint! Come on, let's go." she called out. This made Jack lose his mind.
"What the hell? What are you doing calling out to my brother!" he whined. "You two would rather hang out with a Joker than a king?" He slammed his hand on the arm rest of his throne.
Annoyance was starting to seep into Shiro's usual cool voice "Read the room guy, no one wants to hang with your clown ass." she retorted.
Jack stood up and lunged at her, but suddenly two ice walls stood between them. From the back of the stage was Prof. Faoláin, his arm outstretched and covered in frost. From the audience side was Flint, in a mirrored position.
"Jack just drop it!" Flint called out. He was shaking but not from the cold.
"Jack back down!" Failon said sternly. He needed to get this under control before anyone got hurt.
The student body that was moments ago cheering for a fight was now suddenly silent. They were looking between Prof. Faoláin and Flint.
Flint bowed to the teacher "Please forgive my brother." he begged, shaking. If word got back that Jack got in trouble the first day he would be toast.
Feilon looked between them and frowned. "You are not responsible for your brother." he said "Jack is getting detention for disrupting the ceremony." He looked down at Flint. What is up with this kid? He was acting strange, but Feilon could not get a good look at him from the glare of the stage lights and the reflection off the ice walls. Feilon looked at Flint's ice wall. The kid had good control over his ice power. He'll give him that.
Flint shook, how was he going to cover for this now? As it stands his brother and him look nothing alike.
The president stood up after this "And you, are getting detention for destruction of property." he said to Flint. Flint balled his fist at his side. How could he cover Jack now? He had his own detention to deal with.
Shiro jumped down from the stage and put a hand on Flint's shoulder. "Come on, let's blow this place. Jack killed the mood."
Flint was frozen in place, both out of fear and anger. He wanted to bash Jack's head in for acting so stupid and reckless. He wanted to sink into the floor for his own actions but what more could he do? If Jack would have gotten into a fight on the first day his parents would have killed him.
Shiro gently pushed on Flint to get him to move, then looked up at Feilon. Flint took a deep breath and his ice wall melted, to everyone's surprise the floor and stage were not damaged. Soon all the water was gone as well, like nothing was ever there. Flint made a mental note to talk to the teacher later if he couldn't figure anything out later.
Jack was fuming and had stomped off the stage, angry at being embarrassed in front of everyone. Feilon melted his ice wall without leaving so much as a drop of water. The president turned to the student body again as Shiro and Catherine were pulling Flint towards the doors.
"Please don't let this hiccup ruin your evening. Enjoy the feast." He said and the servants continued to bring the food out. Soon everyone was in a festive mood and celebrating again. However, whispers swept across the students.
"Did you see that boy?"
"Yeah the one with the ice wall?"
"What about that teacher? That ice wall was insane!"
Feilon left the ceremony as well, deep in thought. He was thinking about the reckless child and his brother, the joker with great control on his ice powers. The relationship between the brothers didn't seem right either. All this was troubling him, what is their story?
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Vivica tried to swallow around the fear that had built up in her. Those stupid first years, she hoped that she would never have to see them again. She really just wanted to go to the hot spring already, all this stress made her lose her appetite.
Keat took a flask out of his school jacket and poured some clear liquid into his cup. Vivica wanted to gag, he was pregaming as he called it. This could mean trouble if she wasn't careful.
Vivica lost herself in her thoughts focusing on the hot springs in Jokertown. Suddenly Keat placed a hand on her knee and squeezed hard. Vivica's stomach turned. She knew what this meant, and this only made her want to run even more. She had messed up somehow. Was she supposed to stand up for the first year king? For Keat when he spoke up?
Vivica felt it difficult to breathe now. If she tried to push his hand away it would only make it worse on her later, but all she could feel was his fat ugly fingers gripping her knee, the bruises were barely healing but she knew that before the night was done she would have more.
She tried to pretend like everything was okay. She smiled with the group of friends that didn't know her at all. She talked about nothing with them for the rest of the ceremony. She wore her mask well. No one suspected a thing. Eventually Keat stood up and grabbed Vivica's hand.
"Let's go," he said to her, a disturbing glint in his glazed over eyes. "Let's go see our royal apartment." he said with a sinister smile. Vivica's heart sank, there was no one to help her, no one to care.