House of Cards

House of Cards-Chapter 2

Here's chapter two and hope you enjoy it.

PIcture on the side is Heather------->

Song of the chapter: Insane by myah marie

The next morning, Ace was woken up by Heather bouncing on her bed.

"Ugh! Go away!"Ace muttered grogily, digging herselfdeeper into her covers.

"Nope, IT took me ages to get you awake! I dont want to be late for breakfast. Don't mess with me and my jam pancakes." Heather tore off the cover and Ace was forced to get up.

She gasped at her reflection in the mirro"r. "Why today of all days!?" She frantically brushed her hair down but it was useless and she still looked like a mad scientists.

"Hurry up!"Heather called out from the lounge room. Ace took one last mournful look in the mirror and tugged on her summer uniform. Originally it was a puffy sleeved blouse and a knee-length checkered skirt. She had sewed bows on the skirt and top and added a red heaband to try and keep her lion's mane of hair down.Grabbing her shoulder bag, she rushed out of the rooms and followed Heather down the stairs. Ace envied how bubbly Heather was in the morning, while Ace looked like a walking zombie. But when they got to the courtyard, she perked up. Of course it was gorgeous. There with arches surrounding it with vines growing on them and steps down to the gardens. The tables were all ornately decorated with vases of roses on them. S.J waved them over to a table on the far side of the courtyard. AS Ace sat down next to him, she noticed that Clara's attitude hadnt changed and it was starting to piss Ace off.

"Nice pimp"Dina said, admiring Ace's uniform.

"THanks. I can do yours if you like."Dina nodded, delighted. When Ace looked at the menu she was releived to see good ol' bacon and egges on the menu. The food was served and Heather suddenly asked Ace "Do you like jam?"

 "Um I guess"

"Godd. That means we can be friends." Ace noticed for the first time the huge amount of jam in Heather's breakfast.

"WEll, I hate jam"S.J said, teasing.

Heather retorted "WEll I hate tall, smart ass boys!" and they started bickering, ending with S.J pouring cofee on Heather's jam and Heather threatening to get him back in gym. Ace ate slower than last time but still finsihed before everyone else. She excused herself and headed over to where the headmistress was sitiing.

"Good morning, madam"Ace said and sat down on the seat across from here. Madam smiled at her and took a long sip of her cofee and then took out a black folder.

"Have a look in there for the classes you want to take. The one class that's compulsory for you is E.C. The classes like maths and english are in red and you have to choose 3 of those. The green subjects are the 3 extra subjects you can choose."

Ace looked down the long list "Should've expected this at such an exlcusive school."  She chose history, literature, technology, textiles, cooking and martial arts. The headmistress smiled at her choices and then told her to go to history now and come after morning break to get her full timetbale. Ace thanked her and hurried to catch up with her new friends who had just left the courtyard. They waited for her inside and then came up the stairs.

"So which classes did you choose?"S.J asked.

"um, history, literature, technology, textiles, cooking and martial arts, Oh, and IM also in a class called E.C or something."she answered.

"wait, so you're in E.C?"Dina asked, surprise in her eyes.

"Yeah. What about it? Are you in it as well? What do you even do there?"she saw them exchange glances but the only answer she got was "YOu'll see."

But Clara just had to say "Honestly I cant even beleive you were admitted in that class."

Ace clenched her fists to calm herself down as Heatehr gave Clara a warning glance and then S.J tried to change the subject, " Im so glad you're in technology. IT's really fun."

"Only to nerds like you!" Heather butted in.

"The term is geniuses." S.J corrected and Heather scoffed, sending them into another argument.

Dina rolled her eyes and led Ace down the corridor to a bright yellow door "YOu've got history with me."

" And me!" Clara's smile was as fake as ehr nails and Ace narrowed her eyes at that. " C,mon or we'll be late!" So Dina and Ace followed Clara inside. Dina then guided her to two tables near the winow and Ace plopped herself down.

" How do you stand her? I haven't done anything to her and she hates me!" Ace said, angrily.

Dina shook er head symphathetically " I guess she can be a bit col but she's not normally this rude."

Before Ace could reply the teacher, a young man in slacks and a loose tie, walked  in and Dina sighed dreamily. The teacher must know how awful introductions can be so Ace was left alone with hardly anyone glancing her way. Just the way she liked it. After lunch and getting her timetable, she noticed she had E.C so she joined Heather and Dina as they walked to the last calss.

" S.J's face was legendary after you pelted him with dodgeballs." Dina laughed and Heather nodded " Revenge is sweet!." Ace mind was not on thier coversatio but instead on the mysterious E.C class.

"Where is E.C?" she asked.

Her friends had obviously decided that was a safe question to answer because Dina said " It's the only classroom on the fourth level."

"Wait! It takes up a whole level?!" Ace cried out,

" WEll you should excpect that at this school." Heather shrugged.

" This school is crazy.." Acce thought. At the top of the third flight of stairs there were two flass doors and behind them was an elevator. " I knew there must have been an elevator!" ace noted.

AS Dina pressed the button, she was asked for authorization and after saying "Dina Diamonds" she was let into the elevator and dragged Ace in as well as Heather authorized herself.

"Soon you'll have your own codename. THis school has really high security so you'll need one even to get into the library."Dina explained.

" Well i guess rich kids need to feel safe." Ace thought, but kept it to herself, not wanting to offend her new friends. Hetaher walked into the evlevator as wel and Dina pressed the button for the fourth floor. Ace felt it go up but suddenly it twist round and she would have fallen had Heather not caught her " Weren't expecting that, were you?"

Ace straightened up and muttered " a little warning would have been nice."

" Sorry but you should have seen your face when the whole elevator twisted around." Dina said, holding back a laugh.

Ace glared at her but asked" Why did the elevator twist around? Isn't that a little too much security just for a school?" They didnt answer as the doors opened.

"What is wrong with this school." ace thought as she saw the fourth level. It was a garden. I freakin garden on the fourth floor! Heather and DIna giggled at her astonished expression and led her into the middle of the garden where there was a gazebo. S.J and Clara were sitting there already.

" Wait, aren't there any other students in this class? Just you guys?" Ace asked.

"Yep" Heather replied and plopped down next to Clara. Ace was getting really suspicious about thsi school. Instead of heading over to where they were all chattinf, Ace decided to explore the garden. She went down on of the paths which was bordered by beautiful blooming red rose bushes. She had a sudden urge to put one in her hair so, after making sure no one was looking, she picked one off and fitted into her short blonde hair.

Suddenly a deep voice behind her made her jump " Oh, I found you!"