Luke woke with excitement. As you know today was the first day of school and Luke hadn’t gotten any mail saying who his teachers were going to be. Luke emerged from his bedroom a bit drowsy but still excited. He sped down the carpeted steps and sat down at the table immediately. He saw homemade tea being boiled on the stove. It was frothing and bubbling. A bit odd for tea but Luke didn’t care. He could hear the bacon sizzle and the eggs fry. Rebecca (Luke’s mom) was humming happily when she returned from inside the fridge with a lunch bag grasped in her hand. With a flick of her wrist she flipped a egg and stirred the tea. They had 20 minutes till the bus would arrive at the front door. Luke was looking great. He did look like he was a Nike model though. Not that he cared, he was wearing a grey shirt with a white Nike symbol spread across it and green shorts with a black Nike symbol woven into the fabric. Grey Nike shoes with red Nike socks. None of the colors matched and he didn’t care one bit. His hair was almost touching his nose so he flicked it to the side.

His mom then laid a plate that was covered in bacon,eggs and mini pancakes. He shoveled it down and grabbed his backpack. His mom did the annual picture on the first day of school. Abby (Luke’s sister) was complaining about the pictures because Lukes mom took it when she wasn’t ready. She was in second grade. And complained a lot.

“Hey!,” said Jack the same way.

The bus got there 5 minutes later and they plopped down in the same seat to talk. They updated each other on what had happened and Luke told him about his crazy dream. Soon after a girl about the size of Luke, with long blond hair sat down next to them. “All the other seats are filled up, I hope you don’t mind me barging in so suddenly,” she said, “My name is Emma. What’s yours?,” asked Emma. “ Mines Luke and this is Jack,” said Luke a bit annoyed because they were perfectly comfortable when Emma wasn’t there. But it wasn’t that bad. She seems nice. The bus came to a halt in front of the school and they emerged from the black doors of the bus and headed toward the front double doors of the huge brick school. Luke found a big board and started to search for his name in the L section. He was in Mr.Greyjoy’s class.

As he strode down the hall to his classroom he saw many familiar faces from previous years at the school.  Maggie, Sam, Summer, Mae, everyone was here!  He found his class and entered. Things did seem a bit odd because for a second out of the corner of his eye he thought he saw a pen,eraser and a pack of sticky notes move. He thought it was because he was nervous and paranoid. He thought he saw a ruler turned over onto a table. He told Jack and he said that he did too. Mr.Greyjoy was soon in the classroom giving a speech on what the school year will be like in his class.  He started talking about recess times, math class, reading class, and then that’s when Luke stopped listening and focused his very small attention span on the moving supplies.  “That is just crazy,” thought Luke. But, he was sure he saw a pen shoot across the counter. He then heard a soft murmur coming from the sticky notes.  Then Mr. Greyjoy perked up his ears and tried to focus on his speech.  Was he trying to hide something? Or was he trying to hear too? Luke’s hand shot up and asked to go to the bathroom.    

On his way out the door, he swiped the pen and the eraser. He needed to find out if he was going insane or if he saw what he saw. He them on the sink and sure enough they hopped off and sped to the other side of the bathroom.  “Hey come back here”, Luke yelled from the other side of the bathroom.  He knew he saw what he saw. He snatched them up and they said “Take us back! We’re losing a deal right now.”  Luke ran back to the classroom.  “Luke why were you in the bathroom for 5 minutes.”, said Mr.Greyjoy.  “ A sink over flowed and I cleaned it up.”said Luke. “Someone must have forgot to turn it off.” Luke had second thoughts about exposing Frank. He also had questions, like what deal? And whose the other school supplies that were moving?

The rest of the day was boring. Just a bunch of stuff about the rules that have been around for 20 years and every student has heard each one about 50 times. Finally recess came and Luke brought Frank and his friends out with him. He hid behind a brick wall around the side of the school. Emma and Jack followed. “Alright, what bet?” Said Luke. Frank explained the pencil war and how he knew their scheme. “ We must get inside” he said, “Shurley and her family are hold down camp!”  

Will Luke listen?

      To Be Continued………