Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:32:35 +0400
From: S R <lalcar@hotmail.co.uk>
Subject: Not a typical Boarding school-Chapter 2

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without the permission of the author. And a thanks to Peter for the time
and effort he took to edit this.This is my first try at writing a story for
nifty so I would love to receive comments on this story from readers. Email
me at lalcar@hotmail.co.uk Enjoy!


Not a Typical Boarding School


My eyelids felt heavy as I slowly woke up from the shake on my shoulder, I
looked over and saw a girl about my age sitting next to me, smiling and
blushing slightly. I gave her a curious look, still not fully understanding
why she woke me up until she pointed at the switched on seat belt
sign. This is it I thought, Texas here I come.

I smiled gratefully at the girl and put on my seatbelt and looked out the
small round window, seeing the sky slowly fading away as we started going
down. I closed my eyes and started making a list of reasons why I still
shouldn't estrange my dad.

***********

Wow it was hot, I come from California The Land of Sunshine and this coming
from me must mean something. I got out the airport after picking up my 6
bags of luggage, dad always use to tease me even at the age of 7 about
never being a light traveler just like my mother, and she would always
retort back with 'Yeah which is why we always look better then you.' I
smiled at the distant memory and shook myself out of it as I saw a man
approaching me with my name on the sign he was holding in front of him. I
was quiet shocked because I was expecting as soon as he opened his mouth
i'd be hearing a bunch of 'Yee Haws' or 'Howdy Partner' but this guy had a
thick British accent and sounded like he was from England!

'Master Carlson, I have been hired by your father to be your driver for the
rest of the school semester at The Mount. Master Carlson has informed me
that you should still have a driver as-well as having a car just incase. My
name is Edward Benedict and I'm originally from Britain. I shall drive you
around every weekend whenever you need me since I have been informed that
is the only time you are aloud to leave the school premises. I hope my
services will be satisfactory throughout your stay and I'm available 24
hours a day incase of emergencies so you can put your mind at ease about
that. I hope you enjoy Texas and I would suggest I should first give you a
tour around the town so you get familiar with it before heading off to
school.


Woah that was one long ass speech and it took me a minute to digest it. I
smiled at him and took some of my luggage from him.

'Firstly Edward, by the way can I call you Eddie?' He kind of arched his
eyebrow at that before smiling and nodding his head. 'Eddie if you are
going to be driving me around every weekend in this place then you gotta
stop calling me Master. It's too formal and frankly it just freaks me
out. So call me Nate from now on. And secondly I don't think taking a tour
right now is such a great idea, i'm having major jet lag and just want to
go to this school and get it over and done with. And lastly I hope we
become friends, not driver and boss's kid.'

He gave a soft chuckle and patted me on the back in a parental way which
got a big smile out of me. Eddie seemed cool and he sounds like he knows
this place which was good so I wont be totally lost.


We walked to the car in the parking lot as he started talking about how he
ended up in Texas. Apparently he came here for a girl he fell in love with
who had been visiting England with a school at the time. She was 16, he was
18 and fresh out of high school. After she left to Texas he decided England
just wasn't the same anymore without her and broke the news to his
parents. He then came to texas and 2 years of going out they got married
and now have 3 lovely kids. He graduated from a community college and
became a driver since it payed well and he liked meeting new people, which
was interesting for him since all of them were different from
eachother. Yeah he was cool for sure and i was taking a liking to him
almost immediatly, i was the rich boy who knew all the lifestories of his
workers and was closer to them than my own best friend.

He gave me some info on the school. Founded in 1989 and known as the
American/British style school in Dallas.  It was located slightly outside
the city and was only 20 minutes awat vt car. Their was a new principle of
the school that came from England and introduced a new set of rules to the
School. It was an all boys school and had many facilities, best of all it
has its own swim team! He also mentioned that I'd probably like it allot
since it was also known as a school which possessed its own special feature
that not many people were aware of. I asked what he meant and he just
smiled and said, 'You'll find out soon enough.'

We reached the car, a very nice black Jag and Eddie rushed to open my door
which I rolled my eyes at and gave him a 'what did we just talk about'
look. He smiled apologetically and closed the door and went to the drivers
seat, Yeah this might not be so bad after all. As we drove by I leaned my
head against the window staring out at the scenery. Their werent much cars
or houses as we drove through different ways away from the town since this
school was located outside of town and in a secluded place. It seemed nice,
all green and fresh air not like California at all with the city lights and
starbucks at each road.


***********

We came to a halt after a whole hour of driving in silence. I looked out
the window and saw we had stopped in front of a big building which was now
my new school for the next 2 years. It was big to say the least. It had a
kind of Victorian style architect to it and was covered in all these
reddish green leaves making it look ancient. I got out and helped Eddie out
with the suitcases which he was quiet reluctant about. I took them from his
steel grip and rolled at my eyes at his almost sulking look, as if I was
taking away one of his pleasures of life, Weird dude.

We shook hands as we entered the school and we exchanged phone numbers. He
wished me good luck and left and I slowly walked up the stairs dragging my
suitcases with me, it's a miracle I didn't break a leg while pulling them
up. I reached the first floor and noticed how stranded this place
was. Their were no students around like back in my High School which would
have been so crowded it ended in a couple of guys being slapped silly by
girls for touching them inappropriately.

I started walking down the long almost castle like hallway, looking at the
big paintings on the walls that you would find in Palaces or Museums.

I reached a door which had 'Main Office, Jennifer' written on the door and
knocked on it.

'Come in' called out a female voice. I opened the door and saw a small lady
with fiery red hair in tight curls on the top of her head with reading
glasses held on her nose as she wrote something down in her notebook. She
saw me and gasped and quickly checked her watch shrieking slightly.

'Oh dear I lost track of the time completely! You must be Nathan the new
exchange student. Welcome to Mount, I would give you a full tour but we're
late as it is so come on scoot along we must hurry, I hope the principle
isn't upset for us being late.'


She told me to leave my stuff in the office and she started rushing out the
door not even checking behind her if I was following her. We walked down
the long carpeted hallway till we reached what looked like a big cafeteria
on one end and a stage for plays on the other. The room was filled with a
bunch of students and some teachers looking bored but still all of them
were staring up at the stage. Their was a man up on the stage, giving a
long talk about rules and uniform policies and shit like that. He spoke in
a similar accent like Eddie and he wore a bow-tie. He saw me and motioned
me over and I kind of froze as all eyes suddenly were on me. Jennifer
nudged me to go up and I did, I swallowed and tried to hide my nervousness
and tried to confidently walked up to the stage and got up the stairs. He
pointed at a chair for me to sit down on as he carried on with his
speech. I felt quiet weird as I sat on the stage next to the principle as
he talked.


He suddenly stated my name and I got up still feeling several eyes on
me. He started off with introducing me to the rest of the School.

'Now boys, moving on from the serious topics, I'd like to introduce
Nathaniel Carlson...' I whispered Nate to him and he smiled at me, 'I
apologies I meant Nate Carlson and Nate i'm your principle James
Browning. Nate is our new exchange student and i'd like you all to make him
feel at home and to help him out get familiar with the school and its
rules. He's come all the way from California and i'm sure you'll all get
along. Nate anything you'd like to say?'

I looked back at him and smiled and looked out at the students 'Hi its good
to be here. Thanks' I gave them my best smile and a few giggles came out
the audience. I sat back down on the chair and cursed myself at the stupid
little speech I made. Oh, well stealth is cool too I guess.


The feeling of being stared at just wouldn't pass away so I finally let my
eyes roam around the students sitting down below. Their were many different
groups of boys. It seemed like one was the popular kids sitting in one
section. Their was one cute boy who seemed around my age with big green
eyes covered with his black side bangs and a set of nice pouty lips. Wow he
was gorgeous I thought to myself He smiled as he caught me checking him out
and the big jock sitting next to him wrapped a protective arm around him
and his face turned into a snarl as he stared at me. A set of other jocks
sat next to them and all looked at me suspiciously as if trying to decide
if I'm cool enough for them. I rolled my eyes at that and continued my
roaming. A group of blond cute boys sat in the middle section, all
whispering and giggling to each-other while looking me head to toe. One of
them whispered something and all 4 of them suddenly stared at my crotch
area and then nodded to each-other smiling. I felt a slight blush come up
to my ears but fought it down. I looked around and spotted another group
which consisted of 5 emo boys, they seemed to all be just looking at me
indifferently but one seemed to lean forward as if trying to get a better
look at me. He had the most deepest set of brown eyes with some eyeliner on
the bottom which really brought it out. And dark blue hair that he held in
a plait above his head. He winked at me and nodded his head as if saying
hello. I nodded back and smiled as i experienced a sudden reality check ;
Am i actually starting to.... like this place?

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Hi guys, thanks for all the positive feedback you sent me, its the only
thing that motivated me to write the next chapter. This was slightly longer
then the previous one and feel free email me for any comments, good or bad
let me know.

Thanks, Jamie