The Baxter Twins (chapters 1-4) - Ryan Harris (the beach read .TXT) 📗

lesson was science in room1 with Mr. Clams. The lesson was really boring to the twins well even know Courtney has a great first for knowledge she still found it boring. And they noticed people in the class talking about them yet so quiet they couldn’t make out what they were saying.
They learned about acids and safety rules. They sat at the far back corner for they were shy, “Would you like to give us an example of safety Tom?” wondered Mr. Clams. “What about don’t run?” “We already have that one Tom.” Mr. Clams pointed out “Don’t eat in class?” answered Tom “very good” exclaimed Mr. Clams followed by a quiet cluster of whispers from the rest of the pupils “I heard there really secret agents” they heard one boy say. Then shortly after they made their way to lesson 2 which was drama in room 3, the lessons lasted 45 minutes each and there were six in a day, they asked a boy in year 9 for directions to drama and he was not very nice in fact he just carried on walking and grunted like a ogre in one of the fantasy films they used to watch with their parents.
They tried to follow him but he soon disappeared in the large hall ways that seemed endless like a gigantic maze. “Were lost!” cried Courtney “Come on let’s try and go back the way we came.” About half an hour later they managed to get to their lesson they explained why they were late and the angry teacher just let them off for it was their first day at school yet glanced at them every so often like he saw one of them in a murder case.
Then they had break the time of day when you can just relax, mess around and make new friends but this was a problem the twins did not have any friends nor any games to play and mess around in. Soon the time drifted away, “I really hope that we find a friend” questioned Tim “Same here” Replied Courtney. As hoped for by the Baxter twins the bell rang.
Now it was time for French in room 11. They entered the room to be greeted by a huge; “Salut” which is French for hi or hello. “Je m’appelle Monsieur Harris” Said Mr. Harris, (Which meant I am called Mr. Harris.) They really enjoyed French they were learning about things in your bed room such as: un lit as a bed, une chaise as a chair, une chaine hifi as a radio and others like une bureau and un réveil as a desk and an alarm clock.
After their best lesson so far they ventured onwards to their next lesson in their never ending day, which was art, Courtney really enjoys art she loved every last second of it that’s why she sat there as still as a crocodile waiting for its pray in anticipation of what it might taste like but in Courtney’s case anticipation of what she might be doing next in the lesson, they were drawing and shading in pictures of bugs: hairy ones, dirty ones and ones that were as small as an ant and as big as a pigeon.
Next was the second time of the day to relax “Lunch” but Courtney was thinking: “let’s be explorers!” “Cool” replied Tom. “I’ll be the map holder” “And I’ll be the equipment carrier!” they pretended. So they went to the lunch hall and got some delicious scrumptious chips and beans you could have jacket potatoes, beans or pees; “mash potatoes!” Tom cried obviously they were his favourite food along with pizza. When they sat down they saw all the teachers sit down and laughing about pupils in their lessons and people pigging out on cakes and crisps.
But what really cached there eye or eye’s was the blond heard gill sitting at the back staring and pointing and even laughing at them. They hurried out of the room eating as fast as they can trying not to make a fool of them self in the process, “It seemed a shame to rush such a lovely meal” Moaned Tom, Courtney agreed seconds after. The bell rang and they made their way to their next lesson, History in room 5. They went down a large corridor filled with people running up and down. The twins did not get time to play explorers so they decided to sneak round the school at the dead of midnight.

They wanted to do this for two reasons, reason one is to see if there were any paranormal things going on in the school or even better a secret passage hidden inside or outside of the school. And reason two they just wanted to get a better look at the school of course without being noticed in the process and expelled on the first day. So they entered history and sat down at any random table just to be expected by the person who sits there, the blond hared girl who was making fun of the Baxter twins for no particular reason. “You’re in my seat idiot!” She screamed “Betty sit down” Argued the teacher, “But sir these people are in my seat!” monad Betty “well they don’t know do they?” “Well no but...” “Sorry what are you names” interrupted the teacher.
“I’m Mr Ford. And you are?” “I’m Tom, and I’m Courtney it is a pleasure to meet you Mr. Ford.” They said glancing their eyes on Betty. Then they started to move and Betty went red in the face. They were learning about the battle of Hastings and why William the duke of Normandy won the battle. “This is very fascinating” They both replied after the lesson, “especially the smart board” said Tom. A smart board is a touch screen computer but reflected on to a giant board on a wall of a class room. “They all have them” Answered Courtney “What? I mean pardon?” Tom said confusingly. “All of the classes have smart board at least I think they do?” said Courtney
“Oh ok.” replied Tom he was very amazed as he had never seen the “Smart Boards” before. They saw on their way to their last lesson a number of pupils getting told of and civilly punished just for running and picking on some one. This changed their minds a little about their plan of being explorers in the school but they were not actually breaking anything just exploring but they still felt like they are going to get told of if they where to get caught. After the seventh person to be punished for picking on someone and the twenty second person to be punished for running they said: “I hope that Betty gets told of for picking on us” “yea” They whispered. As they began to realise how easy it was to get told of in this school.
They finally entered the maths block in room 4, that certain room was different to all of the rest probably because of the size, it was the biggest room in the maths bock and the twins presumed the other rooms would not be anything like the size of this one, however there was a down side Mrs Dawn was the meanest teacher in the school in fact she even got ten boys and six girls expelled because apparently they tried to kill her, but instead they were only shouting in class and she thought they were trying to give her a heart attack, well at least that is what a boy called Marcus said.

Marcus was an unusual boy, he was shy and quiet all day (a bit like the Baxter twins), even know they have only been here for one day they could just tell, He was also particularly good at math. Marcus carried on speaking about the incident of the teacher expelling those innocent ten boys and six girls (16 pupils in total!)
“And luckily no one was hurt physically but the people who were expelled where pretty upset.” He finished just as Mrs. Dawn began to explain the lesson, they had to learn fractions and division “your basic maths lesson”. That was it finally it was the end of the first day at Stanford boarding school. The bell rang and the Baxter twins gave a small tear from their eyes because the parents that had come to pick their children up from school once again reminded them of their dead parents. (Not everyone lived at the Boarding school) They then got carried away in a large group of boys and girls walking to their rooms and Tom and Courtney soon fell behind.
When they entered their room they decided to have a really good look around after they unpack. Because early on today they did not even have time to unpack for they needed to get changed quickly when they here’d the bell ring. “Wow such a lovely cream wall paper and we each get our own wardrobe or as Mr. Harris would call it, Une armoire.” Courtney said then they started to giggle. They unpacked their bags and put their belongings in the wardrobe beside their beds one of these belongings included a picture of their family, took only a week before they died. “I want Mum and Dad back” muttered Tom as he began to tear up, Courtney walked closer and stretched out her arms, she hugged her brother and they felt happiness like no other in days. “Me too Tom, me too” she replied, they sat together on one bed and waited for about 15 minutes to finish crying then they started to go to bed
It began to get dark and they decided that it was time to go explore. They had a look outside their door and heard a door slam shut, they jumped back scared that they would be caught, they waited and then set of and they sneaked past rooms on their tiptoes constantly stopping as they are afraid that someone might come out to catch them. But this never happened; unusually everything turns so creaky and noisy at night, as they did not notice a slight creek in the floor boards as when they first arrived in the 3rd corridor that very morning. As they walked out of the room block out to a path and a small patch of grass they stopped “we did it!”Whispered Tom, “Good, let’s go quick!” Courtney replied anxiously.

Chapter three
A ghostly presents.
They both stood there for about two minutes wondering what to do next then they heard a noise a loud creaking noise as if someone was scraping their nails across a black board. “Ouch” “My ears!” They shouted then they suddenly covered their mouths and ran, fortunately the noise the Baxter twins was not a teacher scraping her fingers across a black board but it was a pupil shutting a very loud and a very squeaky door. “Few I’m glad that was over, so much adrenalin I have never felt so much better in my life ” Whispered Tom, But it was not over and they should not be glad as they were inside the school building with a janitor walking strait towards them.
They stood petrified and could not move until that something very strange and very scary was gone; the man disappeared, in fin air, just gone “Wow!” Exclaimed the twins in shock and amaze. “He was a ghost wasn’t’ he” Asked Tom. “I think so; I’m so scared right now!” replied Courtney, still petrified; now they were just shivering as it was so cold and Courtney felt as she could of fainted, she let out a silent scream and sat down onto the cold floor. They thought for a second that they should turn back but they had