Alex’s POV

Two boys knocked on the door of our compartment.

“Can we sit here? The guys we were sitting with kicked us out,” the bigger one asked, embarrassed. 

“Sure! I’m John, by the way,” John greeted them with a goofy smile spread across his face.

The other one looked relieved and sat down on the opposite side of me and John.

“Merci beaucoup. Every other cabin was full, we were worried we would have to stand the whole way!” he exclaimed in a thick French accent. “Also I’m Lafayette, but you can call me Laf. This is my friend, Herc.”

“Tu parles français?” I asked, excited that I would get to meet another French speaker.

“Oui! Tu habites en France? Ton accent est bizarre!” he asked.

"No, I'm from the Carriban

“Oh… cool."

We talked the whole way over some candy Herc bought. We changed into our robes and left the train.   

All of the sudden, I stopped. There was this giant black horse-like thing attached to a carriage.

“Um, what the-” I muttered.

“Oh yeah. Those are the horseless carriages,” John said nonchalantly.

“Don’t you see the- nevermind,” I stopped, realizing that Herc and Laf weren’t correcting him.

The ride to the front of the school was uneventful yet terrifying. The black creature kept turning its head around as if it was staring into my soul. The worst part was that nobody seemed to notice.

“I hope they’ll give my iPod back,” Herc wondered aloud. “I snuck it in last year, but it was confiscated. I had like… 30 songs downloaded on there-”

“Just shut up with your iPod already!” Laf yelled.

After a long pause, we all burst out laughing.

“Hey look, there it is!” I gasped, pointing to the giant building in front of us.

It was like a giant mansion. I’ve never seen anything this big in my entire life.

“So, are you ready, Alex?” John asked.

Sorry it's short, I've been under a lot of stress lately... and my computer broke soooooo. Anyway, how's life? Good I hope. I'm weird lmao bye.