School 'incident'

It was Charlie's turn today. His turn to shine and show that he was once again the best in class. He remembered every single word in the script he had come up with. Yet, he wasn't feeling very confident in his performance.

Why? Well, he couldn't give his full potential when he was paired with the quirkiest kid in the class. He didn't even know how come an alien such as Amilan ended up in his class.

At first, Amilan was like an interesting subject to study, but after some time, Charlie realised that the Alien's I.Q. was just too inferior to his. Well, to be honest, the only thing that Amilan could excel at, was perfectly imitating the cry of animals.

Hopefully, that idiot of an alien would do those properly and not mess things up.

"Charlie? Amilan? Are you ready?" a familiar voice called.

Charlie snapped out from his thoughts and got up. "Yes miss!" He took in a deep breath and walked onto the scene.

Amilan joined him soon after and stood right besides Charlie.

Charlie's eyes twitched at the sight of his partner.

For once, that alien had put on some appropriate clothes, but the green glow of his skin hardly matched the red King Lennon III costume and his antenna poked awkwardly out from a hole he did in to his hat.

"I hope you remember your scripts children, and good luck!"

The curtain finally rose. In front of them were all their classmates, and further behind were their parents.

Charlie cleared his throat and began his recital.

Once upon a time in a far away land, the Queen asked the chef to prepare a feast for the King, who was coming back from war.

The chef would ask: "What would my Queen wish to eat?" asked the chef.

And the Queen would answer: "Prepare roasted boar! The King loves eating boars!"

"Iiiiiihihihihih!" Amilan burst out.

"That's not a boar! That's a horse! You should be saying "Oink oink!" groaned Charlie.

Amilan began scratching his head. "Really?"

Ahem. So, the chef gathered the necessary ingredients, save for the boars...

"Oink! Oink!"

... which had to be caught in a forest in the neighbouring valley. The chef henceforth summoned the best hunter of the kingdom and conveyed to him, the Queen's request. Soon, the hunter was out and about on his horse!

"Baaahh!"

Charlie glared at Amilan with all his might. He was hearing some giggle from his audience. This was inadmissible! He breathed in and out, and resorted to continue.

The hunter reached the forest and got down. With his arc and arrow, he stepped among the trees and began prowling. Cautiously and noiselessly, he advanced deeper. Lending his ears, he could hear the boars.

"Quack! Quack!"

"No! That's a duck, not a boar! You are an ass!"

"Hee-haw! Hee-haw!"