Chapter 3: Second Semester – First day

Jordan held his backpack as a lifeline. He felt as if hundreds of eyes were on him, when they were only twenty or so. He gulped hard as his Mom stood near him, in front of the class. He couldn’t really hear her as she explained why he was here, what she expected of them and what would happen if they overstepped. He was simply far too nervous now that he discovered so many new MAJORS he had never met. Somehow, he had never expected that to see so many in the same place would be so frightening – even the mall, with its throngs, was less impressive. Here he was the center of attention.

“Now, I would like you to not act like so many of us, MAJORS, have in ages past. An unbonded Minor shouldn’t be pursued like some prey or trophy. Am I clear?”

“Yes Mistress Smith!” Replied a chorus of voices, some sounding sincere and some far less to the frail young teenager’s ears.

Jordan winced at the loud sound. He wasn’t used to it, he was homeschooled and had never liked loud voices. But here, the twenty-four MAJORS looking at him were loud. Very loud. As soon as his Mom had stopped talking, they whispered and chattered, loud enough for him to hear everything: “Isn’t he a little too frail?”, “He looks so cute with his afro!”, “I bet he’ll fall for me!” and many other ideas of the same sort. It made him feel less like a normal student, he doubted that most, if any, of his new classmates, had ever led to such discussions.

“Take a seat Jordan” smiled Jezabel, who gestured toward a smaller table situated in the front row. “You don’t want to make the whole class wait too much, don’t you?”

“No, of course” he meekly replied, which led to several squeals among the other students.

“Ladies! A little self-respect, please! You are students, not hen!” barked his mother.

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“You okay, girl?” asked Kendra, whispering so her friend would be the only one who heard her.

“Not really…” admitted Kendalynn, who felt a little nauseous. “I have… something really important to ensure, and I’m stuck here.”

“Do you want me to ask the teacher to let me bring to the infirmary?”

Kendra looked really concerned, and Kat almost gave in. But she had a reputation, she was expected to be the sympathetic and hard-working student. She simply couldn’t let herself look sick and weak because she couldn’t have her Mouse right here, right now. She needed to plan the way to bond with him, and make him hers. She would have to be careful, of course. Plenty of other MAJORS would try to beat her in this race, but she had a lot of knowledge, both practical and theoretical, about Mouse. The question was the possibility to make use of them in public.

“No, I’ll be able to wait, don’t worry. But thank you, Karen.”

“Don’t sweat it. You’re my best friend, it’s the least I can do.”

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“See? You need to take your time” explained Elaine, a blond teenager, probably around thirteen still, who looked more like the child she had been than the woman she would become.

“But… But wouldn’t I… wouldn’t I lose too much time and can’t finish the exercise?” he asked, almost mumbling, and blushing as he looked into those big blue eyes.

“At first perhaps. But you’ll get the hang of it; I’m sure” she beamed at him.

Jordan stuttered and turned his head away, which made her giggle. He felt he was in a pinch; on the one hand, he needed to make friends with his classmates. On the other hand, none of them held a candle compared to Kat. It had surprised him to realize it when he had looked at them, but none had her allure, her confidence. Perhaps it was because they were younger, because all of them were at least eighty centimeters (two and a half feet) taller than him. It was strange to be around people is age looking far younger while towering over him.

“You’ve been homeschooled?” asked a guy, Matthew, Asian-looking, with short straight hair, relatively small eyes and a chubby look on his face.

“Yes, I have “admitted Jordan, his voice still low and weak. “But I’ve had great grades”.

“Well, I don’t doubt it, but you don’t have to worry about anything, I’ll be there to help you!”

“You! How can you hope to help him when you can’t even grasp the basic of etiquette?” hissed Elaine, glaring at the other MAJOR, sitting at the other side of Jordan’s seat.

“Because you’re better than me, miss know it all?” growled the boy in answer. “Your impure desire are transparent, you bitch!”

“Oh yeah! Will they be when I’ll slug you in the face!” spat Elaine, joining words and deeds when she hit the Asian boy right on the cheek.

Matthew clearly hadn’t expected something like that, since he recoiled a good while and shook his head, as if he was a little groggy. Jordan was bewildered and looked at his Mom. To his absolute shock, she didn’t seem to care one bit, simply shaking her head and sighing, as if two freshmen insulting each other to the point that they would start hitting each other was perfectly normal. Suddenly, insisting to go to school seemed less like a good idea. Perhaps I should have listened to Kat, thought the frail Minor.

“Kids, I would like to remind you that you are here to learn. Feel free to clubber each other outside of the classrooms. Otherwise, it’ll be detention. You should all know it already. Not only is it the second semester, but it’s also not your first day at school.”

“But my Mom said it was okay to fight in High School!” cried out a feminine voice in the back.

“That’s not exactly true Helen. We know that being a teenager MAJOR makes you really volatile, so it’s accepted that you’ll do a lot of stupid things. Still, we all want you to contain yourself as best you can, you can’t simply roam around hitting peoples and breaking things. Nobody will find someone who lose it all the time sympathetic or attractive as a partner, okay?”

While a chorus of agreements, most of them half-hearted to the small teenager ears, rang around him, Jordan couldn’t help but ponder what her mother had just said. The way she emphasized the word partner was really suspicious. She had told him that he wouldn’t be forced to bond anyone if he didn’t feel like that – but she also had added that if he did bond someone, he had to be sure that that person would take his feelings into consideration. And now he started to suspect that she half-expected him to find someone to bond with.

“Miss, does it extend to Minors too?” asked Elaine, surprising everyone.

“What do you mean?” asked Jezabel, sounding as surprised as her son was. “I’m not sure I understand why…”

“Can a Minor also do stupid things and not be punished, or punished lightly?” explained the young MAJOR sitting next to Jordan.

That question truly interested the Minor. He looked at his Mom intensely. She had always overprotected him, as far as he could remember. He understood why, he was frail, asthmatic,    and, obviously, a Minor. The idea that he could do things considered stupid had never occurred to him, and now he wanted to know if it was a possibility or not. After all, perhaps that what he felt when he looked at Kat’s feet, or those on the net, was considered stupid. If so, he would need to correct his behavior if his kind wasn’t supposed to act like that.

“Absolutely not!” replied his Mom with a tone of finality, looking straight at him.

“But… why?” asked Matthew, who was still nursing his barely sore cheek.

“Because Minors aren’t as durable as us, by a wide margin. They also lives far shorter lives and any self-respecting and worth her salt MAJOR will make sure that Minors are safe around her, not put them unduly in danger!”

It wasn’t something new for Jordan. He had heard that and many other ideas of the same vein all his life. And he subscribed to them. He wasn’t a thrill seeker. In truth, while he wanted to have a job of his own, as a teacher, and be his own person, he knew he would have to contend with MAJORS vying for his affection and being overprotective of him. And he loved the idea, if he was honest with himself. However, it didn’t meant that as a teenager, it was saddening to hear that what was good fun for MAJORS was forbidden to him.

“Miss Smith?” he asked, raising his hand dutifully. “Does it mean that as a Minor I can’t participate in any outdoor activity?”

“Of course not” replied his Mother, clearly taken aback by his question. “But it does mean that you and your classmates need to be careful.”

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“So… what’s really bothering you?” asked Karen as they waited for their next period to start.

“Nothing… well, okay something” admitted Kat.

Usually, she wouldn’t have allowed herself to show such weakness, even to Karen. But the very fact that Mouse was here, at school, and not with her! It gnawed at her, making her feel weak, feeble and, worst of all, imprudent. She could feel the urge to simply barge into his class, take him and assert her authority by bonding with him and be done with it. It was a very real temptation which could end ruining everything she had ever tried to achieve. It wasn’t anything like her public persona would have done, after all.

“What’s the matter? Is it something concerning… you, know the Big Two?”

“What? No!” replied Kendalynn, more vehemently than she had intended. “Sorry. It’s just… it’s really personal, okay? And I… Well I don’t know how to say it.”

“You can speak openly with me. You know that, right, Kendalynn? I’ll always support you. Always.”

Kat didn’t know how to react. She knew she could trust Karen; she had made sure of it over the years, cultivating both their friendship and the need for the other young MAJOR to be validated by her. It was a great way to keep someone on a tight leash without being overtly dominant – something so few MAJORS realized. Still, it didn’t mean that showing weakness was any less dangerous for her. She needed to get her head in the game.

“I know Karen, I’m sorry. It’s just that… You see, there is this minor I… I really like and-“

“That’s so cute!” cooed her friend, interrupting her. “You’re in love with a minor?”

“No! I mean, yes, but… Argh, it’s really complicated, okay!? So please, please, don’t interrupt me.”

“Okay, sorry” apologized her smaller friend. ‘It’s just… I never pictured you as someone falling in love with a minor, you know? I thought you’d aim higher.”

“I shouldn’t” admitted Kendalynn. “A MacGregor isn’t supposed to be in love with one, you know? We are supposed to consort with other MAJORS, if possible to bolster the family’s wealth and influence. But this one minor he’s just… he just feeds all my best half.”

“I see. It makes you feel even more kind and protective, you just can’t help but want to make sure he’s well fed and happy, am I right?”

“Yes, of course” lied Kat, doing her best fake smile. “Who wouldn’t feel like that when there is a Minor who’s just asking for help, right?”

It was certainly not the part of her which felt ignited by her Mouse’s presence. He made her feel so damn powerful, downright predatory. He was so frail, so easy to play with, without any hope to ever outsmart or outplay her. The few years of difference they had only compounded on her natural superiority as a MAJOR, which meant that she knew exactly how he would react to her actions and her words – or well, she had, since he seemed distant recently.

“Then, what’s the problem? I’m sure he knows that you’re the best thing which could happen to you, and you’re so great and wise, I’m pretty sure he’s ready to fold and be wrapped around your fingers if you do so much as try!”

“Yeah well… I’m not so sure of that, especially now…” mumbled Kat. “We’ll see at lunch.”

“At lunch… wait a minute… Is the minor you’re interested in Mrs. Smith’s son?” asked Karen, her eyes almost bulging out of their sockets.

Kendalynn sighed. It would be a long morning.

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Jordan ducked as another of his classmate pounced over him at Elaine. The blond girl had proven to be quite able to kick asses. She boasted that she had practiced taekwondo, judo, karate and boxing since she was able to walk. And the young Minor was starting to believe that it was true, considering that not even the tallest guys their age seemed able to handle her. Which also meant that it was all but impossible for him to ditch her, especially because they happened to have the exact same periods. And while she was certainly chirpy and interested in him, Jordan found her a little unnerving – even more so than Kat at times.

“What’s the deal?” boomed a voice, louder and deeper than anything he had ever heard. “Do you want to be stepped on or something?”

Jordan turned and looked up. And up. And up. He gawked as his eyes followed enormous trunks covered in the same material as his uniform’s trouser, giving way to a crotch with a noticeable bulge in it. They then traveled even higher to see an enormous torso, barely kept inside the white shirt used by the school. And even higher, blue eyes looked at him but didn’t seem to register anything special about him, even as the poor Minor felt his knees grow weak and his body cold at the sight of this enormous being, who was so tall he didn’t even clear his waist.

“What’s the matter baby? Are the little shits bothering you?” asked another, even more powerful, voice, as a giantess appeared behind the colossus towering over him without noticing that he wasn’t a normal MAJOR.

“I don’t know. Freshmen being freshmen, and thus not bothering to care about anything happening near them” grumbled the giant.

“Well, they need to move or be walked on!” growled the giantess. “Didn’t you heard me, little guy?” she added, looking directly at Jordan, who felt as if he would faint.

“He’s just a Minor!” yelled someone, from behind the two behemoths, which made them pause.

“Shit. A minor? Didn’t know we had one wandering the halls like that” said the guy.

“Didn’t you pay attention in class this morning babe?” asked the incredibly curvy titaness as she stepped out from behind her mate to stop directly in front of poor Jordan. “I think he must be the unbonded one the teacher told us about.”

Jordan started to shake even more when he saw the hungry look in the Cyclopeans as the female mentioned that he was not bonded with anyone. He could almost see their minds thinking about way to add him to their pleasure. But with his asthma and natural frailty, he doubted he would survive such an encounter. And since no MAJOR seemed willing to jump in front of him to stop the two Cyclos, he hoped that a miracle would happen.

“Really? Well, don’t you want to come with us, little buddy?” asked the guy. “You’ll hardly find better friends here, isn’t it true sweetie?”

“Of course! Where can you hope to find anyone like us?” asked the giantess, licking her lips even as she let one of her hand graze her boyfriend’s bulge.

“Jordan? Are you okay?” suddenly asked Kat’s voice behind him.

Spinning on his heels, the small Minor felt a wave of relief wash over him. Even while he knew her character and personality, he almost wanted to hug Kat’s belly, the only part he could truly reach without looking too awkward. She looked stunning in her skirt and shirt uniform, her fiery red hair combed to a side, as if she was a perfect little model. He couldn’t see anything of her domineering and commanding self, which surprised him a little, but he was far too happy to see her to care.

“Ka… Kendalynn” he rasped, almost making use of her nickname in public, something she had always forbidden him to do. “I…”

“Come with me. If you want to” she added after a second, as if she had realized that her public face wouldn’t be so direct and commanding.

“Wait a minute” started the giantess towering over them both. “This midget bothered my man and…”

“It’s fine, Melania” interrupted the smaller Cyclopean. “It’s more the small fries which passes as Freshmen MAJORS who didn’t pay attention to anything.”

Somehow, Jordan felt that this excuse was extremely contrived. If he hadn’t been impossible for someone so massive to be afraid of someone a lot smaller, he would have assumed that this enormous dude was wary of Kat. Which seemed ridiculous. Sure, she was taller, meaner and a lot more determined than he, but the fourteen years old knew he was just a Minor, and the differences between a normal MAJOR and their enlarged kin was exponentially larger than the one between him and her. It was simply impossible for her to intimidate a giant like that.

“But Richard…” whined the woman he guessed was thus called Melania. “An unbonded Minor…”

“Exactly. He’s why they didn’t pay attention, but it wasn’t his fault” said Kendalynn, trying to sound innocent – but Jordan knew better.

Still, it seemed to work, as the two colossus simply walked away, even if the woman shot him a long and thoughtful glance. I wonder what her feet looks like, he suddenly thought, before controlling himself. He hastily inspected his mental defenses. They felt far from perfect, especially compared to the innumerable tutorials he had found on the net, but hopefully, his thought wouldn’t have floated around to be picked by any MAJOR circling around him.

“Are you okay Jordan?” asked Kat, startling him a little as she kneeled before him.

“I’m fine!” he replied with a too high-pitched voice. “It’s just that I never expected to… to meet Cyclopeans here!”

“They can be quite impressive and frightening, I agree” she smiled, which made him shiver a little since he couldn’t help but feel that all of this – or most of it even, was faked. “But you have no reason to be afraid here.”

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Kendalynn fumed internally. Those two gigantic imbeciles had set their eyes on her Mouse! At least the huge whore had. It wasn’t surprising, considering what she knew about her and her family, but it still made her really, really, angry. Of course, it was also a great opportunity to reinforce her ties to Jordan, which had become weaker over the last few months, through no fault of her own. It added to her problems here. Even blackmailing Melania could be too weak to keep her off her Mouse’s back if she truly fancied it.

“So, he’s the mysterious minor friend, uh?” asked Karen, a Cheshire smile on her face as she looked at them both, sitting next to each other.

“We’re childhood friend” mumbled Mouse, avoiding her plainer friend’s gaze.

“As in, our mothers know each other so I spend a lot of time with him – we are still friends, after all.”

She discretely and very cautiously gave his leg a little hit with her foot, and did her best to keep her poker face when he winced. It was hard to remember that he was so much more fragile than her. She could have sworn it wasn’t stronger than a love tap, but she had clearly misjudge it. Control. You must learn control! It’s of paramount importance girl, so don’t go wasting all your opportunities just because you’re overeager and a little frightened!

“I see” said Karen with an amused smile shot at Kenda, who grumbled a little. “So… you’re Mrs. Smith’s son, right?”

“Yes” admitted her Mouse, still not looking at the other MAJOR.

“Do you think you could get us some early information on her exams?” she bluntly asked, which made even Kendalynn gasp.

“Why would I do that!?” cried out the distressed little minor, which made Kat feel all the more possessive over him – even if she couldn’t afford to show it off just yet.

“Well, to help your friends. You know, there is a limit to what us MAJORS can learn and keep in mind all the time. Diminishing a little bit of this burden by helping us in advance would do wonders for all our grades. Plus, it wouldn’t really be cheating, since Kenda and I never had a failing grade with your Mom’s exams, you know?”

“Not that you need to do that, Jordan” interjected Kat, shooting a quick glance at her friend to make her understand that she wasn’t helpful at all. “But it’s definitively something you could help us with from time to time, perhaps simply by talking with your mother or listening to her, to see what themes seems to be the most important for her. Wouldn’t you want to help us that way?”

She gently put one of her hands on his tight and felt him shaking a little. She almost smiled. She could tell he wasn’t afraid, just really nervous, and it excited her to no end. Still, she managed to keep her gentle and natural demeanor, even when all she wanted to do was to pounce on him like the freshmen had all been trying to do. She has rarely been happier than today to be slightly older than him, since it meant that she had better control over her emotions than the MAJORS his age.

“I… I don’t know. I don’t think it would be fair for the other students. And… And Mom doesn’t talk about work with me at home. It’s one of her rules.”

“Really? Oh well, I guess it’s a shame” said Karen, who still smiled at Kenda. “But I’m pretty sure that if you need help, your mother would be here for you, don’t you think.”

“I’m sure I could also help” interjected Kendalynn, perhaps a little too forcefully, which made her friend smirk, clearly amused.

“I’m sure you could, yeah. I mean, you’re the brain of this school, we both know it” chuckled the smaller MAJOR, which did bring a smile on Kat’s lips.

“You would?” asked her Mouse, sounding a little too surprised for her taste.

“Of course I would! But instead of speaking about the future, don’t you want to talk about your first day at school?”

“The day’s not over” mumbled Jordan, who suddenly seemed a little bothered.

“Okay, but how was it? It’s your first time in an actual school, Jordan. We both know you’ve been homeschooled ever since forever. It must strike you as different as that, here, with actual classmates and all.”

“Well… It was… a little overwhelming. I didn’t expect so many peoples to… to be hovering over me?”

“Well, it isn’t so surprising, considering that you are an unbonded minor” stated Kat, who didn’t very much like the direction the discussion was going already.

“I know but… there really spend a lot of time hitting each other or being mean to one another as soon as the teacher was not looking. It’s a little frightening” he concluded, looking up at Kat with his deep dark eyes which made all the harder to not bond him right here, right now.

“It can’t have been so terrible” stated Kat, feeling torn between trying to appease her Mouse and enjoying the fact that he seemed to be a lot less confident in his ability to endure normal school without her by his side.

“You’ll see, I’m sure this afternoon will be even crazier!” laughed Karen.