Enid is frantic, running from one side of the room to the other babbling things that Wednesday does not even try to understand. The girl has been ready for at least half an hour and theoretically Enid is ready as well, but she doesn't seem to realize it, Wednesday tries to ignore her while contemplating the magnificent bear fur that has been carpeted their room for the past few days, Uncle Fester's work has been fantastic, he managed to put the bear that Enid had torn apart back together masterfully, hiding all the seams and teeth marks, having to clean up the entire Ophelia Hall dormitory as punishment was a more than satisfactory price for Wednesday for her new rug.

"The lip gloss, where is the lip gloss?!?!"

Wednesday sighed, Enid is freaking out about all kinds of things, including useless things, they have to go to math class and the wolf girl first freaked out because she couldn't find the hair straightener she had used just 10 minutes earlier, then she couldn't find her bracelets, according to her, good luck bracelets, Wednesday felt compelled to point out that she was already wearing them only after the poor girl had ransacked the whole room. She was then amused to see Enid tidying up, especially her makeup, first sorting it by type, then by color, then by size and now it was all scattered in Enid's makeup corner, because the girl forgot about it when she realized she was wearing two different stockings.

"Enid we have to be in the classroom in 10 minutes, you already changed 4 different pairs of socks, the ones you are wearing now are fine, now come on let's go"

Enid gives a puppy-dog look with tears in her eyes as she watches Wednesday leave the room.

The poor wolf girl just doesn't want to do math.

***

The two of them walked side by side, Enid had recovered as soon as she stepped into the main school building and was back in her social habitat, everyone greeted her and asked how she was doing, of course no one had avoided glancing sideways at the dark shadow at her side, but as scary as it was, Wednesday had lost some of her capacity for social repulsion after saving the school.

"Hi Enid! Wednesday..."

Yoko arrives at the girls charged like a spring with Divina at arm's length, who instead greets with a simple wave of her hand.

"Enid ready to resume classes?"

A whimper escapes Enid's throat and her sunny smile fades for a moment, Yoko in curiosity turns her gaze on Wednesday.

"Didn't you see the schedule? We have two hours of math."

Divine laughs and even Yoko makes a face of mock sympathy to taunt Enid a little.

"Come on Enid, we won't even lesson, she'll probably collect the vacation homework and explain the lesson schedule, not even that old harpy is crazy enough to teach the first two hours of the school year."

Another whimper from Enid preceded the girls before all four of them walked together toward the classroom, with Yoko who had also taken Enid by the arm to comfort her a bit and Wednesday following them by staying a few steps behind.

Once they enter the classroom, Yoko leaves Enid and together with Divina takes the only two nearby desks left at the back of the class. Wednesday follows an increasingly terrified Enid toward the front rows.

Enid looked like a death sentence when she realized that the only pair of neighboring desks left vacant were front row, although at least they were sideways against the wall.

"Enid for when your doomed attitude becomes intriguing, please get a grip. Now tell me whether you prefer the hallway seat or the one against the wall."

The halting class, there was buzz until a moment before, but everyone had been able to hear the soft tone in which Wednesday had addressed Enid and then even let her choose the seat first.

The one who particularly notices it, is sitting on the other side of the classroom, along with Ajax, Xavier took his place in the banks at the far corner of the classroom. He had kept his eyes on Wednesday since he had set foot in the classroom, had seen her enter behind Enid, Yoko, and Divina, and then followed Enid alone into the front row seats. Xavier had barely paid attention to the wolf girl, at least until Wednesday addressed her. That tone of voice, that ripple in Wednesday's unflappable expression, and as the general buzz resumed in the rest of the class, the wheels in Xavier's head turned.

Enid had never transformed the wolf, the only thing she always had was claws, Ajax had told him that the girl had confessed she couldn't even get her fangs out, yet everyone knows what happened on the night of the blood moon, a night when werewolves are not supposed to be able to transform, in fact they are more vulnerable, that night Enid transformed and managed to beat a Hyde. It had taken Xavier a moment to put two and two together, Enid had spent most of the summer at Wednesday's house, the Addams family had legally adopted her, had they done anything to her?

Xavier was now looking not only at Wednesday but also at Enid, he was looking at both of them, he was stunned when Wednesday turned and met his gaze and saw awareness in it, awareness that she had been watched since she had set foot in the room. Xavier had begun to have the doubt over the summer, her powers were evolving, they were changing, first with the Hyde/Tyler, then over the summer with her father and other people she knew well enough, then with the monster wolf in the forest, now with Wednesday. Xavier was beginning to be able to read the immediate emotions and intentions of others and now, he is non liking what he is hearing from Wednesday. The girls is hostile to him, she is possessive when Xavier's gaze go to Enid.

"Guys! Everybody sit down come on!"

Professor Freeman strides into the classroom, at the sight of her all the boys hurry to sit composedly in their seats, no one wants to make an enemy of one of the strictest professors in the institution, everyone knows what happened to Enid after she challenged her the first year.

"Very well, put all your assignments in this folder one by one, except you Sinclair, I want yours here in front of me."

Once a dejected Enid leaves her homework file, three times the size of everyone else's, the teacher grabs her wrist before the girl can return to her desk.

"Not so fast Sinclair, at the blackboard force, today you will solve one exercise by type of all the ones you had assigned, obviously none will be the same as the ones you had for the summer. Here's the first one, start recopying it on the blackboard."

Enid takes the paper from the teacher's hands and begins to transcribe it on the blackboard. The class is stunned, no one thought that the teacher would already leave on a war footing on the first day, but what everyone felt in the air, all that tension, was not coming from the teacher or even from Enid, and if while most of the class ignored it, Xavier, Yoko and consequently Divina, knew that all that murderous atmosphere was coming from the small, skinny girl with the black braids sitting in the corner of the first row.

To Wednesday it seemed impossible to keep calm, but the flames inside her roared undaunted now that the dark power is also circulating fluidly within her. The girl had to resort to every ounce of her concentration not to incinerate that subspecies teacher.

Enid, on the other hand, is resigned and does exercises (much more difficult and advanced than what they had studied) for the entire two hours, suffering the teacher's humiliating corrections. At the sound of the bell it is a sigh of relief for everyone, Enid almost runs out of the classroom with tears in her eyes as the teacher gives her a demerit note. Wednesday, on the other hand, goes against the tide, as all the students leave the math room and head for the biology room, she arrives in front of Professor Freeman.

"Professor"

Her tone of voice is cold and grave, the teacher has a chill down her spine and begins to break into a cold sweat. She slowly begins to look up as if what she has in front of her is the executioner come for her head, when she crosses her gaze with Addams, she would like to cast her out, to taunt her, after all she is a skinny, weakling looking little girl, but she like all teachers know better than to mess with her, whether yours is a normal or an outcast, not even an over-century-old vampire like her would want to mess with the Addams family, even less so with Wednesday Addams.

"Yes, Miss Addams?"

Wednesday hints at a smile between mocking and perverted, knowing well what arouses in certain subspecies of people.

"As for Miss Enid Sinclair-Addams, they will let her know soon."

Without even waiting for a response from the woman, Wednesday turned and left the classroom, leaving behind what was now closer to a corpse than a vampire; Professor Freeman had totally forgotten that Enid Sinclair was adopted by the Addams, she just wanted to go back to tormenting the one student who in centuries had tried to challenge her, for a lonely old spinster like her, the only thing that gives any joy to her life is to torment the new generation, but this time, she dug her own grave.