It was a normal day in Danville High, there were students scurrying for class to class, people were stopped at their lockers to talk, the drinking fountain had exploded again and was spewing water everywhere. Nobody paid the busted fountain any attention, nor any attention to the cowlicked teenager that was grappling with the fountain to stop the flow of water. At this point in time, most people were used to the antics of Milo Murphy to not pay him much attention, unless it was something especially extravagant, like a stampede of some random animal or that time a spaceship crashed into the roof of the gym. Soon enough Milo was done stopping the water, and could finally make his way to his locker, he needed to hurry because Amanda was two lockers down from him, and she only spent two minutes at her locker in accordance with her schedule, and if he didn't get there soon he wouldn't be able to say hi to her until he saw her in Chemistry class 5th period. He just hoped that Murphy's Law didn't get in his way again before he'd get there.
Meanwhile, Amanda had just gotten to her locker, glancing over to Milo's locker as she opened her own, taking notice of his absence. She didn't know whether to be happy that her schedule wouldn't be disrupted by Murphy's Law, or disappointed that she wouldn't get her between 3rd and 4th period Milo hello that in itself had become a part of her daily school rhythm. But just as soon as she had the thought, Milo turned the corner, quickly as it seemed that he had been doing a sort of speed walk, though the moment he laid eyes on Amanda he slowed down to the most casual walk he could muster up. Amanda smiled and shook her head before putting her first and second period books away. Milo was such a dork.
"Hi, Amanda!" Milo grinned as he opened his own locker up. He mentally thanked Murphy's Law when nothing fell from his top shelf and hit him in the face, that would have been embarrassing.
"Hello, Milo." Amanda greeted, giving Milo a glance, now noticing how wet he was. "Water fountain or sink?"
"Water fountain, haven't had a sink explode on me in at least a month." Milo said, putting up some of his books before starting to rummage around for the ones he needed. "Today seems to be a light day for Murphy's Law, outside of the water fountain, I've only been chased by a dog, had my bus seat catch fire, had a baseball hit me in the chest when I got off the bus, a window broken by rogue tree branch first period, then my pencils kept breaking… so, really light."
"If you say so." Amanda said, carefully picking out her science book so that the other books didn't fall over. "I don't know how you do it."
"It's just way things are, plus it's fun, once I got the dog to stop chasing me I got to pet it. They were golden retriever/pitbull mix, she was adorable."
Meanwhile, in a sort of cruel turn of events, it turned out that Murphy's Law wasn't light today, it was just resting up for a big event.
The pair chatted a little about school for a minute, when Milo's danger sense started go off. And that's when he heard the cracking sound, soft and warning of great problems. He looked up, the roof above him and Amanda was bulging down slightly, a few cracks starting to appear and grow at an exponential rate. Building instability. Roof Collapse. By the time he realized what was happening, he only had a second left, then he looked at Amanda. He was wearing body armor, she wasn't, he had to get her out of the way before-
CRACK
Shove
CRASH!
Amanda blinked in confusion for a second as she recovered from the shock of what just happened, only to immediately holler out in pain as she realized her arm had been smashed by stray piece of debris from the ceiling, it was broken. She tried to push away the piece of metal off her arm with her good one, only to be helped by someone, she looked up, it was Zack.
"Amanda, are you okay? How is your arm? Do you know what happened?" Zack asked in rapid fire, his eyes locked onto Amanda arm, hands hovering around it, like he wanted to something but knew better then to touch it. Not getting an immediate answer from Amanda, as she was still processing everything. "It looks broken, I'd get you a sling and a splint, but the nurse is calling an ambulance, and Milo's backpack is with him under the- "
"Milo! Where is Milo? We were talking when-"Amanda started, only to shift her eyes slightly and see it. The giant whole in the roof that was letting in daylight; the pile of broken metal, dry wall, concrete, and paneling that used to be the ceiling; and underneath that pile was-
"Milo!" Amanda squeaked, lunging forward to try and get to Milo, only for Zack to hold her back.
"Amanda, be careful of your arm." He said, giving Amanda's arm another glance before looking over at the rubble himself. Melissa was right by Milo's side, trying get him to fully come to. "Do you remember what happened?"
"No, we were just talking about how we thought there might a pop quiz this week, I was distracted because I was about get to the end of locker time and I was still talking to Milo, then there was some noise, and… I don't…"
"Milo pushed you out the way as the roof collapsed. Melissa and I turned the corner when it happened, so we saw everything." Zack explained. "We still don't know what happened with the roof, though, must have just been Murphy's Law."
"Melissa, is Milo okay?" Amanda called over, after registering that she was there next to him, still internally processing that Milo had saved her. It was hard to focus with the pain in her arm.
"He hasn't woken up yet." Melissa said, looked over Milo again. Only his head, left shoulder blade and right head were poking out from the pile, his head had a fair-sized head wound that was bleeding pretty profusely, as head wounds are known to do. She had seen worse on Milo, like that Mardi Gras with oranges, that was a nasty one, but the thing she was worried about was his lack of consciousness and the blood that seemed to be leaking out from under the rubble. If one of those metal bars had pierced his armor- She shook her head. "But I'm sure he'll be fine! Milo's seen some bad situations before, remember the time with the tigers in gym?" No need to make Amanda panic more, she still seemed shook up by everything. She shook Milo's shoulder again, whispering to him to wake up, anxiously eyeing the small crowd that was forming around them.
But then Milo's eyes started to flicker open, mumbling bursting forth from his mouth, brows furrowing together as he seems to process what was going on in his body.
"Milo?" Melissa said, leaning in slightly to try and see and hear him better. Milo's eyes gave a solid blink, before fully opening for the first time, then-
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
AUTHOR'S NOTE:
Hey, so this one is going to be a little different then what I normally do. Been a long while since I've written anything, let alone something like this so forgive me for not being very good while I warm up.
Also, I should be clear, this chapter might have had a focus on Amanda, and she does have a plotline in this story, but Milanda is not the focus of this story, most characters will get some focus eventually, except maybe Cavendish and Dakota, because I'm not sure how to work them in, but we will see. Thanks for reading this, I guess.