Hiddenville High

Macy Wonder entered the school and looked around, only slightly nervous. Suddenly, an old classmate of hers bounced up to her. "Macy! What are you doing here?" Phoebe Thunderman asked and Macy smiled, about to answer her back when arms embraced her from behind.

"Any friend of Phoebe's is a friend of mine! Hi, I'm Cherry!" The girl said, standing next to Phoebe.

"I'm Macy, nice to meet you. Um, well, my parents decided that it would be best to be like you guys and move into a small neighborhood, away from all that... craziness." Macy said and Phoebe nodded.

"All right then, we've gotta get to class, c'mon Cherry! See you later, Macy!" Phoebe said, giving Macy a quick hug and then went to class.

Macy looked around and clutched her schedule, heading to her locker. She emptied her books into it and heard a voice behind her.

"Macy?" it asked, surprised. She turned around to see the one and only Max Thunderman. Macy felt her heart speed up at the sight of him. She quickly snapped herself out of her trance.

"H-hey Max," Macy said and Max smirked.

"Hey, how have you been?" He asked stuffing his hands in his pockets.

"I've been good, you?" She asked, pushing her hair behind her ear and Max kept a smirk on his face. Gosh Macy, it hasn't been that long since you've seen him! Stop acting so awkward and tense around him!

Suddenly, the bell rang and Macy looked at her schedule. "Hey, um, Max, could you help me find room 107? I've got math first period." Macy asked shyly and Max nodded.

"Yeah, I've got that class too." he said and they headed to math.

Walking into the class was easy, as was finding a chair and sitting down. But sitting down at the desk behind Max was hard. She would never learn anything in that class because all she would be doing is goofing off with him. As the class started, Max passed a note back to Macy.

[Hey, maybe wanna come over after school today and catch up a bit? -Max]

Macy smiled and wrote back. "Yeah, sounds cool." Macy then tried paying attention to the class but all she got was mumble-mumble-mumble blah-blah-blah since she had already learned what was in the lesson and started doodling a picture of her parents fighting crime and saving the world.

Max and Macy were in Science together, the last class of the day. "Alright class, today we'll be using chemicals in groups so everybody pick your partners." The teacher spoke and Macy looked at the ground and shuffled her feet. Suddenly, a hand pulled her down into the seat. She looked up to see Max and her cheeks went a bit red.

"Wanna be my partner?" he asked and Macy nodded.

"Sure, thanks," she said. They got into the lab and soon they were both mixing chemicals, adding certain supplies and were about to shake it up a bit. "You ready?" Macy asked and Max nodded excitedly.

"Oh yeah! Let's do this!" he said and Macy rolled her eyes.

Different school, different town, same old Max. Macy dumped the ingredient in and the two of them took a step back, crossing their fingers and pulling clothes over their heads. The explosion happened and the goo was EVERYWHERE. The two shared a good laugh and then were kicked put of the classroom. They kept laughing as they stumbled into the hallway.

"That was awesome!" Max exclaimed. "I can't believe you still remembered the formula!"

Macy shrugged, "Yeah, it was one of our best pranks. I'll always remember it." Macy said quietly and Max smiled.

"Yeah... Hey, let's go to my house now before Phoebe gets there." Max said and Macy nodded as they started walking down the road.

"Ya know, it's great to be some place where having powers is totally unheard of. It just makes it more fun to have powers." Max said and Macy smiled, holding on to the strap of her bookbag.

"I'm glad, it means more fun to mess around and not have somebody yelling in your ear, 'you're doing it wrong! Fix it!' every five seconds, if ya know what I mean." Macy said and Max nodded as they reached the house and he held the door open for her. She walked inside and set her bag on the floor. "Oh my gosh, Max, this place is amazing!" Macy exclaimed and Max smirked.

"Wait until you see the lair, c'mon." He said and hit a button, making a seat swing open to lead to a slide. Macy peered down it and he sat behind her. They went down the slide and landed softly on Max's bed. They both were laughing until the bunny started talking.

"A girl?! Max actually has a girl in here?!"

"Dr. Colosso, is that you?!" Macy reacted immediately and went over to the cage. Max shoved his hands in his pockets and nodded.

"Yup," he said, popping the 'p'. "Dad turned him into a rabbit and now he's here." Max said and Macy turned to gape at him.

"That is awesome. So are these all your inventions?" she asked, lightly touching a rocket.

"Yep, all of them." Max said and smirked and Macy looked around at the inventions.

"Max, these are incredible. I can't believe you created these. I mean, I can but I can't- just, WOW." She said and Max shook his head.

"Same old Macy, always flustering."

This time, Macy smirked, "Same old Max, always excited to pull a prank or do something evil."

Max laughed and they fell on to his bed. "You know, it was weird without seeing you and the rest of the gang everyday, the first couple days we moved up here." Max said and Macy shrugged.

"It didn't feel like school without you and Phoebe's constant nagging." Macy admitted and smiled a little.

"I'm glad we're going to school together again," Max admitted and Macy nodded.

"Definitely. It'll make everything seem like normal. Different place, same old us." She said and Max nodded.

"MAX!" Mrs. Thunderman yelled and Macy sat up straighter.

"Yeah mom?!" Max yelled up.

"Come up here please, dinner time!" she yelled and the two of them headed upstairs.

"Wanna join us for dinner?" Max asked her and Macy shrugged.

"Having dinner with my favorite superhero family, definitely!"
Macy said and Nora and Billy exclaimed, "Macy!" and ran over to hug the older girl.

"Hey guys, good to see you too!" she said, laughing.

"Macy! Hi, how are you?" Mrs. Thunderman asked and Macy smiled.

"I'm good Mrs. Thunderman, how are you?"

"I'm well. It's good to see you again."

"Right back at ya, Mrs. T. And Mr. T, it's good to see you again too!" Macy said as Max handed her a plate.

"Same to you, Macy." Macy and Max sat in the living room to eat.

"...and then he said 'but I don't know how to change a tire!'" And Macy was laughing as Max shared silly and unused stories that always made her laugh.

"That's too funny. I can't- my sides hurt," she said, laughing.

From the dining table, the other Thunderman's could hear their laughter. Mrs. T smiled as she ate. "Looks like Max is having fun catching up with an old friend," she said.

"Yeah, and I would say getting too close to her," Nora mumbled and Billy nodded.

"What did you two say?" Phoebe asked, even though she heard what they said.

"Nothing!" Nora said quickly and shove food in her mouth as Billy did the same. Phoebe rolled her eyes and tried to ignore the laughter as she ate, trying to forget that one of her best friends from her old school was now chatting with her brother and catching up with him.

She was only a little disappointed since she had eaten lunch with Macy and caught up then, but still.

The laughter slowly died down as Macy and Max headed back down to Max's room to watch a movie. The TV rolled over to them as Macy smiled. "Wow Max, you really tricked this place out!" Max gave a small laugh.

"Yeah, I had a lot of free time. What movie do you wanna watch?" he asked and she shrugged.

"A horror movie."

He gave her a curious look and said, "But you hate horror movies, you can't sit still. Or stop yelling."

Macy smirked, "I've changed, I promise." Max rolled his eyes and put in his favorite horror movie.

After the first hour, Macy had not even screamed once. She was cowering a little bit, but still had not screamed.

Max paused it, impressed. "I guess you're right," he said and then she clutched his arm hiding her face in his shoulder blade.

"Oh my god, don't turn that back on. Do not turn that back on." she said and Max laughed.

"Alright, alright, I won't," he said and she sat up straight and looked at her invisible watch.

"I should get home now, Mom and Dad are probably back from saving some small town or something." She said and got up, walking towards the stairs.

"Here, I'll walk you to the door." Max offered and together they went upstairs.

"Bye Mr. and Mrs. T! Good seeing you again!" Macy said as she passed them.

"Leaving so soon, Macy?" Mr. T asked and she nodded.

"Yeah, the folks are probably home by now, so I should go. Thank you for the lovely dinner," Macy said politely.

"Nonsense, glad we could have you over." Mrs. T said and Macy smiled and turned to Phoebe whom she gave a big hug to.

"Hey Pheebs, glad to see you again. Can we catch up this weekend and eat together during lunch?" Macy asked and Phoebe nodded.

"Of course we can! I'll see you tomorrow," Phoebe exclaimed and Macy smiled as Max handed her coat to her. She slipped it on and Max walked her to the door.

"So glad I could catch up with you, Maxy, It was good to see you again." Macy said and gave him a smile. Max smiled back.

"Yeah, Mace, it was good to see you too. See you in math tomorrow, right?" Macy nodded and gave him a quick hug before leaving.

"You know, I've always liked that girl. She was always such a sweetheart and had such polite manners." Mrs. Thunderman said and Max shrugged.

"Don't make it into such a big deal, Mom. So what, one of my best friends is in town, no biggie." Max said, sitting on the couch, suddenly bummed out.

"Aww, does Maxy miss his wittwe giwlfwiend alweady?" Phoebe cooed and Max shot her a glare.

"She's not my girlfriend. Besides, we're just friends."

"That's what he said," Nora sing-songed and bounced upstairs. Max rolled his eyes.

The next day at school, Max waited for Macy at her locker and the two of them walked to math together. "Hey, so I was thinking. Maybe I should ask Courtney to the dance tonight, what do you think? I've liked her for a while now..."

Ouch, that stung, Macy thought.

"Yeah, I think you should. It'd be nice." Macy said before walking away and sat next to Phoebe.

"Max bring up Courtney?" she asked immediately.

"Yup," Macy said, smacking her lips together.

"Is he still oblivious as always?" She asked an Macy said, "yup" again. Phoebe sighed. "He's so clueless. Sometimes I just wanna run it through him but he wouldn't pay attention," said Phoebe just before the class started.

The two of them ate lunch together and caught up, having almost all of their classes together. Soon, it was the end of the day again, and Macy was in science with Max. She entered the classroom bravely and started working on the lab all by herself. Suddenly, hands covered her own and helped her fix the mixture. "There ya go," the person said and Macy smirked.

"Since when did you become so good at mixing chemicals?" she asked, turning to face Max, whom she had avoided all day.

"Several years ago," he said, smirking. Macy blushed and pushed a piece of hair back behind her ear. He was talking about the day they met.

"You are such a cheese ball," she mumbled and went back to her work. She knew Max had frowned and knew something was up but she didn't tell him anything. Why would she, especially if he likes someone else?

-post dance-

Macy knocked lightly on the Thunderman's door and Max opened it with Phoebe right behind him. "Hey are you two okay? My powers were affected by the comet so I was wondering if you two were alright..." Macy asked and the twins nodded.

"Yeah, but could you get us unstuck from this remote please?" Phoebe asked and Macy nodded, taking all the glue away from the remote momentarily so Max and Phoebe could pull their hands off and so she could quickly fix the remote before it fell to the ground. She grabbed it and it was as good as new.

"Whoa, how'd you do that?!" Max asked and Macy shrugged.

"I'm not only a healer but an elementalist, I can control all elements and can use my telekinesis at any given point."

Macy explained as Phoebe shook her head at Max who said, "So glue is an element?"

"I'm going up to bed before either of you end up killing each other. Goodnight," Phoebe said before walking away from the conversation.

"No Max, glue is not an element, but it contains water and water is an element so I can bend glue," Macy explained and Max nodded.

"Do you wanna, I don't know...watch a movie?" Max asked and Macy nodded.

"Sure, I guess. It's a Friday night and I've got nothing else to do."

Max put in the movie "Finding Nemo" as it was one of his own favorites because of the sharks and because it was also Macy's favorite, since her favorite character was Dory. Macy laid her head on Max's shoulder as they watched the movie. By the time it was over, Macy was laughing with glee and Max was smiling.

"You know, Courtney showed up at the dance tonight," he said and suddenly, all that glee went away.

"And?" Macy asked sincerely, wanting to hear what happened.

"There was a dance off between me and this senior and I ended up winning, but I don't care because now I see that she was just some girl who takes advantage of others." Max blurted and Macy smiled weakly.

"We accept the love we think we deserve. And you know, maybe it was a good lesson, though I'm really sorry you had to go through pain like that..." Macy said and brushed her hand across his cheek. Max nodded. They looked into each other's eyes and suddenly, they both moved in, their lips touched and it was bliss.

And that was how they stayed, in each other's arms for hours into the night, just enjoying each other's company after such a long time apart.