Nearly everyone on the Jump City bus was glancing if not staring at Allie.
They weren't looking at her because she wore black Mary-Janes with grey sweat pants and a baggy yellow sweater over a white collared shirt.
Even though that was a vile fashion error.
Nobody really gave much thought to her plastic rectangle framed glasses or her pale freckly face. However, everybody noticed her light brown hair which was unbelievably curly, frizzy, and matted.
It was like a car wreck; people just couldn't look away.
The girl in question was pretending to be too absorbed in her English homework to notice the shocked faces or suppressed giggles. She'd written down three grammatically perfect sentences before the attention of every bus rider shifted from her to the boy who was just let on the bus. He was black, and had the grey hood of his sweat shirt over his head- covering the top half of his face.
He looked around for a seat and that was when everyone of the passengers busied themselves and set their things down in the spaces next to them.
That is, except for bad hair girl.
"Victor, over here!" She called out moving her light blue book bag from the seat beside her. The boy sent her a smile. She usually was the one who willingly gave him the seat next to her.
"Thanks." Victor said taking the seat as the bus started to move. "You'd think by now people would be used to seeing me around." Allie snorted in laughter.
"Black people with hoods and girls with bad perms are basically lepers." She said looking outside of her window to see that the bus was passing over the bridge heading deeper into the city. He shook his head.
"Fell in the pool again?" he asked referring to how her hair became so unbelievably messy. Allie nodded at the half-truth she told him when they first met.
"Yup." She said popping the p in the word.
Suddenly the bus came to an abrupt halt, sending everybody forward. A large truck then hit the back end of the bus causing it to spin until one half of it was hanging off the side of the bridge. Everyone screamed as the bus felt as if it was tipping over the side more with each passing second.
Allie's seat was at the front and through the large bus windows all she could see was murky water.
She quickly looked around to see that the majority of the people on the bus were near the front as well but were also too shocked to do anything but cling desperately to their seats.
"I have a plan!" Allie tried shouting over everyone's panicked yells. Only the boy next to her heard her.
"LISTEN UP!" he called getting everyone's attention for Allie.
"Everybody calm down!" she said standing up in order to address every one. "I'm an honors student at South High, what we all need to do is keep the bus on the bridge and the only way to do that is to put more weight on the back of the bus." She said slowly. There were a few more shrieks as the bus started to tip a little bit more. "Now, I need everyone to move towards the back end of the bus!" she said trying to keep everyone's focus on her and not at the situation at hand.
Everyone complied grabbing onto the seats to help them in the climb. Allie could feel the ground evening out as they did so. Victor started moving but she quickly grabbed his arm to stop him.
"You stay here." She said moving past him towards the back.
"What?! Why me?!"
"Because you're the largest one on the bus." Allie replied walking backwards.
"Wasn't the point of your plan to get all the weight on that side?!"
"Look, Treyvon Martin, I need you to trust me okay?!" She snapped. Victor looked at her for a moment then sighed.
"Fine."
Allie's eyes shifted towards the window. She could now see the sky above the water signaling that the bus was now horizontal again. She looked back to her friend.
"Alright, now I need you to push the wall of the bus towards the right." There were many shouts of protest but Victor complied anyway pushing with all of his might and then the front of the bus slowly got back onto the bridge.
Everyone stood in awe; that the two misfits of the Jump City bus were the ones to save the day.
But after two seconds the awe had passed and everyone got off the bus. The two teens did the same to see traffic was completely stopped; various cars and semi-trucks had run into each other, creating a massive pile up of vehicles.
They weaved passed all of the damage to get to the city, but once they had the wished they saw the source of the traffic jam; a girl with glowing green eyes, red hair and cuffed hands. Battling a boy with green skin and Robin- the famous side kick of Batman.
"What's he doing here?"
Allie sent Victor a weird look.
"That's your first question?!"
The alien girl crashed her cuffed hands against the street in an effort to land a hit on one of the elusive boys.
Deciding they needed more help the hooded Victor saw an abandoned car and after a brief struggle he picked it up and launched it in the direction of the alien girl. The two younger boys looked at him in shock.
"Yo! Who's messin' up my neighborhood?!" he called out. It wasn't a moment later that the girl had pushed the car up into the air and using both her feet kicked it back into their direction. The three boys quickly hit the ground as the vehicle soared over their heads. The alien smirked before she heard a loud,
"OVER HERE!" and a rock made contact with her head. After her initial shock she turned to find a certain glasses faced girl running away. She immediately chased after her completely unaware that Allie had a plan mapped out in her head.