This story is dedicated to the people who wanted me to write a sequel of 'The Assignment'. Thanks for that. (In a good way.)
It's been about a year after that incident in the RS universe, our teacher Mrs. Morales ended up moving away. A sad truth it is, but the good news though is that we got her friend Mrs. Hinojosa, she is extremely nice and good to fool sometimes. I'm in the 10th grade and 15 years of age now, funny thing is nobody knows what happened to Alexis or where she went, only me...but I'm not telling anybody.
*Ringing*
Even if I'm in a different grade I still get to be in my old classroom. I sit in the back like always and stare at the window, the grey bird or my mom sits on the branch, over the past months she has figured out how to talk by tapping against a wall or solid object. I miss Mordecai and the gang, maybe I'll visit them again someday, the good thing is, is that cartoon characters never age. So if I keep growing up they never will, but if I go to their universe again I'll be 21 forever unless I come back to my own world.
I lean back in my chair, it squeaks and rattles a bit. Breanna and Rebeka sit in the corner of the room, frightened of me. I smile at this and doodle while twirling my necklace around my fingers. *Sigh* I might go back there again...maybe Mordecai has found his true love already, if he didn't then I'm here for him. I draw myself and Mordecai holding hands with a little heart above it, Rigby was sitting on the far left looking at his new jewelry and everyone else was doing their own business. After finishing it off I see the door open and an un-familiar person step into the room. Mrs. Hinojosa looks up from her work and at the girl standing up. The girl had short light brown hair with beautiful bright blue eyes and small lined eyebrows, she has a big top lip but a small bottom one, she had small freckles above her cheeks and a figure like mine...super tiny. She wore a white shirt with a huge yellow smiley face in the center and light blue jeans and brown converse...really? Brown? She was holding a binder with a huge picture of Rigby on it, it was surrounded by a heart. Her drawing wasn't that bad either, I smile at her. She bends her neck, burying it in her shirt and smiles a little. Mrs. Hinojosa sighs, since knowing this girl isn't going to introduce herself, she says, "Excuse me miss...I believe your new here?" The girl nods slowly, "Why don't you tell us your name?" She looks back at all of us in the class, it seems I'm the only one paying attention. Mrs. Hinojosa sighs again and tells her to sit in the desk next to me. The girl scurries over here and plops down quickly, she's straight for awhile until it looked as if she's relaxed now and she leans back in her chair. Her binder was full of drawings of the Regular Show gang, but mostly Rigby. I chuckle and look at my drawing and stuff it in my new binder, since my old one busted. I flip to another page and start drawing Rigby trying to punch Mordecai, I hear a small squeak beside me, I turn and see the new girl looking at my drawing. She see's me looking at her and she quickly retreats back into her own space. I shake my head and lean next to her, "Hi." She doesn't answer back. "I'm Myra." She looks at me and smiles a little bit. "What's yours?" The new girl looks a little more relaxed and says. "Miranda." "Cool." I sit back in my chair. "Nice drawings." She tells me, "You too." I tell her.
*Ringing*
2nd hour, after this I'm out of here. Mrs. Hinojosa is just like Mrs. Morales, lazy. She didn't give us any work today so I just stayed doodling on my paper. Miranda scoots her desk next to mine. "I see you like Regular Show." Miranda says. "Are you kidding? I love Regular Show." "Me too." I wonder what would happen if I told her I actually got to go there once, she would probably freak out. "Who's your favorite character?" I ask her, of course she's gonna say Rigby, its pretty obvious. "Rigby." I knew it. "Mine's all of them...but mostly Mordecai." She smiles. "I'm glad you're the first one talking to me." "Really?" "Yeah, at my old school no one would talk to me, well I wouldn't talk to them so they won't to me you know?" I nod. "I had this girl named Tiffany who was a real bitch, she acted as if she could rule the whole school, I can kick her ass if I wanted." "We used to have the same problem but uh...she moved away...far away actually." I grin, she's like me...weird but very comforting knowing someone's like me for once. "I like your drawings." "Thanks." She shows me her binder and takes out her favorite. It was Rigby in a glass window, he was looking forward and placing one hand on the glass, it looked like he was breathing on the glass too cause fog was surrounding the area around the mouth, it said 'Love You' in cursive. I was actually surprised by seeing this, more like amazed. I took out my favorite one too, the one where that huge girl was going to attack the innocent girl at the feet of the Regular Show duo, I think you know the rest. She was amazed too, just by looking at her face.
*Ringing*
"That's it?" She says while I get out of my desk. "What." "2 hours?" "Yeah." "At my old school we had a total of 8 hours...it sucked." "Well over here, everything's pretty much quick." Miranda nods and tells me, "See you tomorrow I guess." I walk out of the classroom and ran home. I run under the bridge like always and see the black scratch marks from when the last car screeched off the side of the road because of yet another shatter of glass from the bulb. I see my step-moms blazer in the drive way. Crap. I step inside the house and see Alyssa cooking lunch while my dad lays on the couch smoking. My step-brothers run in front of me and knock me down, everyone acts like they didn't notice. To tell you I still don't talk to anybody in the family, only my mom who taps away against the door. Tap, tap...tap, tap, tap...tap. She says to stay calm and ignore the problem. (I'll call my mom Vanessa since that is her real name.) Vanessa flies away and leaves me to deal with the real problems, actually having to ignore everything. My dad see's me and says 'Hi', I ignore him, even though I love him, I can't and will not forgive him for marrying Alyssa. I go in my room and slam the door, I rub my temples slowly and plop down on my pillow. I sigh and rub my stomach as well, it growls, I'm hungry but I don't want to eat the crap Alyssa makes. She'll probably poison it when I'm not looking, or spit it my drink and when I puke them up she'll over react and say she's a bad cook then my dad will come and try to comfort her...stupid bitch.
My door opens up and my dad comes in, "Myra...we need to talk." I don't look at him, I keep my attention on the ceiling, he sighs and closes the door and sits on the bed. "I know you hate me for marrying your mother, but she is a wonderful woman and you need to see that." Wonderful? That bitch could kill anybody if they get in her way. "You need to talk to me...please just...at least look at me." I don't, I turn to my side and face the wall. I hear him sigh and tell me Alyssa was gonna come and talk to me too. I quickly sit up and see Alyssa close the door behind her and sit on my bed. My face fumes with anger, I specifically wrote on my door that I did NOT want Alyssa in my room, but she just comes right in. "Now..." She stays quiet for awhile and then grabs my arm and pulls me up to her. "You listen and you listen good...if you don't make your father happy that I'm here I swear I will beat the living fuck out of you...and you need to start talking cause if you don't just wait...you'll be in the therapists office one day and the next you'll be in an asylum. And that means your father won't have to worry, he'll have me and your step-brothers to care about...and say bye-bye to the only daughter he has...okay?" I don't say anything, I feel something in my throat and frown my face, I spit at her, it slithers into her shirt. She throws me at the end of my bed, a loud thud was made. Alyssa makes a disgusted face and slaps me with her hand full of hardcore jewelry. It hurt a bit but I don't cry, she walks out of the room pretending to cry and my dad comes and comforts her, I hear him say something about sending me somewhere on Friday...today's Monday. Shit...Alyssa's probably telling him about the asylum thing...I feel like hitting something, but what? My pillow? I don't think so.
I rummage in my closet and pull out a huge muscular dummy, I've had this ever since Alyssa and my dad were dating, I made it to release my anger. Stab marks and dents were all over it, I set it up in the middle of the room and start punching it, a dent to the head and stomach were made. I grab my dad's army knife and stab it a few times too, I clench my fists and put the dummy away, I drop the knife in my drawer and fall back in my bed. I sigh deeply and bury my face in the pillow. Maybe I can be best friends with that girl Miranda, she seems like a nice girl, besides I really need a friend right now. I sigh again and look to my left, the Regular Show pillow was just laying there alone, I grab it and look at the characters, I hug it and say quietly, "It's a shame I won't be here Friday...I have somewhere to be." I giggle and twirl my necklace.
*Tuesday morning*
I wake up by hearing the taps of Vanessa on the window. Tap, tap, tap...tap...tap, tap. She says, wake up and get ready. I run to the bathroom and take a quick shower and get dressed too. Before leaving the house I grab an apple and munch on it on the way to school. The cars zoom by fast, almost knocking me on the road itself. Alyssa's blazer passes by, I grab a rock and throw it at the door, her car screeches to a stop and starts to reverse, I make a run to the school and trip over a shrub I didn't see, the blazer is speeding up and on its way to me. I get up and run inside the school, the secretary looks at me confused but I keep running until I bump into Ms. Pena. "Myra? What's the rush?" I couldn't breathe, I tried to tell her that my step-mom was coming to get me but I just couldn't get any words out, only deep breaths. She escorts me in her office and sits me on the examining table. "Myra, dear...please calm yourself." I look at her beautiful face, she smiles and I calm down a bit. "What happened?" She asks me. I can't tell her what I did, she'll think of me as a bad kid. I just shake my head no and step off the table and out the door, I stop halfway when I see Alyssa raging mad looking everywhere for me. I shut the door and wait until her shadow passes by and she's gone. I look out the door just a crack and see she's going out the front door, she's leaving and I'm safe...for now.
*Ringing*
Miranda was already in her seat next to mine, I walk over there and plop my stuff down. She smiles at me, I smile back. If I want her to be my friend all I gotta do is say 'Wanna be my friend?' and that's it...alright...here I go. Before I could say anything Miranda looks at me and rubs her neck while saying, "Hey...Myra? You know I was thinking...I know we just met but do you wanna...um, be friends or something?" She took the words right out of my mouth, I nod and say, "Sure." She smiles with glee and starts drawing Rigby jumping up and down excitedly. I draw Mordecai doing the same thing. She laughs at this and pulls some of her hair behind her ear. Mrs. Hinojosa writes something on the board, I don't know what it was but all I could see was 'No work for the week.' I sigh and look at Vanessa on the branch. She taps another message, tap...tap, tap...tap, tap. Miranda leans over and says, "What do you think its saying?" "She says we're lucky we don't have work for the week." "Wow, how can you tell that?" "We're friends...we kinda got this bonding where we can talk to each other." I didn't want to say she was my mother cause then Miranda will think I'm crazy, I wouldn't blame her. "Cool." She says. I open my notebook and start doodling a picture of Rigby running away from Eileen, Miranda laughs and said, "I despise Margaret." "Hey, me too...she is a total bitch." "Totally!" "She reminds me of that girl over there." I point to Breanna. "Really?" I nod. "At my school this girl Selina would go out with so many guy's I practically lost count." "I know! She's the same way!" "Cool!" "You know...we have so much in common." "Weird right?" "No...I think its awesome." "Me too...nobody was like me over in my old school. But I'm glad I met someone like me." I nod again.
*Ringing*
"2nd hour?" "Yep." "Alright." I close my notebook and sigh. "What's wrong?" "Bored." She makes an I-understand-what-you-say look. I see Rebeka biting her nails to a nub. Ew. Breanna was too busy brushing her fingers through her new boyfriends hair to notice Rebeka's discomfort. Adriana in the front of the class clears her throat once or twice and then resumes reading her book, why she does it when she isn't even talking? Don't know. Vanessa was looking at me confused, she taps at me again. Tap, tap, tap, tap...tap...tap, tap...tap...tap, tap, tap. She says I shouldn't be upset that my step-mom was forcing my dad to send me away, I should...she keeps tapping...I widen my eyes when she finished her taps. But I can't! Wait...well...maybe it won't be so bad but how can...she'll probably! You know what? She's right! She is absolutely right! I should and I will!
*Ringing*
2nd hour finished early, before Miranda could leave I grab her shoulder and say, "Hey Miranda you wanna come over on Thursday?" "Sure!" "But...bring a butt load of clothes." "Why?" "I have something to show you." "Okay! I'll bring a whole lot of clothes!" "Perfect." "See you then Myra!" She happily skips away and I head home happy of what I did. At the house no one was home, I smile. Once inside I hop on the couch and watch all the new Regular Shows, but the entire time the episodes went on I could see Mordecai and Rigby still wearing the jewelry I gave them. The episodes finish and I go in my room and rummage through my dresser and pull out the envelope Mordecai gave me from the pen-pal assignment. I press it against my chest and pat it a bit, "Man...Miranda's gonna have a kick at this." I put it away and pack my things already, I didn't want to tell Miranda to bring any money...I'll take care of it. But I just hope Miranda doesn't freak out about the things I'll tell her on Thursday.
I decided to add a friend for Myra so it can be twice the adventure for everyone! Chapter 2 coming soon! Review...
