"Hello Sarah Jane!" Rani came running up the driveway, straightening her school blouse.
Sarah Jane turned around as she was getting into her car, "Oh hello Rani, do you need a ride to school?"
"Oh, that would be great! Where's Luke?" Rani climbed into the back seat as Luke cam running out of the house.
Luke rushed to the car, "Sorry I took so long, I had to print something out for school." He quickly climbed into the car and they were off.
"Goodbye Luke, Rani. Have a good day," and with that Sarah Jane was gone, gone to watch for alien life falling to Earth.
"Luke! Rani!" Clyde came running over to them, in his normal rugged cocky way, his shirt wasn't even tucked in.
Luke grinned, "How's your ankle?"
Clyde lifted up his pant leg to show off his perfectly constructed ankle, "It's doing fine, man those Bane are so annoying! Can't they just take over some other planet?"
Rani laughed, starting to move toward the general direction of their biology class, "You know, I can't believe I'm saying this, but I kind of miss all the excitement of saving the world."
Luke and Clyde nodded in agreement; it had been a quiet couple of weeks. They got out their books and prepared themselves for a long and boring day.
Students rushed out of the school in a mob when the bell rang, Luke, Rani, and Clyde among them.
The walk home from school didn't take long at all; the three friends had planned to have afternoon tea at Rani's.
They slowed in their saunter at the sight of a moving truck in front of the vacant house that was next to Rani's place. The three stopped and stared at the movers, each wondering who was to be their new neighbor on Bannerman road. What they saw left them speechless, if it was in a good or bad way, they would never know.
A boy about their age came out of the house. He wore all black, black jeans, black converse, and a black buttoned up shirt. His hair was also black and was gelled into pointy spikes. He also had piercings, lots of piercings; eyebrow piercings, nose piercings, lip piercings, and ear piercings. The metal glinted off his pale, almost translucent, skin. All in all, he did not look very approachable.
A much more approachable woman came out of the house, she was also quite pale but her dark wavy caramel hair warmed up her complexion greatly.
"Izy! Don't let the movers get that chest! I need it in prime condition," the woman called in a warm loving voice, richly coated with an American accent.
The boy swathed in black called back in a high spirited accented voice, "Sure thing Mom!"
Luke, Rani, and Clyde looked at each other all thinking the same sarcastic remark: Rani's dad is going to love this!
"Rani, Luke, Clyde! You saw the moving truck?" Rani's mother came out of the kitchen carrying a tray of tea and biscuits.
Rani grabbed a freshly made biscuit, "Yah, there was a boy our age over there."
"Yah, but he looked like he could be the son of Count Dracula!" Clyde smiled at his own joke.
Luke took a sip of tea, and being as polite as ever said, "He didn't look that bad, he's American you know!"
"Oh really? I've always thought American accents were so funny!" Rani's mother turned around to the sound of the front door opening, "Hello deary! Did you see the moving truck?"
Rani's father grimaced, "Yes I did, and that boy looks like trouble."
No matter how much any of them wanted to disagree, they knew in their hearts that that was impossible.