This is my first time trying this, so I haven't typed up everything yet – waiting for the reviews to point me in the right direction! Btw, this is set about 3 months after the events in The Faculty. In that, I decided to make Mrs Olson the big bad alien, not the new girl. And the story's told in the new girl's POV. The new girl, Ann, is actually my own creation. Mary-Beth doesn't exist. Ann, with brown hair and blue eyes, sort of takes the place of Mary-Beth, and was never an alien. (You may have notice I've incorporated similar lines from the first new movie – I love sequels that closely correlate to their prequels). Well, happy reading!
Chapter 1
"...and make sure you note all the morphological features of your pelagic collection..." droned Ms Bishop.
"Hey, what's pelagic again?" Gabe asked.
"Sea-dwelling organism." Zeke drawled without looking up. He dropped a large shell into the yellow bucket Casey was holding.
I playfully bumped him with my bucket. "Oh, you just know everything, don't you?" I teased, mimicking that talk we had in Mr Furlong's biology class three months ago.
"He's a contradiction," Casey answered before Zeke could. He grinned at him. "Yeah, we all know." Casey hefted the bucket he and Zeke shared. The sea-water sloshed over the sides and splashed onto the white sand.
While our biology teacher continued to drone on, our class wandered along the beach, collecting shells, seaweed, anything that washed up onto the sand. As our new biology teacher, replacing Mr Furlong, Ms Bishop was a veritable slavedriver, assigning reports and pop quizzes one after the other. But she had managed to convince the new principal Mr Stone to allow the overnight field trip to this secluded beach just outside of Ohio. We were grateful for that at least, knowing the former Principal Drake would never have agreed.
Zeke leaned in, a finger to his lips. There was a mischievous glint in his brown eyes as he picked out a slimy wet creature from my bucket and turned to Gabe's unsuspecting back. Stokely and I exchanged amused smiles. We watched Zeke sneak up behind Gabe and drop the creature down his back.
"Fuck!" Gabe yelled, his hands instantly flying to his back, squirming and trying to shake out the creature.
Casey, Stokely, Zeke and I burst out laughing. Swearing again, Gabe spun around to us. Still grinning, Zeke took off down the beach with Gabe in hot pursuit. I watched the two sprint off, shaking my head and smiling. Catching Chris grinning, I smiled at him briefly before looking away. Chris was also a Hornets jock, with brown hair and dark brown eyes. Unlike the other jerks, he and Stan were the more decent jocks on the team. I also knew he had a thing for me, but since I was with Zeke, he hadn't made any passes, and for that I was grateful.
"Better hop to it, kids!" Ms Bishop clapped once to bring our attention back. "I want to see a thousand word report on my desk Wednesday morning."
There was a collective groan. Dragging our feet through the sand, we continued to search the beach.