This was torture. A new Mentor, Mrs. Zenlic, was teaching the Third through Sixth years about humans in a few large classes. It was mandatory, so Sophie had to attend, even though she probably knew most of the stuff she was going to teach. Mrs. Zenlic had pulled her over earlier, saying she'd more like to see Sophie helping the other students anyway.

All Sophie's friends were there; Keefe, Biana, Fitz, and Dex. So when the teacher rolled out an electronic box, flashing different colors, with a microphone attached, Sophie couldn't help groaning.

"Ah, Mrs. Foster!" the teacher grinned, looking over to her. All eyes turned to Sophie. "Can you tell us what this is?"

"It's, uh, a karaoke machine."

"That's right! This is a very interesting piece of human technology! Would you like to tell us what it does?" Sophie really didn't want to, but she didn't have a choice.

"It plays music. But it shows the lyrics of the music, so you can sing them."

"That's right! You know what? Why don't you come up and demonstrate?" A few of the kids snickered.

Sophie blushed. "Well, um, I really don't think-"

The teacher clapped her hands. "It's settled! Come on, come on! I'll pick your song!" She was smiling and started enthusiastically pressing buttons on the karaoke machine.

Sophie slowly made her way over, grumbling the whole way. When she had reached her Mentor, Mrs. Zenlic handed her the microphone, vigorously nodding her head. She is getting way to into this, Sophie thought.

Dex, Biana, and Fitz had neutral expressions. Keefe, as expected, grinned at her and gave her a thumb's up.

When the music started to play, Sophie recognized the song immediately and scrambled to turn it off. The teacher frowned disapprovingly, and the kids raised their eyebrows.

"Uh, um, sorry. But I am not singing 'Shake it Off.' Can I least pick the song please?"

Mrs. Zenlic sighed. "I suppose."

Sophie looked through the list. Too embarrassing. Way to embarrassing. No way. There was one, "Safe With Me" by one of her Favorite YouTube singers. Sophie had a ton of her songs and covers on her Ipod. Here goes nothing…

She stared the first few lines, her voice barely above a whisper, but as she went along, she got more into the song. Everyone's mouths were open, including Mrs. Zenlic. Sophie had always loved music and singing.

She finished, then remembered that there was a room full of people watching her. Everything was silent, and Sophie walked quietly back to her desk.

After class, a lot of kids quietly came up to her and said that she sung very well.

Her friends started chatting away nonstop.

"Foster!" Keefe said and did another of his goofy grins. "You didn't tell us you could sing!"

Sophie rolled her eyes. "I didn't think I could."

"Pft. That's a lie." Sophie blushed.

Biana hooked her arm through Sophie's. "Keefe's right, you totally did awesome."

"Yeah, as much as I hate to agree with Keefe," Dex shot him a glare, "you were amazing!"

Fitz nodded his head. "By the way, what exactly was that song about?"

"In the music video, a girl is singing to her boyfriend, but she's a ghost. She had just died, and the guy got back from her funeral. She was singing about how even though she's gone, she'll always be there for him and love him."

Everybody stared at her in shock.

"What? You know she didn't actually die, right? She was just singing a song."

"Okay..." Fitz said and wouldn't look her in the eyes.

"In any case, Foster, you were great." Keefe put his arm around her shoulder, and they walked to the Leapmaster to go home.