This might not be the most interesting chapter, but I hope someone likes it anyway. This is set before the events of the fifth book. Except Heathcliff can remember who he is and is just back to being a normal team member. (The lunch lady is still a lunch lady and Brand is still director.) Please enjoy this fanfiction.
One: The Unlucky Dip
Matilda 'Wheezer' Choi took a puff from her ever-present inhalers as she sat, along with her friends, in the school hall, which was packed absolutely full with students and teachers for a special assembly. Currently, four people were trying to get the microphone to function properly and were failing, sending screeches around the room. Almost twenty minutes later, the principal stood on the stage, un-microphoned, and began to explain why they had all been made to wait around.
"Kids, we're going to get an amazing opportunity! Our school, out of all the schools in America, has been chosen to participate in a global exchange program with some students in Australia! One student will be randomly selected to go live there for twelve whole months, the other will get to have the Australian student stay with them!" Matilda nearly choked, sharing a desperate look with her friends and teammates. If any of them were selected to leave for twelve months, it would be a catastrophe. She was extremely nervous as the principal rifled threw the hat of names...
Meanwhile (sort of, time zones), half a world away, Macy Nelson ran through her house at breakneck speed, grabbing her red school bag, tightening a pigtail, sweeping her lunch off the bench and into her bag, clamping a piece of hastily-spread toast between her teeth before racing out the door and yelling a somewhat muffled,
"Bye mum! Bye Kate! Bye Luna!" Her mother, sister, and cat, who were somewhat used to her morning routine, just responded with their own morning farewells, with a "Bye Macy!" from mum, a "Won't miss ya!" from Kate, and a "Meowwww!" from Luna. Macy was running late for school. Again. She swung herself up onto her red bike, buckled her helmet under her chin, and rode off one-handed, shoving the piece of toast down her throat as she did. She swung her bike down in the general area around the bike shed and threw her helmet in the same general area as her bike, before throwing her bag towards her classroom, and racing towards the school hall for the special assembly. She was just in time to hear her name being called.
"Macy Nelson! You will go to live in America for twelve months, coming here will be Heathcliff Hodges! You will be staying with..."
"Matilda Choi!" Matilda and Macy both muttered the same thing,
"Well, that was an unlucky dip."
If you liked it so far, please review! Seriously, please. I would really appreciate it.
~Madei