Okay guys, so here's another chapter. It's kinda short, but hopefully it's good nevertheless. I would've posted it last night for this morning, but I was drawing, felt kinda dizzy and had a rough time going to sleep (I woke up at six am! Like what the heck?!). Anyway though, here's the chapter! Enjoy!


12:15 pm. At this time it's Tuesday afternoon.

"Ryan? ...Uh, Ryan?"

"Hmm?" Ryan asked as he looked up at his two friends and snapped out of his trance. They'd been talking in the halls during one of the rare breaks they had in between classes and although Ryan favoured and cherished these breaks, he hadn't been up to it today since he'd gotten a headache in math and it only increased as the day went on. "Sorry, what?"

"Are you okay?" Harris asked, curiously. "You look pale..."

"And you've been zoning out for the past ten minutes," Spyder added.

Harris nodded. "Yeah."

"But I zone out all the time in math and science, so it's not like it's a big deal," Spyder finished with a smile to himself, as Harris turned to glare at him before the two directed their attention back to their friend.

"Guys," Ryan replied. "Honestly, I'm fine. Why wouldn't I be? We've had no monsters for a while, everything's fine." The boy had then turned to his side and began to open his locker. Or, rather tried to. It was stuck. When Spyder and Harris gave him doubting looks though, he continued. "Everything's great, everything's—" Suddenly the locker opened and hit the technopath right in the face, making him fall and collapse, right there on the spot.

"—Perfect," Ryan mumbled sarcastically as his eyes flickered closed and he passed out. "Just...Perfect."


3:15 pm, Tuesday afternoon. School ended about half an hour ago.

When Ryan came to, he felt sick and had a splitting headache. Once he opened his eyes, he quickly closed them once more, breathing quick deep breaths as he shrunk back into the sheets of the med bed and shifted around, feeling nauseous from the light.

"Calm down," a voice stated, one that Ryan realized was his older brother. "Ryan, calm down, man. You're okay, you're alright."

"W-W-What happened?" Ryan asked quickly, as he opened his eyes once again. In response, someone turned the light down just a bit, though Ryan didn't even try to sit up, in fear his stomach would flip again.

"You passed out," Mark explained shortly. He wasn't there at the time it happened and though he knew the basics, he didn't think he'd be the best person for the retelling of just a few hours ago. He had then looked to Harris, who was fumbling around with the machines. "How's it going over there, Harry? Got anything yet?"

"It's Harris," the small genius boy grumbled as he pushed different buttons of all the scientific inventions in front of him. "And so far, nothing. Don't worry though; I've fixed things before, so this should be a piece of cake."

Ryan looked between the two, confused. "W-What's going on?"

Mark sighed as he looked over toward the team's researcher and gestured toward him. "Well, since you passed out and were completely out of it for the past three hours, we had Harry Potter over here—"

"Hey!"

"Don't be offended, he's one of the greatest wizards of our time." Mark had then chuckled before turning his attention back to his baby brother. "Anyway, since you were so out of it, we had Harry Potter over here scan you just in case." He had then punched his younger brother lightly on the shoulder, to which Ryan rubbed his injury.

"What was that for?!" The technopath asked, his shoulder now sore.

Mark narrowed his eyes in disbelief. "For going to school today!" He exclaimed, as if it couldn't be more obvious. "I told you so! I knew you shouldn't have gone!"

"And the great Mark Walker's right once again," Ryan said, annoyed, as he closed his eyes for a minute before rolling them. "What a surprise..."

"Hey, you're the one who almost died!"

"I fainted," Ryan clarified, "I didn't die."

"Um, yeah, you didn't," Harris interrupted with a nervous look on his face, "But—But you could..."

The two boys stared at their genius friend, shocked, though Mark was more angry than anything else.

"Wait, what?!" Mark jumped up from his seat, as Ryan began to sit up, only for the former to push him down. "No," He told the technopath, "Stay down. You need to rest." The mechanic had then turned his attention back to the small genius and roughly pulled him outside. "What do you mean, Harris?!" Mark demanded, "What's going on?!"

"Well, you see..." Harris trailed off as he handed Mark the tablet he was holding, "I-I think I might've found what's wrong with Ryan..."


Update: Okay, so I was editing this and finishing it up in my room, but there's a fly in there, so... Yeah, I'm scared to go back in. Don't judge me! *cowers in corner* XD

Hopefully this chapter's good. I'm kinda stuck on chapter nine or ten right now, but hopefully my writer's block won't last that long. I already know the direction the story's gonna go in, but I'm not sure if I want the characters to be betrayed sooner or later, so I'll figure that out along the way. Maybe later, since that'll create more drama and endanger Ryan even more. XD

Haha, I'm so evil XD.

Instead of just hanging up this authors note right now though, I wanna talk about something else.

The new movie Everything, Everything!

Who's gonna see it?! Or who's already seen it? If so, please don't tell me because I'm gonna go see it next weekend, but doesn't it look so good?! And Nick Robinson is in it! He did great in The 5th Wave! I'm so excited to see him in this film, but I was actually really confused 'cause I didn't recognize him at first. XD. Haha, silly me.

Anyway though, now I'm gonna hang up this chapter.

I hope you all liked it and please tell me what you think in the reviews! :) Next chapter will be up soon!

~Star :)