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Chapter Two
School for Jack Spicer? Never.
Fine. He had to finally go back to school. Not High school. Even though he was supposed to be in 11th grade. No, our favorite evil boy genius was a senior in college. Majored in Mechanics, Engineering, and currently majoring in Robotics. With a minor in Art/Photography this year.
They didn't want him to do that, but he wanted to. He wanted three majors, not just one.
So he had to go to a real college and two online to get all three degrees.
Just because he could. I mean, after that stupid Harvard thing he had to do to please his parents last year, this was cake.
But he would SO much rather be chasing Shen Gong Wu, or being beaten up by the Xiaolin Losers, even.
Well, not as much that last thing. Anyway...
No. He had to go to shitty Co-o-ollege. The new term had started already, and he had missed too much school, according to his doting mother, who still couldn't look him in the eyes.
"Jackie, you know that you have to go to school and get a good education, so you can get a good job later in life. Now, I know you don't like it, but you have to. Get ready to go to school, Jack. Now?" And that was that.
That didn't mean he had to like it. But it did mean, according to his mother, that he had to "look normal".
Normal? What's not normal about him? He was normal. Well, for him anyways. But not for his mommy. He had to take off the eyeliner. His artistic eyeliner. That he liked. And his goggles. They were gone. And the jetpack. He was only allowed to bring it when the dumbass professors wanted to "show off his genius to the rest of the class". No, really. That's what they said.
He wasn't allowed to wear his favorite jacket, either. "Jack, you can't go to school wearing that ratty thing. Take it off and change right now, young man. You are a college student, not a hooligan." So the jacket and his Frankenstein shirt had to go.
So now he wore a plain red t-shirt with his black pants, and a plain book-bag on his back, dark sunglasses where his goggles used to be. Yep. Just another kid in another school.
How droll.
It's not like he wanted to fit in with any of the college kids there anyway. Yeah, he called them kids. And yeah, he didn't want to fit in with them. Laughing at some stupid joke all the time, then going quiet when he looked near them.
They were still afraid of his eyes.
By "they", I mean people, not peers that he grew up with. They were all afraid of his eyes, his face. He still looked like some sort of depraved vampire. Which suited him just fine.
Time: 1500...
In Art 143, he was pretty much done. School was soo lame, he just let his mind wander. So he sat there, paintbrush in hand, staring out the window, face resting on his other hand.
Not doing anything. Just, more, wondering. How many Shen Gong Wu had they gotten by now? How many places had they gone? How many wild adventures had they gone on? He wanted to be out there. Not trapped in this stuffy old room, learning stupid painting techniques, or--
"Hey. Ca-a-an I see what you've done?" He looked slowly up at the direction the voice came from. A pretty girl with electric blue hair that was in a bun looked down at him. The teacher's aide. Actually, she was his daughter, but she was out of high school that day, (She was a senior) and his usual aide was gone.
He glared at her, hoping she'd go away, but, oddly, she didn't. She just stood there, with that stupid grin on her face, her fingers stupidly tapping on the table he was working at.
In the far back, away from everyone.
"Sure. Knock yourself out." He handed her the picture. The girl took it apprehensively, and stared at it for a second, before a giant grin overtook the majority of her face. "WOW! This is beautiful, how did you do that?" To her, it was like a mix of Water, and Earth, and Fire, and Wind. Like, the colors were exploding out of their respective corners, it was amazing.
"You put the paint on the paper. It's not hard." He said, returning to window. She smiled and put it back down in front of him. "I'll tell my dad, he'll be pleased for sure. An "A" for you today, I swear!" She flounced away to her father's desk, beaming back at him as she went.
Jack rolled his eyes as the bell rang, standing and gathering his books and his bag. His plain book-bag. His book bag that didn't have any gadgets on it to make it fly. But it did have...
His PDA, which he had programmed to sync with his Detecto-Bot. He checked it quickly. He missed two Shen Gong Wu already! He didn't dare use his Chameleon-Bot, or his RoboJack to go after them, though. They still didn't obey him.
As he stood to go, however, he realized someone was watching him. He put his hand to his forehead and up through his hair, and walked out anyway, but, much to his annoyance, she followed him.
The aide walked behind him for a few minutes before he finally stopped to let her catch up. "Did you need something?" He asked, slightly irritated.
"Hmm? Oh, uh, well... Actually, I was wondering why you were walking all alone. Most people usually have their friends with them, walking with them to class and stuff." She talked to him like he was a little kid compared to her. Sure he was a student, and before she was technically the teacher, but she didn't have to be condescending to him now.
Actually, he hated anyone being condescending to him, and he wanted to kick her ass. They kept walking nonetheless.
"I don't do the people thing." He said shortly, hoping she would just nod and walk away. She did nod, but then started doing other stuff. Like waving at people. And saying "Hi! Hey! How's it goin'?" Every two seconds to everyone. He stopped again, looking back at her, still irritable. She blinked and looked at him.
"Why are you stalking me?" He asked, two fingers pressed against his forehead. "I'm not stalking you, that would be silly." She said, smiling widely. Smiling appeared to be her favorite thing. And it was majorly pissing Jack off.
"Then WHY are you FOLLOWING ME?" He hollered. She looked taken aback, and didn't answer. Jack rolled his eyes and walked on, quicker, back to the campuses community lockers. To where she followed him. Two older teens were talking in front of Jacks locker, which pissed him off even more.
He was not having a good day.
"YO! Take you ridiculous conversation elsewhere, assholes, I got places to be!" The two big guys sneered at him, but walked off, mumbling behind his back.
"What a little chicken shit."
"Baby crap."
"He looks like the Lord of the Undead."
He wrenched open his locker and took out his Detecto-Bot, his books to study that night, and his motorcycle keys, his new mode of transportation now that he didn't have his jetpack. All the while SHE was standing there, singing some inane song.
"Look. If you really don't want anything, then why don't you leave?" He asked, trying to be as civil as he could. She put her hands behind her back and bit her lip. "Well, actually..." He was already on the move back to his bike, and she was struggling to keep up.
"I was actually wondering if you wanted to... I dunno... hang...out?" She asked cautiously. "Y'know, like at the mall?" He only stopped when he got next to his bike, and only for a minute.
Jack tilted his head onto one shoulder, and turned around slowly, his head still on that shoulder. To her, he looked really creepy. Like nothing she'd ever seen before.
And she wanted to run away, get away from him, call the cops, the psycho ward...
He slowly raised a hand... and flicked her off, much to her disappointment. Jack shoved his helmet on and rode off, yelling back at her. "I don't need your pity."
She was left standing there, looking hopelessly after the bike. "I tried dad. But that Spicer kid is a lost case. And an asshole." She said, to no one but herself.
He's not that bad, though. Maybe he's just misunderstood?
Read and Review. Jack should always be like this. Only more PG. Cuz, you know, the show.
PS: Has anyone read my other story "Xiaolin Showdown: Dragon Djinn Saga"? Well, if you have, you probably recognize the blue haired character. If you don't, you MIGHT want to check it out real quick. LOL, that's all!