Chapter 2: A Little Piece of Home

As Kara arrived on campus she looked around at all the people hanging around and socializing before she looked down at the fragile project she was holding in her hands.

"Ok Kara all we have to do is get this to the classroom" she said to herself.

She started walking again down the main entrance trying to avoid bumping into people so that she wouldn't drop the project that she worked so hard on. While she was heading for the main building a guy came running up behind Kara and bumped into her and because of that bump she lost her grip on the project and fell to the ground smashing in to pieces.

"Dammit!" she yelled as she bent down to start picking up the pieces to her broken sculpture.

The guy who had bumped into her turned around and saw her bending down to pick up the pieces of her now ruined sculpture.

"Sorry" he said as he approached her and bent down so that he could help with picking up the mess he caused.

Kara glanced at the guy with a mean looked on her face because it was his fault that ruined the sculpture.

"Thanks a lot man, I worked all night on this thing and it's destroyed in seconds by some idiot who doesn't pay attention to where he's going!" she blurted out in anger as she was trying to blow off some of the steam.

The guy looked at her as he picked up more pieces and handed them to her "sorry, I'm kinda in a hurry I'm late for a class and if I miss it my professor's gonna kill me" he said worriedly as he quickly picked up as many pieces at a time to make things go faster.

Kara glanced at him again still with the same angry look "well why don't you look where your going next time!" she said as she picked up the last of the broken pieces "I mean look at this thing it's ruined!"

The guy stood up at the same time she did "I'm sorry alright! It was an accident."

But before Kara had another chance to snap at him the guy had run off which made her even more angry "thanks for nothing asshole!" she yelled after him. She looked down at the broken sculpture in her hands to see how bad the damage was "maybe I can fix this" she said curiously after looking around. She headed into the main building and walked through the halls looking for an empty classroom where she could get some privacy to fix her sculpture in. Once she found an empty classroom she went inside, closed the door, pushed down the door curtain and set the broken sculpture down on the desk; she then went over to the windows and closed the blinds so that no one could look in and see what she was about to do. After sealing off the entire room she stood in front of her sculpture for a moment before she used her powers to fix it, she used her heat vision to heat up the clay just enough for it to be formable and not melt so that she could put back the broken pieces in place and put the entire thing back together to make it look like new. The process took about a few minutes with her speed, once she finished she inspected her work carefully and smiled to herself at how well a job she had done at fixing it. She went over to the windows to open all the blinds then she went over to the door and pulled up the door curtain, after doing that she went over to the desk and picked up her newly fixed sculpture and left the room to head to her art class.

Kara arrived to her art class with 5 minutes to spare she sighed in relief as she looked at the clock to check the time while going over to the table her friend was at, she set down the sculpture onto the table.

"Made it" she said as she sighed while Shelly looked at her.

"Yeah, you were cutting it close that time, I was starting to think you weren't going to make it" Shelly said as she looked at the sculpture "great looking sculpture, no wonder you took all night making it"

Kara nodded "yeah I know, I told you I'd guarantee us an A and I meant it" she smiled "so did you finish your end of the project?"

Shelly nodded "yep sure did" she smiled as she went into her bag and pulled out a packet that looked to be about 5 pages "all 5 pages typed and finished" she set the packet down next to the sculpture.

Kara nodded as she glanced down at the packet for a moment before looking around the room to see her best friend Jennifer walks into the room. Kara smiled and waved her over "hey Jen, over here" Jen smiled as she turned and went over to Kara's table "hey Kara" she said as she set her books down on the table.

Kara looked glanced down at Jen's wrist for a moment and saw a gorgeous looking bracelet made of silver and green gems "hey Jen, when did you get that bracelet?" she asked curiously. Jen looked down at the bracelet and smiled "Li gave it to me, isn't it gorgeous?" she held up her wrist to show Kara but when the bracelet got close to her Kara immediately started to feel sick all over. "Damn, Kryptonite" she thought

Jen looked at Kara with a curious look on her face as she noticed that she didn't look to good "hey Kara, you alright? You look sick" Kara looked up from the bracelet to look at Jen as she shook her head "I'm fine…just a little worn out from the all nighter last night" she lied. Jen looked at Kara for another moment but let it go as their professor walked into the room to start the session.