Old front doors behind me swooshed closed. The first bell ringed and people went left and right hurrying to their classes. I wasn't in no hurry. It was the first day back to high school, a new high school as a Sophomore.

"Welcome to Southport High Miss. Lint," an old man with a beard took my hand and shook it. This is the principal. He wasn't the type of old man with a hick in his back, but a man who look like he worked in the woods his whole life. Man does he has a tight grip.

"Um, it's Lunt Mr. Burke," His grey eyes widened.

"Oops, my bad dearie my brain is getting little wobbly on names for a while. I hope that doesn't brothers you Miss. Lunt," He smiled.

"No, of course not Mr. Burke I think it's something to hear forward to." His white beard danced under his laugh. "You'll fit right in Miss Lunt, let me take you to Charlotte she'll take care of your schedule and locker." I nodded and followed after him.

Rows of blue and green lockers passed behind me until I reached C-31. "47-16-42," the dial clicked and I opened it. I put in the extra binders and pencils in there to dump the unneeded weight in my backpack. My phone buzzed. It was Dragonfly, I figured out another way Dragon could communicate with me. After what happened in Chicago the government had encouraged civilians to report alien activity, so I wanted Dragon to be hidden when we're out in public.

Dragonfly

How does the school look like? I texted her back, I don't want to look like a freak who talks to their phone.

Me

Here let me use your video camera

Dragonfly

k.

I opened her camera and filmed around me, slowly panning to the right.

Dragonfly

Nice look'in place \(*0 *)/!

Me

Yea it is. Wlep I need to go to my first class...Text you later.

My phone turned off and I slid it back into my back pocket. I looked down at my light green paper.

"Biology first," I sighed and looked at the room number, "110-A." That's all the way in the A hall. I remember looking at a school map before hand and memorized it. In no time I was at the door. I opened it and stepped inside. Everybody was against the wall and some were seated at an island. Assigned seats, great.

"Ah, welcome you must be Erica Lunt. You weren't on my attendance until yesterday. Mrs. Reed," I smiled at the teacher. She looks at her clipboard, "Lets see," she flipped up a piece of paper and got out a pencil from her messy black bun, "It looks like you'll be sitting next to Mr. Manese." A guy with glasses look up and shaked his dirty blonde hair. I felt eyes burned on my back as I walked towards this Manese guy. I sat down next to him. Mrs. Reed called off names and students went down one by one. When she finished her hands clapped together.

"Welcome to biology everyone. I'll give you ten minutes to talk to your partner you are going to stay in these seats until school ends." A few groans were let out, especially from the girls seated in front of us. Each island had four people and there was two partners on two of the sides, and it sounds like they wanted two other people in our places. Mrs. Reed continued to talk, "Chop, chop, I like to get started with class." The classroom started to rumble with chatting partners.

"I'm Aiden," he held out his hand I took it and shaked it.

"Erica," I quickly diverted from him and pretended to write something in my opened notebook. Low profile, keep a low profile Erica I thought to myself blend in. I looked up at him to make sure he wasn't looking. He was throwing paper balls at some other boy across the room, and when Aiden try to catch a flying wad of wasted paper he leaned back a little too far. Books he leaned on crashed down with him on the ground. The whole class stopped talking and looked at the noisemaker; everybody just started laughing. I thought he would be embarrassed when he did that, but he was laughing too.

"Need help?" Aiden was still laughing as he started gathering his runaway line papers. His hazel colored eyes seems to gleam when he said,

"That would be wonderful." I smiled sheepishly and picked up the lasts of the papers. Mrs. Reed came back from her desk and said our ten minutes were up. She passed out hard covered books to us and told us a page to go to and read. Instead of reading I begin to think. Thinking about how far away I was from the beaches. Robert and I moved closer to the city because Robert wanted to go work for a company called Bee Clicks, and it was oppintuey to move out of the small cramped apartment. I was reluctant to move at first but Robert finally sold me when he told me my parents were probably scattered across the world map by now, and I could visit them anywhere. I sighed deeply as I thought about my parents.

"Whoa, that was some heavy sigh just now," Aiden whispered to me. I nodded,

"Yup, it was," I sighed out. He laughed a little and asked me,

"Does the school not fancy you?" his eyebrow tilted a little and I laughed. "No, it's perfectly fine I just miss home," "Where did you use to live before?" Before I answered Mrs. Reed looked at us with one perfect scalped eyebrow raised.

"Tell you later," he nodded and went back to reading. The girl in front of me, I think her name was Lacey, smacked her gum in her mouth and snickered. What did I do? Confused I went back to reading Biology and Ecology. Biology went off with a good start and soon lunch time arrived. Circle tables were quickly surrounded by hungry teenagers. I noticed people were going outside and were waiting for something. I followed out with a few other going the same direction,

"What's going on?" I asked a girl with pink highlights in her brown hair.

"Homecoming is in about a month, so Miss. Ryder decided to start early with her campaigning for Homecoming Queen. I've heard she brought out the high school band to play for us." She glanced at me, "You're new aren't you?" I was surprise of how quickly she knew I was new,

"Ah, yeah I am how did you know?" She smirked, "Lots of people had been buzzing about the new girl. And I guess you are her. Cassey Rosenthal, if you like me I'll like you even more."

"Erica Lunt nice to meet you," I held out my hand for a handshake,

"Sorry, I don't do handshakes," she walked off as I awkwardly put down my unwelcoming hand. My phone buzzed twice meaning Dragon was awake. An empty space underneath a shady tree was perfect place for me to hide. I got out a plastic wrapped ham sandwich from my backpack and looked at the text message.

Dragonfly

Classes good so far? People started to scream when the band showed up on the grass. I saw a face that looked familiar. I quickly texted back Dragon back a, 'yup.' I wanted her to see this so I started to film the action. People were forced to back away a little so everyone could see this performance.

"How is everyone?" Asked the person with a guitar. Everybody response were screams, and

"We love you Pierce!". His hair had blonde streaks in his brown hair, and a couple of piercings here and there. "Sounds good!" He smiled and showed off a tongue piercing. "Alright, we're the Crimson Icee and welcome to your first day back Southport Sailors!" The band blasted onto a song that everyone seems to know. I zoomed in closer to the band members. Aiden was playing the bass and was jamming out there. He looked like he was having fun. I stopped filming and eat my sandwich. Food, entertainment, and an cool shade to sit under. What more could I ask for?

The band continued to the next song, which is called Talk To Me, and everyone settled down a little to this slower paced song.

Dragonfly

They are AWESOME!

Me

Ikr ;)

As lovely the song was, the music stopped and the mic was handed over to the girl I knew in biology, Lacey.

"Hello everyone I'm Lacey Ryder and-," mute. I inputed earbuds into my ears and watched over the recorded video. After the fourth time rewatching the band on Dragon the bell ringed to go to our next class.

Me

Time to turn off, school is almost over

Dragonfly

ok.

Dragonfly shut off once again and I started to head off to my next class. Last period was over in seconds and bodies of restless teens shoved through the door of the classroom. Busses were stationed outside waiting for us, but my trusty bike was parked over at the bike rack. A wave of nausea hits me and I started to feel light headed. I walked quickly and went behind some bushes.

"Dragonfly, I don't feel to good," Dragon transformed.

"I felt something hit us. It was like a distress signal." She informed me,

"Then why did I felt it?" I rubbed the temples of my head and sat down on the earth. Dragon hovered at my eye level, "Do you hear anything?" She asked. I nodded my head no, but I closed my eyes anyways.

When I discovered the blueprints in my head, I've also discovered many other things. I could connect to Dragonfly with her charger and explore her system and do a maintenance check on her. I have also learned how to track down someone through satellite in my head if they had a phone.

"I think I can pinpoint where the signal came from," I said. Numbers appeared in my head as I track down the signal. "I think I got it," I looked up to see Aiden not Dragon.

"I thought I heard voices behind this bush," his hands moved the bushes and I crawled out.

"Voices?" I questioned,

"Yeah, I thought I heard two voices, but I guess I was wrong." I laughed and unlock the lock on my bike. "So, are you going to tell me?"

"Tell you what Mr. Manese?" Then I remembered what I said in biology, "That's right where I use to live right?" He grin and gave me a thumbs up. "Well," I jumped on my green bike, "I lived closer to the beaches, I liked it there but I also like it here too. Though I do miss the smell the salty sea air." Aiden looked satisfied at what I said.

"There is a port not to far away from here. Its not as bad as other hawaiian beaches, but it's filled with unused boats. At least it has the salty air." He was trying to make me feel at home. I smiled at his thoughtfulness.

"Thanks Aiden, maybe you should show me around sometimes."As I started to bike off I almost forgot one more thing, "Oh, and great job with the bass today."

"Thanks!" He moved his blue framed glasses up, "Um, maybe I could show you around Saturday?" His lips curved into a smile and I think I blushed. For the the first time in my life.

"Ah, yeah Saturday works," we waved goodbye and my cheeks still felt hot as I rode away. Gah! Why now? Whatever where are those coordinates… I made a left turn and saw a port filled with unused boats, this must be the place Aiden was talking about. A peculiar boat stand out the most. It was an old boat with its black paint peeling off and appeared ghost like with its loose plastic waving in the wind. My bike screeched to a stop on the docks and a few seagulls flew off.

"Dragonfly,"

"Yeah?" she jumped out of my pocket. "Can you check out that boat over there?" I pointed at the ghost boat and she hovered a bit longer. I took out my spy glasses and turned it on. "Are you live?" I asked her. A little click was heard in this dead port and I could see what Dragon could see. "Yup, I'm going in," I nodded and watched her live feed. I pulled out a little microphone from the glasses.

"Can you hear me?"

"Loud and clear Erica!" She flew through doors and hallways. Nothing appeared on the glasses and Dragon sighed. "I don't see anything Erica, and it's getting dark," I sighed too,

"Okay get out it's time to go-" I heard foot steps. "Wait don't leave just yet I hear something," I whispered. I quickly rode behind a little shack and waited for something.

"Erk! Johnny don't scare me like that!" A woman slapped a man wearing a brown leather jacket.

"Aw, come on Annie I was just having fun. Let loose a little," her face sighed and she stubbed Johnny with her elbow. "Ow! What was that for?" He rubbed his ribs,

"I was just having fun," she snickered. They both started laughing and he tackled her with his man bear hug, but Annie landed on something green with a 'cling.'

"Ouch,"

"You okay?" Johnny asked, Annie nodded and they both started flirting again. Soon enough they walked away towards the path they came from. I rode out my bike again,

"Okay Dragon, the coast is clear,"

"Roger," she responded. As I waited for her I wondered over where Annie fell. There was still some sun out and I could see faded green paint on something silver. It looked like a rim from a car.

"Interesante," I said as I study it more. Touching the metal I felt the lingering heat in it. It was probably from sitting in the sun all day. "Erica!" Dragonfly was above me and transformed into the Iphone. I caught her luckily and took a picture of the rim. The waves on the dock were getting higher and we were floating up a little.

"Ready?" Asked Dragonfly through the speakers.

"Yeah, lets get back here tonight and bring Fire with us." I pedaled my bike off the docks and onto the cement. Giggles and laughter were returning it was Annie and Johnny walking back towards the docks. I nodded at them when I passed them on the way out. My phone ringed it was Mira, one of the robots I made for Robert.

"Hello?" I answered,

"Where are you?" She nearly screeched. "Um, I'm almost home don't worry I'll be there soon Mira."

"You better Erica, Hana just made dinner and Robert just called in saying he was going to take the late shift." Of course he was he always wanted to do the extra work that nobody wanted to do. "Okay thanks for letting me know I'll see you guys soon." I hanged up and pedal faster to our new home.

A/N Sorry to what happened on this chapter! Hopefully when I update it, again, it won't happen again.

Thanks for telling me about the problem!,

-Cedar Fisher