I don't own any of this Paranorman belongs to Laika and IT belongs to Stephen King.
"ROAR!" "ROAR!"
Norman let out a groan as he reached over to turn off his zombie alarm clock. Yawning and stretching his way out of bed Norman walked slowly into the bathroom and did his morning routine of brushing his teeth while acting like a zombie, and combing his hair which went back into its spiky place shortly afterwards.
He then goes into the kitchen and was surprise to find that his parents weren't there. He spots a note on the fridge, Norman goes over and reads it.
Dear Norman and Courtney
"Me and dad went out to get
some groceries, see you
when you get home and
have a good day at school."
Love mom.
Norman turns away from the note and began to work on making his own breakfast, which was just a piece of toast. After he had his breakfast Norman picked up his backpack and heads for the door, but not before he went out, he peered into the living room and waved his grandmother goodbye as she was knitting on the couch.
Exiting his house Norman began his trek towards school, he past several of his ghost friends and some people that looked at him in a heroic way.
Norman wasn't used to this attention, on one hand he was happy that people weren't treating him like a freak anymore and accepted his gift. But on the other hand since people treated him like a freak for so long, it kind of felt unnatural for him, and this is coming from the guy that can talk to Ghosts and Zombies.
Norman was now walking down through the town square, the area had mostly been clean up but there was still some debris that laid around in some areas on the ground. The area reminds him of that night; he remembered how he brought his great cousin Agatha back to sleep, he remembered the electricity coming out of her hair when he confronted her, he remembers her shocking him, the anger, pain, and pure rage in her eyes, and he remembers her sad blue eyes as he talk to her about why revenge on others was a bad thing. He only hopes that she found her way into paradise and reunited with her mother.
Norman soon found himself at the entrance of his school, kids were standing in front of the school either talking or texting on their phones. One kid looks up in Norman's direction and gasp, she points in his direction getting her friends attention and then all the other kids turned to his direction.
They all then crowd him talking all at once.
"Norman! How's it going man!"
"Hey Norman wanna go out with me and the girls to the hot dog place."
"Norman can you come over and talk to my dead goldfish?"
Yep this was another thing about being the town hero, you basically become the most popular kid in school. All day he had to deal with other kids wanting to hang with him, wanting him to talk to their dead relatives or pets, and even some girls asking him out.
Again this felt unnatural to him.
Suddenly a familiar voice cut through the crowd of voices, "Alright people back up, if you want my person Norman the town hero to hang with you. Then your going have to pay the fee." Alvin said as he pushed some kids away from Norman, Norman gave him a confused look.
"Alvin what are you doing?"
Alvin turns to Norman with a sneaky look, "I just had this rad idea for a business where we use your gift to talk to people's dead things."
"What?"
"You know like we charge five dollars for pets, and ten dollars for relatives."
"Alvin my gift isn't something that you can charged people for."
"All come on Norman! We would make a killing out of this!"
"No Alvin."
Alvin groaned as his business plans had been thrown out the window.
The school bell then rings, signaling the kids to come in, so they did just that.
Norman met up with Neil and Salma at his locker, Neil was eagerly waiting for him while Salma had her face in a book. Alvin had gone off to use the bathroom 'though it was no doubt he was writing his name on the stall again.'
Norman opens up his locker and put his backpack in it.
"Hey Norman, how's it going?"
"I'm doing fine Neil, um, how are you?"
"I'm doing fantastic, Mitch manage to fix his van and gave me a ride to school."
"Cool." Norman closes his locker.
"So how's the hero life been?"
"Honestly, it feels weird to me. But it's better than the treatment that I used to get from people."
"Sure is, we haven't got anyone writing on our lockers for a week."
Salma then closes her book, and addressed the two.
"Excuse me I hate to interrupted this conversation, but I hope you two remembered to study for the math test today."
Neil instantly starts panic once he heard that, "Oh no that was today!"
Salma answered, "Yes Neil it is today, as the teacher has been telling us for the past three days."
Neil places his hands on his forehead, as he started to breath loudly in fear. "OH NO, I FORGOT TO STUDY! OH WHAT AM I GOING TO DO! IF I FAIL THIS MY PARENTS WILL KILL ME!" Neil then turns to Norman, "Looks like your going to be seeing me in the afterlife buddy!"
Norman placed his hands on his shoulders and shook him a bit. "Neil calm down."
Salma then says, "Besides Neil if you spend your time studying, you wouldn't have this problem."
Norman gives Salma an annoyed look, "Salma your not helping."
Salma ignored the look that Norman gave her, "Well its true."
Alvin soon walks up them with a black market in his hand. "Hey dudes, what's up with orange hair?"
Salma replies, "He's nervous about the math test."
"Hey no worries orange hair, just do what I do cheat."
"I can't cheat!"
Alvin shrugs, "Suit yourself."
The bell rings again, and the four went towards their first class.
