2. Break time is mean to be normal. What the fuck happened?
I line up in the queue for food, glad I remembered my money today. It's only a fifteen minute break, but I'm hungry and I've been stood up for two hours watching other people show me their (by the way mostly crap) powers. I'm tired too. Clara is stood behind me and Vanessa (the blonde healer angel girl) is in from on me. I've tied my dark hair in a messy bun for now, because I can guarantee it getting in the way at some point. The queue moves slowly in this place. No one dares to push in though. You don't know what the people around you can do. No one wants to get in a fight, especially not on their first day.
I finally get to the food stall and pick out a cookie. I pay and I'm walking over to Vanessa, who I'm determined to make friends with when someone runs past at an incredible speed and grabs my cookie. Which I paid for. I turn to face them. It's a boy, two, maybe three, years older. He take sa bite out of my cookie. I instantly feel my mouth twitch into a snarl.
I paid for that mother fucking cookie.
And I'm going to eat it.
People are slowly starting to notice. Not that there's much to look at, but you could cut the tension with a spoon. I stare at the boy. He's taller than me, and ugly. Really quite ugly. And he's got my cookie. He grins.
"Whacha gonna do about it, freshman?" he yells at me, teasingly. Oh, he is going to regret that.
"I'll show you what I'm gonna do about it." I growl and lift him up into the air. People are staring at us now. He's writhing about in the air, clearly panicking. Then the crowd starts chanting. It's in the same moment that I smile, sensing victory that I feel someone push me over from behind. I drop speed boy instinctively and land on my front, causing the crowd to laugh. I flip onto my back and my eyes open, wide. The boy who pushed me is built like the freaking hulk. Ah well. More to play with. I jump and land on the ceiling, crouched. Speed boy's finished my cookie but I couldn't care less. I lift them both into the air and leave them hovering. The hulk boy, for all his strength, is screaming to be put down. I just laugh and drop down to the ground.
"Don't ever, steal from me again. Got that?" I snarl. They both nod feverishly. I smile. "That's better." And I put them safely down on the floor. They take one look at each other and run off. I'm then confronted with claps and cheers from the on looking crowd. This is great.
"Nice one!" Someone yells.
"They deserved it!" Someone else. I get clapped on the back a few times.
Blimey, I could get used to this. Then the crowd disperses and I turn around to see most of the heroes from my class. Some are in awe, some are grinning.
"Nicely done, Megan." Clara grins. I laugh.
"Oh that was fun." I sigh. Luke and Vanessa walk over to us.
"Well done." Vanessa smiles. She has a very dainty voice. I smile at her, even though she kind of annoys me.
"Thanks."
"Didn't know you had that in you." Luke remarks. I smile slyly at him.
"Oh, believe me… I've got a lot more to offer."
He raises his eyebrows at me. Am I making a habit of all this flirting? First Shades and now Luke. Hang on… Shades. That's good. If he insists on calling me spider girl, I'll call him Shades. We go and sit down at a table near the window overlooking the yard outside.
"Hey! Hey Ling! Come join us!" Luke calls, beckoning over Ling, the little Chinese girl with the fire controlling stuff, or whatever that is. She grins excitedly and hurries over to sit with us. We're joined by Michael (the guy who can walk through walls) and Connor, who I think was the one that could send light, or lasers or something out of his palms. But Shades isn't here.
"Hey where's Jack?" Luke asks, looking around, I shrug nonchalantly. I don't know, and I want it to seem like I don't care either. I'll get teased if I admit anything.
Luke is talking about something to do with save the civilian when the bell goes. Oh great. It's time for our first lesson, which I'm pretty sure involves exercise.
Fantastic. Just what you need to wake you up on a Monday morning.