"What are you starring at?" May asked him.
"That equation... It's all wrong. I see at least six things wrong with it. Cover me." He said, crouching over towards the whiteboard.
May looked over at the 13 year old boy. She knew she had to be smart to have skipped almost 3 grades, but she never figured that he would be GENIUS smart.
"Let's see..." Markus said to himself. "Alpha becomes Iota, meaning... And this turns into this... and here... Perfect" he said.
"You think a bunch of scientists could get a simple Hybrid Theory equation right." He said sneaking up behind May
"Ah!" she yelped.
"Ms. Parker, is there something wrong?" asked her teacher.
"No, nothing at all." She replied.
"Get out of my way, dill weed" Alicia said shoving Markus right into the table filled with syringes. One filled with some reddish-Brown liquid was caught in his arm. As he fell to the ground, the end of the syringe hit first and some of the liquid went inside Markus before snapping at the needle and rolling across the floor.
"Ahh! Oh lord what just happened! Why am I tasting color and feeling sound? Oh god what happened!" He screamed.
"Relax, that was vile of blood from one of our experiments. It's a combination of a Black Panther, a Lion, a cheetah, and an ordinary house cat."
"Oh great! Now my brother is going to be an even bigger freak!" yelled Alicia.
"No no, that won't happen. You see, the two bloods inside this young man wouldn't mix. They are of completely different, well, everything. It would take a very powerful Catalyst in order for any change to happen. Plus, it was only 1/3 of the 60 ml inside the tube, so it wouldn't make him grow a tail or anything." the scientist joked.
"Good to know." he said, still shaking from the shock of the needle.
"What's that?" Alice asked pointing to a tube filled with a black liquid.
May started to sweat.
"Oh, that's our most fascinating specimen. It's some sort of extraterrestrial life-form." We've been conducting tests on it all week." the Lab manager said.
May began to sweat even more. She knew what that stuff was.
"May, are you alright? You look kinda sick." Markus said, wrapping gauze around the place where the needle had injected the Hyper-Feline blood into his bloodstream.
"Yea, everything is fine." May said.
"ALRIGHT! This concludes day 1 of our tour in the facility." said the Man in the Lab Coat after a good 5 hours of hands on genetics work." " All those who plan on plan on staying at the hotel, follow me. All who plan on going home and coming back tomorrow." said Mr. Green, their chaperone.
"C'mon Alicia, let's go to the room." Markus said.
"You think I'm rooming with you? Keep dreaming. I'm going to spend the night with people I actually like. See you tomorrow." she said.
"That's my life for you, a giant chain of S.O.L" Markus said.
May looked at him, then looked at Alicia, her dislike of her grew stronger by the second.
"Give me a minute." May said.
6 hours before.
"Ms. Parker I know that the situation is tragic, however school rules state that I can't let you room with Mr. Archer."
"Oh really, well my parents just gave me permission to stay at the hotel, I have the money, and Markus doesn't have a roommate and neither do I." May responded.
"What about Alicia?" said her teacher.
"She abandoned him, Just let me stay there for tonight. She literally hates him and he even said to me 'Your more of a sister than Alicia is'" May explained.
"Ms. Parker I can't-" he stopped only due to the fact that his phone was ringing.
"Yes, Yes, this is Mr. Green. What! That's horrible. I don't know, you can't just spring that on someone. I'll find aw way. Thank you so much... You too. Bye" He hung up the phone.
"What's wrong?" May asked.
"Due to a recent light of news, I'll allow the two of you to stay in a room together." Mr. Green said
"Thank you Mr. Green!" May said.
5 hours before
"Hey Markus! Happy Birthday!" May said coming in the room.
"May," he said surprised at all the things she brought into the hotel room. "What's all this?" he asked.
"Just a few things. I figured if Alicia won't celebrate your birthday with you, I would. Now I rented 'Inception' and 'The Social Network', I also got a bottle of Mountain Dew, and I ordered a Hawaiian pizza for the room. The only thing you need to figure out is what movie to watch first. While you figure that out, I'll go change into my Pajamas." May explained.
Normally, this wouldn't be possible, but considering what had been told on the phone, she wanted to give him one day of peace, one last day before anyone told him.
"Knock, Knock loser, having fun all alone with your imaginary friend?" Alicia said.
"Alicia, don't you dare." May yelled, running out from the bathroom.
"I don't think you have any say In this matter." Alicia said. "Now where was I? Oh yeah! I hope you have fun in old buildings, because guess who just became an orphan today? Yup! The world sure gave you a present you'll NEVER forget! Goodnight!" she yelled running away from the room.
May looked at Markus. He looked as if he were about to burst open with tears. Instead, he picked up Inception, put it in the DVD player on their TV and silently watched it, taking notes as everyone said to do.
"HEY WITCH!" May yelled walking down the hallway.
"Are you happy? Are you really happy? I hope you are. You've just torn out your brothers last bit of happiness in the world. If he does go suicidal, and if, IF! He success because I failed. I hope that I personally see your ass in court." May yelled.
Alicia scoffed and kept walking down the hall. May decided to go back to the room and be with Markus. Alicia wasn't worth the effort.
"It's alright to walk away." May told herself
And it was. After all, his mother had just died.
