AS CRYSTAL GOT ON the school bus, she was completely nervous about anyone discovering her 'wings'. She sat down in front of a brunette named Nicole. She was usually an airhead, but she was better than most others Crystal could have been stuck with.

"Hey, what's up girl?" She asked politely, but in her girly-girl voice. Crystal hated that. She didn't mind when someone's doing it on purpose, but she talks like that all the time.

"Uh, nothing too exciting." Crystal knew she was so lying. But what was she supposed to do, she reasoned. Just blurt out that she had wings?

She didn't think so.

"Hey, Nicole," Crystal began, "have you had anything..... strange and unusual happen to you lately?" Nicole just looked puzzled.

"Like, what? What on Earth are you, like, talking about?" Crystal took a deep breath. She should have know better than to ask a deep, serious question to an air headed, girly-girl cheerleader like Nicole.

"Oh, I don't know, just something... unnatural. Like really, really freaky." Nicole thought for a moment.

"Unless my Chihuahua falling head over paws with a poodle is freaky, then no. OMG, did you hear about what happened to Josh at the movies yesterday? He, like, so totally got dumped!"

This was going to be a LONG bus ride.