chapter 4 the secret
Hannah has been keeping a secret from everyone and her refusal to share could be the end of many friendships she created.
Hannah and her friends entered a competition with another stable on live TV. And Matt drew up a complicated plan. Hannah looked at the plan and she seemed confused.
When they practiced it didn't go so well. Hannah seemed to flinch away when Deverend was about to touch her and ask her question. Hannah walked away. "Come on lets find Hannah," Abigail said. So everyone started looking. Hannah began to look over the plan with a lot of thinking. "This is so confusing," Hannah said. Alana and Diantha were listening. "I don't understand this I don't think I'll learn it in time." Hannah said. "I think she's retarded." Alana whispered. "I think you're right," Diantha whispered. So they left. Starscream came in. "Hannah!" He called. He found Hannah. "Hey you and your friends need to practice if you're going to win." Starscream said. "I'll never get it down." Hannah said. "Sure you will just follow the plan." Starscream said. "No I can't," Hannah said. "Why?" Starscream asked. "I can't tell you," Hannah said. "Hannah I'm your friend you can tell me anything." Starscream said. "Promise not to tell?" Hannah said. "Promise."Starscream said. "Listen Starscream I learn just fine but somethings are hard for me to understand. I'm Autistic." Hannah said. "Okay," Starscream said. "No it's not okay." Hannah said. "Hannah many people are Autistic so are many bots even one of my old friends from my academy days is." Starscream said. "Okay, but I still can't tell." Hannah said. "Hannah it is nothing to be ashamed about." Starscream said. "It is so I can't tell or everyone will laugh at me and call me retarded." Hannah said.
Then Hannah took her time. Hannah did perfectly. "I have to put her in her place," Alana said. "Hey Hannah good job considering,' Alana said. "Considering what?" Hannah asked. "I don't know that fact that you are retarded!" Alana said. "Starscream told?" Hannah said. "Thanks for your word Starscream!" Hannah said and hid. Alana and Diantha were laughing. "What are you laughing at?' Starscream asked. "Hannah of course she's retarded." Alana said. "Hannah is not! She is very intelligent look at her report cards! She's funny and makes people laugh unlike you two right now." Starscream said. "Like there is anything wrong with laughing at people we see it all the time and TV and the internet." Alana said. "Yea!" Diantha said. "Hello! Remember the parade you were in last year Alana you were mounting king and your pant's split wide open a lot of people laughed then." Maddie said. "Oh that was awful." Alana said. "Yes was so mad at the crowd for laughing at my cousin." Diantha said. Snow cat came in. "Hey what's going on?" He asked. "Snow cat we need to talk." Starscream said.
Snow cat came to where Hannah was hiding. "Hannah let me read you this," Snow cat said. And read some words on paper. "You act like your..." Hannah started to say. "Autistic have been my whole life my Grandmother was too." He said. "How do you deal with it?" She asked. "My grandma told me that I shouldn't care what other say or think of me or care about what they say what autistic people should be like or act like." Snow cat said. "Thanks Snow cat," Hannah said. "He's right we shouldn't have laughed at you it was a pretty mean thing to do." Alana said. "Yea we know that people with autism can be very smart. Can you ever forgive us?" Diantha asked. "Can you?" Alana said. "Yes I forgive you." Hannah said. So the performance went great.
"Hey everyone we learned a thing or two about Autism today." Maddie said. " Did you know that 1 in 68 kids get diagnosed with autism everyday?" Hannah said. "Yes and you can't catch Autism for some one it's not a illness it's a condition of the mind." Alana said. "There are at least three types of Autism." Matt said. "Yes and the type of autism we saw today is Asperger syndrome." Snow cat said. "Yea and autism is different for everyone that has it." Hannah said. "If you want to learn more about Autism go to ." We said together.