SCARLET'S POV

I was running down the hallway. The smoke was choking me. "Can anyone hear me?" I yelled. I could hear yelling but no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't reach it. I was almost to where I thought the screams were coming when the floor fell out from under me. Then I sat up. I was covered in sweat and shaking. I felt tears falling down my face. Michael came into the room with a glass of water.

"You want to talk about it?" he asked.

"It was that day. I couldn't save them. The fire was my fault and I couldn't save any of them." I said.

"Scarlet. You know it wasn't your fault. It was HIS. You didn't know about him so how could you have predicted what he would do?" I just stared at him. How did he always know what to say? "Thank you." He got up to leave and I grabbed his arm. "wait. Can you stay with me tonight? I don't want to be alone." He blushed but nodded. I lay back down and scooted over so that he had room. He got into bed and pulled the blanket up, then we both went back to sleep.

THE NEXT DAY

"Michael, wake up. We're late for school!" I yelled.

"Waa!" Michael bolted out of the bed and started rushing around the room gathering his school things. I smiled. I had already gotten my things together last night so I was already ready. Today we were starting at Casper high.

"Hurry up. We already missed first period." I said.

"Almost done!" he yelled from the bathroom. He ran out and I changed and formed my energy board. He climbed on and I turned us invisible and flew us to the school. We landed a few blocks away and changed back, then ran to the school. We found our classroom and knocked on the door. An old teacher answered the door.

"Sorry that we're late. I forgot to set the alarm." I said.

He led us to the front of the class. "Class. This is Michael and scarlet. They just moved here. Please make them feel welcome." Then he turned to us." Please tell us something about yourself." okay. I hate toast" I said. Everyone laughed. Then Michael said" I'm a techno geek. I have the latest edition of almost every piece of technology on the market." Everyone stared. They mentally compared Michael, who was hot enough to burn, to tucker who was tucker, and couldn't understand how they were both techno geeks.

"Okay. You two can sit anywhere there is an empty seat." We nodded then looked for a seat. I saw sam and tucker sitting in the back with another boy. They were the only people I recognized so we went to sit by them.

"Hello. May we sit here." They looked at each other then said okay. We sat down and pulled out our notebooks. Mr. Lancer started talking and since I already knew everything about Romeo and Juliet and the trio didn't seem to be paying attention, I passed a note to them.

(THIS NEXT PART IS THE NOTE CONVERSATION)

Me: hello

Sam: hi

Me: tell me about yourself, please.

Sam: I'm obviously Goth and I'm an ultrarecyclovegetarian which means that I won't eat anything with a face.

Me: awesome. Please pass the note to tucker. Thank you.

Tucker: I'm also a techno geek like your friend. I'm a meat connoisseur and have never eaten a single vegetable.

Me: cool. What is your friend's name?

Tucker: his name is Danny Fenton.

Me: does he live in the house with the sign?

Tucker: yeah.

Me: can you pass the note to Danny, please. Thank you.

Danny: okay. My parents are ghost hunters and my sister wants to be a psychologist when she grows up. Oh, and I also hate toast.

Me: nice.

Danny: do you want to come hang out with us at my house after school?

Me: let me ask Michael.

Danny: okay.

Me: Michael, do you want to hang at Danny's house after school?

Michael: sure.

Me: Michael said yes so we'll be there.

Danny: awesome. Meet us at the front of the school after school.

Me: okay.

Danny put the note in his notebook and we resumed listening to Mr. Lancer drone on and on about Shakespeare.