I've never really gone to school. Not since I was resurrected at least. But based on Logan's Memories, I thought it couldn't be that bad. Shad and I were given backpacks that fit our disguised images perfectly. Ben drove us for a little while into the city. After about five minutes into the city we reached a one-story building with white bricks and a statue of a hawk on the roof. The School was named Skyscraper City Elementary School.
Alice looked at the school and smiled.
"C'mon!" She said. "This is just like our own school! It won't be so bad!"
She was right on her account, but not me and Shad. After being alone for most of our time back in the world of the living, it was hard for us to adjust to interacting with humans. I barely managed to keep my intelligence down for the easy stuff they teach in elementary school, I knew high-school level stuff. It wasn't easy but I managed to dumb myself down. A lot. The place I excelled at the most, but had a hard time not showing off my strengths was P.E. I was built the way I was meant to be, so making myself slower, weaker, and maybe a little less agile was… difficult… being an understatement.
The hardest part was the bullies. Jacob West and his buddies always picked on me when we were out of the teachers' sight. An example was at lunch.
"Hey Black!" Jacob said. "Why're you ignoring us!? You don't have anyone else talking to you!"
"Shut up, West," I retorted. "Nobody cares what you have to say, or at least I don't and I'm the only one who actually listens." West would've caused some serious damage to my face if I weren't part "Fastest Thing Alive." He and his buddies started punching, but I kept moving out of the way, and the blows kept hitting each other. The one thing I don't understand is when a fight is started, the defenders are the ones who get in trouble.
Principle Harrison escorted me to the office so she could ask what happened. I told her everything that happened since school started. She only believed about half of it, but at least I got it off my chest. After that I was given detention for the day and let go. For detention I was given a worksheet to do until recess was over… but like I said it was elementary, I did it without thinking.
I kept going to that school for a week without any incident that I'd call an emergency, and the situation never changed from that.
