Chapter 2 First Day of School
Sitting in the rather moderate car of the Stark collections, Cecilia sat in the backseat with Tony as Happy drove them into Queens area.
Tony, being the worried, overprotective father spoke constantly about reminders and high school stuff.
"Mid-Town High is an okay science school, you're gonna fit in just fine. The rules I set for you are no boyfriends, no talking to boys, no texting boys, nothing about boys. And call me whenever you need me, I've already talked to the principal about that. You are registered under Cecilia Evans. I've got FRI installed into your tablet; it will have all you need there. If you need anything, just call me, Pepper, or Happy or anyone. We'll drop everything and come over. Also, after school, you're free to go wherever but you have to go to Steve's before you two coming home together. "when a loud honk was sounded and Happy jerked into a stop, and lots of resounding honks were heard. Then Cecilia was trembling shaking and frost was forming at her fingertips, Tony wrapped her into his side and cradled her close to him saying, "Breath, it's okay. Follow my breathing, in and out. I'm right here everything is going to be alright. "
Tony successfully calmed her and the temperature within the car rose.
"You alright now sweetheart?"
"I'm fine now, sorry for the alarm Daddy."
"Which reminds me of something." Tony pulled out a box from his pocket since sudden alarms trigger your panic attack and we don't want your powers scaring the school, you will be having these," he opened the box and handed it to her.
"What is that? Eat piece aid?"
"I told the school you have a hearing disorder and this will help you mute out those sounds and there is also your personal AI in there. "as if unsure of himself, "is that alright for you? You don't have to do that if you don't want to."
"Thank you, daddy, that'll be great, but I'll have to modify it because if I talk to thin air, that would be very weird and awkward. "
"Hey, it's yours, do whatever you want with it."
They pulled into the driveway. And Tony pulled his beautiful, smart, sweet daughter into a hug, and kissed her on the forehead before sending her into her first day of high school. He hoped that she will enjoy the normal life that he could give her.
Happy walked her into the school because Cecilia insisted that she not be recognized as a Stark. And everyone knew Tony Stark.
Happy guided her to the registration office where the board, old and skeptical looking woman maneuvered around the room to get her her welcome package, timetable, and locker.
When they turned around to look for her locked, Cecilia could hear Happy's disgruntled cursing under his breath. She couldn't help but snigger.
It was currently first period, and no one was in the hallways. Cecilia could only gawk at the school. It was her first time in a school.
She admired the rather clean floors, nicely polished windows and neatly placed lockers that looked brand new.
Happy kept telling her the times he spent in high school and how it looked nothing like his school and stuff she didn't even concentrate in. She was too engaged by her new environment.
After locating her locker, Happy left saying a quick," good luck on your first day of school!" And hugged her.
Cecilia pulled out her phone and messaged Steve, he was kind of a brother-cousin figure to her. They were very close.
CC: morning Stevey
S: morning little blossom. How is school?
CC: very different from the movies. How about you? Anything special to do today?
S: just finished jogging with Sam, gonna have some breakfast and join Natasha for some training. Now get to class. Missing school is bad for you.
CC: yes grandpa. :p
She could almost see Steve sighing and shaking his head at the phone. It was so fun teasing him about his age.
Cecilia tidied her locker and put on her earpiece, taking out her phone at the same time. She switched the setting to no AI. She would have to alter it later at home.
Checking her timetable, first period was history.(103) Who puts history in first periods?
The second period was Spanish. (206)
The third period was chemistry(303), fourth was advanced functions(313). The fifth was lunch and sixth was gym and last period was physics(322).
The locker of 0266.
Cecilia made her way to her Spanish class. The bell rang and people stormed from all classes all direction to their next class. Cecilia was wearing skinny jeans and a shirt that says "Iron man is my dad" and a cool leather jacket that was white and gifted to her by Natasha for starting school. Natasha had given her approving nods of the head and said, "I'm so proud of you, you're gonna break so many hearts. I'd be surprised if she didn't have a fan club by the end of the day."
Cecilia had been pretty embarrassed but she liked the jacket very much. She wore a pair of Dr. Martens boots. To be fair, she was the attention of many as she walked towards her class. (206)
When she arrived shortly in the classroom, it was already filled with teenagers. Cecilia took in a deep breath and knocked on the door, the teacher - a welcoming woman who had a brilliant smile - gestured for her to come in. When she walked in, she could hear the class fall into silence and all eyes placed on her intently, she scanned the room and only saw one unoccupied desk. The teacher introduced her," class we have a new classmate joining us, please introduce yourself."
"Hi! My name is Cecilia Evans, this is the first class I've ever had in my life and I hope to fit in with all of you."
The class gave her a round of welcomes and applause.
"Cecilia, please take a seat next to Peter."
And then as Cecilia walked towards the said boy, heads turned to follow her making her uncomfortable. The teacher clapped for the class's attention saving her from the attention.
She sat down next to Peter. He turned and gave her a very cute smile. He was quite a looker. He had wavy light brown hair, large eyes and emanates kindness and positivity. He struck out his hand, not meeting her eyes, a pink hue tinting his cheeks, saying, "HI, I'm Peter Parker. Nice to meet you." He was slightly stuttering.
Cecilia smiled, taking his hand. It was quite firm. "I'm Cecilia, call me Ceci."
And then a guy in front of Peter turned around and said, `Hi, I'm Ned, Ned Leeds. Wanna hand out at lunch with us? "
"Hi Ned, I'm Ceci. I'd love to have lunch with you."
They were both so nice.
The girl next to him turned and nodded at her, "Michelle." And turned around.
"She is always like that," Peter said.
Cecilia turned to the teacher who was teaching them the verb forms. Since she grew up learning languages, Spanish was like a second language and she was excellently fluent with it. She didn't really concentrate. Instead, she studied her schedule.
The class was quite plain, but she liked her teacher immensely. Her name was Mrs. Lopez.
When the class bell rang, Peter asked, "What do you have next?"
"I have chemistry."
"Cool, me too, you wanna come with me?"
"Sure"
They packed their stuff and scurried towards their next class.
"How did you study before coming to school?"
Well my dad is Tony Stark and he is a genius and my uncle is a biophysicist. My BFF is from the 1940s- this was what she said in her head.
"I had homeschool teachers hired. It was quite relaxing."
After pausing a bit, "how about your school life? Anything special about school?"
"Well, me and Ned are best friends and Michelle has been around. The both of us are nerds and we all joined the Academic Decathlon. It's kinda dumb, we sort of have meets and stuff. And the teacher is very nice. Come on we're gonna be late. "
And they rushed into the classroom.
Cecilia stopped shortly greeting the teacher and sat down beside Peter, who seemed to be a teacher's favorite.
This was a class that Ceci highly enjoyed and soon she was immersed in the textbook given to her.
Peter cautiously making some products next to her, glanced periodically at her. She occasionally caught him and grinned. Soon after, it was math class.
Peter pointed her in the direction of her next class and waved goodbye to her.
Cecilia reached her next classroom and met Michelle there. Michelle, although not seeming to notice her presence, took her school bag off of the desk next to her.
Ceci took that spot.
"Hi Michelle, do you mind if I sit here?"
"I don't care. And call me MJ, that's what my friends call me. "
Ceci beamed and took out her stuff and began to chat with the girl. She had to admit that MJ was very mature and observant for their age. They became friends right away. They talked through the whole class about how schools, politics, and the environment, energy topics. The teacher was slightly annoyed at them but due to their incredible intelligence, could not have scolded them for any reason.
When the 2 of them left the classroom, they both burst into giggles with the teacher's face.
"It's lunch, now right? Let's go find Ned and Peter."
"Can we stop by my locker first?" Ceci asked.
"Sure."
When they came into the school cafeteria, Ceci spotted the 2 boys at a corner, MJ walked casually in front of her leading her towards them. When suddenly, a boy a little shorter than MJ stood up and walked up standing between MJ and Ceci.
He was looking Ceci up and down like she was an exhibit. Ceci felt revolted by his gesture.
"Whoa there, damn girl you are hotter than the bottom of my laptop. "His sneer made her want to blind herself.
"Is there a cellphone in your back pocket? Cause that ass is calling me!" he continued.
Cecilia starting to get reminded of her past abductions where many comments were thrown towards her.
Tied to a pole in the filthy, wet, dark room, Cecilia Evans Stark sobbed into her knees, wishing her dad will come for her. The men in the room kept shooting comments at her, although she was young, these men had no mercy nor virtues.
"You know why they call me the cat whisperer? Cause I know exactly what that pussy needs. "said one particularly gruesome looking guard. Jeering at her with a malicious smirk. Gesturing at the same time.
"I'll give you a nickel if you tickle my pickle." Said another, with the same expression plastered on his face.
Ceci shivered in fear and retched at the way they said the stuff.
"I'll treat you like my homework: Slam you on the table and do you all night long!"
"You know what I like in a girl? My dick." they laughed out loud.
One of the guards took a lock of her hair and smelled it. Ceci could smell the odious scent of the guy. It plagued her like poison.
Then he put his lips down towards her neck and sniffed dramatically,
"Wanna play carnival? You sit on my face and I guess how much you weigh." He nibbled at her ears.
Ceci frantically shook her head, whimpering but not daring to make a sound. They had her drugged and abilities taken away.
He continued and sucked at her neck. Ceci nearly had a seizure and vomited for that.
"Would you like to try an Australian kiss? It is just like a French kiss, but down under" he murmured and Ceci felt his hand itching near her thigh, she tried to kick but he hit her in the gut. Ceci gasped for air. The pain was agonizing, and the damage to her pure soul forevermore destroyed, torn away.
"Nice pants, can I test the zipper?" he said as he ripped her panties off.
Ceci repeatedly thought, 'Daddy, daddy I need you, Daddy…'
He pulled off his belt and Ceci looked anywhere but at him, still desperately trying to get away from his hand on her thigh.
"My dick's been feeling a little dead lately. Wanna give it some mouth-to-mouth?" he said taking a hold of her head and shoving it as far as it can go towards his parts. Ceci choked and struggled more. Keeping her eyes shut. She was only 9 by then, the people were crazy bastards.
He laughed in enjoyment and amusement, "All those curves and me with no brakes. I would fuck you so hard, you'd learn from it."
Then when he pried her legs, someone shot him from behind, the only thing she saw was Tony Stark, her father. She was safe now.
Tony saw, only the terror, state of her daughter and her mouthing "Daddy…"
…
"Stay away from Ceci and take that back, Flash," said Peter, who stood up from the table, feeling his spider senses tingling and hearing all that was said to Ceci. He stood in front of Ceci and Flash, while MJ tried to get Ceci back from her blanked out shaking form. Flash had hit a nerve.
"What? Penis Parker, you gonna do something about it?"
"Stay away. Apologize to her. "
While Peter and Flash bickered, MJ guided the girl who was blankly staring into space into their seats with the help of Ned.
"Ceci! Ceci! CECI" MJ shook her, she could feel the temperature of the girl dropping drastically, but she didn't ponder on that.
"Cecilia Evans!" and then the light returned to her eyes and she gasped for air, retching uncomfortably, Peter returned and gave her a cup of water, watching her worriedly with Ned and MJ. "Are you okay? Do you need to go to the nurse's office? Do you want anything? I should go get a teacher, should I …" he kept rambling.
MJ pinched his arm, "Give her some time to breathe Peter."
Ceci closed her eyes, taking everything back under controlled although her hands holding the cup was still shaking. "I'm fine now. Don't worry."
"Really, I'm fine."
"What happened?" asked Ned.
"What he just said just brought up some past events."
Seeing the curious face of Ned, "I don't want to talk about it please." she strained her plead.
"Okay. sorry. "
MJ kept by her side the entire time while Peter kept glancing at her.
Ceci had to break the awkwardness, so she said, "So, what movies do you guys like? My favorite is Star Wars."
And a stream of nerdy conversation proceeded. MJ returned to her book.
Ceci had one deduction, the food at the school was terrible. Where MJ agreed in the changing room and said, "That's why we are all so skinny."
P.E was horrible because of Flash's constant boasting and attempts at flirting at Ceci. MJ stayed protectively next to her which she appreciated deeply. Ceci really liked MJ and Peter and Ned. MJ and Ceci watched as Ned and Peter stared longingly at a Junior, they gossiped about them.
Today was archery, which Ceci was extremely good at. No one knew that of course.
Since the school was very well funded, each pair had their own lane and 2 bows.
The teacher started with teaching how to string a bow, Cecil couldn't help think of a Starky remark, yawning and 'I can string a bow faster than you can take a step.'
It proved to be a challenge for the other kids however.
Flash, being as cocky as can be, came swaggering over, while he ignored Peter, Ned and MJ's glares, offered to help her with her bow.
Thinking of some payback, Ceci, to the astonishment of her friends, smiled sweetly like how Aunty Natasha taught her, handed her bow to Flash. Ceci then grinned very devilishly. Leaving MJ who caught her very intrigued.
Flash used the way that the teacher taught them and tried to string it, but he failed 2 times, before summoning all his strength to bend the bow, a crack rang through the room.
Flash was totally embarrassed, "um… I…"
"Wow Flash, you're so strong, I'm impressed." Ceci said while MJ caught on and said, "Yeah, I never knew you had it in you."
Ned and Peter exchanged glances that practically shouted, "are they nuts?"
Soon the teacher came in and said, "Mr. Thomson, this is school property, did you know how much that cost? It is not a tool to show off your strength. You just earned 2 days of detention."
Ceci looked genuinely apologetic to Flash. Mouthing sorry.
Flash stormed off back to his gang.
MJ and Ceci looked at each other and burst into laughter.
In the midst of gasping for air between laughs, "How did you do that Ceci?"
"Well, the wood was already cracked, and I saw the string he tied to his bow to be measured incorrectly, it would have only resulted in breaking it."
"But what about the bow, which one will you use?"
"I'll use the Longbows they have."
"But those are very hard to use?" the teacher said as he passed her the bow.
"I'll manage, thank you very much Mr. Simon" she gave him a brilliant smile, "sorry for the bow, I'll pay for the damage."
"It's alright" he waved her off.
MJ was struggling to shoot when Ceci returned with her bow. Longbows were meant for much stronger persons and could penetrate further.
Ceci could normally control the strength, however, this bow had a few twists and turns and she could have sworn it was at least a decade old.
"Michelle, try to stand straighter and use equal strength on both hands."
Eventually, she was able to launch an arrow; however, it took almost all the strength left in her to do so. She was completely spent.
Not a lot of people were having success, except Flash, who was doing okay, but Ceci could have pointed out hundreds of ways he was shooting arrows wrong.
Ceci stood slightly more relaxed, with fluid motion drawing her hand back, firing the arrow which landed with a sharp thump accurately in the center of the target.
The arrow buried so deep into the target that the tip of the arrow touched the opposite wall.
Everyone in the class stopped to stare wide-eyed at her and she blushed, shyly, shrugged, rubbing her head, "It's a hobby."
And everyone else gave her a look before returning to their tasks.
"Ceci? How did you do that?" came Ned and Peter's admiring voices, well more from Ned.
"I do archery every day. All the time. I love archery."
Peter gulped silently, he thought of the terrible ways that arrows could catch a spider like it was the target.
MJ was so impressed, "You have to teach me how to do that."
"Sure, you can swing by anytime. I'll give you a free lesson." she grinned.
The teacher came towards them and said," Miss Evans, please demonstrate how a proper way to aim with the bow."
"MJ, can I borrow your bow for a sec?"
…
MJ: have fun in physics.
CC: I have officially become the teacher's best except for math lol
MJ: haha, don't think that highly of yourself. Gotta go to class.
CC: See you later.
…
During physics, which was Mr. Harrington's class. He was very impressed with her discussions during class, and he invited her to join the decathlon.
Overall, nothing much happened.
It was time to go home.
MJ was standing in front of her locker, "Do you want to get a burger"
"Sure, I'm starving."
They headed to a convenience store where MJ and the owner chatted about school, well mostly, he inquired and she answered with no emotion.
Ceci greeted the older man and shook his hand, "Welcome, it's nice to see Michelle has friends. We have the best food here."
"Thank you. I think I'll be coming very often too."
It was true, they had the best food. MJ and Ceci sat at a small table and devoured their burgers. It was so delicious.
Later, MJ took Ceci around Queens and shopped.
At around 4, they went their separate ways. She took out her phone and looked for Steve's apartment.
Actually, the whole 3-level building was owned by Steve. It was brought by her grandfather.
She opened the door, "Stevey, I'm back from school!"
"In the basement," he said.
The basement was very classy, it had vintage furniture and lots and lots of books.
She tackled Steve on the sofa where he was reading a book. "How was school?"
"I met 3 amazing friends and a bad person." Ceci had a polite vocabulary. She has never sworn at anyone which surprised Steve because Stark swears all the time.
"We had archery at school and I accidentally broke the target."
Steve chuckled, still listening intently to her.
"Oh, and I had a minor panic attack about…" she winced at the memory, and Steve knew exactly what it was about.
"It's alright, it will never happen again, you are safe."
"I annoyed the math teacher and mostly had fun."
"Oh! Oh! I almost forgot, they should plenty of the star-spangled outfit you wear, Captain Rogers and lectured us on the importance of gym. Hahahaha."
Steve looked very flabbergasted.
She knew how fun it felt for her dad to tease him constantly.
They later rode his motorcycle back to the Avenger's tower.