Chapter Eight
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"So you think this portal idea is true?" Kurapika asked Boiar. The rest of the group (Eilen, Nina, Duo, Leorio) stared.
Boiar nodded. "Mrs. Miller (my neighbor), her scientific theories are 99% true. Even so, the theory of the portal hasn't totally been approved, so in this case, we'd have to take chances."
"The probability is okay, but do you think our clock tower is high enouh?" Nina asked. "If it isn't, you would just be jumping to your death."
"It should." Eilen replied. "It's the tallest thing here in Azure Cosmos."
"Midnight's fine." said Leorio. "The dance would probably go on a little longer. We'd have enough time."
Duo hugged him. "Midnight, on the fourteenth, a week from now. We should find out more about that portal."
The bell rang, and they rushed to class.
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I could kill myself, jumping from it, Kurapika thought. Today, he couldn't concentrate on tangents, cotangent, and sines and cosines, even though they were simple. His mind kept wandering back to the words, 'You would just be jumping to your death.'
"Mr. Kuruta." He jumped(ha ha). "Would you plese give the answer to question twenty two?" Mr. Morgan looked at Kurapika sternly.
"Uh... squre root of three?" He answered, panicking.
Mr. Morgan cleared his throuat to silence the giggles and whispers, "I'm sorry, Kurapika, but that isn't correct. Katherine, would you like to answer?"
"Square root of three over three." She responded, shooting a smug look at Kurapika. He stared at his textbook blankly.
"Very good." Mr. Morgan raised an eyebrow. "Kurapika, is something wrong?"
"No, nothing." Kurapika mumbled.
"Must be puberty." Someone at the back of the room snickered. The class burst into gales of laughter.
Kurapika's face turned purple like a sunburned radish.
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Back in the office, Leorio also had the words haunting his mind.
"Ow! Dammit, whaddya think you're doin'?!" The kid complained.
"Only washing off the blood," muttered Leorio. "That ain't nothin' to bitch about."
The kid's eyes grew wide. None of the other adults had dared say cuss words in school.
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In the computer lab, Duo and Eilen were looking at an article on portals. "Yeah, it dos say that stuff about speed. 'If the traveler does not gain enough velocity, they will move right through the portal. For the journey to be absolutely successful, it should be at the speed of light. As long as the traveler is faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful that a loco— What is this?!" Eilen exclaimed.
"Oh yeah! Jedi at level fifty!!! I rock, oh yeah!" The boy at the next computer yelled.
"Star Wars freak." Duo said pointedly at Adrian. A whole bunch of 'shh's came their way.
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"The Time Machine?" Nina looked at the book that Mrs. Schaller had le her borrow. "How ironic. Oh well, I might find something useful."
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Boiar sat in Mrs. Cambridge's class. Maybe I could write a play on this...She though.
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A lot of Katherine coming up. Nuff said. Hey, besides a certain two people, does anyone else bother reading this? I don't mind flames, but I did mind losing that bag of spider-shaped marshmallows...