The Membranes

Though your spirit has now passed,
your memory shall forever last.

Chapter 2: Meeting an Angel from Hell

Well, Membrane had no luck so far. Almost all the girls he'd talked to were transfering to this college with the soul purpose of re-uniting with their boyfriends. He was still walking around the line, but gave up and sulked down on the nearest bench. He sighed heavily. Oh well, he thought. Maybe I can get a little more science accomplished out here in the fresh air, with out distractions. He glanced at the all the girls walking in the building. Oh yeah, he thought again. I do have distractions. He rolled his eyes and looked at his watch. He stil had plenty of time before his first class. It was 8:45 and Really Really Advanced and Hard Chemistry didn't start till 9:30.

He lost himself in thought again. Thinking of how maybe this year could be better than his summer. He looked like he was day dreaming. With a pretty much dazed look on his face, he was so caught up in his own mind, he didn't notice the voilet haired girl questioning him.

"Excuse me? Are you even awake?" She asked. She cocked un eyebrow seeing he was staring at nearly nothing at all. "Hello? Grr.. I guess I'll have to ask someone else,"

She stepped maybe three times before he woke up.

"GAH! I'm sorry, Miss. I was just... thinking..."

"Um...I could see that..."

"Heheh.. yeah... Anyway! What did you want to ask me?"

"Oh yeah, Just can you tell me where this class is? I know it doesn't start for a while, but I'm knew and it's going to take me a while to find it on my own,"

Membrane didn't listen to a word she said. He simply stared at her. She had shiny, shoulder length deep purple hair with a lot of bangs over her forhead. Her eyes were a light tint of brown and wore tiny glasses that barely coverd her eyes. She was wearing a black lab coat that looked a lot more like a dress with purple lab gloves and tights that matched her hair. She also was wearing a pair of black, knee high, buckle boots and a skull necklace to top it all off. She was very beautiful, he thought. One flaw, maybe, was her head was a little...big....but other than that, she was georgous.

"Rgh! You're doing it again!" She shrieked.

"Sorry," he recoverd. Now, he was completly awake. "I'm really sorry about that, I promise I'll listen this time!"

"I think I should just ask some one el-"

"NO!" he got his cool again "Er, It's ok. I can help,"

"Alright, but if you don't listen and pay atention, I'll make you wish I was never born,"

He gulped at those words. So, she isn't exactly the nicest thing on the planet, he thought. "Sure thing,"

"Ok. Now listen! I NEED help finding this building here," She pointed to a location on her student map.

"Oh, come on! You aren't telling me you don't know! Everyone knows where that is!" He began to laugh until she gave him a look of death that made his stomach go insane, "...UNLESS YOU'RE NEW! You're a new student, aren't you?"

She nodded, not wasting words for this idiot, she thought.

"Well, what year are you?"

She looked at him like he should have known the answer. "Senior. What do I look like? A friggin' High School Freshman?"

He gulped again, nervously. "Of course not! I could tell you were a senior, I just wanted to make sure!" There was a long pause of silence. He stared at her with a look that said "Please don't hurt me!"

After being annoyed at never finding out where the building was, she angrylly yelled, "HEY! Where is the friggin' building, Moron?"

"Um...Right... It's right there!" He pointed at the building behind him. She shot a surprised look, then a quick embarrased one, and then back to her scary face.

"Oh...I knew that. I was just making sure, so that I wouldn't end up in the wrong building, you know,"

"Riiiiiiiiight...." he said with a narrowed eye. She glared at him again, and his wise-guy faced turned to a frightened one.

"Well, hey. We spent all this time out here, and now my class starts in about 5 minutes!" she said grabbing her book bag. He looked at her bag, now. It had a little Yoda key-chain on it. "Thanks for making me late, you moron,"

"Hey, wait a second. Is that Yoda?"

She looked at him, at first not having any idea what he was talking about. "Oh, my key chain? Yeah. I like Star Wars...Why?"

"Oh, just wondering... Its a pretty cool movie. Anyway, I never got your name. I'm Allen. Allen Membrane. And you are?" he said, suddenly not feeling as nervous.

"What makes you think I'm going to tell you?" He looked spooked again.

"Oh..just...nevermind..."

She made her way in to the building, and he followed. She walked to the hallway, and looked behind herself. There he was, again. Doesn't this loser know when to quit, she thought as she narrowed an eye.

"Why are you following me? Can't you take a hint?" she questioned him

"Well, SOR-EE for being with in 10 feet of you, but my class is in this building, too." he said with a little anger in his voice.

"Oh...I see... Whatever...Well, I guess we'll see each other around... maybe..."
"Yeah...Sure..."

They both walked off in different directions. Membrane was pretty much pissed off at her. I mean sure, she's scary as Hell, but why should I be scared of her, he thought? Bah, I'm better than that! And the nerve of her! Calling me an Idiot and a Moron! God! I happen to be the top student here, and this also happens to be the top school in the planet. Who does she think she is? Queen of the world? Huh? Huh? HUH!?!!!!!?? Well, at least I won't have to deal with her anymore....

He had just realized that he went in the wrong direction...His class was in the same direction as hers, and that wasn't a good sign. He walked to his class, and was practically crossing his fingers as he turned the door knob. He looked at the faces in the class and let out a big relief sigh.

"Mr. Membrane...Late on the first day?" addressed his professor as Membrane glanced at the clock and noticed he was 5 mintues late. He blamed her for being late, of course.

"I'm sorry, Sir. I ran into some trouble on the way to class. It won't happen again,"

"It better not. Not to one of the worlds finest scientists! Please, take your seat,"

There were two empty desks, but one of them had a backpack there already. It had a Yoda keychain. It can't be, he thought to himself. It's just a coincidence. A coincidence, that's all.

Or so he hoped...

[A/N: A little too predictible, aren't, I? ;p]