I KNEW IT

            Well, after Rina's startling revelation, we all piled in the car.  My mom was driving us.  Too bad she and dad couldn't stay to watch it though.  Anyways as it was we just barely made it with 2 minutes to spare.  Rina and Randy hurried over to catch the end of Couch Pinkerton's pep talk while I headed over to the cheerleaders.  "Sorry, I'm late girls."  I said.  "Oh, that's okay," said Jana, she is the other flyer.  "Your normally the first person here."

"Great!  So let's get started girls!"  With that I promptly snatched up the nearest pompoms, and turned to face the crowd.  "Alright, why don't we start it off with Scorching?  Ready, OKAY!  HERE THE FLARES COME DOWN THE COURT!  WATCH OUT WE'LL SCORCH YA!  IT'S TIME FOR YOU TO LOSE SOME POINTS!  WATCH OUT WE'LL SCORCH YA!  THE FLARES ARE HOTTER THEN THE SUN!  WATCH OUT WE'LL SCORCH YA!  YOU'D DO BEST, TURN TAIL AND RUN!  WATCH OUT WE'LL SCORCH YA!  GOOOOOO FLARES!!"  You like it?  I came up with that cheer.        

Anyways, that's when both the teams came out on the court and the real fun began!  It was a really close game.  The score was 8 to 8 and there was only 13 seconds left!  I turned to watch as Rina pulled away from the crowd.  "L-A-Y-U-P!  LAY-UP!  …"  "Ewwwwww, what's that smell?" said Jana.  I nervously glanced at Rina.  Oh, crap!  Her hands were glowing! I quickly ran over to Randy as Rina threw him the ball, her hair was on fire now.  Rina ran quickly from the gym ignoring all the yells from the crowd.  I glanced down at the ball, which was now deflating; there were burns on it in the shape of her hand.  Rina!, Rina Answer me!  It was no use she was blocking me.  Oooooh man, I could feel my hands growing clammy.  Not, good.  Pushing my way through the crowd, I got out the door with Randy in toe.

"Rina!  Rina, Where are you?"  Randy was shouting as I tried still desperately to reach Rina through telepathy.  I came to halt as a boy with white hair stopped short.  "Whoa!"  I Tripped and started to fall over "Oof, owww."  Hey wait a second where'd he go he was there a second ago!  Well, that was rude of him.  Her tripped me and didn't even bother to catch me when I fell!  "Are you alright?"  Randy asked.  "Yeah, Fine!"  I smiled back at him.  "Good." Another voice said.  I glanced up to see a RATHER large boy.  He was about my age and, well, he was taller then I was too.  "Mind if we have a talk?" yet another boy stepped out from behind him.  This boy had brown hair.  He was average height and semi-muscular.  On hind sight he was rather cute, but at the time I was too preoccupied with trying to find Rina.  "I'm sorry, but now really isn't a good time."  I started to walk away only to find myself dangling in the air.  

"Hey, What the?"  The large one had me by the back my uniform, and was lifting me straight off the ground.  "I said I was sorry.  Now will you please put me..."  Just as I started to try to talk sense to this boy, Randy had gone straight into a full speed head butt.  "Ouch!"  I landed on my butt.  Randy helped me to my feet as the boy quickly recovered.  Randy started to pull me away when a gust of wind whipped up my skirt, and may I be the first to say thank-god for spankies.  That boy who had tripped me was now standing in front of us.  Randy too a swing and hit nothing but air.  The boy who had been standing in front of us was now on the side of us.  "Too, slow!" he said.  When Randy's punch had gone awry he had lost his balance and fallen down.  As I was helping him up a felt a tremor shake the floor.  Another earthquake?  I turned around to find the brown haired boy with his face all screwed up.  He kind of looked like he was constipated.  Anyways, he stomped his foot and another tremor rocked the walls.  The first thing that came to mind was Rina's memories.  Of course, these were the guys who had attacked her in the gym.  The next thought was "Run!"  I blotted with Randy taking a lead.  Once again the white haired boy took off after us.  It wasn't long before he was standing in front of me.  RINA!  Come On Rina, I NEED YOU!  It was no use.  Rina wasn't paying attention.  Think, Gwen.  Come on your smart…The ICE.  Suddenly an idea formed in my head.  Concentrating as hard as I could I felt my body go cold.  The sweat on my hands froze and I could feel a thin layer of ice coating my body.  This was gunna be hard to explain to anybody watching but it was too late.  I had only been trying to freeze his feet, which by the way worked, but in the process I had coated my body in ice.  I didn't stop to think about the consequences I just continued onward.  I had to find Rina.  I didn't even look back until I was in the woods.  At that point there was no way for them to have followed us.

I almost laughed as I thought about how they were still probably trying to thaw out their teammate's feet.  I stopped when I heard a muffled breathing.  Someone was panting nearby.  "Rina?" there was nothing but silence.  Then Randy piped in.  He hadn't bothered to look at me yet.  " Yo, Carrottop!  Come on out!  C'mon Rina!  I was just kiddin!  I promise I'll never call you Red again!  Just come out!"  "  Rina, Rina please.  Where are you?"  I shouted.  No answer came.  Oh, well it didn't make much of a difference.  Let's just say it's not hard to miss someone who's glowing.  "There you are Rina!" said Randy.  Then he looked at both of us.  "Whoa, have either of you looked in the mirror recently?"  "I KNOW.  I'm glowing."  Snapped Rina.  After what felt like forever of Randy looking back and forth between me and Rina, Rina finally had the sense to look up.  I don't think she was expecting to see me covered in ice.  That and when I tried to tell her what happened nothing would come out right.  Which I think only confused her more.  Finally, I was able to sort out some of what I was trying to think.  Rina, what's going on?

You're asking me because?

I'm asking you because you're a lot more likely to know then Randy!

  We couldn't help it we had to laugh.  It wasn't particularly funny but we needed something to break the mood.  That mood we had just broken was brought once again spiraling down by Randy.  "You...You guys are…you guys are m mu…"  Mutants,  mutants that's what he was trying to say.  No, it was more like freaks.