The Hunt for the Perfect Storm
Chapter 2: Twister Hits England
The next day at school the pupils are gathered in the corridor again waiting for their lesson to begin. "Kirsty," Beth begins, "you know that test we did yesterday, what was the reason you got 98%. I mean you never really told us and it's been bugging me all night."
"Your not still on about that are you?" Kirsty questions, "I told you, the reason I got 98% and you didn't is because I…I… spent a lot of time studying tornadoes; that's why."
Beth was not convinced and shrugged her shoulders. "Ok, ok," said Kirsty "If you must know I… I grew up around a meteorologist."
"Oh!" Beth replied, still not seeming overly convinced.
Mr Smith arrived and they all went into class and settled down into their places. At the front of the classroom was a television and video on a movable unit. "Looks like we're gonna watch a video today, hey guys," comments Stephanie.
"I think you may be right Steph," replies Fay.
"Ok class, settle down please," came Mr Smiths powerful voice, "we are going to continue our work from yesterday, and to start with we are going to watch this video I was talking about, so can you all please have a pen and paper ready to write notes while watching."
Everybody got a pen and pad out of their bags and settled back down ready to watch the video. Mr Smith pressed the 'play' button on the remote and the TV sprung to life.
During the video the students were frantically scribbling on pieces of paper, as many note as they could. Kirsty on the other hand, wrote only a few very complicated notes and when questioned about it by Rachel, a small, quiet redhead who sat on the table behind her, Kirsty insisted that she had seen the video before and so didn't need the notes.
Just as the video finished the sky went mysteriously dark and the wind picked up. Kirsty got up out of her seat and looked out of the window. The sky had a green tint to it. She ran over to the teacher who was researching some information on his laptop. "Sir can you go to the met office site please I want to check out the current weather conditions." Kirsty begged.
Mr Smith did as he was asked. It wasn't a habit of his to take orders from his students but this time he sensed the genuine concern. "Damn," said Kirsty, "get everyone underground now," she called as she dashed down the stairs and outside carrying a mini video camera in her hands.
She tied herself to the fence and started recording the sight she saw. A mini tornado was ripping its way down the street uprooting small trees and making anything that wasn't secured to the ground fly up into the air. Then she saw someone walking towards the school. "Look out," she called.
The tornado was right behind the person and she was just about to be sucked up into the funnel. Kirsty quickly untied herself and ran towards the person leaping and knocking her out of the storms path.
"Like, thanks," said the rescued girl as soon as the immediate danger had passed.
"No problem," responded Kirsty.
"My name's Kitty. I'm like, new here," said the girl who was desperately trying to catch her breath from the fear of being sucked up into the storm.
"Nice to meet you," replied Kirsty, "my name's Kirsty. Welcome to this school. Where are you from exactly?"
" I'm like from a town called Bayville."
"Bayville?" questioned Kirsty, "that's in New York right? Near Lloyd Harbor?"
"Yes that's right. You like, know it?"
"Ok class everybody back inside now," thundered Mr Smith.
The class all made their way back up the stairs and into the classroom. "Yes I know Bayville. I was born there," whispered Kirsty on the way back up to the classroom. She would have spoken louder but Mr Smith didn't seem in too good of a mood and she didn't want to get shouted at. When back inside the classroom Kitty sat by Rachel on the desk behind Kirsty.
Mr Smith walked around the class handing out large brown envelopes to everybody. "These," he said motioning to the envelopes remaining in his hand, "are letters to your parents. They are permission slips to let you go on a class trip. So please get them filled in and handed back to me by the end of the week at the latest. You will only be going if the slips are returned to me, completed, no later than this Friday. Understand?"
"Yes Sir," answered the class.
The lesson soon ended and everybody gathered up their belonging and made their way out of class. "So," stared Beth, "You guys think you'll be allowed to go on this trip?"
"Depends on when it is, and where," answered Kirsty.
"Can I like, walk with you guys?" asks Kitty coming up beside Kirsty and her friends.
"Sure," they all reply together.
The girls all make their way out of the school gates towards their homes. "You guys coming shopping?" asked Fay.
"Yeah why not?" answered Kirsty, Stephanie, Beth, Laura and Rachel together.
"Want to join us Kitty?" asks Fay, realizing she hadn't said any think much yet.
"Yeah, like can I really?"
"Of course you can if you want to Kitty."
The girls all walked to the supermarket. They shopped for 2 hours or more and bought lots of clothes and stuff. "This will look like, great on you Kirst, what d'ya think guys?" said Kitty getting into the spirit of things. "I like, so love shopping. I go shopping like every couple of days back home."
"Why did you come here anyway," asks Rachel, "I mean if you like your home so much, why leave?"
"Well I was like gonna stay, but I, like thought it'd be fun to come for a few weeks and see if it's nice here y'know?" answered Kitty, "I'm like going back soon anyway. This was just like a vacation. I might go on this trip though. You like think it'll be fun?"
"Lets hope so," said Laura.
"Yeah well if Mr Smiths involved you can pretty much guarantee it's not gonna be much fun," commented Kirsty, "unless we do something to change it of course."
"Like what?" asked the others.
"A few practical jokes or something," replied Kirsty.
With that the girls all headed home with their newly bought packages and lots of full shopping bags.
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Authors note: hope your enjoying this. Originally it wasn't going to have anything to do with the x-men, but I've been watching too much TV and reading too many of your lovely stories lately so when I needed a new character I came up with Kitty from the x-men. I have a lot more chapters planned but I haven't got too far with them yet. I hope too have more soon. Anyway please r &r. This is my first fic so please be nice. Constructive criticism welcome. It will help me improve.
