"GRANDMA!!!!" She shouted through the house as soon as she walked in the door.
"I'm in the garden, Brussels Sprout!!" The grandmother called back
Hero marched back to the garden where her grandmother happened to be "I hate it when you call me Brussels Sprout," she said sitting down in the grass diagonal from her grandmother. "Hey Gram, Can you tell me the story about Edward Scissorhands?"
"'Course I can tell you the story about Edward Scissorhands I witnessed it you know!"
"Yeah I know Grammy," She said impatiently, "so tell me what happened."
"Well it all started when Mrs. Boggs went up to that big hill over yonder where you can see the house up there," She pointed past a bunch of houses where there was indeed a large house on top of a tall hill, "She was trying to sell makeup. Why she thought someone was living in that house I'll never know. Anyway she found Edward and brought him back down to her place where he stayed and cut lovely topiaries out of all the shrubberies. They are all grown out now. Nothing can be seen of them anymore since all of the people thought he robbed the richest house in the neighborhood. So before he got his bad reputation he was quite a well-known hair stylist. But poor Edward fell in love with Mrs. Boggs' Daughter Kim; she used to babysit me, so she was the one who asked Edward to rob the house of her boyfriend so they could buy themselves a car. Edward got caught and he went to jail for a day. After that his reputation went downhill because the whole town thought he was a good guy gone bad. He was making an ice sculpture when Kim's boyfriend made him slash her hand. He thought it was Edwards fault so he chased Edward off. Then Edward tried to save Kim's little brother who was in the way of a drunk driver but everyone thought he was attacking that kid. Edward ran back to his house up on that hill and then Edward killed that crazy boyfriend of hers." Grandma sighed "That's what happened to that poor boy he was quite a looker too" She grinned "not too much older than you were at the time…" Grandma winked at Hero
"Grandma!" Hero said sounding alarmed at that last comment. The grandmother just chuckled and went on pulling out an eggplant which she had growing in abundance in the garden. "Well thanks for the story Gram. I think I need to go do my homework now." Hero stood up dusted the dirt off her pants and went to her room. She sat at her desk with a pencil in her mouth. She seemed to be thinking hard about Edward. She gazed outside her window at the hill where Edward had lived. Hero had always considered the hill to be a bit oddly placed as if it was brought from a different place, like a haunted graveyard or something because the grey-black hill clashed greatly with the pastel colors of Suburbia.
Hero jumped as a cold wet nose touched her hand "Aah! Oh its just you Cadpig" she said taking a deep breath to bring her heart rate back down to normal from the surprise her runt of a Dalmatian had given her. "Don't do that Pig." Hero said stroking Cadpig's silky ears. "I wonder if he's still up there…" she trailed off letting that thought hang for a while. "I'm tired" she said suddenly. It was a bit late but too early for her normal bed-time. She pulled on her pajamas that had rainbow colored stars on them and rolled into bed. Hero had an uneasy rest that night all because of Edward Scissorhands.
The next morning Hero awoke, feeling just as sleepy as she had the previous night. She went downstairs with a bit of a sleepy swagger as she sat down in at the kitchen table. This morning her grandmother was out most likely walking Cadpig. She yawned and poured herself a bowl of cereal and began crunching on it when she realized she forgot to do her chemistry homework. Hero hastily finished her breakfast and got dressed leaving for school. Hopefully she could finish it there.
She jogged to school. No one was there yet. Perfect. She sat there hastily finding what elements were in what compounds. She wrote down her last element name when the popular kids came up in their little "pack." She heard them before they even turned the corner to the school as a result of their natural talkative-ness "Oh no…" she murmured to herself as they turned the corner.
"Look!" One girl called out in mock delighted-ness "Its Helena Green-weird," her, along with all her cronies erupted into gales of laughter. Hero looked at them maliciously and then stood up and strode over to them.
"You know if I were you, I wouldn't be making fun of me."
"Oh?" The football player said with a laugh, "And why might that be?"
"Because I've got connections" Hero said sounding almost like one of the preps.
"Ooh she has 'connections,'" another girl, evidently the football player's girlfriend, said mockingly. The others erupted into gales of laughter once again but Hero didn't back down as any other person might have done in a situation like this.
"Oh you laugh?" She asked with a bit of a regal air. "Well you won't be laughing much longer." She added threatening them then she walked away amid the laughter once again erupting behind her.