In Gym, the class had to partner up with each other for volleyball. As usual Hero was left without a partner. Now that she was the "new girl" and no one really knew her except for the popular people who, as you know, taunted her like there was no tomorrow.  Anyways, Hero stood idly with a volleyball in her hands watching the other kids toss and hit the balls. Then this really tall, strong looking guy, with brown hair and blue eyes (you can probably guess how good-looking he was ha ha) ran up to the gym teacher with a pass as he was late. The teacher nodded and pointed over to Hero apparently telling him to work with her. The last thing Hero wanted was to work with a person who would most likely make fun of her like everyone else who was like him did. She then pretended she was doing fine all by herself.

The guy came over. "Hey, um the teach told me to work with you with volleyball…"

"Alright then I suppose." Hero replied sounding bored.

"Er yeah," he said "I'm Chad by the way" He said throwing the ball up and setting it.

"I'm Hero" She said absentmindedly then she realized what she had said. The last thing she wanted was for this Chad guy to be telling the popular kids about her silly nickname. "I'm Helena" She said immediately afterwards. Apparently he wasn't paying attention to her because he was facing the other direction looking like he was showing off. "Figures…" She said to herself. She then ran over and practiced the skills with him in silence.

After gym was over she went to lunch (Hey I'm skipping around her schedule here! It would be really dull if I had to explain all of her earlier periods) and sat down at a lonely table near the window. She couldn't go outside as it had begun to rain. Then once again the popular kids want and sat down a table away from her. They didn't bother to keep their voices down at all. She was chewing on a carrot thoughtfully not exactly caring about what they had to say but was thinking more about Edward.  She then heard Chad talking about their gym class

"I had to be partner with that girl over their" He said nodding over to her

"Oh that Helena Greenwood girl?" said a girl named Lindy in a snooty voice, "She's really weird. I mean her Grandmother fully believes in Edward Scissorhands. I mean come on! How could a guy survive with scissor hands? It would be impossible! You know I bet she believes in him too. Believing in Edward is like believing in Santa Clause."

"Hey! Santa is my dawg yo!" another boy said. (His name was Jason) The table started laughing really hard.

"Yo that Helena girl is kinda cute especially with those two pigtails on the sides of her head" Chad said laughing again after he said so. The table once again laughed really hard.

Hero stood up not being able to control her temper any more. She marched right over to their table and stood there with a look on her face that showed she had quite an attitude. The popular kids stopped laughing but looked as if they wanted to burst out again. "You know it isn't very nice making fun of people behind their backs…" She trailed off ending in a sly smile that would have made the Grinch jealous "You know what? I think I'm going to go now. Please, continue your conversation" She then slid out of the cafeteria quickly. The first person she saw was this nerdy kid from the computer club. "Hey," She said to him "You think you could help me with something to get back at the preps?"

"Um sure…" he replied sort of surprised at the question

"Ok first could you…I dunno, spread a rumor about them?"

"Er ok but why?"

"Haven't you ever been taunted by them? I have and it someone needs to put them in check"

"Well yeah… But why can't you do it?" Because I have something very big planned to show them up but it can't happen until the Science Fair. Until then we should get them a bit stirred up" She said slyly

"Alright then I'll get on it!" then the kid hurried off

***

The rest of the day passed with ease. Hero even got a pretty good grade on that homework she did that morning. She hurried home grabbed her sketchbook, (she was an artist after all) picked up her bike and began to ride toward the hill despite the lightly falling rain. She went around the town instead of through it in order to avoid most of the people. When she got to the foot of the hill she looked up at the house on the top. "Well here goes nothing…"  She then started up the hill.

When Hero got to the top she hopped off her bike and went past the old gate and the trees blocking the house. She stopped in the front garden looking at it in awe. It was an almost enchanting sort of place with topiaries of all sorts of creatures. But in the center of the garden was a topiary of a hand surrounded with flowers. Hero stared a moment at the hand with her head sort of tilted but then went forward to the house. When she got up to the front door, or what she thought was the front door, she stood there wondering what she should do. She had considered knocking but then she thought it might scare him off, if he was really still up here that is. Hero finally decided to just walk on in.

The inside of the house was rather grey and drab compared to the front yard and looked even more so since it was rather grey outside. She walked around slowly taking the whole area in. there were the remnants of what looked like a conveyor belt of some sort and other forms of machinery. Then she saw a big stair case and decided to climb it. She went up quickly and almost silently to the top. When she finally got to the top she found herself in a large loft-like area. It was completely empty except for an inset in the wall that looked like a fireplace but it had a bed of some sort in it with a bunch of newspaper clippings of random things mostly involving what people managed to do with their hands. In the roof was a really big hole along with a hole in the window. She walked around staring up at the hole when she heard a sound a lot like the sound made when someone sharpened a knife with something metal or large metal scissors moving back and forth without cutting anything.

Hero turned and saw a figure in the shadows, its scissors gleaming in the light. She stood surprised for a moment then spoke. "Hello, you're Edward Scissorhands I presume?"