Please don't let me be late, please don't let me be late. Hope begged as she ran through her room, throwing things haphazardly into her duffel bag. She quickly swept her long black hair into a messy ponytail and looked into the mirror at her reflection. She had thrown on a white tank top; light, faded jeans; and a--
I don't have time to look in the mirror. She scolded herself mentally. As usual, she overslept and now she was in danger of missing her ride. She grinned as she remembered Shelby 's call about the road trip. Her friend Kay had planned it, and Hope thought it sounded like a great idea. She had never actually met Chaos or the other girl on the trip, Regina, but they sounded nice. ...and a little crazy since she was called right as Shelby was picked up.
Hope ran out into the parking lot of the hotel she had been staying in, and looked around for a huge van and a small green car. She saw both pulling out onto the deserted highway.
"WAIT!" she screamed. Obviously, no one heard her. "Shoot." She muttered under her breath, "Now what?" She looked over at a pool of water and got an idea. "This should be interesting." She said, her green eyes shimmering.
Hope closed her eyes and concentrated all her energy into her fingers. A blast of water flew from her fingertips, creating a tornado-like barrier around the car. She could hear screams of confusion as the car skidded to a stop, and two people out of no where jumped out of windows and was screaming, until they looked at one another, noticing the other was drenched, then looking at themselves..and screaming even louder. The orange haired one went into a bit of a fetal position rocking back and forth trying to get his drenched matches to light, and the other, a girl, had started ripping the chains on her pants off, and when she couldn't work the chains from shaking to the extremes, she started grabbing her hair and blue flashes appeared all over...travelling along the wet ground, onto the van and...after some screaming wihtin the van, all passengers had jumped out of the van onto dry pavement with frizzled hair and even some who had nylon on with very small blue flashes on themselves. Warren, Alex, Shelby and Lance who were in the corrolla, went wide eyed, and Warren backed the car up doing like 90 almost hitting the culprit for the water frenzy (in an attempt to avoid being shocked like the others), who jumped out of the way just missing the rear of the car.
"That was fun...." she nervously said as she coughed from exhaust, waving her hands and making the water disappear completely and appear back in the pool.
Hope walked calmly to the panicking sparking girl who was dripping wet, pulling all drops of water off her and into the grass area, and doing the same for Pyro. After he felt water fly off him, he got up with a fighting stance and somewhat screamed, "What the hell was that!??"
"Uh..hi...everybody..heh heh." Hope said nervously as Pyro glared at her and as Chaos attached whatever she managed to get off herself. She was still a little shaky--and no one could even go near her until she could straitly calm down. Warren and everyone with him ran to the scene making sure no one was hurt.
"Hope!" Shelby cried, untangling herself from the mass of preciously panic-stricken people, "We thought you had forgotten about us."
"No." Hope said with a weak smile. "I overslept. As usual." she looked remorsefully at Pyro. What was the deal with this guy anyway, she thought to herself.
"Oh, that's Pyro." A girl with short dark hair and a lot of orange clothes said. "He's petrified of water. By the way I'm Regina."
"Nice to meet you." Hope said. She looked over at the girl who was sitting on the floor watching everyone talk, sparks died down and she was able to go near everyone again. "You must be..the electric one...Chaos?"
"Heh. What was your first guess." she brushed herself off and examined her arm and side. Warren helped her up.
After a moment of silence, She said, "Well...you can't be all THAT bad if you took that much of a risk for our attention. Shelby told us all about you, well mostly about you. It seems she's forgotten a tiny little detail." She glared at Shelby, who smiled sheepishly and shrugged.
"Is there something wrong with my powers?" Hope asked, confused. Everyone raised an eyebrow at that last question.
"Sort of." Regina said, "You see, Chaos and Pyro have a small phobia of water."
"Small?!?!?!" A guy with red on black eyes exclaimed, "DID YOU JUST SEE WHA HAPPENED MON AMI!? Try enormous. Especially Pahro here." He pointed to the boy with the red hair. "Oh, 'n im Remy."
"You'd be afraid too if something threated the love of your life!" Pyro whimpered.
Hope looked at Chaos. "Does this mean I can't quite tag along?" she asked.
"Nah man, Chaos is cool like that, you'll be able to go, right Kay-lovely?" Alex looked at her. Chaos angrily looked at Alex and Lance and then back at Hope. She started laughing, "Yeah you can come. But pleaseeeee no more watterrr unless its absolutely necessary?"
"Ok." Hope answered releived. Shelby linked arms with her and smiled at everyone, "She's not so baddd your all overdramatic."
"Now let's see if I can figure out who everyone else is." she said. She pointed to a man with angel wings, "You're Warren, right?" she asked.
"Right." he said over his shoulder while walking with Kay to check out under the vans hood to see if she shorted the battery out.
"Your Rogue..."
"Yep." She said. "Welcome to the nut house, rather, nut van." she tried her hardest to smooth down her hair.
"That leaves Pietro, Lance, Alex and I'm not sure whos who." Hope said, pointing to a boy with white hair (A/N: sorry I can't think of a better way to describe him!), "Are you Pietro?"
"Aww-man-another-person-where's everyone going to sleep." He said quickly. Shelby talked a little about him, and that talking fast made him kinda cute...this must have been him."
"Do you always talk that fast?" Hope asked.
"Yep-do-you-have-a-problem-with-that?" he asked.
"Nope." She said, smiling.
Alex and Lance spoke up at the exact same time saying their names. Then they looked at eachother and started pushing eachother, screamign at eachother.
After a bit of talking with everyone and them getting to nkow her, they all plowed into the van (save Chaos Warren Lance and Alex who's currently in the corolla) as soon as Kay announced the vans battery was fine.
"Who's driving?" Hope asked.
A chorus of "Me!" broke out through the van. She looked around at Remy. "Is there a certain reason that everyone wants to drive?"
"Whoever drives gets to pick the music." He said, flashing her a grin.
"I see." Hope thought for a moment. She made her way through the mass of people and hopped into the driver's seat. "Who's got the keys?" she asked.
"Hey that's not fair!" Pyro whined.
Hope pointed her finger at him and a little jet of water shot out.
"Ok, it's fair." He said, handing her the keys.
"Great." Hope replied, "Then let the fun begin!"
Everyone groaned. It was 8:00 am in Charlotte. And they had planned to get to Nashville about 4 or 5.
I don't have time to look in the mirror. She scolded herself mentally. As usual, she overslept and now she was in danger of missing her ride. She grinned as she remembered Shelby 's call about the road trip. Her friend Kay had planned it, and Hope thought it sounded like a great idea. She had never actually met Chaos or the other girl on the trip, Regina, but they sounded nice. ...and a little crazy since she was called right as Shelby was picked up.
Hope ran out into the parking lot of the hotel she had been staying in, and looked around for a huge van and a small green car. She saw both pulling out onto the deserted highway.
"WAIT!" she screamed. Obviously, no one heard her. "Shoot." She muttered under her breath, "Now what?" She looked over at a pool of water and got an idea. "This should be interesting." She said, her green eyes shimmering.
Hope closed her eyes and concentrated all her energy into her fingers. A blast of water flew from her fingertips, creating a tornado-like barrier around the car. She could hear screams of confusion as the car skidded to a stop, and two people out of no where jumped out of windows and was screaming, until they looked at one another, noticing the other was drenched, then looking at themselves..and screaming even louder. The orange haired one went into a bit of a fetal position rocking back and forth trying to get his drenched matches to light, and the other, a girl, had started ripping the chains on her pants off, and when she couldn't work the chains from shaking to the extremes, she started grabbing her hair and blue flashes appeared all over...travelling along the wet ground, onto the van and...after some screaming wihtin the van, all passengers had jumped out of the van onto dry pavement with frizzled hair and even some who had nylon on with very small blue flashes on themselves. Warren, Alex, Shelby and Lance who were in the corrolla, went wide eyed, and Warren backed the car up doing like 90 almost hitting the culprit for the water frenzy (in an attempt to avoid being shocked like the others), who jumped out of the way just missing the rear of the car.
"That was fun...." she nervously said as she coughed from exhaust, waving her hands and making the water disappear completely and appear back in the pool.
Hope walked calmly to the panicking sparking girl who was dripping wet, pulling all drops of water off her and into the grass area, and doing the same for Pyro. After he felt water fly off him, he got up with a fighting stance and somewhat screamed, "What the hell was that!??"
"Uh..hi...everybody..heh heh." Hope said nervously as Pyro glared at her and as Chaos attached whatever she managed to get off herself. She was still a little shaky--and no one could even go near her until she could straitly calm down. Warren and everyone with him ran to the scene making sure no one was hurt.
"Hope!" Shelby cried, untangling herself from the mass of preciously panic-stricken people, "We thought you had forgotten about us."
"No." Hope said with a weak smile. "I overslept. As usual." she looked remorsefully at Pyro. What was the deal with this guy anyway, she thought to herself.
"Oh, that's Pyro." A girl with short dark hair and a lot of orange clothes said. "He's petrified of water. By the way I'm Regina."
"Nice to meet you." Hope said. She looked over at the girl who was sitting on the floor watching everyone talk, sparks died down and she was able to go near everyone again. "You must be..the electric one...Chaos?"
"Heh. What was your first guess." she brushed herself off and examined her arm and side. Warren helped her up.
After a moment of silence, She said, "Well...you can't be all THAT bad if you took that much of a risk for our attention. Shelby told us all about you, well mostly about you. It seems she's forgotten a tiny little detail." She glared at Shelby, who smiled sheepishly and shrugged.
"Is there something wrong with my powers?" Hope asked, confused. Everyone raised an eyebrow at that last question.
"Sort of." Regina said, "You see, Chaos and Pyro have a small phobia of water."
"Small?!?!?!" A guy with red on black eyes exclaimed, "DID YOU JUST SEE WHA HAPPENED MON AMI!? Try enormous. Especially Pahro here." He pointed to the boy with the red hair. "Oh, 'n im Remy."
"You'd be afraid too if something threated the love of your life!" Pyro whimpered.
Hope looked at Chaos. "Does this mean I can't quite tag along?" she asked.
"Nah man, Chaos is cool like that, you'll be able to go, right Kay-lovely?" Alex looked at her. Chaos angrily looked at Alex and Lance and then back at Hope. She started laughing, "Yeah you can come. But pleaseeeee no more watterrr unless its absolutely necessary?"
"Ok." Hope answered releived. Shelby linked arms with her and smiled at everyone, "She's not so baddd your all overdramatic."
"Now let's see if I can figure out who everyone else is." she said. She pointed to a man with angel wings, "You're Warren, right?" she asked.
"Right." he said over his shoulder while walking with Kay to check out under the vans hood to see if she shorted the battery out.
"Your Rogue..."
"Yep." She said. "Welcome to the nut house, rather, nut van." she tried her hardest to smooth down her hair.
"That leaves Pietro, Lance, Alex and I'm not sure whos who." Hope said, pointing to a boy with white hair (A/N: sorry I can't think of a better way to describe him!), "Are you Pietro?"
"Aww-man-another-person-where's everyone going to sleep." He said quickly. Shelby talked a little about him, and that talking fast made him kinda cute...this must have been him."
"Do you always talk that fast?" Hope asked.
"Yep-do-you-have-a-problem-with-that?" he asked.
"Nope." She said, smiling.
Alex and Lance spoke up at the exact same time saying their names. Then they looked at eachother and started pushing eachother, screamign at eachother.
After a bit of talking with everyone and them getting to nkow her, they all plowed into the van (save Chaos Warren Lance and Alex who's currently in the corolla) as soon as Kay announced the vans battery was fine.
"Who's driving?" Hope asked.
A chorus of "Me!" broke out through the van. She looked around at Remy. "Is there a certain reason that everyone wants to drive?"
"Whoever drives gets to pick the music." He said, flashing her a grin.
"I see." Hope thought for a moment. She made her way through the mass of people and hopped into the driver's seat. "Who's got the keys?" she asked.
"Hey that's not fair!" Pyro whined.
Hope pointed her finger at him and a little jet of water shot out.
"Ok, it's fair." He said, handing her the keys.
"Great." Hope replied, "Then let the fun begin!"
Everyone groaned. It was 8:00 am in Charlotte. And they had planned to get to Nashville about 4 or 5.