NOTE IN THIS CHAPTER, THERE IS SOME PARTS THAT ARE IN ITALIC. THAT JUST MEANS IT IS WHAT THE CHARACTER IS THINKING, JUST TO SORT OUT A FEW QUESTIONS...
Chapter Two: School High Blues
"Hey, I need your opinion, do you think they would let me wear this at your school?" Rebecca said as she came out of the bathroom with a gray Batman belly shirt on with blue jeans. Terry was shocked for a second, then tuned back onto the world.
"Y-yeah..." Terry stuttered. He cleared his throat and continued with his sentence, "C'mon, let's go... We don't want to be late..."
"I was going to ask you the same thing..." Rebecca said with a grin as she looked Terry up and down. He was still in his pajamas.
"Ah, dang it... Give me a sec..." Terry said with a blush. He ran back into his room and shut the door fast.
"Whatever..." Rebecca said as she walked over to the fire place. Rebecca looked around the pictures on the fireplace mantle.
"Well, what have we here?" Rebecca said with a smile as she picked up a picture of a two little black headed kids, one a boy, one a girl, who are swinging on a tire swing together. The boy was pushing as the girl swung on the tire swing. Rebecca heard the door to Terry's room open.
"You still have this picture?" Rebecca asked looking at the past photo. Terry came over and looked at the past photo.
"Mom keeps it, along with the other pictures our parents went camera crazy of us..." Terry said scratching his head. Rebecca laughed and set the picture down. She sighed and looked up at her best friend.
"Ok... let's go..." Rebecca said grabbing her backpack and putting it on.
"You don't seem too happy," Terry said turning off the family room lights.
"Well, when I came here, I wasn't thinking I would still go to school... oh well... life is grand, is it not?" Rebecca said with a smile. Terry smiled back and grabbed his book bag. Both of the long time friends walked out the door, onto the day at the boring high school.
Terry and Rebecca walked up the stairs to Gotham High. Three boys stood to the side watching Rebecca walk past them.
"Well, well, well. It isn't Miss Park Avenue herself?" A boy by the name of Pete said looking up and down at Rebecca.
"Good going, McGinnis. Were did ya find her, down in the ally?" A boy named John said as he eyed Rebecca. Rebecca charged forward, but Terry stopped her.
"Oh, feisty. Just how I like them!" A boy named Paul said. He was the football captain for the high school team. It seemed every girl wanted to go out with him. Unfortunately, not all girls want to go out with him.
"Well, I'll tell you what you'll like when I shove my foot up your a-" Rebecca said as she glared at Paul, but the sound of the tardy bell cut her off from finishing her sentence. The group of boys looked over at Rebecca.
"I'll talk to you later, sweet cakes..." Paul said blowing a kiss towards Rebecca.
"Don't call me that you j-"Rebecca said but was soon cut off by Terry putting his hand over her mouth.
"Ok, Bec, keep walking..." Terry said with a fake smile to the boys. He then rushed themselves into the school building.
"Could you believe those boys! I want to give them a lesson or two!" Rebecca said as she opened her locker and put her backpack into it. She grabbed the stuff she would need for first period.
"Becca, you gotta control your anger, let it out and you could get into a lot of trouble..." Terry said putting his combination into his locker.
"I don't care. It's not the first time I would get in trouble..." Rebecca barked as slammed her locker and walked with Terry to math class.
"Ok class! Today we're learning about the Pythagorean Theorem!" said Mr. Waterstream. The first period math class moaned as each student hit their heads on their desks.
"Oh, be quiet and just take out a pen or a pencil. Take good notes, you have a test this Friday..." Mr. Waterstream said as he turned to the chalk board and began to write notes on the board. The class moaned some more as each of them took out a sheet of white paper.
"Um, Terry can I have a piece-" Rebecca said, put was later but off by a piece of lined paper in her face.
"Here, take mine," Paul said with a wink. Rebecca glared at Paul as she took the paper from him.
"Thanks..." Rebecca blurted as she slapped it onto her desk.
Rebecca wrote as fast as she could, rereading her notes so she could not flunk this test.
"Legs are shorter sides of the triangle. A and B are the legs. Hypotenuse is the opposite side of the right side, AKA the longest side. If any right triangle, the sum of the squares of the lengths A and B of the legs equal to the length of the hypotenuse... wait that makes no sense but oh well. The formula for Pythagorean theorem is A squared plus B squared equals C squared... that doesn't make any sense either!," Rebecca thought as she tapped her foot up and down. Her head started to hurt and it sounded like she could hear her heart beat in her head.
"Um, Mr. Waterstream, may I use the restroom?" Rebecca said shooting her hand in the air.
"Yes you may, but make it quick! We still gotta a lot to cover!" Mr. Waterstream said turning around to smile at his new student.
"Too bad, just kiss my- Thank you!" Rebecca said as she got up as fast as she could out of her seat and ran out of the math room. She held her head in pain.
"That hurt... should have brought some Motrin..." She said to herself as she walked hazy down the hallway and into the girls' bathroom.
"Hey, McGinnis!" Paul whispered sharply into Terry's ear. Terry turned around to see the high school jock leaning over his desk to talk to him, "That Rebecca chick is hot. She looks almost exactly like Dana. Where'd you meet here?"
"She's a family friend and came from Smallville. And you can't hit on her..." Terry said glaring at the brown headed teenager.
"Why? Is little Ter Ter jealous of big Paul? Why would a chick like her go out with a punk like you, anyway?" Paul sneered as he sat back down in his chair. Terry stared angrily at Paul, wishing he could punch his face out.
Rebecca stood in the restroom, washing her face to cool her down. She heard the restroom door open. She suddenly stopped what she was doing and dried her face with a paper towel. Rebecca looked in the mirror to see who it was. It was a girl that looked just like her, except her skin was much lighter.
"I haven't seen you before. You must be new. I'm Dana," The girl calling herself Dana said with a smile.
"R-Rebecca" Rebecca stuttered as she faked a smile back.
"Drake? I saw you on the news! You were the all time player in the women's lacrosse cup!" Dana said placing her hands on her hips. Rebecca blushed with a smile.
"All in a days work..." Rebecca said as she looked up from her feet.
"So, why are you here, Rebecca? We don't have any lacrosse teams in town, so you can't be here on business," Dana joked with a smile.
"I'm visiting some family friends... the McGinnis's,"
"Really? Wow, you must be the girl in all those pictures on the fire place mantle,"
"The one and only..." Rebecca said fiddling with her fingers behind her back.
"Well, I gotta run to class. Major science test. I'll see you around!" Dana said with a smile as she ran out of the restroom in a flash.
"See ya around..." Rebecca said, mainly talking to herself. She looked at herself in the mirror and noticed that her eyes and face looked like she saw a ghost.
Terry walked by his locker when he heard his cell phone ring. He opened his locker and answered the ringing device.
"Hello?" Terry asked into the phone.
"Jokerz, 5th street," Bruce said. "Ah, man. Now's not the best time..." Terry said as he turned away from the people that were coming down the hallway.
"And why is that?" Bruce asked in a strong tone of voice.
"Because... Becca's here..." "Your job is more important than some g-"
"Rebecca Drake..."
"Oh! Well, you still need to get the Jokerz..."
"I know, I'm on it..."
Rebecca walked into the crowed lunch room. She saw Dana at one table and walked over there. Hopefully, she would be allowed to sit there.
"Hey, have you've seen Terry anywhere?" Rebecca asked the black haired friend.
"No, last time I saw him was at his locker, was on his cell phone..." Dana said looking up at the old friend of Terry.
"Oh, well, do you mind if I eat lunch with you guys today?" Rebecca asked cautiously scratching her ankle with her foot.
"No prob! You can sit next to me," Dana said pulling out the empty chair that was next to her. Rebecca sat down in the chair and looked at the boys and girls that surrounded her.
"Hey, is this your sister, Dana?" A guy that was sitting next to Rebecca asked as he looked straight into Rebecca's gray eyes. Rebecca was freaked out for a second, but Dana just laughed.
"No, just a friend. She's a family friend with the McGinnis's," Dana said patting Rebecca on the shoulder. The boy nodded his head.
"Is that so? I'm Roy, that there is Joe and Spikes," Roy said as he point to the boys across from Rebecca and himself.
"Sup?" Joe said nodding his head back. He was dressed in a brown sweat shirt with a black beanie hat.
"Um nothing... My name is Rebecca, Rebecca Drake," Rebecca said. Spikes looked surprising at Rebecca and said, "Nah, really? You're the best lacrosse player in the-"
"I think she knows Spikes," Dana said. Spikes leaned back in his chair, laying his hands on his Mohawk hair.
"Spikes only likes girl sports for one reason..." Dana whispered to Rebecca.
"What?" Rebecca asked back cocking her head.
"You don't want to know..." Dana said as she looked over at the Mohawk kid.
"So, where did you come from in the world?" Roy said setting down his can of Pepsi.
"Um... Smallville..." Rebecca said as she scratched her arm.
"Isn't that in Oklahoma?" Spikes said sitting up straight.
"Stupid Goth... Close, its in Kansas..." Rebecca said with a fake smile. Roy looked at Rebecca closely.
"You don't look like the kind of chick that works on a farm," Roy said looking into Rebecca's eyes again.
"I don't live on a farm... In fact, I'm not originally from there. I was born and raised here till I was ten..." Rebecca said as she shitted in her chair.
"Why'd ya move?" Joe asked kindly.
"Long story..." Rebecca said scratching her head.
"We got time..." Spikes said as he leaned toward Rebecca.
"Would you guys just leave her alone!" Dana yelled as she pushed Spikes back into his seat. Suddenly, the lunch doors burst open and a freshmen boy with red frizzy hair ran in.
"The Jokerz have hit Kayla's Diamond Cellar!" The boy said in between his pants.
"Who cares!" someone yelled within the crowd of high schoolers. The rest of the school pretended like nothing happened and continued to eat their lunch.
"Why isn't anyone worried? Shouldn't some one do something?" Said Rebecca in a worried tone. The group of friends stared blankly at Rebecca, then laughed. Roy put his arm on Rebecca's shoulder.
"No worries, dawl! Batman will take care of everything!" He said as he gave Rebecca a noggie.
"Batman?" Rebecca questioned, moving Roy's arm of her head.
"You obviously haven't been here for a long time! Batman has risen!" Spikes said dramatically standing on his chair and looking up to the ceiling.
"Shut up, Spikes. Anyway, Batman will take care of everything. Don't worry about it!" Dana said with a smile.
Batman flew into a wall. He brushed of the bits of brick that was on his shoulder.
"Found a new friend, didn't you?" Batman grunted.
"Yeah, found him a month ago. Sorry we didn't show him earlier to ya..." The Jokerz leader said with a laugh.
"That's ok didn't like him in the first place..." Batman said getting up from the ground. A boy about six feet tall huffed as he stared at Batman.
"You... no... like... Bernie!" The boy said as his eyes narrowed. Bernie charged forward and pounded his fist into Batman's stomach, "Bernie angry!" Bernie roared as he cracked his neck.
"Ugh, I can see that..." Batman said holding his stomach. He then stood back straight, showing no sign of pain. Bernie reached for the pointed ear hero, but Batman dodged and kicked the huge clone of the joker in the head, causing him to fall with a thump to the ground. Bernie was out cold.
"You'll pay for this, Bat, you'll pay!" The Jokerz leader yelled as his gang escaped on their motorcycles.
"Some how, I always do..." Terry said as he pulled off his mask and looked at his watch, "Good, still got time for lunch," Terry took of his batsuit and changed back into his regular clothes. He ran out of the ally and down the street.
Terry walked into the crowded lunchroom. He found the table were he usually ate every day of his high school career.
"Don't tell me you guys started lunch without me?" Terry said with a smile.
"We always do, Ter," Roy said with a laugh.
"What did Bruce want his time?" Dana asked looking up at Terry.
"Um... milk... and bread..." Terry said hesitantly.
"Bruce?" Rebecca asked. She looked up at Terry. Who the heck was Bruce. Did they mean who she thought she was thinking about. The man who baby sat her when she was little.
"It's the old fart that lives on the top of some hill. Terry works for him, 24/7 job it seems like," Joe said putting his feet up on the table. Terry pulled up a chair and sat down in between Rebecca and Dana.
"So, how are you enjoying your first day of school, Bec?" Terry asked putting his hands on the table.
"Um, it's ok... same old, same old..." Rebecca said with the shrug of her shoulders.
"So, what do your parents do, Rebecca?" Spikes asked as he sat back down in his chair.
"Um... my dad works with computers and my mom is a cop... I barley see them, their jobs take up so much time..." Rebecca said, some how she suddenly became interested into playing with her peas on her tray.
"That sucks... well, how are you friends with the McGinnis?" Joe asked.
"Mrs. McGinnis and my mom grew up together and became best friends. They got married on the same day at the same place, so they had like a double wedding... It's pretty cool to look at the pictures..."
"Who came first, you or Ter?" Roy asked leaning into Rebecca.
"Terry, by six months..." Rebecca said as she looked over at Terry. He did always brag how he was older. Then the bell rang saying that lunch was over and it was time to return to class.
Terry eyed the clock, waiting for it to hit 2:10.
"Five, four, three, two, and ONE!" Terry thought as his eyes got wide. Then the dismissal bell rang loud. The students of Mr. How's English class cheered with joy, as they made plans in their heads for what they were going to do over the weekend. Terry got up out of his seat and walked out of the classroom. Rebecca leaned against a trashcan across the hall, waiting for him.
"You seem in a good mood," Rebecca said walking up to him.
"It's the weekend, I'm a happy boy!" Terry said as he smiled a childish smile. Rebecca rolled her eyes and continued to walk down the crowded hallway. Terry caught up with her.
"So, what to you think of Gotham High?" Rebecca shrugged her shoulders.
"It's ok. Just the same as any other boring high school..."
"You act different around other peeps. You're louder and more strong-minded around me than other people..." Terry said as he stepped over a person's foot. Rebecca looked at him, then closed her eyes, attempting to hide her blush.
"I didn't know those people as I know you..." Rebecca said holding her head high. Rebecca continued to walk down the hallway to her locker.
"Do you like them?" Terry asked leaning up again the lock next to Rebecca's locker.
"Yeah, why wouldn't I?" Rebecca said grabbing her backpack out of her locker.
"You don't seem like it..."
"Well, I'm not used to people being so nice to me that fast. It's strict in Smallville and some people are snotty..."
"Isn't that where Superman is-"
"I said some, not all..." Rebecca interrupted. Rebecca shut her locker and walked out of the high school.