Streak stopped suddenly at a pair of dark, glassy double doors and pulled them open, letting go of Chiara.
She led her through the dark, dry room, lined with bookshelves and desks and lights. A line of computers appeared in the distance, a few kids sitting on the desks and laughing.
Chiara stopped suddenly. Streak looked back at her.
"What's wrong?" she asked. Chiara stretched out her hand and all the computer monitors shut off simultaneously. A groan echoed from the group of people. Chiara bit her lower lip.
"Last time, I blew up a computer." She said quietly. Streak narrowed her eyes and walked over to the computer desks. Chiara followed slowly.
"Yuako." Streak said. A girl looked up. She had long black-brown hair and slanted Chinese eyes. "I found your roommate." Yuako stood up and looked at Chiara, her eyes questioning.
"Did you turn all the computers off?" she asked. Chiara paused.
"It was only because I needed to-" she began but Yuako's smile cut her off. She laughed and turned back to the group.
"Awesome!" she cried, throwing her hands up in the air.
"We've got an electric girl here!" she grinned, turning back to the group of students.
"What's your name?" Asked a girl sitting on the desk. Her hair was spiky black and green and her eyes were mismatched.
"Chiara Myste." Chiara swallowed. The girl nodded and leaned back. Chiara finally looked over the other people in front of her. There was Streak and Yuako and the girl with spiky hair, of course. Then there was a guy with red and black hair. Then there were two of them, looking like night and day had gone out on a date, the girl was dark and gothic-ly dressed with sheer sleeves, and the guy with long white blonde hair and blue eyes. They were sitting close.
A kid much younger than the rest sat cross-legged on the desk wearing a hoodie, baggy pants and a backwards hat. His face looked some what depressed and was holding a notebook covered in doodles.
"In order," Yuako said brightly, starting to introduce her friends. "Lizette, Tarrien with the red hair, Twist and Silence and Jordan, I'm tutoring him. And you already know Streak." She said. Chiara nodded, not really knowing what to do. She took a deep breath, and asked the big question.
"What do you allÉ do?" she asked. Immediately each one of them showed off one of their powers: a computer disappeared, Lizette grew a tail and spots, Silence lifted a pencil into the air using his mind. A gust of wind nearly blew them off the desk and Jordan formed a perfect square of water hovering above his palm. Streak went part invisible and Yuako teleported to the other side of the room.
Chiara blinked. "Impressive." was all she could muster. Jordan passed the cube of water over to her and it dropped onto the ground, forming a flat disk and levitating before it broke on the ground. Streak hit him on the side of the head and the water disk splattered on the ground.
"Show off." She grinned. Jordan shrugged, half smiling.
"I'll show you the rest of the school and get you settled in." Yuako said, teleporting back to Chiara. Chiara nodded and Yuako said goodbye to her friends and they left the library.
"Interesting friends." Chiara said, trying not to sound offensive.
"Oh yeah, we're basically the outcasts, can't get a word in with Simon Erikson and Courtney Brookes and that lot." Yuako shrugged happily, taking her back down another corridor.
"Simon Erikson?" Chiara asked, jumping at the sound of the familiar name.
"Oh yeah. Big tough guy, thinks he's all that just because he gets off with the girls." Yuako spat; almost disgusted.
"Oh." Chiara said. Yuako nodded and they went up a stairwell. "I'm never going to get used to this place
"It takes time." Yuako said. Then she went back to the topic. "Yeah, anyway, they're the popular ones, and we're theÉ not so popular." She half laughed. Chiara bit her lip.
"Oh." She said again. They stopped at the dorm-room and went in. Yuako showed Chiara the secret compartment in their wall, she was set that the teachers gave it to her purposefully, and the green snake in the tank.
"It's my little Oscar!" Yuako said. Chiara didn't really dislike snakes, she figured she could get used to them. Yuako pulled the snake out of his tank and hung him around her neck.
"What breed is he?" Chiara asked, not quite certain on weather there were snake Ôbreeds'.
"Chinese Rattleless Snake." Yuako said, sing-song "Only snake in the world with solid eyelids." Chiara nodded, pretending she knew what her new roommate was talking about. Oscar blinked at her. Yuako put her pet back in the tank and showed Chiara the rest of the school.
By the time she crawled into bed at half past one in the morning, Chiara was pretty much sure she could remember the way to the bathroom.