Drunken Monkeys

(A/N: Yeah, I'm back with chapter two. I hope you like. This is my second story that actually has a really decent plot to it. I do not own GW and I guess that it's okay though. Well, read on.)

Where we left off:

"Yeah, I'm done. Let's turn this stuff in to the office and get to the library," Dannie spoke quietly and stood, adjusting her bag on her shoulders and pushing her younger sibs out of the isle.

Chapter Two: Classes

Together the three Maxwells walked from the auditorium to the office across the hall. Dannie had their completed forms in her hands and Heidi had shoved the forms for their parents into her sister's bag.

"We finished our forms," Duo addressed the woman at the desk in the office.

"Set them there. You may go to your classes now. But since you will be a little bit late by the time that you get there, I'll write you all passes." The woman stood and walked slowly to the front window. Grabbing the pencil from behind her ear, she jotted Dannie's name on one of the pink pass slips and Duo and Heidi's on another. "Just write your class on there and you will not be counted tardy."

"Thank you," Heidi whispered. The woman nodded.

Duo pulled his two sisters away from the office window and down the hall. Surprisingly there were slackers in the halls, contradicting Duo's earlier subject of rant. Approaching the library, Duo smiled at how big it was.

"Yeah it's big, but not even ¾ the size of the one back in our old h.s." Heidi smirked. She loved libraries and books almost as much as electronics.

"Shut up Heidi," Duo mumbled.

Sitting in a chair, a young woman was reading while twirling a strand of her long dyed blond hair. A nametag on her shirt labeled her as Mrs. Delson.

"Hello. The office lady told us to come to you to help us find our classes," Heidi spoke, poking the lady in the shoulder.

"Yes, yes," Mrs. Delson mumbled absently, flapping a hand at Heidi. "What are your first classes?"

"Computer Tech," Duo and Heidi replied at once.

"AP Calculus," Dannie whispered, taking Heidi's place as the shy girl.

"Okay. The AP Calc. is on this floor, so we will go there first, and the Comp. Tech is in the other building on second floor. Let's go." Setting her book down, Mrs. Delson stood, gazed longingly at the thick book, and motioned for the siblings to follow her. Tugging at the hem of her blue-black blazer, she strode purposefully from the library, the Maxwells in tow.

"She likes books," Duo whispered, stating the obvious.

"Duh, why else would she have become a librarian?" Dannie whispered back at her little brother.

"I started as the school's Computer Technologies teacher. But then I got pregnant and decided that running around the building all day helping middle aged computer illiterate teachers find their roll lists wasn't the most pleasing of work. I chose to sit in the library and catalogue books all day." Mrs. Delson's voice startled Dannie and Duo into jumping.

"Ha!" Heidi laughed loudly at her older siblings' reactions. "If you had been paying attention and not whispering secretively, you wouldn't have been scared!"

Duo and Dannie glared at their sister. The little one was being a bit too forward.

"Shut up Heidi!" Duo said once more.

Mrs. Delson smiled knowingly at the siblings. The young one, Heidi, must have overstepped the boundaries that the other two had set for her during school. Poor kid, Mrs. Delson thought, seeing a bit of herself in the girl.

Rounding a corner to a deserted hallway, the librarian stopped. "That," she said, pointing to a door at the end of the hall, "is the AP calculus room. I advise you to be careful around your classmates. They don't do well with new students."

"What do you mean? Are they violent?" Dannie asked, suddenly unsure of if she wanted to take her hard classes.

"Not violent, per se. They're just a bit obsessive compulsive and very secluded for being as smart as they are. Most of the other students in this school hate the smart ones to some extent," the librarian explained.

"Oh, okay. I can deal with that. It's like my old class." Dannie heaved a sigh of relief. For a moment she had thought that the class might have actually been dangerous.

"Alright. We leave you here." Mrs. Delson turned; leading the other two back toward the library. Leading them past the double doors of her own domain, she detoured to the left and down another hall, out some doors and into an open area. Continuing straight along, she entered another building, still towing Duo and Heidi. One more left turn and a short walk up a flight of stairs took them into an empty hall with only one door.

"Here you are. Mr. Eddies is not that bad. Don't be frightened by his appearance. He is harmless." The blond turned to leave.

"Wait. I need to ask something," Heidi stated. She approached the woman. "Are there going to be second semester cheerleading tryouts?"

Mrs. Delson looked confused for a moment. "Yes, but I don't think that you are cheering material."

Duo gaped at the librarian. "Um, you should not have said that."

"What?" she inquired.

"Heidi has been a cheerleader for the past three years. Her appearance may be a bit grungy but she is a very good cheerleader and acts just like the rest of them when she puts on the uniform," Duo explained.

Mrs. Delson looked Heidi over. She took in the girl's lean form, her strong arms, and proud face, didn't miss the pink polish and very school spirit-ish "Go CATS" drawn on her right hand in what appeared to be her old school colors.

"I am cheering material. I always have been. I just also happen to be in a punk band called Drunken Monkeys," Heidi exclaimed, going into a triple back flip with a round off finish. She stuck the landing easily, the little section of routine being her favorite.

"Show off," Duo mumbled, grinning despite his words.

"Blah," Heidi retorted, sticking her tongue out.

"Tryouts are tomorrow afternoon, in the gym. I hope to see you there," Mrs. Delson said as she walked away.

Duo and Heidi looked at each other and burst in to fits of almost hysterical laughter. Duo was clutching his sides helplessly as Heidi's hand flew up to cover her mouth. Their noise attracted the attention of the students inside the room, as the teacher yanked to door open to see what was going on.

"What are you doing out in the hallway?! Class started twenty minutes ago," Mr. Eddies demanded. His appearance was indeed frightening; the man was huge, standing almost as tall as the doorway, and was extremely tattooed. His shaggy elbow length black hair was slightly frizzy and gave him the appearance of Hagrid from the Harry Potter books, save for the lack of beard.

"Um," Duo started intelligently. He was snapped from his laughing fit at the site of the man. "Heidi and I just transferred from NYC, and we were late getting all of our stuff in."

"I'm Heidi Maxwell and this is Duo Maxwell. This is Computer Technologies, right?" Heidi asked nervously. The man reminded her of one of Duo's drama coaches, but still made her nervous.

"Ah, new students," Mr. Eddies mumbled, his expression softening. "Come in. This is Comp Tech. You said you came from NYC?"

Heidi followed the huge man, tugging Duo along with her. "Yeah. We are from NYC. Why? You been there?"

"Yes sir. I was there last year. I was a drama coach for a while. If I remember correctly, it was for the school with the cats as their mascot," Mr. Eddies replied.

Duo looked at the man, finally realizing why he looked familiar. "Donny Eddies?"

"Yeah, what's it to ya?"

"I was one of your students. My best friend was Melissa Baxter, the troublemaker." Duo laughed, remembering the trouble he and Melissa had gotten into during the first month of drama.

"Oh, the Baxter girl. I remember you now." Mr. Eddies laughed, a rough sound like a dog bark. "Take a seat. Whatever computer you choose will be yours for the year. Today, since it is the end of semester, is a surfing day. But if you want to do anything to the computer and you know how to config, go ahead." Nodding to the last row of empty computers, the large man took his own seat in front of his own computer.

Heidi grinned at Duo. "Did he just say that I could do ANYthing to my computer?"

"Yeah," Duo said uncertainly. Then it hit him. "No! Heidi, no! You can't start that already," Duo freaked out. He sat behind one computer and pulled Heidi to sit at the one next to him. "You can't put a transmitter into the computer right now. You can't start hacking into other people's computers yet. And don't get me started with your other "activities." You need to be good for at least the first week here."

"Duo," Heidi whined. "I'm not going to be all "terrorist e-mails" again. I only did that twice and the President knew I was joking."

Duo sighed, knowing that his little sister was beyond his control. Staring at the computer screen, he began typing lines of code, just on the desktop, not trying to hack, just remembering codes. After twenty minutes of remembering codes for some of the strangest things, Duo's hands stilled. The reason? There was typing appearing on his screen, but it wasn't from him or from Heidi.

Hahaha! I'm evil! Cliffhanger.

Dun kill me but please review. I will post lots more, I think…

Ja ne

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