Thanks for the reviews,
To Inuspeedyshi; lol too much Romy, eh?
To ShadowGirlFawkes; I'm glad you like the story :)
I will keep updating but not next week because it's my exam week (shiver!). So this is probably the last chapter for a little while. Well, hope you enjoy it. It bridges to the next chapter.
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Monday Morning. Again. The wind hit me like an over-excited torpedo as I wandered very late (it was becoming a sort of tradition) out the front door. The eoh had already left and I had figured that if I tried to remain invisible in the morning she wouldn't shout at me. Trouble was I'm not invisible. She had been on edge all week shouting or lecturing me over the slightest thing. Like it was a serious crime to dunk biscuits into tea and accidentally spill it on the sofa. She can't accept it. She even walks out the room when I walk in. Unless she wants to nag. She can't understand how I can seem "so indifferent to a…sensitive and drastic situation. Alexandra! You must be careful, your abnormalities…" she thinks I'm a freak that should be sectioned. But I'm a mutant. Is there a difference?
Stuck in the strange world of my mind as I neared the school I didn't notice, as a battered green jeep careered manically around the corner, just was I was about to cross the road. I looked up to see Tabitha dancing then look astonished as she slammed on the brakes. I was a rabbit caught in headlights, literally. I began to hyperventilate as I shut my eyes tight prepared for the crash.
Instead the car went straight through me. I opened my eyes, shocked to see my immobile, gaseous body slowly becoming normal as it descended slowly (or as normal as it was in a bright yellow hoody and black jeans). The now steamed up jeep had stalled to a halt about a metre away.
Tabitha leapt from the drivers seat and came round to face me.
"Why did the canary cross the road?" she asked, amused.
"So she could get hit by a blind clown." I answered distinctly unamused.
She smiled, "Well you know what they say," I raised my eyebrow and crossed my arms, "hitting cars is enough to make your hair curl!" I reached up to find my hair was indeed curly, into its delightful natural ringlets in fact. Wonderful, Must be the humidity.
Still unimpressed I watched her, "Let me guess…you're a mutant!" I didn't intend to but I laughed.
"Wow, really? I never knew!" she smiled again as she casually threw what seemed to be a small glowing ball at a wizened ginger cat. The cat leapt out of its skin as the 'bomb' exploded much to the delight of Tabitha.
"Really? Me too!" she said raising an eyebrow. "So what do they call you? Blondie?"
I mimicked being terribly offended by her comment, "Nah, there is no they cos I'm more isolated than an isolated island and I'm Ally."
She rolled her eyes dramatically, "God you are blonde! From now on I'm calling you Blondie. And what I actually meant was your codename like, I'm boom boom."
I looked at her blankly, she sighed, grabbed my bag and I raced into the car.
On the way she explained about mutants and codenames and x-men, the brotherhood et cetera.
"Well, Blondie thought of a name?" she asked as she pulled haphazardly into a parking space.
"Kind of," I said still deep in thought, "I was thinking something like ghost, but that's too…boring. How about…Spectre?"
"Sure thing." She said absentmindedly as she already out the jeep and half way to her locker; mine was in the other direction.
As I entered the room for first class was already half-full. I went and sat in my usual place by the window second from last row. As I sorted through my books, a new girl in white jacket and mauve trousers entered carrying her schedule and looking slightly nervous. She chose an empty seat in the back row and one away from the window. She dumped her bag and was just about to sit down when she looked across at the window at moved over to that desk.
As she unzipped her bag and pulled her books out, she looked up at me, and I gave her a reassuring smile,
"Hi." I said,
"Hi." She said smiling I was just about to answer. When Tabitha danced in listening to her (as usual) loud Walkman and sat down next to the new girl. We smiled at each other as she folded her legs on the desk. Suddenly noticing the girl she swung round and slouched.
"Amara!" she shouted gleefully.
"Hi Tabitha." Amara responded quietly. Tabitha looked across at Amara, and me
"Cool, we've got first period together!" she said to both of us.
She winked across at me mischievously before asking Amara, "How's life with the geek squad?" Samara smiled nervously at me and Tabitha nodded gesturing for her to continue.
"Ok I guess," she said dejectedly we leaned forward curious, "I sort of messed up my training this morning. Jeans been pushing me too fast. Even though I'm not ready she says-"
"You mean miss Jean 'yes, that's my real colour'," She leaned forward to grab Amara's hands, she looked over at me briefly as if to say I-told-you-so about the x-men, "Forget her Amara, you don't have to take any of that. We didn't, Ally didn't even join!"
She looked at us from one to another, "Well yes but-"
"Girls, what you need is some r and r. like a good mall crawl," she said casually as she painted her nails, "How bout you, Ally and me after school, we'll get in touch with our shallow teenage values."
Again she looked at us and gave a short laugh, "Sounds like fun!"
"Alright!" she said happily she pulled me and Amara over to the window, "Now pay attention, here comes the track team!"